10 March 2015
Letters of Leniency Sent to Judge Gershwin Drain
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Nadia Tonova, Director of National Network for Arab American Communities
Samer E. Khalaf, Esq., President of American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Osama Siblani, Publisher of The Arab American News
Fr. Robert Bossie, Roman Catholic Priest, Priests of Sacred Heart
Louise Cainkar, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Marquette University
Rev. Dr. Donald E. Wagner, National Program Director of Friends of Sabeel—North America
Douglas E. Wingeier, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Lisa A. Kosowski, Coordinator at Arab Jewish Partnership for Peace & Justice in the Middle East
Jordan Elgrably, Executive Director of Levantine Cultural Center
Junaid Rana, Associate Professor at Marquette University
Liz Deligio and Chris Eagan, Coordinators at 8th Day Center for Justice
Alie Kabba, Executive Director of United African Organization
Patricia R. Johnson, Canon Missioner at Washington National Cathedral
Rev. Michael L. Pfleger, Senior Pastor of the Faith Community of Saint Sabina
Mark Peters, Director of Justice, Peace and Reconciliation, Priests of the Sacred Heart USA
Daryle Brown, Executive Director of Multimedia Communications at Trinity United Church of Christ
Shani Mandisa Moore, Health Law Attorney at Women’s Health and Justice Initiative
Rabbi Brant Rosen, Midwest Regional Director of American Friends Service Committee
Anna Guevarra, Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Jess Ghannam, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry at University of California San Francisco
Tracy Benson, Regional Manager at Community Justice Network for Youth
Lynn Pollack, Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago
Lynette A. Jackson, Ph.D., Associate Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago
Ahmed Rehab, Executive Director at Council on American-Islamic Relations, Chicago
Richard Feldman, Board Member of James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership
Abder Ghouleh, Board Member of Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, Chicago
Loren D. Lybarger, Associate Professor at University of Chicago
Kalimah Johnson, LMSW, ACSW, LCSW, Founder and Executive Director of SASHA Center, INC.
Rebeccah A. Sanders, Former Executive Director of the Chicago Cultural Alliance
Nida Sahouri, Chairwoman of American Muslims for Palestine—Chicago
Sara Kershnar, Founder of Generation Five
Lawrence Benito, Executive Director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Khalil Meek, Executive Director and Co-founder of Muslim Legal Fund of America
Robert Clarke, President of Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
Caren Levy-Van Slyke, Chair of Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine
Imam Jamal Said, Director of Mosque Foundation
Standish E. Willis, Attorney at Law
Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle, Co-founder of Southside Together Organizing for Power
Sue Udry, Executive Director of Defending Dissent Foundation
Wayne Wittman, Area Vice President of the Minnesota AFL-CIO Retirees Council
Fahd Ahmed, Acting Director of Desis Rising Up & Moving
Daniel L. Meyers, Attorney at Law
Stephen F. Downs, Executive Director of The National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms
Marilyn Katz, President of MK Communications
Mary H. Smarr, Chair of Joining Hands for Justice in Israel & Palestine
Joe Lombardo and Marilyn Levin, Co-ordinators at United National Antiwar Coalition
National Students for Justice in Palestine Steering Committee
Cherrene Horazuk and other Labor Union presidents and representatives
Jigna Desai, Ph.D., Dept. Chair and Professor at University of Minnesota
Hedy Epstein, Holocaust survivor
Melinda Power, Attorney at Law
Khalid Meshal, Osama Meshal, and Mohammad Mashal
Mariam Obaid, Arab Women’s Committee
Halima Al-Rashdeh, Arab Women’s Committee
Beth E. Richie, Ph.D., Professor and Author
John F. Royal, President of Detroit/Michigan Chapter of National Lawyers Guild