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Nermeen Shaikh Moderates Rising Majority Conversation with The Squad

Washington, DC

February 07, 2020 | Friday | 12:00 pm

Howard University

Washington, DC ( see map )
The Rising Majority is hosting a conversation between grassroots activists and four members of the US House of Representatives: Ilhan Omar (MN-05), Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (NY-14), Ayanna Pressley (MA-7), and Rashida Tlaib (MI-13).

The conversation will be moderated by Nermeen Shaikh, and will be livestreamed.

The people’s forum will focus on the question: “What are the critical social justice issues We Face in 2020 and how do we respond?”, exploring the current political climate.

The Rising Majority is a diverse national coalition of over fifty organizations working on issues ranging from racism and immigration to climate change and wealth inequality. Founded in 2017, it is a multi-racial group that is led primarily by women of color, and is committed to doing the political quilting work of stitching together abroad spectrum of progressive forces to save our people and the planet.

Nermeen Shaikh

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Nermeen Shaikh is a co-host and senior producer at Democracy Now! She worked briefly at Al Jazeera English in Washington, D.C. before joining Democracy Now! in 2011.

She serves on the Board of Directors of the Nobel Women’s Initiative.

She was previously the Managing Editor at Asia Society and a researcher at the International Institute for...