Immigration advocates (Palestinian Murad Awawdeh), criticize arrests during anti-ICE demonstration in Chinatown

Murad Awawdeh is President & CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, a nationally acclaimed strategist and organizer, and the son of Arab "Palestinian" immigrants. He has been invited by Mamdani to be on his transition team, focused on immigration.

NYC might become the no.1 for illegal immigrants...

In San Francisco, in Flower Drum Song the cop asks the elderly Chinese man who had earlier arrived stowed away in a shipping crate, where he was from.

Man: “The East.”
Cop: “Oh, New York.”
Man: “No. Further East.”

Immigrant justice....

Like the Obama years, the department of Justus.

In fact, most Mandani voters are not NY-ers by origin and largely not born in the US..

“Collaborating” with legally empowered law enforcement is what everyone is supposed to do. It’s called obeying the law.

You can’t wrestle cops down to the ground or run away from FBI agents or refuse to allow a deputy to enter your home with a warrant.

Otherwise, the organized crime bosses could say “We have sanctuary drug, prostitution and stolen property centers that are now off limits to agents. We do not recognize agents we consider to be enforcing laws with which we do not agree. Stay out.”

If you can enter illegally there,🎶
you can enter anywhere.🎶
It’s up to you, wide open New York.🎶🎶

There's a report right now that we're following up on

We call those rumors.

Murad Awawdeh

https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/new-york-immigration-coalition-nyic/

New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC)
Overview
* New York State’s leading immigrant coalition
* Powerful member of the open-borders lobby

Founded in 1987, the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) is an open-borders policy and advocacy organization that has taken a leadership role in the State of New York. NYIC is part of the Restore Fairness Campaign and the We Are America Alliance; it also operates as a leading member of the Center for Community Change’s massive Reform Immigration for America Coalition. Moreover, NYIC is a powerful coalition in its own right; its membership comprises more than 200 groups in New York State, including such prominent labor and progressive organizations as the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the American Friends Service Committee, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CUNY Citizenship and Immigration Project, Human Rights First, Make the Road New York, Sanctuary for Families, the Service Employees International Union, and UNITE HERE!.

NYIC was originally established to rally New York’s immigrant community leaders to protest a provision in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 which made it illegal for any American employer to knowingly hire or recruit illegal immigrants. Since the late 1990s, NYIC has expanded into a multifaceted progressive group that combines community organizing with lobbying. Its major initiatives include the following:

Policy analysis and advocacy: NYIC pushes for “broad legislation and comprehensive immigration reform measures,” which are aimed at combating “discrimination” and providing “quality health care, health care, education, and housing” to immigrants.

2. Civic participation and voter education: NYIC has taken a leading role in citywide and statewide Get-Out-The-Vote campaigns. Launching the Immigrant Voter Action Campaign in 2008, NYIC sought to “mobilize immigrant voter power in New York as never before.” During the 2008 presidential campaign, NYIC’s efforts bolstered a national campaign to enlist new voters in order to push for an open-borders agenda.

3. Community education: NYIC has disseminated more than a million copies of various educational publications dealing with immigration law, the citizenship process, school registration, health care access, and voting rights.

4. Training and leadership development: NYIC’s Immigrant Concerns Training Institute offers classes on the social and legal services that are available to immigrants, legal and illegal.

Chung-Wha Hong – former head of the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium – serves as NYIC’s Executive Director. New York Magazine and Crain’s have described her as one of the most influential women in New York. Hong contends that the federal government is chiefly to blame for the problem of illegal immigration. “The irresponsible immigration system […] creates this pool of undocumented immigrant workers […] undermining our security, undermining our economy and encourag[ing] employers to exploit immigrants,” she argues. Hong states that “[w]e can’t deport our way out of this [illegal immigration] problem,” because it is “too big.” In Hong’s view, the only solution is to grant amnesty to all the illegal aliens presently residing in the United States, as well as to many millions of their relatives south of the U.S.-Mexican border. Legalization would “bolste[r] our economy,” she affirms. “If you legalize all the workers and families that are here right now it will generate $1.5 trillion in gross domestic product.”

