Canvassing against Islamophobia in Raleigh!

Please join Jewish Voice for Peace, Movement to End Racism and Islamophobia, and friends & allies in Raleigh to show up to challenge Islamophobia and racism.  Join us this Wednesday evening to go out & talk with businesses and give out posters that say:
“Stop Profiling Muslims”and “Refugees are Welcome Here”
 
When: THIS WEDNESDAY, January 27th, 5-7pm

Please email trianglenc@jewishvoiceforpeace.org for more information.

Talk: Challenging Racism and Islamophobia

When: January 27, 2016. 7 PM

Where: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh, 3313 Wade Avenue, Raleigh NC 27607

Speaker: Manzoor Cheema, Founding Member of Movement to End Racism and Islamophobia (MERI)

Islamophobia is a contrived fear or prejudice fomented by the existing Eurocentric and Orientalist global power structure.  It is directed at a perceived or real Muslim threat through the maintenance and extension of existing disparities in economic, political, social and cultural relations, while rationalizing the necessity to deploy violence as a tool to achieve “civilizational rehab” of the target communities (Muslim or otherwise).  This form of oppression reintroduces and reaffirms a global racial structure through which resource distribution disparities are maintained and extended. (Source: Race and Gender Studies at The University of California at Berkeley).

Email info@merinc.org for more information.