9. How to Join the Revolution and Help Create a Better World with Activist and Founder of Our Power United, Alaa Massri

Sep 8, 2020

Alaa Massri is a nineteen-year-old University of South Florida (USF) sophomore studying biomedical sciences on the premed track. She is also the founder of Our Power United, an organization created to promote and ensure the eradication of injustices. She is also a board member of the Revolutionary Round Table and the leader of the street medic team.

 

Recently Alaa has been in the media because at a  Black Lives Matter protest she was wrongly taken into custody and the police forcibly removed her hijab for her mugshot.

 

Listen to Alaa talk about

• How she got involved with Activism 
• Her experiences at the BLM protests 
• Her story of getting her hijab forcibly removed by the police 
• What a better world can look like
• How you can get involved 

 

Follow Alaa on Instagram, @alaa.massri

 

Follow Our Power United, @ourpowerunited

 

Follow Her Zindagi on Instagram: @her.zindagi

 

Find the host, Maheen, on Instagram: @maheen93

 

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