In the early months of 2010, NYIC was an instrumental participant in lobbying efforts to pressure the Democratic Party to make comprehensive immigration legislation an immediate priority. Meeting with New York Senator Chuck Schumer on February 5, Chung-Wha Hong and the leaders of 60 NYIC member groups pushed for stronger promises on reform. On March 11, Hong and activist leaders from around the U.S. met with President Obama to urge the passage of an amnesty bill.

In April of 2010, NYIC stepped up its lobbying and organizing efforts to protest a newly passed Arizona law, SB 1070, targeting illegal aliens. “The NYIC condemns the Arizona law in the strongest of terms,” declared Frances Liu, NYIC’s Immigration Advocacy Field Coordinator. “The ugliness of SB 1070 should serve as a wake-up call to the President and Congress to stop dragging their feet. They must address the crisis in our communities today, stop the senseless deportations, and enact just and humane immigration reform now.” According to Chung-Wha Hong, the Arizona law would ultimately “turn our country into a police state.”

Acting as a local arm of the national Reform Immigration for America Coalition, NYIC helped coordinate all the various May Day immigrant-rights demonstrations that were held throughout New York State in 2010. Rallying high-profile politicians and thousands of New York-area residents, NYIC denounced Arizona’s law, demanded action from President Obama, championed Congressman Luis Gutierrez’s open-borders legislative efforts in the House of Representatives, and blasted Republicans as “the party of obstruction.” Among the open-borders groups that joined NYIC’s May Day efforts were the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrants’ Rights.

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https://keywiki.org/New_York_Immigration_Coalition

New York Immigration Coalition

Contents
1 Executive Committee
2 Fighting for Illegal Immigration Rally January 16 2018
2.1 SPEAKERS
3 Anti “Muslim ban” rally
4 Rally for DACA
5 References
Executive Committee
As of January 2009;[2]

Ana Maria Archila, Make the Road New York
Guillermo Chacon, Latino Commission on AIDS
Graciela Heymann, Westchester Hispanic Coalition
Caroline Katz, Individual member
Annetta Seecharran, South Asian Youth Action
Susan Stamler, United Neighborhood Houses
Luis Valenzuela, Long Island Immigrant Alliance
Fighting for Illegal Immigration Rally January 16 2018

On January 17 2018, Pramila Jayapal protested with DACA activists from NAKASEC (Dae Joong Yoon Co-Director, Sam Yu Communications Coordinator), Tony Choi, Rob Bonta, Kevin de Leon, UndocuBlack Network, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC), African Communities Together leader and Local 23 President Bert Bayou and others.[3]

From the Facebook Live Video:

“Community members from the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC), the UndocuBlack Network (UBN), Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC, The New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), African Communities Together and UNITE HERE Local 23 will host a timely press conference denouncing President Trump’s racist statements in his meeting with U.S. Senators last week and call for a DREAM Act that leaves family sponsorship and diversity visa programs intact by January 19th, the deadline for the upcoming Continuing Resolution (CR). In addition to impacted community members and community leaders, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Chair Congresswoman Judy Chu, CAPAC Immigration Subcommittee Chair Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, California State Senate President pro tempore Kevin de Leon and California Assemblymember and Chair of the California Asian & Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus Rob Bonta will participate.”
SPEAKERS

NAKASEC Facebook Live Video January 16 2018
The speakers in the order in which they appeared:

Kevin de Leon
Pramila Jayapal
Rob Bonta
Tony Choi, 18 Million Rising, Former organizer with the Women’s March[4]
Guerline Jozef, UndocuBlack Network[5]
Bert Bayou New York Immigration Coalition
Judy Chu (absent)
John Yang, President, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC
Anti “Muslim ban” rally
After 17 people were detained without charges this morning in John F. Kennedy Airport, protesters and elected officials gathered in Battery Park to speak against President Donald Trump’s slew of executive orders banning immigrants from seven Muslim majority countries and halting the entry of refugees into the country.

