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Please Tell the Mayor to Include Muslim Holidays in NYC SchoolCalendar!
The Coalition for Muslim School Holidays needs YOU to call Mayor Bloomberg on Fridays, before or after Jumuah prayer, to urge him to add Eid-Ul-Fitr and Eid-Ul-Adha as official school holidays in NYC public school system. The entire city spoke loud and clear especially when the NYC Council voted 50 out of 51 in favor of adding the holidays.
Now it is time for the Mayor to listen!
Call 311
As always, be firm but POLITE
WHAT: Call Mayor Bloomberg by dialing311 and tell the operator:
“I want to leave a comment for the Mayor about EDUCATION.” The operator will ask for your name, phone number, address, and e-mail and at the end, will give you a confirmation number.
WHEN: Fridays, between 12pm and 3pm (before or after Jumuah Prayers)
SAY: Below is the preferred script to say:
"I urge Mayor Bloomberg to add the 2 most important Muslim holidays as official school holidays in the NYC public school system."
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Gaza Town Hall Meeting
In response to the recent swell of protests across new york city, which signal a deep, local base of solidarity with the palestinian people AWAAM: Arab Women in the Arts and Media has been interviewing people at the scene. The interviews document, through audio and video, the diverse lives and work of organizers and activists who have been taking to the streets in the thousands.
AWAAM understands that organizers need and deserve the support of media justice groups. The following series of interviews humanizes the movement by putting faces and feelings to the masses, documents the many facets of Gaza support work in New York and sustains the momentum of the effort to support Gazans' fight for freedom and democracy. As part of the Break the Siege on Gaza Coalition, and based on conclusions reached at Tuesday's Town Hall Meeting (http://www.utterli.com/GazaNYC) at the Muslim Youth Center, we encourage:
1. Your response to any of the points raised in the coming weeks.
2. Your collaboration in documenting what's happening in New York and generating discussions to engage activists and organizers. All it takes is a telephone to send audio to Utters.
Thank you and see you on the streets.
Roopa Singh
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AWAAM in Germany!
Two AWAAM representatives have had the honor of exploring immigration and integration issues in Hamburg, Germany for the past two weeks at the Koerber Foundation's IntegrationXchange program. We are part of a team of twelve New Yorkers collaborating with twelve Germans. All of us work in immigrant communities in fields like education, service provision, community organizing, youth development and public policy. We, along with other participants, will be telling you about our experiences here (meetings with public officials, media producers, organizations, etc.) and hope that you will help us in our process of learning some important lessons to inform our work in New York. This is a blog, so chime in; we welcome your thoughts.
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Save our Children's Education
As Mayor Bloomberg responds to the current fiscal crisis and calls for cuts to all city agencies, we believe it is imperative that not one penny of any proposed cuts to public education come from classrooms or direct services to children. Please join us in signing this statement
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