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Election Season
National Arab American groups join forces to register voters
September 2014
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“Arab Americans have a lot at stake, and we cannot afford to be absent at the polls otherwise our voices will not be heard” said Lena Alhusseini, Executive Director at the Arab American Family Support Center in Brooklyn, NY DEARBORN, Mich. - The National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC), a project of ACCESS, along with the Network for Arab American Professionals (NAAP); the Arab American Institute (AAI), and the AmericanArab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), have joined forces to launch a National Arab American Voter Registration Day this Friday, September 26, on the heels of the National Voter Registration Day which took place earlier this week.
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