The New York Immigration Coalition, Make The Road New York, the National Immigration Law Center and several other New York-based organizations coordinated the rally, and over 10,000 supporters attended.

Among the speakers were Senators Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, Mayor Bill de Blasio, activist Linda Sarsour and U.S. Representative Jerry Nadler. Many elected officials were also present at the rally in Washington Square Park on Wednesday, which promoted a similar message of open borders with the hashtag #NoBanNoWall.

Addressing the crowd, Schumer said that the protests in JFK contributed to the fight against Trump’s recent executive orders regarding immigration.

“Because of your actions, he [Secretary John F. Kelly] promised me that the 42 who are detained and under court order to be released, will be released to the United States and to freedom shortly,” Schumer said during his speech. “So we’ve made progress for 42 — we have to make progress for thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands more.”

Sana Mayat is the NYU’s Muslim Student Association vice president, and she expressed surprise and pride to see the number of non-Muslims that showed up at the rally.

“People are saying that an attack on one is an attack on everyone, not just an issue that is limited to one group,” Mayat said. “It is really impactful and it gives me a lot of hope.”

Rally for DACA
New York City: October 5, 2017, the Asian American Federation held a rally at Trump Tower with our member agencies and leading immigrant advocacy groups to speak out in support of Asian American Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, who are being impacted by the dissolution of the DACA program under the Trump administration. Twenty-three organizations and nearly 200 New Yorkers, including Congresswoman Jo-Ann Yoo, executive director of the Asian American Federation, Grace Meng, Council Member Margaret Chin, Assemblymember Yuh-line Niou, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, and Comptroller Scott Stringer, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Mayor Bill de Blasio Assemblymember Deborah Glick, Assemblyman Ron Kim, Assemblywoman Nily Rozic, Public Advocate Letitia James, Council Member Daniel Dromm, Council Member Rory Lancman, Steven Choi, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, Margaret Fung, executive director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Christopher Kui, executive director of Asian Americans for Equality, Annetta Seecharran, executive director of Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Mae Lee, executive director of the Chinese Progressive Association (New York), Wayne Ho, executive director of the Chinese-American Planning Council, Kavita Mehra, executive director of Sakhi for South Asian Women, Robina Niaz, executive director of Turning Point for Women and Families, joined hands with the Federation to defend the future of our DREAMers.

Rally Co-Sponsors: Adhikaar, Alliance of South Asian American Labor, Arab American Association of New York, Asian American Arts Alliance, Asian American Bar Association of New York, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian Americans for Equality, Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Chinese-American Planning Council, Chinese Progressive Association (New York), Council of People’s Organization, Desis Rising Up and Moving, Japanese American Association of New York, Japanese American Social Services, Inc., Korean American Family Service Center, Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York, MinKwon Center for Community Action, National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, New York Immigration Coalition, OCA-NY, Sakhi for South Asian Women, Turning Point for Women and Families, University Settlement.[6]

CAS freshman Claudia Franke attended the protest and said that the message of Sunday’s rally particularly resonated with her, since she has family members living in the U.S. with green cards. [7]

References
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Facebook Live Video, accessed January 19 2018
When You’re Queer And Undocumented, The DACA Stakes Are Higher, accessed January 19 2018
Black, Asian, And Latinx Activists Protest Trump’s ‘Shithole’ Comments, accessed January 19 2018
[http://aafederation.org/press/pressrelease.asp?prid=366&y=2017Asian American Federation, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10/6/2017 CONTACT: Jo-Ann Yoo, Asian Americans Rally in Support of DACA and TPS]
Square News, Protestors in Battery Park Respond to JFK Detainees Jemima McEvoy and Sayer Devlin January 29, 2017

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https://keywiki.org/Ana_Maria_Archila

