Muslim Advocates: Dissent and Palestine
SINGLING OUT PROTESTERS VIOLATES THE FIRST AMENDMENT....TARGETING ANY GROUP FOR DISSENTING AND PROTESTING IS UN-AMERICAN! THE NATION WAS BUILT ON PROTESTING - THAT'S WHY THE FOUNDERS MADE IT THE FIRST AMENDMENT! For roughly two years, our team has been organized around an organizational imperative: to do everything we can as legal-advocates to help the domestic movement to end the genocide in Palestine —a movement built on the courage of students, organizers, and people of good conscience everywhere saying no to U.S. complicity in the killing and dispossession of a people. But the bravery of this movement has been met with repression, even retaliatory detention. Muslim Advocates has responded by: Representing Leqaa Kordia in her federal habeas lawsuit. Ms. Kordia is the last of the Columbia University protesters who remains imprisoned by ICE Suing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for their retaliatory punishment of individuals i...