Hendrix among top candidates for Detroit mayorship
January 30th, 20090 While Ken Cockrel Jr. has served as the interim mayor of Detroit, Freman Hendrix is the candidate who has been closest to acquiring the position on a permanent basis. Freman Hendrix, shown here speaking at Eastern Market in Detroit, is a top candidate for mayor of Detroit. Hendrix defeated Kwame Kilpatrick, his main opponent,...
Dearborn group helps businesses
January 30th, 20090 With small businesses across Michigan struggling, the Dearborn Chamber of Commerce this week brought in public accountant Dale Bender for a presentation aimed at helping local business owners. It was titled "Mind Your Own Business." Bender, who runs his business out of Dearborn, spoke on a number of issues business owners can...
Tax season Q&A: First-time homebuyer credit
January 30th, 20090 Eric (Ahmad) Alzaroui Are you a first-time home buyer? If so, there is a new credit ($$) from the IRS. Q: What is the First-Time Homebuyer Credit and how it will impact your 2008 & 2009 Tax filing? A: If you are a first-time homebuyer, you may be able to claim a one-time tax credit of up to $7,500 ($3,750 if married...
Starbucks again a boycott target
January 24th, 20090 DEARBORN — Across the city of Dearborn, the Starbucks coffee store chain has been the subject of multiple discussions regarding its involvement and support of Israel. Recently boycotts, protests, and even acts of vandalism have broken out in the Arab world as well as in London, England against the company. The actions are based...
Dearborn City Council passes Gaza resolution
January 24th, 20090 Body condemns civilian deaths, urges humanitarian aid to Palestinians DEARBORN — After having the matter brought to their attention last week, the Dearborn City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution condemning the attacks on civilians in the 23-day Gaza war and urging a truce and an end to the Israeli blockade of the...
Community reacts with measured optimism to Obama inauguration
January 24th, 20090 DEARBORN — Arab Americans watched the inauguration of President Barack Obama on Tuesday with as much pride and awe as the rest of the country, but seemingly with a little extra anticipation and apprehension. Palestinian rights activist Hasan Newash applauds as a group watches President Barack Obama take the oath of office in...
Detroit mayoral forum to address Arab American concerns
January 24th, 20090 Community organizers are putting together plans for a forum on the Detroit mayoral race to take place at the Islamic Center of Detroit, 14350 Tireman Street, giving candidates an opportunity to address concerns of the Arab American community. Ken Cockrel Jr. The current field of 15 candidates to replace disgraced former...The need for a humanitarian crisis
Targeting civilians was a deliberate part of this bid to humiliate Hamas and the Palestinians, and pulverize Gaza into chaos. The scale of Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip, and the almost daily reports of war crimes over the last three weeks, has drawn criticism from even longstanding friends and sympathizers. Despite the Israeli...
MLK rally highlights support for Gaza
January 24th, 20090 DETROIT (PANW) – For the sixth straight year, the annual commemoration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was hosted at the historic Central United Methodist Church downtown. This year's event took on added significance since it was held just one day before the inauguration of the first African American president of the...Ideology of racial supremacy will be the end of Israel
The merciless Israeli bombardment of Gaza has stopped — for now — but the death toll keeps rising as more bodies are pulled from carpet- bombed neighborhoods. What Israel perpetrated in Gaza, starting at 11:30 am on 27 December 2008, will remain forever engraved in history and memory. Tel al-Hawa, Hayy al-Zeitoun, Khuzaa and other...
Israeli decries house demolitions
January 24th, 20090 Jeff Halper is co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a Professor of Anthropology at Ben Gurion University. He has researched and written extensively on Israeli society and Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands. Jeff Halper, an American-born Israeli Jew, spoke at a Canadian Senate meeting room on Jan....
Local beatboxer in Jordan radio contest
January 24th, 20090 Stevie Soul Fans of local musician Stevie Soul can vote online for the unique beatboxer to be named "Jordan's Best Talent," in a contest put on by a Jordanian radio station seeking worldwide votes. Stevie Soul, a Redford Arab American of Palestinian and Jordanian heritage, regularly performs at local schools and community...Reinstatement of sheriff’s deputies ordered
A Wayne County judge has ordered 44 staff members of the Sheriff's office back to work, ruling on Wednesday that County Executive Robert Ficano can't directly cut Sheriff Warren Evans' staff. In his decision, Circuit Court Judge Michael Sapala said the issue was separation of powers. He said it is the County Commission's responsibility...