Ana Maria Archila
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Ana Maria Archila via Washington Post
Ana Maria Archila Gulay is an illegal alien and leftist activist from Colombia.[1]

She gained notoriety with fellow activist Maria Gallagher after she “cornered judiciary committee member Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) in an elevator and yelled at him for several minutes” during the hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.[2]

Ana Maria Archila is Co-Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy and CPD Action Fund, and serves on the National Advisory Board of the Working Families Organization. In 2016, her salary was $178,071.[3]

The Wyss Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Open Society Foundations are the biggest funders of the Center for Popular Democracy.[4]

Contents
1 2024 Better World Awards
2 CPD Action
3 Background
4 Editorial Advisory Board
5 National Leading From the Inside Out Alum
6 Organizing the Recovery
7 National Advisory Board
8 Illegal Alien
9 Arrested at Anti-ICE protest
10 Make the Road New York
11 Comrades
12 Left Forum 2008
13 References
2024 Better World Awards
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Honorees:

Ana Maria Archila - New York Working Families Party
Juan Gonzalez Democracy Now!
Ramona Ferreyra Save Section 9
Bobby Greenberg UFT Retiree Officer
CPD Action
Ana Maria Archila is on the CPD Action Leadership Team as of February 21, 2023.[5]

Background
Ana Maria Archila became a staff member of the Latin American Integration Center (LAIC) in Queens, New York in 2001. The founding director of LAIC Samaria Archila, was a former human rights lawyer from Colombia and her aunt.[6]

Editorial Advisory Board
The Forge Editorial Advisory Board comprises leading organizers and strategists who offer key leadership and guidance to the endeavor.

Ana Maria Archila, Center for Popular Democracy
Andrea Dehlendorf, United for Respect
Jennifer Epps-Addison, Center for Popular Democracy
Janice Fine, Rutgers University
Andrew Friedman, Center for Popular Democracy
Maurice Moe Mitchell, Working Families Party
Sabeel Rahman, Demos
Dorian Warren, Community Change[7]
National Leading From the Inside Out Alum
Ana Maria Archila, Co-Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy was a 2015 Rockwood Leadership Institute National Leading From the Inside Out Alum.[8]

Organizing the Recovery
Organizing the Recovery: State-Based Activism on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was held at Capitol Skyline Hotel 10 “I” Street SW, Washington, DC May 10-12, 2010.[9]

Participants included Ana Maria Archila - Make The Road New York.

National Advisory Board
The National Advisory Board of the Working Families Organization is comprised of representatives from national progressive organizations and from each of our state organizations.

Board in January 2016;

Brandon Davis, SEIU
Ilya Sheyman, Moveon.org
Rafael Navar, CWA
Brian Kettenring, Center for Popular Democracy
Ana Maria Archila, Center for Popular Democracy
Illegal Alien
From the College Fix:

“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist and rising star within the Democrat Party, called Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh a liar in a speech to Boston University college students on Monday…
“…She went on to hail ‘activism’ as the solution, and boasted to the crowd that one of the women who had cornered judiciary committee member Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) in an elevator and yelled at him for several minutes after he agreed to vote “yes” on Kavanaugh was from her district.
““Ana Maria Archila is from our district, is from Queens,” Ocasio-Cortez, prompting a round of applause. “In fact, she is an immigration activist, which just goes to show intersectionality and how interwoven all of these fights are. Because she is putting everything on the line and risking deportation … not even for a direct immigration action but for the action of all survivors. And that’s how we need to be. We need to be championing the causes of our neighbors. That is what creates power and movement, coalition building.”
Arrested at Anti-ICE protest
Ana Maria Archila was one of “575 protesters [who] were arrested and escorted out of the Hart Senate Office Building in a mass demonstration that called for the abolishment of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency” in June 2018. She was quoted at the Chicago Tribune in relation to her role as executive director of Center for Popular Democracy, where she said calling for the disbandment of ICE “would have seemed absurd even a few months ago,” But now it is central to the mission of her group and Thursday’s march. “This country has finally been exposed to the brutality and inhumanity of immigration enforcement,” she said. “This barrage of injustices has inspired us to say, ‘No more. We will not be silent. We will not obey.’”

