Fifty Years Ago. Reflections on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize and the 50th Anniversary of the Film “The Battle of Algiers”

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I awoke yesterday morning to hear the news on the radio that Bob Dylan had been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. To many in the post-war baby boomer generation, I am sure this news was met with near-rapturous joy, as it was by me. Dylan’s words and music were the soundtrack for the whole tumultuous decade of the Sixties -- his words perfectly and ecstatically capturing the zeitgeist (“spirit of the age”) of sudden cultural and political change unfolding before our eyes.

Legal Update: Flying While Muslim

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by Ryan Houldin Civil Rights Attorney, CAIR-Philadelphia Our country has a history of condemning large groups of people, especially those groups deemed “un-American,” based on the acts of a few. The events of September 11, 2001, combined with our current political climate,…

Eid Dinner Hosted by Governor Tom Wolf

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Report by Rabiya Khan (CAIR-Philadelphia Advisory Board Member) Governor Tom Wolf and First Lady Francis Wolf made history when they hosted the first Eid-al-Adha dinner celebration at the Governor’s Mansion in Harrisburg on Thursday, September 15th, 2016. More than two…

Director’s Desk: The Obligation to Vote – The Battle for the Ballot

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The right of all American citizens to vote for president and other elected officials has taken us as a nation over 200 years after the founding of the United States to achieve. The story of American democracy is the story of the expansion of the right to vote to an ever greater part of the adult population. The wealthy white men who wrote the United States Constitution in Philadelphia during the sweltering summer of 1787 did not believe in universal suffrage: working class men and all women were excluded, while African slaves counted as only 3/5 of white people for census purposes.

Phonebanking Request/Recruitment

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CAIR-Philadelphia partner EMERGE USA (emerge-usa.org) is a grassroots civic engagement organization focusing on organizing and mobilizing American Muslim voters, developing accurate data on American Muslim voters, and developing future American Muslim political leaders. We are on the verge of a…