Category Archives: OCON Updates

IFYC Weekly Digest June 18th, 2010

June 24, 2010 – 1:49 pm

1.      Irvine Responds to Heckling Incident, Inside Higher Ed – http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/15/irvine.  Tensions between Jews and Muslims at UC Irvine have been heightened since several pro-Palestinian students interrupted Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren’s speech in February.  Now the university has decided to suspend the Muslim Student Union for one year.  Muslim students protest that they [...]

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Thanks for Supporting Our Online Film Contest!

May 17, 2010 – 4:47 pm

Thanks for Supporting Our Online Film Contest!
By Mark Crain
Now that voting and commenting has come to a close, we want to thank you all for your support of the One Chicago, One Nation Online Film Contest. In just three short months, nearly 150 films were submitted to the contest and 80 were accepted. Thousands [...]

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Who can be a Community Ambassador?

March 29, 2010 – 3:00 pm

By Hind Makki
When we were developing the One Chicago, One Nation initiative last summer, we thought long and hard about the role we wanted the Community Ambassadors to play: we knew that Chicago is a racially, socio-economically and religiously segregated city, which is why we started the One Chicago, One Nation initiative in the first [...]

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IFYC Weekly Digest March 29, 2010

March 29, 2010 – 2:39 pm

Religion in the News: 2009, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: http://pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/Religion-in-the-News-2009.aspx
After the Fort Hood shootings, a Muslim American soldier battles on friendly ground, The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/23/AR2010032303766.html?sid=ST2010032304524
Lost in the Shorthand, The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/opinion/14pubed.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

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IFYC Weekly Digest February 25, 2010

February 25, 2010 – 11:37 am

Islam, Meet Maureen Dowd, Religion Dispatches: http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/mediaculture/2348/islam%2C_meet_maureen_dowd.

Outraged by Glenn Beck’s Salvo, Christians Fire Back, New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/us/12justice.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y.

Stop Watching Glenn Beck: Preaching to the Choir, Religion Dispatches: http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2355/stop_watching_glenn_beck%3A_preaching_to_the_choir/

Pagan Chaplain Appointed at Syracuse University, ABC News: http://blogs.abcnews.com/campuschatter/2010/03/pagan-chaplain-arrives-at-syracuse-university.html.

A Christian Overture to Muslims Has its Critics, New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/us/13beliefs.html?emc=eta1.

Evidence of Tolerance – Clashes Are Rare, The [...]

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Working on your video for the film contest?

February 18, 2010 – 11:56 pm

The One Chicago, One Nation Online Film Contest is well underway now, and we’re excited about the energy surrounding the contest. We’ve heard from people across the country who share a love for community-building and/or the city and people of Chicago and are prepping their films for submission.
The Inner-city Muslim Action Network has a history [...]

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One Chicago, One Nation Launch

February 15, 2010 – 4:06 pm

One Chicago, One Nation Launch
By Erin Williams

On January 13th, Allah Made Me Funny’s Azhar Usman and Rami Nashashibi, the Executive Director of Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) appeared on Chicago Public Radio’s Vocalo.org to bring attention to One Chicago, One Nation. The humor and insight they brought to their Vocalo.org interview carried [...]

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Welcome

January 14, 2010 – 2:44 am

Thanks for taking the time to visit the One Chicago, One Nation blog! We’re excited that you’re interested in this new initiative designed to engage and unite Chicago’s many diverse communities. Through a mix of film making, interfaith dialogue, and community solutions grants, people of all interests have an opportunity to affect positive change in [...]

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