Article verbatim:

“They came from all over, took planes and buses from 47 states, slept at friends’ homes or in churches and prepared to be arrested Thursday June 27, 2018 in Washington, D.C.
“Most of the participants were white women, stumbling over the syllables of Spanish-language chants. Many had never faced arrest before. But here they were.
“Capitol Police said 575 protesters were arrested and escorted out of the Hart Senate Office Building in a mass demonstration that called for the abolishment of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, and an end to migrant family detentions and the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
“They were charged with unlawfully demonstrating, a misdemeanor.
“I have two kids, and as a white mother, there is almost no circumstance that they would be taken away from me - ever,” said Victoria Farris, who slept Wednesday night in All Souls Church after participating in civil disobedience training. “I was awake one night because I couldn’t sleep thinking about all those [immigrant] mothers and terrified children. I realized I had to do something more than protest, more than make a sign and march.”
“Protesters unfurled banners inside the Hart building Thursday as others staged a sit-in, wrapping themselves in shiny, silver space blankets. The political banners, which aren’t allowed in the building’s lobby, were confiscated by police.
“Capitol Police process a group consisting mostly of women demonstrators inside the Hart building in Washington, D.C.
“Then the arrests began.
“Just after 3 p.m., protesters were rounded up in groups of a dozen or more and led out of the building.
“”Abolish ICE,” they shouted as more were moved out. “Shut it down.”
“Demonstrators continued to sing and chant as they were led away.
“When the first group was escorted out of the building, the remaining crowd erupted in cheers.
“As police continued to clear the area, several senators greeted demonstrators, including Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill.
“I join them in calling on the Trump administration to reunite these families and give these kids back to their parents,” Duckworth said. “On my side of things, I ask my colleagues, let’s pass, finally, sensible immigration reform.”
“Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., joined in the protest and was led out with marchers by Capitol Police. Actress Susan Sarandon, who marched at the front as the protest made its way down Constitution Avenue, was arrested with a group of demonstrators.
“It took about an hour to clear the women from the building.
“The protest began hours earlier at Freedom Plaza, where hundreds of women robed in white and carrying signs deriding the Trump administration’s immigration policy had gathered. The protest was organized by a coalition of groups, including the Women’s March and the immigrant advocacy organization Casa de Maryland.
“Several participants wrote “WE CARE” on their palms, a rebuke of the jacket first lady Melania Trump wore on her first trip to visit detained children near the border.
“Ana Maria Archila, executive director of Center for Popular Democracy, said calling for the disbandment of ICE “would have seemed absurd even a few months ago.”
“But now it is central to the mission of her group and Thursday’s march.
“”This country has finally been exposed to the brutality and inhumanity of immigration enforcement,” she said. “This barrage of injustices has inspired us to say, ‘No more. We will not be silent. We will not obey.’ “
“After gathering at Freedom Plaza, the group marched to the Justice Department before heading to the Hart building, singing hymns and protest songs all the way.
“Organizers of the D.C. rally said similar protests will take place in 351 congressional districts across the country.[10]
Make the Road New York
Ana Maria Archila discussed “how she and others turned a group called Make The Road New York into the city’s largest community-advocacy organization” in 2014 at the Broadbent Institute.[11]

Comrades
Winnie Wong December 14, 2017 ·

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With Ana Maria Archila, Bob Bland, Linda Sarsour and Ady Barkan.

Left Forum 2008
The Battle for Immigrant Rights: From Dialogue To Action: Join us for a dialogue exploring how we can respond effectively to tough questions about immigration, chip away at the anti-immigrant attitudes being amplified by the media, and support immigrants who are organizing against deportation, defending their labor rights and building community power.

