Michel Shehadeh
Michel Shehadeh
"People say NO war"
After the massive Oct. 26 2002 anti-war march, in which the broad avenues surrounding the White House were packed solid with demonstrators, there "can no longer be a shred of doubt about it: grassroots sentiment in the U.S. is opposed to the Bush administrationplans for a "pre-emptive" war on Iraq".
People came to D.C., the heart of the federal government, from every state in the U.S. The International ANSWER coalition, which initiated the call for the protest, reported 150 organizing centers around the country. Hundreds of chartered buses caused gridlock in the White House area. Tens of thousands also streamed into the city by car, van, plane and train.
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the ANSWER steering committee opened the rally and introduced her three co-chairs: Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation; Michel Shehadeh of the Free Palestine Alliance, and Larry Holmes of the International Action Center. Shehadeh and Holmes are also ANSWER steering committee members.[1]
Center for Political Education
In 2001 Michel Shehadeh, a Western Regional Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and Member of the “L.A. 8″, and Arnoldo Garcia of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights gave talks entitled: "Activist Intensive #4: Immigrant Rights and the Attack on Civil Liberties." The talks were held at the San Francisco based Center for Political Education, an organization closely associated with the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.[2]
In 2007 Michel Shehadeh, an LA 8 Member and Gloria La Riva, an activist and member of the International Action Center were in a panel entitled: "Deportation and the Assault on the First Amendment-Could it Happen to You? A Panel Discussion on the impact of the LA 8 Supreme Court Decision on Immigrants’ Free Speech Rights". This event was co-sponsored with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. The classes were held at the San Francisco based Center for Political Education.[2]
References
- ↑ [People say NO war Protesters encircle White House, flood streets of S.F. By Deirdre Griswold Washington, D.C. Reprinted from the Nov. 7, 2002, issue of Workers World newspaper]
- ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 Center for Political Education website: Past Classes (1998 - 2007)