author : Therese Saliba
March 2008
by Therese Saliba
For the last twenty years, Michel Shehadeh was accused by the US government of being a terrorist. In 1987, he was arrested in an early morning raid by armed federal agents in Los Angeles along with 6 other Palestinian men and a Kenyan woman. They were jailed for 23 days in a maximum security cell, then released while the government tried to deport them. Through numerous court rulings and appeals, their case made it to the Supreme Court . On October 30, 2007, after what Shehadeh describes as “20 grueling years,” the federal government dropped all charges against the LA-8.
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March 2008
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Michel Shehadeh and Joan Mandell in Olympia (Photo by Therese Saliba)
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October 2005
Adapted from a talk in September by Prof. Therese Saliba at the Olympia Timberland Library
Reflecting back on the last 4 years since the tragic events of 9/11, I am reminded of an essay written by Bill Moyers entitled, "Which America will we be now?" In it, he described 9/11 as what educators call "a teachable moment," and argued that "what's at stake is democracy. Democracy wasn't canceled on Sept. 11," he writes," but democracy won't survive if citizens turn into lemmings."
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