Jane Guskin, Author
Aarti Shahani, Co-founder, Families for Freedom
Victor Toro, Founder, Vamos a la Peoa del Bronx
Ana Maria Archila, Co-Executive Director, Make the Road, New York
Moderator: Adriana Rocha, Program Officer, New York Foundation
References
Ocasio-Cortez calls Kavanaugh liar in speech to college students (VIDEO), October 7, 2018
Ocasio-Cortez calls Kavanaugh liar in speech to college students (VIDEO), October 7, 2018
UPDATE: Soros Elevator Activist and Illegal Alien Ana Maria Archila Made $178,071 in 2016 as a Far Left Activist, October 7, 2018
October 7, 2018
Our Staff and Board (accessed February 21, 2023)
Milkman, Ruth; Ott, Edward, eds. (2014), New Labor in New York: Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement, Cornell University Press, pp. 174–175, ISBN 978-0801452833, October 7, 2018
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Chicago Tribune, June 28, 2018
Broadbent Institute brings democracy advocate Ana Maria Archila to Vancouver, June 28, 2018

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Murad Awawdeh
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Murad Awawdeh Vice President of Advocacy at The New York Immigration Coalition.

Contents
1 Zohran Mamdani’s ‘Inner Circle’
2 Mamdani Primary Victory Party attendees
3 South Brooklyn DSA Official Closed Group
4 Socialists backing Brattan
5 Team El-Yateem
6 Board members
7 Linda Sarsour
8 References
Zohran Mamdani’s ‘Inner Circle’
Murad Awawdeh was featured in a New York Times article dated August 12, 2025 titled “Zohran Mamdani’s Inner Circle”:.[1],[2]

Mr. Awawdeh, the president and chief executive of the New York Immigration Coalition, serves as a regular late-night sounding board for Mr. Mamdani. He helped shape the campaign’s policy platform and build its novel coalition of young voters, South Asians and other immigrant groups.
Mamdani Primary Victory Party attendees
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Brad Lander, Jumaane Williams, Chi Osse, John Liu, Gustavo Rivera, Jabari Brisport, Antonio Reynoso, Jamaal Bowman, Marcela Mitaynes, Murad Awawdeh, Cynthia Nixon, Patrick Gaspard, Steve Banks, Letitia James, Nydia Velasquez, Elle Bisgaard-Church.

South Brooklyn DSA Official Closed Group
Members of the South Brooklyn Democratic Socialists of America Official Closed Facebook Group, as of October 15, 2017 included Murad Awawdeh.[3]

Socialists backing Brattan
Khader El-Yateem November 7, 2017 near New York, NY

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Congratulations to Justin Brannan on a great win. I look forward to working together for our community. — with Mohammad Sawaeer, Abdullah Younus, Rabyaah Althaibani and Murad Awawdeh.

Team El-Yateem
Khader El-Yateem September 24, 2017:

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TakeAKnee #StandWithKaep #TeamElYateem — with Murad Awawdeh, Amanda Philip, Linda Sarsour, Somia Elrowmeim, Widad Indie, Brittany Anderson, Abdullah Younus, Rabyaah Althaibani, Khader El-Yateem and Zohran Kwame Mamdani.
MK Mohammad Khan September 12, 2017:

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We fought the machine, and well...the machine won. Tomorrow is another day to dust ourselves off and get back to organizing, but tonight, I can’t help but hold my frustration with erstwhile “progressive” organizations, politicians, and unions—who claim allyship on issues of racial and immigrant justice, but double down on whiteness and the establishment every time they’re asked to make space for n... See More — with Abdullah Younus, Linda Sarsour, Andrew Smith, Rama Issa-Ibrahim, Kayla Santosuosso, Faiza N. Ali and Murad Awawdeh.

Board members
Muslim Democratic Club of New York April 1 2018:

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Congratulations to the newly elected 2018 Muslim Democratic Club of New York (MDCNY) Board Members!

