[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Somali Victory

[Troy Prouty]

good story guys - but is it really a victory ?  These people were hurt and 
they might never recover.


>From: Jason Reep <jasonr at speakeasy.net>
>To: editorial at seattle.indymedia.org
>Subject: Re: [Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Somali Victory
>Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:31:47 -0700
>
>Yes!
>
>
>At 10:14 AM 7/17/2002 -0700, jonathan lawson 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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