[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Somali Victory

[Lance Larkin]

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Lance

--- jonathan lawson <jonathan at indymedia.org> wrote:
> SUBTITLE: USDA OVERTURNS REPRESSIVE RULING
> TITLE: Victory for Somali Grocers
> 
> On Tuesday, the USDA overturned a previous ruling
> which banned three stores 
> in Seattle's Somali community from accepting food
> stamps. The ruling is 
> good news for Somali Muslims who rely on the stores
> for halal meats and 
> other dietary staples.
> The ban, instituted in March, followed an incident
> <a 
>
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/archive/features/2001/11/2001-11.html#2107">last
> 
> November</a> in which federal agents raided the Maka
> Mini-Mart and 
> confiscated its inventory, claimng that an adjoining
> money exchange 
> business was funneling money to terrorist
> organizations (the market's owner 
> later recovered damages in a court settlement). 
> Local Somalis and 
> community activists charged that both the raid and
> the food stamp ban were 
> fueled by post-9/11 prejudices against immigrant
> communities.
> "We are not protecting the American way of life by
> suspending the civil 
> rights of our own people," says <a
> href="http://www.hatefreezone.org">Hate 
> Free Zone</a> organizer Pramila Jayapal. "This was
> never the way to go 
> about fighting terrorists."
> 
> <a
>
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=16093">Read
> the 
> full story</a>.
> 
> 
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