By Sarah Harvard Mic Women’s March co-organizers Linda Sarsour, Tamika D. Mallory, Bob Bland and Carmen Perez were arrested for protesting outside of Trump International Hotel in New York City on International Women’s Day, according to the Women’s March official Twitter page. Some of us have been arrested #DayWithoutAWoman pic.twitter.com/WSYVdrQjxA — Women’s March (@womensmarch) March … Continued
Linda Sarsour director of the first Muslim online organizing platform, MPower Change, and co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington. Democracy Now! Following President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, many media outlets began to cast his presidency in a new, more moderate light. However, activists and organizers say Trump’s presidency … Continued
Video: AFP Jenavieve Hatch The Huffington Post Designer Mara Hoffman used her platform at New York Fashion Week to amplify the voices of the Women’s March on Washington organizers. Activists Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, Bob Bland and Carmen Perez gave a passionate speech before Hoffman’s show about their inclusive Women’s March movement, and the importance … Continued
Linda Sarsour speaks onstage during the Women’s March on Washington on Jan. 21. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images) By Michael Alison Chandler The Washington Post It was 4 a.m. on the day of the Women’s March that Linda Sarsour and her national co-chairs realized how big the event they had spent 20 hours a day planning for … Continued
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen Haaretz When online attacks against Women’s March co-chair Linda Sarsour started this week, progressive Jews were among the first people to back her on social media. “Jews are some of my biggest supporters,” Sarsour told Haaretz in an interview. Sarsour, a born-and-bred Brooklynite whose parents are of Palestinian origin, directs the Arab … Continued
by The Secret Life of Muslims team VOX When Brooklynite Linda Sarsour comes to Washington inauguration weekend as the co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington, it will be another landmark moment in her fifteen years of public service fighting for Muslim rights. As head of the Arab American Association of New York, Sarsour helped end the … Continued
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