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Tuesday September 11, 2012

Congress Votes Tomorrow on Reauthorizing Warrantless Wiretapping

Tomorrow congress will vote on the five-year reauthorization (H.R. 5949) of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA), the 2008 law that legalized the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.  Read More »

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Monday August 06, 2012

AAI Hosts Chicago Town Hall on US Foreign Policy & Syria

Join us for a Town Hall at Jerusalem Restaurant in Bridgeview this Saturday, August 11th, at 11:00am to discuss these questions and more. Read More »

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Tuesday May 15, 2012

Take Action: Investigate Unconstitutional Racial Profiling

The tide is finally turning against racial profiling and Islamophobia, but it won’t happen without your help. Read More »

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Friday April 27, 2012

“60 Minutes” Under Fire for Coverage of Israeli Occupation

If you haven’t done so already, please take two minutes today to email "60 Minutes" to thank them for their brave coverage and urge them to resist pressure to distort it. Read More »

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Wednesday January 04, 2012

Take Action: Take Indefinite Detention of Americans out of the NDAA

A measure put forth yesterday by Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) aims to rectify some of the most glaring abuses of the NDAA, and to ensure that the bill “does not authorize the indefinite detention—without charge or trial—of U.S. citizens who are apprehended domestically.” The bill would protect the rights of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents and would “state unequivocally that the government cannot indefinitely detain American citizens or lawful U.S. residents without charge.” Read More »

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Tuesday December 13, 2011

Take Action - Congress Sends Letter To Lowe’s

The controversy around Lowe’s decision to pull its advertisements from TLC’s All American Muslim has ignited an inspiring response from tens of thousands of Americans who were dismayed by the corporation’s willingness to succumb to the pressure of hate groups and Islamophobes. Today, the United States Congress is weighing in. Read More »

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Tuesday December 13, 2011

Take Action - Tell the RNC to Dissociate from Gingrich’s Remarks

Last week, Republican Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich said that the Palestinian people were “an invented people.” Once confronted with those remarks in Saturday’s Republican debate in Iowa, Gingrich did not backtrack, but actually took it a step further, describing the Palestinians as “terrorists”: Read More »

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Friday December 09, 2011

Take Action: Say No to Indefinite Detention of Americans

Last week, the Senate passed a dangerous piece of legislation. The National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, as its name implies, finances most defense expenditures for the year, but this year’s bill also contains what we believe to be unconstitutional additions. Read More »

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Friday October 28, 2011

Tell Congress to Strike Out Discriminatory Language from Bill

Now it’s your turn to make your voice heard. Call your representatives and let them know that you expect your elected representatives to refrain from prejudiced and racist pandering. Read More »

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Thursday June 30, 2011

TAKE ACTION: Tell Sec. Clinton and Sen. Kirk their Flotilla statements are irresponsible

In a statement that seemed to justify another violent raid by Israel, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the humanitarian flotilla en route to Gaza entitled the Israelis “to defend themselves.” Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) went a step further, calling for a join US-Israeli military operation against the flotilla.  Read More »

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Thursday July 01, 2010

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is charging ahead in his political career

There is a pause to ponder in almost every interview, a hiccup in the stream of words, a groping for just the right phrase, and then it emerges: “With Ray, what you see is what you get.”  Read More »

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Thursday May 20, 2010

Beauty Pageants and Neocons

Sunday night Rima Fakih, a Muslim immigrant from Lebanon who now calls Dearborn, Michigan her home, was crowned Miss USA. Fakih’s win became a source of great pride for many in the Arab American community. And without any commentary on the role of beauty pageants and their depiction of women, as a beauty queen, Ms. Fakih is now as all-American as apple pie and baseball. Read More »

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