MDCNY is the first city-wide Muslim American Democratic club in the country, dedicated to empowering the Muslim community though political activism. Join our movement. #MuslimDems #MuslimVOTE — with Murad Awawdeh, MK Mohammad Khan, Rama Issa-Ibrahim, Sadaf Mehdi, Mamadou Sire Bah, Aliya Latif, Ali Najmi, Faiza N. Ali and Zohran Kwame Mamdani.

Linda Sarsour
Muslim Democratic Club of New York March 28, 2015:

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Happy #spicy35 Birthday to MDCNY Board Member Linda Sarsour and thank you for serving as our President for back to back terms! Here’s to 35 more years of consistent, strategic civic engagement in NYC Muslim communities. #MuslimDems — with Linda Sarsour, Aliya Latif, Saubirah Hk, Merium Malik, Anthony Jones Forstateassembly, Mohammed AbuJayyab, Murad Awawdeh and Faiza N. Ali.

References
Zohran Mamdani’s Inner Circle (accessed August 20, 2025)
Archive Link: Zohran Mamdani’s Inner Circle (accessed August 20, 2025)
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https://keywiki.org/Chung-Wha_Hong

Chung-Wha Hong is the Executive Director of Grassroots International. For over 25 years, Chung-Wha has worked on a range of social justice issues locally and internationally, through organizing, policy advocacy, coalition building, and philanthropy. Named by the New York Magazine as one of the most Influential People in Politics, Chung-Wha helped to build the political clout of New York State’s immigrant communities through a comprehensive civic engagement program, and helped to win numerous legal, social, and economic rights and benefits for those communities. Chung-Wha’s past activism includes working on health care, worker rights, and human rights issues at the New York Immigration Coalition, Campaign to Save Public Hospitals, National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC), Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance AFL-CIO, and the Korea Information Project.[1]

Contents
1Board of Directors
2Dream of Equality awardee
3Cuomo housing team
4National Capital Immigration Coalition rally
5Left Forum 2010
6Roundtable on the current proposals for immigration reform
7References
Board of Directors
MinKwon Center for Community Action Board of Directors, as of January 2018;[2]

Mee Eun Chang
Chung-Wha Hong
Byung Ho Kang
Hee Sook Kim, CPA.
Jennifer Heejin Kim, Esq. VICE PRESIDENT
Sukon Kim, M.D.
Sungok Lee
Yu Soung Mun PRESIDENT
Chul Pak, Esq.
Michelle Park
Sungyeon Park
Yangsun Park SECRETARY & TREASURER
Yong Chun Rim
Dream of Equality awardee
Chung-Wha Hong is a past recipient of Asian Americans for Equality’s annual Dream of Equality award.[3]

Cuomo housing team
On Dec. 8, 2010, Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo announced his transition team for the areas of human services and housing.

The 15 committee members include Chung-Wha Hong, executive director of the New York Immigrant Coalition; City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who has been a staunch defender of rent regulations; and Chuck Bell, program director of Citizens Union and a national advocate for health care and environmental protection.

The three assemblymembers on the panel have all been sympathetic to tenants’ rights: Karim Camara of Brooklyn; Grace Meng of Queens; and Carl Heastie, head of the Bronx delegation and part of the anticorruption faction in that borough. Union and nonprofit members are Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union; Christopher Kui, executive director of Asian Americans for Equality, which provides housing, social, and citizenship services in Chinatown and Flushing, Ross Levi, legislative director of New York State Pride Agenda, a leading gay and lesbian advocacy group; and Susan Hagar, president of United Way. Also on the panel is Rossana Rosado, publisher of the Spanish-language newspaper El Diario, whose editorials have not shared the antitenant bias of New York’s major English-language dailies, the Times, the Daily News, and the Post.

The committee also includes the CEO of the New York State Association of Realtors.[4]

National Capital Immigration Coalition rally
September 7, 2006, the National Capital Immigration Coalition held a rally on the National Mall. The protest was billed by immigration rights groups as a post-Labor Day demonstration to show Congress that undocumented workers still wanted an immigration reform bill that would allow them to work in the country legally. Turnout for the march was lower than expected with several organizers attributing low numbers of attendees to the fact that in the four months since the first marches, competing immigration bills had stalled in the House and the Senate.

