Wednesday February 27, 2013
Today, the Supreme Court hears arguments on one of the most important legislative initiatives from the Civil Rights era: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The VRA ensures that all eligible American citizens are able to vote, unimpeded by processes or regulations— from literacy tests and English-only ballots, to moving polling places and redistricting— that could effectively disenfranchise ethnic minorities. Read More »
Wednesday September 26, 2012
By Jennine Vari
Yesterday was National Voter Registration Day and AAI was out and about in Farragut Square and Georgetown as part of its Yalla Vote campaign to mobilize and educate voters. The Arab American Institute, in coordination with NNAAC and almost 250 other organizations around the country, spent the day registering new voters and helping people update their registration information. Read More »
Friday September 21, 2012
In his original 70-page ruling upholding Pennsylvania’s voter ID law, Simpson cited a legal precedent from 1869 that actually advocated implementing a discriminatory registration process— in order to avoid placing “the vicious vagrant, the wandering Arabs, the Tartar hordes of our large cities, on a level with the virtuous and good man.” Read More »
Thursday September 20, 2012
By Jennine Vari
Pennsylvania is not only a key state in November’s elections; it also has the 10th largest Arab American population in the country, with 60,870 people. If the Commonwealth Court reaches the decision next month that the state is doing enough to implement the law, there could be thousands of registered voters left out in the cold this November. Read More »
Friday September 14, 2012
On September 25, Yalla Vote will be part of a nationwide effort to ensure that no eligible voter is left out of this year’s election. AAI will join almost 250 organizations from across the country, including Yalla Vote partner NNAAC, for National Voter Registration Day, with the goal of registering thousands of new Arab American voters. Read More »
Friday August 24, 2012
Voter suppression has been the story of the 2012 elections, and Florida has been in the thick of it. Read More »
Friday August 24, 2012
Voting rights activists in Virginia suffered a defeat on Monday, as the U.S. Department of Justice approved Virginia’s new voter ID law. The legislation, which requires voters to bring identification to the polls for the first time, will go into effect in time for Election Day in November. Read More »
Friday August 17, 2012
Opponents of Pennsylvania’s voter ID law were dealt a significant blow Tuesday, as Judge Robert Simpson refused to strike down the legislation. Although he expressed sympathy with those Pennsylvanians who would be burdened by the new voter ID requirements, Simpson ultimately decided that the state’s efforts to address the problems with implementing the law were sufficient to uphold it. Read More »
Wednesday August 08, 2012
Last week brought another victory for opponents of Texas’ controversial voting rights law, as a federal judge in Galveston struck down new voter registration regulations on Thursday. Read More »
Tuesday July 17, 2012
Governor Rick Scott's controversial voter purge was revitalized last week, when the Department of Homeland Security granted Florida access to its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database. The SAVE database will give election officials the identification numbers of non-citizens living legally in the United States, providing Gov. Scott's administration with another method of adding names to the list of those considered ineligible to vote. Read More »
Tuesday July 03, 2012
Protecting the voting rights of disadvantaged and minority Americans has been a challenge in the United States since its first elections, and despite widespread laws to prevent racism and discrimination at the polls, the problem of voter suppression persists today. Read More »
#NC lawmaker equates Islamic prayer w/ terror http://t.co/G9sp1NeLC1 @mostrolenk @aaiusa h/t @ozzyformayor
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Latest poll to be released Friday finds Americans are divided on continuing aid to #Egypt: http://t.co/1spZM1m9d2
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RT @MaiE_89: In the 1990’s, #Egypt had a 60% favorable rating among Americans, while today only 36% of US views the country positively via @AAIUSA
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Looking at Iran by James Zogby
Kahlil Gibran Awards Gala - April 16, 2013President Obama got it just about perfect in his Jerusalem speech when he urged Israelis to see the world through the eyes of Palestinians. That portion of his remarks was so compelling it deserves to be quoted in full: Read More »
Air Date: 5/31/2012
Fellows from Syracuse University’s “Leaders for Democracy Fellowship Program (LDF); Bill Press, Host of the “Bill Press Show” and author of the new book, The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them. Read More »
The story of Arab Americans coming of age as an organized community is a classic American tale of immigrants seeking opportunity, benefiting from America’s freedoms, but also experiencing, at times, the dark side of exclusion and discrimination that has so often been a part of our nation’s history. Read More »
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