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After the last evacuation flights left Afghanistan, Homayra Yusufi’s family was one of many that scrambled to file applications to help their loved ones reach safety in the United States.Well…
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New Memorandum from Leading Civil Rights Advocates Documents the Most Egregious Federal Programs that Surveil, Profile, and Criminalize Black, African, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian Communities Twenty Years after President Bush Announced the “War on Terror,” Civil Rights Organizations Call on Biden Administration to Dismantle Unjust and Unconstitutional
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Al-Agha is a community organizer with Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans and lives in Escondido. Erikat is a Palestinian-American who grew up in San Diego. She is the policy associate…
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Sahid is the founder and executive director of the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans. She lives in City Heights.Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, approximately 14.5 percent of San D…
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Nargis Habib knows what it means to live as a girl under Taliban rule.The San Marcos entrepreneur grew up in Afghanistan and was educated underground, her classrooms hidden away in basements becaus…
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Yusufi is an Afghan American who grew up in San Diego. She is the deputy director for the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA) and lives in San Marcos. To prevent a humanitarian …
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The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is growing more dire, with thousands displaced from their homes, banks shut down, and aid workers forced to flee.
PRESS STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 17, 2021 Media Contact: Homayra Yusufi, homayra@panasd.org, (619) 363-6948 afghanamericancoalition@gmail.com August 17, 2021 -- Decades of conflict and the execution of the U.S. military withdrawal in Afghanistan have all contributed to this worsening humanitarian catastrophe. The Afghan-American Coalition,
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Community activists are calling for more oversight of the gunfire detection system but the mayor's office says it could be expanded in other neighborhoods
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Councilmembers are set to vote on whether to keep using ShotSpotter, a system that is supposed to detect when gunshots are fired. Advocates say the technology is flawed and creates community distrust.