Hi John - I want to share with you the backstory of just one of the victories we achieved this year and urge you to please support our End of Year fundraising campaign so we can continue work like this [[link removed]] .
When Members of Congress announced this year that they wanted to ban Iranians from the right to buy property, NIAC sprang into action – as we always do.
We didn't take the Iranian-American community’s rights for granted. We knew if we didn't speak out and organize to protect the rights of Iranian Americans and green card holders, no one would. We didn't assume that politicians would ensure such actions targeted Iran's government and not its people, and we didn't sit on the sidelines and hope someone else would guard against legalized discrimination against Iranian Americans seeking to buy real estate.
But even after dozens of volunteer mobilizations, teaming up with organizations like ACLU and educating lawmakers, in July we lost the vote. The property ban was added to the Senate’s annual National Defense bill.
Some might have given up and accepted that Iranian heritage would now be the basis for discrimination when buying property. But we did not give up - we knew the fight was not over. We redoubled our mobilization, held dozens of meetings and calls with key lawmakers and committees, and – as we promised – we did not stop fighting for our community.
Thanks to these efforts and the mobilization of our community, we won! The property ban language was successfully REMOVED from the final National Defense bill last week and will not become law.
John, this is just one example of how we always have our community's back and will always defend our core values and the rights of all Iranian Americans. And now, we need your help to ensure we can continue this work by helping us hit our year-end fundraising goal.
We know there will be many more campaigns to defend the Iranian-American community’s rights. With your help, we will once again be in a position to win.
We're setting an ambitious, but necessary, goal: to raise $150,000 by the end of the year and we are already over $30,000 of the way there.
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Thank you for your support,
Ryan Costello
Policy Director, NIAC
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