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General PACC Update!
by paccusa
Welcome Jason & Munna to our PACC Team
Jason Ajiake is our new Advocacy and Community Outreach coordinator. Jason is a seasoned organizer working to build grassroots political power with PACC as our Advocacy and Community Outreach Coordinator. He attended Howard University in Washington, DC where he studied Sociology and Political Science with a focus on liberation. In his spare time, Jason is passionate about music and meditation.
Munna Aldakhlallah is our new USCPR Fellow and our advocacy and office intern. She is passionate about Palestinian Liberation and empowering the Arab-American community. Munna attended Rutgers University in Newark, NJ where she majored in Business Administration with a minor in Sociology. Munna’s hobbies include gardening, reading, and cooking.
We Renovated PACC!
We renovated the center and gave it a new look with a fresh paint job and a remodeling of all our bathrooms. Book your event with PACC today and visit our website at paccusa.org/ rentals to see how the center looks now and our rental pricing.
Community Programs
Winter Programs
We brought back our programs for the winter session after taking a short break! We are off to a great start this session and have over 230 participants ranging between the ages of three and 60 years old. We are offering our usual programs: Dabka, Arabic, Cooking Club, English Conversation, Basketball, and Soccer.
Our cooking class has been the most popular program so far this session with close to 40 kids registered. We started offering 4 different cooking class times to accommodate the large number of registrants.
Palestine Education Programs
We have resumed two of our Palestine Education courses: Holding Onto Palestinian Existence (HOPE), which is for High School students, and Freedom is the Future (FIF), which is open to anyone over the age of 17. Both are 10-week virtual courses that educate our community members and people across the nation on Palestinian history, culture, and larger social justice issues. We have 22 people enrolled in FIF and 15 people enrolled in HOPE.
We hosted our 5th ACE meeting where we discussed grassroots organizing tactics and the difference between being an organizer and an activist. We also invited Tarek Alnatur to coach our cohort on leadership. By going over their result from a DISC analysis, we empowered each of them to use their strengths to be leaders and navigate team dynamics.
