Orange County activists want to unite Arabs and Latinos to build political voting influence
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By Erika Aguilar, KCBX
Santa Ana high school cultural ethnics and history teacher Ben Vazquez, 45, invites guests on the food tour in Little Arabia to try some of Kareem’s Restaurant hummus, salad and baba ganoush. Erika Aguilar/KPCC
With the California primary and elections around the corner, a pair of Orange County activists is trying to unite the region’s ethnic groups to build minority-voting blocs.
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Rida Hamida, a well known Arab-American community organizer based in Anaheim has teamed up with Santa Ana high school teacher and activist Ben Vazquez to launch a project they’re calling “An Adventure to Al-Andalus.” One of the aims: uniting ethnic minority groups to form bases of political power.
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