Thank you for posting this Qasim. It’s always wonderful to hear you speak as you put such important information out to people who may not even realize the extent of the abuse that is happening. It gives me hope that you are in this world.💜
Thank you, Qasim!!! 💙✊ Excellent speech to Naperville city board!!! Foster is such a milk toast, corporate democrat, and needs to be primaried!! I can’t believe you didn’t win when you ran against him. 🤯 Things happen for a reason and you are doing a wonderful job with your Substack and advocacy to save our democracy!! if you ever decide to run again against Foster, and I really hope you do, I will go door-to-door for you if you do and I don’t even live in that district, but that’s how much I believe you’re the much, much better, decent, honorable, knowledgeable, and humanitarian that is needed in our government!!
As soon as this national government destruction started right after the inauguration of this second nightmare. A bunch of us from indivisible delivered a letter to several of the state representatives in the western suburbs. Foster was my first and I knew that Foster was milk toast when he told a group of us, what do you expect me to do? I’m only one vote. And he also said misogynistic comment about AOC. Something like nobody wants to hear her scream and yell. 🤯🤯🤮🤮🤬🤬🤬
This is excellent Qasim! You ask your representatives to uphold the law at the local level that the feds are failing to do. You explain what has been happening and how to remedy it locally. I will reStack this for others to use as a blueprint. Thank you.
Excellent! We passed a similar resolution (unanimously) in our tiny town, and we got it proposed and passed in a half dozen more towns by friends who live there. This is the way to make change from the ground up.
Thank you, Qasim, for using your excellent education in human rights law to help make the world a better place and ensure equity and justice for all. The world is unequivocally a better place with you in it and we are all very grateful for the work you do!
And this is how you use your law degree for good!! I am working on mine to do the same thing! I plan to be a menace to my city council when they ignore the law!
I was pleased in your video before the Napierville City Council to hear you call out concentration camps rather than the misnomer of the government "detention centers." The treatment of people held in them rivals those of 1930s Germany in their early iterations,
I did not know you live in Napierville. Over two decades ago I had an apartment right next to the train station and daily rode the express into the Loop. Being from the South I was shocked to learn that in downtown Chicago there is no such thing as "walking." That, too, is a misnomer!!! :)
It is essential to draw in co-operation of local Mayors ( they hire police chiefs in many areas) and City Councils to pass response procedures, enforced by local police force when ICE is threatening or disruptive ( you call police and Police know how to respond per the direction of their leaders) in a community. ICE stopping cars or vehicles blocking traffic, presence at schools or transportation centers , other public areas should have options for police help, especially if people are touched by ICE agents or removed to ICE vehicles. ANY Contact with children should bring in police unless parents are present. Parents can call for police for help if children are frightened even watching what happens. That is trauma to both adults and children.
That was a strong and pointed statement to the Council, Qasim. Our own representatives in Congress should be making that stand. They don't because of money in politics. That has to change--they are there to represent their constituents, not Israel, not corporations, not billionaires. Why do we even have representatives at all if we have fight every single battle ourselves.
Qasim should be such a representative. He would make an ideal representative for his district, his city, his state, & the whole country. He did run for office once to my knowledge. Didn't win it then, but I think he'd win it today, with the great moral & intellectual record he has established. We wouldn't necessarily lose his voice, because I've noticed many current officeholders have plenty of time to send messages or tweets to their constituents & anyone else willing to listen to them. But Qasim has proven himself to be someone who not only speaks out, but who walks the talk.
I agree. Qasim would be the ideal representative of the people. He is sincere. I can't tell you how much I have learned from him about assessing a situation, weighing various opinions, and mostly, thinking critically about what I'm hearing or reading--no matter the source. I've come a long way through reading Qasim's writings. What a service to the public it would be if all news sources worked as he does, without fear or favor or monetary influence. The fact that that doesn't happen is one reason why people elect poor leaders.
So proud of you to see the activism!!! The very first deportation without due process I was yelling at my tv!! It is my biggest wish to end these awful human prison camps! Good on you sir!! 👏👏👏
Funny how “small government” disappears the second federal power starts kicking in doors without due process.
Respect for actually showing up though — turns out democracy isn’t a vibe, it’s a participation sport.
