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Nearly eight decades after the United States forced Japanese Americans into prison camps during World War II, Arizona will recognize the efforts of a man who turned his pain into a lifetime of activism for equity and inclusion.
A new state law designates Jan. 30 as Fred T. Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. Arizona joins 10 other states in honoring the activist on his birthday.
The bipartisan-supported honor comes as harassment and hate crimes against people of Asian descent rise, as Asian Pacific Heritage Month is celebrated in May, and education around challenges to democracy for underserved communities still falls short.
Syrian presidential elections: Spectacle and ‘electoral farce’
May 5, 2021
A picture of Bashar al-Assad affixed to a window in the al-Hamidiyah Market of Old Damascus, 21/04/2021 (AFP)
AMMAN Out of 51 applications for candidacy in Syria’s presidential elections, the Constitutional Court announced on May 3 the acceptance of just three candidates to run in the elections slated for May 20 for citizens outside Syria and May 26 for citizens inside Syria.
While Syrians living in areas outside of regime control, including some four million people in the last opposition areas in the country’s northwest, are deprived of casting their votes in “the electoral farce,” as Syrians on social media have termed it, millions of others may also be barred under legal and constitutional pretexts, or due to security and logistical obstacles preventing them from participating.
From the National Council to the National Coalition: Has Syria’s political opposition become a burden on the revolution?
April 14, 2021
Participants in the Riyadh II Expanded Syrian Opposition Meeting, held in the Saudi capital, pose for a photo, 22/10/2017 (AFP)
AMMAN Alongside the struggle against Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Syrians have been in a continuous battle since March 2011 to create influential political bodies to represent the revolutionaries.
However, the relations between post-revolution political blocs, assemblies and platforms have been characterized by internal conflicts that reflect the regional and international polarization.
A shaky birth
As protests spread in the spring of 2011, there was “a dire need for this popular mobilization to translate into politics. All those who went out to demonstrate had a desire for political representation for the voices calling for freedom and salvation from tyranny,” Yahya al-Aridi, the spokesman for the Syrian Neg
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