Media Watch

Are you tired of how Arabs and Muslims are portrayed in the media? Are you tired of distortions in the press about the situation in the Middle East? Are you tired of the anti-Arab bias?

Here's what you can do. Join Adala's Media Monitoring and Response Team and help put pressure on the media into covering the crisis objectively. Please email your name, contact information and area of interest to Noha Sedky at nsedky@adala.ca

The purpose of the Media Monitoring and Response Team is to fight anti-Arab bias in the Canadian media via direct action: writing letters and articles, lobbying, and making phone calls. Our strength is in the commitment and sheer numbers of the team who work for a more balanced, more humane, and more informed portrayal of Arab issues and the conflicts in the Middle East.

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Want to contribute to Canada's foreign policy? Go to the DFAIT site to take part in electronic discussion groups.

Say No to new Iraq resolution by sending an email to all 15 Security Council members. Click here to find out more on how you can influence council members and ask the media to tell the rest of the Bin Laden/Saddam story.

After 9/11 tragedy, new anti-terrorism laws and regulations have been enforced. Throughout the enforcement process, certain individuals of Middle-Eastern descent may have been discriminated against. Click on http://www.discrimination.ca to report any act of discrimination by Canadian and/or American authorities against Canadian and American citizens and immigrants of Middle-Eastern descent.

Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories
It is the responsibility of all people in Canada to insist on the inviolability and universality of human rights. As such, and compelled by our government's failure to meet its obligations to the Palestinian people, we call for an immediate change in Canada's Middle East policy. Click here to find out more and sign a petition protesting Israel's onslaught against the Palestinians.

Stop US Military Aid to Israel
Do you find it reprehensible that US tax dollars, in the form of US military aid to Israel, are being used to fund Israel's oppressive policy towards the Palestinians? If yes, click here to sign a petition to stop US military aid to Israel.

Write to Canada's Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs and your Local MP to voice your opposition the War on Iraq. Even as the world teeters on the brink of war, the Peace Movement in Canada and around the world grows stronger. Politicians and governments are being moved by public opinion and electoral opportunism. We need to turn up the heat! Write or call today!

Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0A6,
Fax: 613-941-6900
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Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Bill Graham,
House of Commons,
Ottawa, Ontario,
K1A 0A6
613 992-5234
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Minister of Defense,
John McCallum,
House of Commons,
Ottawa, Ontario,
K1A 0A6
613 996-3100
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