Thank you for posting this Qasim. It’s always wonderful to hear you speak as you put such important information out to people who may not even realize the extent of the abuse that is happening. It gives me hope that you are in this world.💜
Amen!
Thank you, Qasim!!! 💙✊ Excellent speech to Naperville city board!!! Foster is such a milk toast, corporate democrat, and needs to be primaried!! I can’t believe you didn’t win when you ran against him. 🤯 Things happen for a reason and you are doing a wonderful job with your Substack and advocacy to save our democracy!! if you ever decide to run again against Foster, and I really hope you do, I will go door-to-door for you if you do and I don’t even live in that district, but that’s how much I believe you’re the much, much better, decent, honorable, knowledgeable, and humanitarian that is needed in our government!!
As soon as this national government destruction started right after the inauguration of this second nightmare. A bunch of us from indivisible delivered a letter to several of the state representatives in the western suburbs. Foster was my first and I knew that Foster was milk toast when he told a group of us, what do you expect me to do? I’m only one vote. And he also said misogynistic comment about AOC. Something like nobody wants to hear her scream and yell. 🤯🤯🤮🤮🤬🤬🤬
This is excellent Qasim! You ask your representatives to uphold the law at the local level that the feds are failing to do. You explain what has been happening and how to remedy it locally. I will reStack this for others to use as a blueprint. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your well-spoken and powerful video.
Excellent! We passed a similar resolution (unanimously) in our tiny town, and we got it proposed and passed in a half dozen more towns by friends who live there. This is the way to make change from the ground up.
Thank you, Qasim, for using your excellent education in human rights law to help make the world a better place and ensure equity and justice for all. The world is unequivocally a better place with you in it and we are all very grateful for the work you do!
And this is how you use your law degree for good!! I am working on mine to do the same thing! I plan to be a menace to my city council when they ignore the law!
Power to the people !
I was pleased in your video before the Napierville City Council to hear you call out concentration camps rather than the misnomer of the government "detention centers." The treatment of people held in them rivals those of 1930s Germany in their early iterations,
I did not know you live in Napierville. Over two decades ago I had an apartment right next to the train station and daily rode the express into the Loop. Being from the South I was shocked to learn that in downtown Chicago there is no such thing as "walking." That, too, is a misnomer!!! :)
It is essential to draw in co-operation of local Mayors ( they hire police chiefs in many areas) and City Councils to pass response procedures, enforced by local police force when ICE is threatening or disruptive ( you call police and Police know how to respond per the direction of their leaders) in a community. ICE stopping cars or vehicles blocking traffic, presence at schools or transportation centers , other public areas should have options for police help, especially if people are touched by ICE agents or removed to ICE vehicles. ANY Contact with children should bring in police unless parents are present. Parents can call for police for help if children are frightened even watching what happens. That is trauma to both adults and children.
That was a strong and pointed statement to the Council, Qasim. Our own representatives in Congress should be making that stand. They don't because of money in politics. That has to change--they are there to represent their constituents, not Israel, not corporations, not billionaires. Why do we even have representatives at all if we have fight every single battle ourselves.
Qasim should be such a representative. He would make an ideal representative for his district, his city, his state, & the whole country. He did run for office once to my knowledge. Didn't win it then, but I think he'd win it today, with the great moral & intellectual record he has established. We wouldn't necessarily lose his voice, because I've noticed many current officeholders have plenty of time to send messages or tweets to their constituents & anyone else willing to listen to them. But Qasim has proven himself to be someone who not only speaks out, but who walks the talk.
I agree. Qasim would be the ideal representative of the people. He is sincere. I can't tell you how much I have learned from him about assessing a situation, weighing various opinions, and mostly, thinking critically about what I'm hearing or reading--no matter the source. I've come a long way through reading Qasim's writings. What a service to the public it would be if all news sources worked as he does, without fear or favor or monetary influence. The fact that that doesn't happen is one reason why people elect poor leaders.
Great action, great advice for us in other communities, Qasim. Thanks.
So proud of you to see the activism!!! The very first deportation without due process I was yelling at my tv!! It is my biggest wish to end these awful human prison camps! Good on you sir!! 👏👏👏
Sounds good nothing in Oklahoma but don't see many 🤔