AYO
What does AYO stand for?
When was the Nakba? AND what does Nakba mean?
1948 and Catastrophe
When was AROC founded?
2008
Why does AROC provide legal and direct services for our community?
We understand our service work as an extension of the “serve the people” model of organizing. We provide legal services in order to meet the direct needs of our community, and then organize them to shift the conditions that cause them to need those services in the first place.
This youth started the Eid campaign at their high-school
SARA!!
This youth is evil
Salma Berkeley
The name of the agreement that spilt up former Arab Ottoman Empire territory? AND what were the colonial countries? AND what did they call these colonized terriorties?
Skyes-Picot Agreement AND Britain, Italy, and France. AND Mandates
Name three AROC campaigns
Arabic Language Pathways, Urban Shield, Block the Boat, Arabic Language Access, Eid Campaign
What is the most component factor of base-building?
Relationship-building
What is the current Lakers Nuggets score?
3-0
These two youth are not from the Bay Area
Jibrail and Muhammad
Our guest speaker Larry mentioned labor unions and international solidairty in Palestine and South Africa why?
Labor is important as an movement and liberatory power because it exerts pressure on capital, worker power, as South Africa and Israel turned to migrant labor
522 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110
What were the three components of organizing?
1. Briding people together thru collective action and organization
2. Winning improvements in peoples lives
3. Building continuous power in order to shift power
Who started the Arab Spring? Which countries were a part of the Arab Spring? AND what was the Arab Spring?
Started by Tunisia and spread to Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, Libya, and Egypt
What is the name of the organization that pressured SFUSD to launch investigation into AROC regarding the school walk outs
SF Guardians
What was Plan Dalet or Plan D?
Israel's 1947-1949 ethnic cleansing plan
Who is known as the pan Arab socialist president?
Gamal Abdel Nasser
What are the roles of the base-building team organizers?
Sabreen and Nour youth organizers, Wassim case manager/outreach cooridnator turned media coorindator, Deema services coorindator, and Sharif partnerships and movement coordinator
This world leader came to Oakland to speak, who were they and who did they come to speak about and thank?
Nelson Mandela to thank labor workers, students, and the broader anti-apartheid movement in the Bay
BONUS QUESTION SUPER HARD
When did the three mass waves of Arab immigration to the US happen and who were the nationalities/groups coming in?
1. From late 1800s to 1920s - mostly Lebanese Christains, Syrians, Chaldeans and some Yemenis
2. 1952-1965 - A lot of Palestinian refugees, Levantine Muslims
3. 1965 - 2000 - More educated Arabs from Palestinian, Lebanon, Iraq and the beginnings of North African migration.
What was the 1936 Arab Revolt?
The revolt erupted because of Zionist/Palestinians tensions, Balfour Declaration, Palestinian peasants resisting, British military blatantly favoring Zionist settlers over Palestinians
AROC came out of what former Arab advocacy organization?
The Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
Name three tactics/skills of organizing that are NOT public-speaking oriented
Phonebanking, door-knocking, relationship-building, leadership development, 1-1 check-ins, surveying
When we did the treaure hunt, what was Wassim's misspelled name given by the news?
Warden Hajj