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This Ramadan, MuslimARC encourages Muslims to build bridges across racial and ethnic lines, affirm our bond as a spiritual community, and commit ourselves to addressing racial injustice. Watch our new animated video version of the "Ramadan Anti-Racism Guide: 10 Ways to Unify for the Individual and the Organization" below, and share your Ramadan resolutions under our new hashtag, ‪#‎RamadanAntiRacism‬! View our full guide at http://www.muslimarc.org/ramadan-anti-racism/.

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Get Ready to Get SMART 2016

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Let's Get/SMART

Join us for #getSMART16: MuslimARC's day long SoCAL Muslim Anti-Racism Training (SMART) conference! Let's get SMART about issues like racial justice, anti-Islamophobia activism, and more.RSVP on Facebook: facebook.com/events/183396725334788/Buy tickets: getsmart16.eventbrite.com

Posted by Muslim ARC - Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative on Monday, April 4, 2016

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Black Muslim Future

MuslimARC’s #BeingBlackAndMuslim Twitter Townhall aims to amplify the voices from the diversity of Black Muslim identities. This includes African Muslims, Afro Caribbean identities, Afro Latino, Afro-Canadian, and Black American Muslims.  In discussions about Muslims and Islam, African Muslims are often left out of the conversation. Islam is the largest religion Africa. Africa consists of fifty four countries, each with culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse communities.  We also hope to explore the tensions and connections between African Muslim Diasporic communities in North America, whether model minority narratives, marginalization of refugees, the undocumented, and indigent Black Muslims,  as well as challenge colorism and internalized anti-Black and anti-African sentiment.  Drawing on the themes of Black Muslim Future and Afro-futurism, we are looking forward to imagine new possibilities for African Muslim Diasporic identities.

Join us for this important discussion tomorrow at 11am PST/ 2pm EST at twitter.com/muslimarc and tweet us using #BeingBlackAndMuslim 

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The Stream - Faith and race in Muslim America

Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe On The Stream: What does it mean to be black and Muslim in the US? We explore what people are saying aroun...

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‪#‎FlintWaterCrisis‬: Flint residents are being forced to drink and pay for lead-laden water. For two years, this toxic water has been the only option for many of Flint's residents. No medicine can treat the irreversible brain damage that has been inflicted upon every single child in Flint. Trying to provide enough water bottles for the city would require 20 million bottles of water per day for the next year until this problem is solved.

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How did this happen? See a timeline here: http://michiganradio.org/…/timeline-heres-how-flint-water-c…

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Some steps forward:

1. State of Michigan needs to change all lead pipes; 2. President Obama should declare Flint a disaster zone to allow long term federal assistance; 3. State of Michigan must deliver two 55-gallon drums to every home in Flint and each day replenish them with fresh clean water. Until the government does its job right, the relief organizations should follow this model replacing water bottle supply.

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We need you:

Make 2 Phone Calls a Day: -- Call Gov. Snyder 517-373-3400 to ‪#‎ChangePipes‬ -- Call President Obama 202-456-1111 to ‪#‎DeclareFlintDisaster‬ zone

Donate and share the crowdfunding campaign (4 days left): -- ‪#‎Muslims4Flint‬: www.launchgood.com/flint

Share the flier: -- https://drive.google.com/…/0B-dQh5IAH-gaVmZ6aWpzem9sWUU/view

If you're in Michigan, volunteer with Islamic Relief: -- https://docs.google.com/…/1ywqkIuL_W3RCCp7xj8hsSk…/viewform…

Post to Facebook:

Not a single lead-contaminated water pipe in Flint, Michigan has been repaired or replaced by the State of Michigan. Please spare 10 minutes a day to put pressure on the government. ------- Call Gov ‪#‎Snyder‬ 517-373-3400 to #ChangePipes --------Call President Obama 202-456-1111 to #DeclareFlintDisaster zone

Muslims in Flint are playing the ideal role in struggling and helping their neighbors. What is needed is political pressure - not just water bottles. It will take 20 million bottles a day to meet the need which will create another crisis. Please call now and call every day.

Reblog this post. #signalboost

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Please call now and call every day to support the demands of Flint Coalition, and of #Muslims4Flint, two coalitions that Muslim ARC - Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative is honored to be a part of.