ADC announces MLK scholarship winners
January 24th, 20090 The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Michigan announced on Thursday the winners of its 10th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarships. Awardees are to be honored at the groups annual MLK awards dinner on Jan. 30 at the Greenfield Manor Banquet Hall, 4770 Greenfield Road in Dearborn, at 6 p.m. The competition was...
Youth gathering honors MLK, Gaza victims
January 24th, 20090 DEARBORN -With its 10th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Awards Dinner less than two weeks away, the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) called upon last year’s winner, Abbas Alawieh, to speak to a group of kids Monday in an event honoring the civil rights leader. Winner of ADC's 2008 Martin Luther......
District denies Arabic will be banned at Fordson
January 17th, 20090 Fordson High School in Dearborn has a student body made up of over 90 percent Arab Americans. DEARBORN — A report by the Michigan Leadership Institute (MLI) has recommended that Dearborn Public Schools "prohibit the use of any language other than English within" Fordson High School, except when needed for effective communication...How Israel’s propaganda machine works
As in past Mideast conflicts, both the media story line and political commentary here in the U.S. has closely followed Israel's talking points on the war. This has been an essential component in Israel's early success and in its ability to prolong fighting without U.S. pushback. Because it recognizes the importance of the propaganda war,......
News briefs: MLK event for Gaza will focus on children
January 17th, 20090 Local groups are organizing a Martin Luther King Day event focusing on children and the war in Gaza. ADC Kids Club is to present Children for Peace in Gaza (CPG) on Monday, Jan. 19, 5:30 p.m. at the Greenfield Manor, 4770 Greenfield Road in Dearborn. "CPG is an ADC Kids Club initiative to engage the children in the U.S. to assist...
Groups continue protests against war
January 17th, 20090 Michigan peace and human rights activists have continued demonstrations and awareness campaigns on the war in Gaza, which, as of Thursday, had killed over 1,100 Palestinians and 13 Israelis in 20 days. Protesters carry a giant Palestinian flag during a Wednesday demonstration in front of the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor against...Gaza: A new Middle East indeed
As Israel unleashed its military fury against Lebanon for several weeks in July-August 2006, it had one major objective: to permanently "extract" Hizbullah from the south as a fighting force, and to undermine it as a rising political movement, capable of disrupting, if not overshadowing the "friendly" and "moderate" political regime in...Israel losing the war in Gaza?
NEARLY SEVENTY YEARS ago, in the course of World War II, a heinous crime was committed in the city of Leningrad. For more than a thousand days, a gang of extremists called "the Red Army" held the millions of the town's inhabitants hostage and provoked retaliation from the German Wehrmacht from inside the population centers. The Germans......
Killing of insurgent described
January 17th, 20090 A court martial in Canada heard on January 6 the basics of the government's case against Captain Robert Semrau. He is charged with killing a wounded Taliban in Helmand Province on October 19. According to the prosecution, following a battle which began with an ambush by Taliban fighters, the Taliban were beaten. Returning to the...
Pro-Israel pardons and leniency too costly to continue
January 17th, 20090 Palestinians mourn in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, after their relative was killed during Israel's offensive January 14, 2009. International efforts to stop the Gaza war intensified on Wednesday and Israel pressed its demand that Hamas not be allowed to rearm under a ceasefire, sending warplanes to drop bunker-busting......
Jewish group selling olive oil to benefit Palestinian farmers
January 16th, 20090 As one of the top local advocates for peace and a ceasefire in the Middle East, the Jewish Voice for Peace's Detroit chapter works constantly to find ways to help the battered Palestinian population. A sample label from bottles of Palestinian olive oil being sold locally by the goup Jewish Voice for Peace. One creative way to...
تظاهرات حاشدة فـي منطقة ديترويت تندد بالحرب على غزة والمذابح الإسرائيلية
January 11th, 20090 ديربرون، خاص لـ «صدى الوطن» اندفع عدة آلاف من العرب والمسلمين الأميركيين، يشاركهم بعض النشطاء الأميركيين من دعاة السلام في تظاهرة غاضبة عصر يوم الثلاثاء الماضي، على شارع وورن في......
