Rally 4 Rasmea Odeh

Demand Drop the Charges NOW!

We demand that U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade stop the indictment of Rasmea Yousef Odeh and drop all federal charges.

Who is Rasmea Odeh?
Sixty-six year old Rasmea Odeh is a Palestinian-American feminist, activist, educator and community leader. She has served as the associate director of the Arab American Action Network (AAAN) in Chicago since 2004. For the past 10 years, Rasmea has built unprecedented community support for close to 600 Arab immigrant women on issues related to English literacy, gender violence, inter-generational cultural conflicts, racial profiling, immigrant rights, and access to social and economic resources. She has established community-wide education projects related to civil and human rights, social justice, and community economic development and workshops that allow Arab immigrant women to tell, write, and perform their immigration stories while improving their writing skills. In 2013, Rasmea received the "Outstanding Community Leader Award" from the Chicago Cultural Alliance, which described her as a woman who has "dedicated over 40 years of her life to the empowerment of Arab women, first in her homes of Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon, where she was an activist, and then the past 10 years in Chicago."

On October 22, the Department of Homeland Security arrested Rasmea in her home for alleged immigration fraud as part of an ongoing witch-hunt that targets Arabs and Muslims who criticize U.S. and Israeli policy and labels them “terrorists.” You can find more info about her case at http://www.stopfbi.net and http://electronicintifada.net/tags/rasmea-yousef-odeh

Speakers/Performers:
MAsao Suzuki (South Bay Committee Against Political Repression), Fadi Saba (Defending Dissent), Abid El Miaari & Abdo Ibrahim (Students for Justice in Palestine SJSU), Khalilah Ramirez (The Dance of Peace), Adrian Bonifacio (Anakbayan Silicon Valley), David Gonzelez (Bring Antonia Home Campaign).