[SIGN] Support Justice Democrats-backed activist Rana Abdelhamid's bid for Congress!
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Rana Abdelhamid is a New Yorker, the daughter of immigrants, a human rights activist, an organizer. She just officially announced her candidacy in the race for New York’s 12th District.
Rana's story begins in Astoria, Queens, where she grew up in a small apartment with her mother, father, and three younger siblings. While she attended NYC public schools, her parents worked every day — and most nights — running their family-owned neighborhood deli. Over time, rising rent forced her father to take a second job just to pay the bills until eventually, he’d have to close the shop. And these rising rents didn't just affect her dad's business. They also impacted where her family was able to call home. Gentrification and poor housing conditions forced them to move six times over the course of her childhood.
It's hard to feel safe when you're moving around so much. It's even harder when your community is under attack. As a child of working-class Egyptian immigrants, Rana experienced a rise in racial discrimination and violence firsthand. 9/11 shook the world, and it also shed a blinding light on the insidious nature of racial violence in her community. She saw fathers and brothers profiled by law enforcement on her block; at the age of 16, she survived a racially-targeted hate crime by a man who tried to rip off her hijab.
This event inspired Rana to take safety into her own hands. She began her journey as a self-defense trainer and founded a nonprofit organization called Malikah. As of today, Malikah has reached over 20,000 women and girls in 20 cities across the world and has trained them in self-defense, organizing, and financial literacy.
Rana is running for Congress because New York deserves a leader who isn’t afraid to challenge the status quo, and who isn’t afraid to take on the powerful. I’ve spent the last decade of my life organizing across New York City, and now I’m going to bring the voice of the people straight to the halls of Congress.
For the first time in 28 years, we have an opportunity to elect a leader who truly understands the challenges our communities face and has the solutions big enough to match the urgency of the crises we face.
Please, sign Rana Abdelhamid for Congress' petition to show your support for our grassroots, people-powered movement.
Rana Abdelhamid is a New Yorker, the daughter of immigrants, a human rights activist, an organizer. She just officially announced her candidacy in the race for New York’s 12th District.
Rana's story begins in Astoria, Queens, where she grew up in a small apartment with her mother, father, and three younger siblings. While she attended NYC public schools, her parents worked every day — and most nights — running their family-owned neighborhood deli. Over time, rising rent forced her father to take a second job just to pay the bills until eventually, he’d have to close the shop. And these rising rents didn't just affect her dad's business. They also impacted where her family was able to call home. Gentrification and poor housing conditions forced them to move six times over the course of her childhood.
It's hard to feel safe when you're moving around so much. It's even harder when your community is under attack. As a child of working-class Egyptian immigrants, Rana experienced a rise in racial discrimination and violence firsthand. 9/11 shook the world, and it also shed a blinding light on the insidious nature of racial violence in her community. She saw fathers and brothers profiled by law enforcement on her block; at the age of 16, she survived a racially-targeted hate crime by a man who tried to rip off her hijab.
This event inspired Rana to take safety into her own hands. She began her journey as a self-defense trainer and founded a nonprofit organization called Malikah. As of today, Malikah has reached over 20,000 women and girls in 20 cities across the world and has trained them in self-defense, organizing, and financial literacy.
Rana is running for Congress because New York deserves a leader who isn’t afraid to challenge the status quo, and who isn’t afraid to take on the powerful. I’ve spent the last decade of my life organizing across New York City, and now I’m going to bring the voice of the people straight to the halls of Congress.
For the first time in 28 years, we have an opportunity to elect a leader who truly understands the challenges our communities face and has the solutions big enough to match the urgency of the crises we face.
Please, sign Rana Abdelhamid for Congress' petition to show your support for our grassroots, people-powered movement.
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