Speakers were Johari Abdul-Malik Chairman Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations, Deepak Bhargava Director Center for Community Change, Macrina Cardenas National Coordinator Mexico Solidarity Network, Jaime Contreras Chair National Capital Immigration Coalition, Francisco Gonzalez Valer Auxiliary Bishop Roman Catholic Church-Archdiocese of Washington, DC Bruce S. Gordon President and CEO NAACP, Luis Gutiérrez U.S. Representative [D] Illinois, Chung-Wha Hong Executive Director New York Immigration Coalition, Jose Hoyos Priest Roman Catholic Church-Arlington, VA, Sheila Jackson Lee U.S. Representative [D] Texas, Abdul Kamus Executive Director African Resource Center, Edward Kennedy U.S. Senator [D] Massachusetts, Carlos Lopez Laborer, Timothy McDonald Chairman African-American Ministers in Action, Eliseo Medina Executive Vice President Service Employees International Union, Janet Murguia President and CEO National Council of La Raza, Miguel Rivera President National Coalition of Latino Clergy, Rosa Rosales National President League of United Latin American Citizens, Gustavo Torres Executive Director CASA de Maryland, John Wilhelm President UNITE HERE->Hospitality Industry.[5]

Left Forum 2010
The History of May Day and the 2010 New York May Day March:

Larry Moskowitz, (Chair), Left Labor Project
Ai-jen Poo, former Executive Director, Domestic Workers United
Chung-Wha Hong, Executive Director, New York Immigration Coalition
Ed Ott, former Executive Director, New York City Central Labor Council
Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director, New York Taxi Workers Alliance
Frances Liu, Immigration Advocacy Field Coordinator, New York Immigration Coalition
Roundtable on the current proposals for immigration reform
New Yorkers for Real Immigration Reform, a new statewide campaign endorsed by labor, faith, grassroots and immigrant leaders and organizations from across the state, will host a roundtable on the current proposals for reform. Leading immigrant rights advocates, policy experts and directly affected individuals will discuss reforms being considered by Congress and the President and will outline the measures that must be included in any meaningful comprehensive immigration reform bill.

What: Briefing for Members of the Media regarding Senate and White House Immigration Reform Proposals
When: Wednesday, February 20, 11:30 AM (2017?
Where: 32BJ SEIU, 25 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011, 5th Floor
Who:
Lucy Tzunun, Make the Road New York
Shirley Aldebol, 32BJ SEIU
Juan Cartagena, LatinoJustice PRLDEF
Chung-Wha Hong, Moderator; New York Immigration Coalition
Angie Kim, MinKwon Center for Community Action
Mae Lee, Chinese Progressive Association (New York)
Michael Mandel, New York Chapter of American Immigration Lawyers Association
Rachel B. Tiven, Esq., Immigration Equality
Valeria Treves, New Immigrant Community Empowerment
Pat Young, New York State Immigrant Action Fund, CARECEN[6]
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[AAFE 2013 Banquet Journal, by Douglas Lim at Mar 26, 2013]
Metropolitan Council on Housing, Cuomo Names Housing Transition Team. By: Kenny Schaeffer Published: December 2010
CSPAN, SEPTEMBER 7, 2006 Immigration Rally
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https://keywiki.org/Asian_Americans_for_Equality

Asian Americans for Equality leaders were Communist Workers Party veterans.

“The Communist Workers Party got its start in the early Seventies as the Workers Viewpoint Organization, drawing its membership largely from Chinese-American students at City College. It declared its “guiding ideology” to be “Marxism/ Leninism/Mao Tse-Tung thought.” Its publications mourned the death of Soviet dictator Leonid Brezhnev and hailed the economic policies of Pol Pot. It rejected Deng Xiaoping for being too soft on the West and capitalism, and embraced the Gang of Four.”[1]. . .

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