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...Jamila market had become an abandoned dusty lot as the blasts of missiles, mortars and gunfire rattled the surrounding buildings in Baghdad's Sadr City. That was two months ago, at the height of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's military campaign in the fiercely hostile Sadr City district of Baghdad. Today, Jamila Market is teeming with life. Vendor after vendor hawks piles of watermelons, cabbages, tomatoes, mint leaves and other foods. Shops along the walls behind the market sit with doors swung open, their display windows inviting shoppers to buy suits, purses, shoes, and cosmetics...
American and Iraqi efforts over the past two months have already removed sewage from Jamila market and improved electricity in the lower fifth of the city through the opening of a power sub-station, Cheadle says. The U.S. military has also provided compensation for home damage to 112 Sadr City families who filed claims - totalling...
...degree to which we are fed up and frustrated,” he said. The increase in college protests reflects trends across the country, he added. SLAM members spent nine days protesting at Harvard last year before the security guards won any changes for their contracts. Hunger strike organizer Jamila R. Martin ’07 noted the importance of student protests, saying that “most of the time you’re sitting down in a classroom, being taught at... So standing up and saying, I disagree, and having an active voice, instead of being told what...
...past few years something that has changed is that administrations not just on this campus but around the country [are] quicker to arrest students,” says Jamila R. Martin ’07, the former head of SLAM. “The hunger strike for us had a lot to do with the fact that we knew we would be arrested if we did try to take over a building...
...Cambridge in the fall of 1969, overlapping his time at the Law School with future Rep. Thomas H. Allen (D-Maine) and Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71 (D-N.Y.). Jefferson has retained strong ties to the University since he graduated: his three daughters—Jamila E. Jefferson ’94, Jalila Jefferson-Bullock ’97, and Jelani F. Jefferson ’01—are all alumns of both the College and the Law School. “We’ve had a steady trek back and forth to this...