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It's back! Join MuslimARC for the 3rd annual #BeingBlackAndMuslim. This year's Twitter Townhall will focus on the idea of a vibrant Black Muslim Future.

Join us on Twitter on Wednesday, February 24th at 2 pm EST at twitter.com/muslimarc. 

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Michigan Muslim Community Council Addresses Flint Water Crisis

Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative supports the #Muslims4Flint campaign, which seeks to provide immediate relief to Flint residents and raise awareness. MuslimARC, as an organization committed to racial justice, notes the deadly consequences of environmental racism, which disproportionately affects communities of color and lower income residents. John Eligon writes:

For civil rights advocates, the health crisis in Flint smacks of what has become known as environmental racism. Coined in the 1980s, the term refers to the disproportionate exposure of blacks to polluted air, water and soil. It is considered the result of poverty and segregation that has relegated many blacks and other racial minorities to some of the most industrialized or dilapidated environments.

Drawing on their faith principles and commitment to addressing community concerns, Michigan Muslims have taken initiative to provide relief. The coalition explains: 

Flint, Michigan is a small city where residents have been denied clean water for almost 2 years due to short sighted and egregious actions taken by their government. The Michigan Muslim Community Council is partnering with Islamic Relief USA, Life for Relief and Development, local Flint nonprofits, including the MADE Institute, the Sylvester Broome Empowerment Village, the Grand Blanc Muslim Youth Association and others to purchase clean water and distribute them to local residents. Our goal is to work with a broad coalition of community activists and faith based groups. The local state government is providing free filters and their residents are supposed to get assistance with their utility costs.

Access to clean water is a basic human need which the people of Flint do not have. Our American values simply do not allow us to ignore the plight of our fellow neighbors. In Islam, providing water is one of the highest forms of charity. As Americans, we simply cannot allow the people of Flint to be without one of the basic necessities for life. Please DONATE to this important cause and spread the word by visiting THIS WEBSITE.

While immediate relief is important, we must remember that the structural issues that have caused this crisis. The long term work entails community organizing and continual support for long term changes, such as upgrading the water infrastructure and working towards accountability of emergency managers who failed to look out for public interest. We encourage all those who wish to work in solidarity with Flint residents to work with local initiatives and support sustained efforts.  The Prophet ﷺ said, “The most beloved of deeds to Allah are those that are most consistent, even if it is small” ( Bukhaari and Muslim). We are encouraging Michigan residents to donate, volunteer, and advocate and work towards long term changes that ensure the dignity of all Michigan residents. 

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#ChangeTheName

MuslimARC advocates a zero tolerance policy on the use of racial or ethnic slurs as these are names that dehumanize and demean. God instructs in the Qur'an: "And do not insult one another and do not call each other by [offensive] nicknames." (49:11)

We stand in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of the Americas who have called on sports teams to #ChangeTheMascot and who have, for decades, expressed strong opposition to the use of the term “R*dsk*ns” by the NFL and the Washington team (1). We amplify the voices that note that the name “perpetuates a dated and harmful stereotype of Native people that continues to permeate American culture' and support all who are in this struggle” (2). According to Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry : 

In 2005 The American Psychological Association called for the retirement of American Indian mascots by athletic teams, organizations and educational institutions. This was based on a still growing body of social science literature that shows the harmful effects of racial stereotyping and inaccurate racial portrayals citing the particularly harmful effects of American Indian sports mascots on the social identity development and self-esteem of American Indian young people. (3)

MuslimARC stands with the  group of people from Native American communities of Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona who will rally tomorrow January 3, 2015 to protest the NFL team from Washington DC as they play the Dallas Cowboys at AT&T Stadium in Arlington Texas. The Rally will commence at 8:00am, followed by a a press conference at 9:30am on January 3rd at Richard Greene Linear Park located across from ATT Stadium at the corner of Randal Mill Road & ATT Way. For more information see: 

(1) http://www.changethemascot.org/supporters-of-change/

(2) http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2014/11/17/redskins-racial-slur-blackfeet-weigh/19206641/"

(3)http://www.nomorestereotypes.com/262-2/

Yolanda Bluehorse Texas Change the Name Rally [email protected] 972.971.5676