Malik Rahim
Radio: Bio of Malik Rahim
April 2, 2006
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Malik Rahim is one of the founders of Common Ground, a community health clinic in Algiers, Lousiana that volunteers created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In the March/April 2006 issue of Mother Jones, Tim Shorrock writes this about Rahim:
“It was just about the noblest thing I’ve ever witnessed in my life,” recalls Malik Rahim, a lifelong Algiers resident, local housing activist and former Black Panther Party member who helped arrange space for the medical workers in a local mosque. ”It was the street medics who really stopped this city from exploding into a race war, because they were white and were serving the black community at a time when blacks were fed up. Those are the real heroes of this thing.” Rahim, a friendly, outgoing man whose graying dreadlocks and soft voice belie his radical past, is now the symbolic leader of the Common Ground Collective, an unlikely tribe of activists and health care practitioners who have descended on New Orleans to provide “solidarity, not charity” to the people of this devastated community.
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