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DESCRIPTION:Demand Drop the Charges NOW!\n\nWe demand that U.S. Attorney Barbara 
 McQuade stop the indictment of Rasmea Yousef Odeh and drop all federal 
 charges. \n\nWho is Rasmea Odeh?\nSixty-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."\n\nOn 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 www.stopfbi.net 
 and 
 http://electronicintifada.net/tags/rasmea-yousef-odeh\n\nSpeakers/Performers:\nMAsao 
 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).\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/08/18/18760246.php
SUMMARY:Rally 4 Rasmea Odeh
LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. Library\n150 E. San Fernando St. \nSan Jose, Ca\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/08/18/18760246.php
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