Campaigning
The Save Arab American Studies Coalition
What was our first AROC mobilization of 2020
The No War on Iran rally in SF
What does PE stand for and who did we kick off the year with studying?
Political Education, Marx
These are the services that AROC has provided and continues to provide.
Legal services OR Youth Services for Arab/Muslim youth
For this year's International Day of Rage for Palestine, the Bay Area took to the streets via car caravan to protest what action?
Israel’s annexation plan
How did members decide on our recent Campaign?
We held listening sessions, synthesized information and voted on the campaign issue we wanted to take up. OR AYO decided based on TURATH Report
This year we saw rebellions in response to the police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and the ongoing war on Black people. For Juneteenth, we mobilized to support an action at the port of Oakland organized by whom?
The International Longshoreman Workers Union Local 10 or ILWU
We partnered with these two organizations for this summer’s Friday Night Forum series
Center for Political Education & The Red Nation
In May 2020 AROC launched this program as an emergency response to COVID-19 for community members
AROC Mutual Aid
DAILY DOUBLE: This is the Black led, multiracial partnership created by the Movement 4 Black Lives that AROC is on the leadership committee of.
The Rising Majority
This is the CA Superintendent of Public Education, AROC’s main target in our Save Arab American Studies Campaign
Tony Thurmond
AROC members and community came out to support what Oakland based organization in the F-- Your Curfew, a direct action resisting OPD’s curfew during this summer’s BLM protests
Anti Police-Terror Project
What were at least 3 of the topics that we hosted for our joint Political Education series?
Topics include: Iran, COVID in Native Country, Gaza & Palestine, China, Workers Solidarity (May Day special), and abolition and internationalism
These wonderful AROC staffers are responsible for AROC’s youth programming, and run AYO, our youth organization
Nora Abedelal & Yusra Oweis
This local grassroots organization fought to pass the George Floyd Resolution in Oakland Unified School District, effectively removing police from Oakland schools.
Black Organizing Project
This incredible AROC Central committee member & teacher leads the coordination of the media team for our current campaign
Yahya Cadji
DAILY DOUBLE: Years of organizing, in addition to a public health threat brought on by COVID 19, closed which jail facility this year?
850 Bryant street
This Iraqi scholar and activist gave AROC membership a PE over zoom on the political economy and geopolitics of the middle east
Youssef Baker
These 2 Rapid Response Hotlines are staffed by AROC staff, and are responsible for mobilizing emergency responses to ICE activities and immigration case crises
SFILEN and ACILEP
This year, AROC helped develop this primer and open letter signed by organizations such as Movement for Black Lives, Mijente, and JVP, encouraging progressives to drop this organization from progressive spaces.
ADL (Drop the ADL)
This problematic definition of anti-semitism conflates anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel with anti-semitism and is referenced in the recent, terrible, public draft of the CA Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum
the IHRA definition of anti-semitism
Moving into 2021, these political ed/skill building trainings are going to start us off for the new year?
BACSPR trainings on best movement practices around surveillance, repression OR Bay Area Committee to Stop Political Repression trainings
This Marxist theory explains how the ongoing interdependent relationship between contradictions created by material conditions produce historical and political events.
Dialectic Materialism
AROC works closely with Tenderloin Arab community who live in these two buildings
201 Turk Street & 111 Jones
This South Asian author and intellectual’s readings, webinars and interviews are often assigned or offered to AROC membership to read or listen to.
Vijay Prashad