FREE EVENT!
The Crisis in Darfur
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Masjidul Taqwa
2575 Imperial Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101
For more info: (619) 871-0524
or (858) 722-3075
DIRECTIONS from ICSD
Take I-805 SOUTH
Take I-8 WEST
TAKE I-5 SOUTH
Get off on EXIT 15A
LEFT on IMPERIAL AVE
After 25TH STREET
Masjid is on your right
Next to the Police Station
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Whoever kills a person without his being guilty of murder or of creating unrest in the land is as though he kills the whole of mankind. And whoever saves a person it is as though he saved the whole of mankind. (Quran 5:32)
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Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim Elgadi
Sudanese Community:
- Key organizer within the Sudanese communities in the US
- Co-founder and honorary chair of the Group Against Torture in Sudan
(www.GhostHouses. blogspot. com).
- Co-founder of Darfur Alert Coalition (www.DarfurAlert.blogspot.com), which played major role to bring Sudanese immigrant
community to the forefront of the Darfur Movement, which the US right-wing groups had tried to hijack.
- Worked with different Sudanese communities to advocate for human rights issues until successfully passed City Resolutions for Darfur ( Amherst , and Northampton in MA; Philadelphia , and Pittsburgh in PA).
- Represented Sudanese community on the Advisory Board of Judgment on Genocide (www.JudgmentOnGenocide.org
) that has recently indicted, and tried the Sudanese dictatorship regime in NYC.
- Helped out different Sudanese groups in Diaspora and inside Sudan to set up their own blogs
to bring their voice on the internet highway (e.g. www.sdasudan.blogspot.com;
www.daphilly.blogspot.com; and
www.sdprfs.blogspot.com)
Muslim Community:
- Helped to connect immigrant Muslim community with African American Muslim community building on the fact that African Americans were the first to speak-up and to support Darfurian people.
African Immigrant Community:
- Co-founder of African Graduate and Scholar Association (AGASA) in MA
- Played major role in revitalizing AFRICOM (www.africomphilly.blogspot.com),
a major grassroots org for African immigrant community in Philadelphia.
- Helped in bringing the African immigrant voice to the national immigrants rights movement especially in Philadelphia .
- Helped in organizing the Philadelphia World Refugee Day, in which African immigrant played
leadership role (www.wrd-philly.blogspot.com).
- Co-recipient of Echoes of Africa Award (2005) for outstanding community leaders. The annual Award is given by the City of Philadelphia.
Other Human Rights areas:
Education:
- 2003 University of Massachusetts Amherst. Ed.D in Education Policy, Research, and Administration. Dissertation Title: Evaluation of the Oppressed™.
This new developed evaluation approach used program evaluation as a tool in the social justice struggle against authoritative project managements that are linked to the macro political oppression.
- University of Khartoum, Sudan. M.S in Environmental Studies. Thesis Title: Hasahisa Pesticides Graveyard™.
This investigative research project revealed, with strong evidence, the location and content of a secret chemical dumping site that had been carried out by the government of Sudan in 1986 in a highly populated rural area.
- 1977 Ain Shams University , Cairo , Egypt . B.S in Agriculture.
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