Dr. Mozhgan participates in the first City Council Candidate Forum

Dr. Mozhgan participates in the first City Council Candidate Forum

Apr 17, 2020 | News

“Ward 4 Ann Arbor council candidates discuss coronavirus outbreak…”

MLive/Ann Arbor News

April 15, 2020, 9:22 pm

 

At: https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/04/ward-4-ann-arbor-council-candidates-discuss-coronavirus-outbreak-sustainability-in-forum.html

 

[Reporting on Dr. Mozhgan Savabieasfahani’s remarks is excerpted below:]

 

ANN ARBOR, MI — The coronavirus outbreak and the resulting economic crises were at the top of Ann Arbor voters’ minds during a live-streamed candidate forum for the 4th Ward on Tuesday.

 

Three Democrats are running for Ann Arbor City Council’s Ward 4 seat in the Aug. 4 primary: incumbent Jack Eaton, former journalist Jen Eyer and environmentalist Mozhgan Savabieasfahani. The winner will represent southwest Ann Arbor…

 

…The coronavirus crisis has highlighted racial and housing disparities in the community, Savabieasfahani said. Affordable housing is not enough to address the affordability issues that plagued Ann Arbor even before the virus outbreak.

 

“This didn’t happen by accident,” she said. “This is a culmination of decades of laws and public policies that have pushed the most vulnerable to the edges of the safety nets. We have peeled off multiple layers of protection: jobs, better health, better housing. They are deprived of that through the public policies and racist laws that we have.”

 

She said she supports public housing and encouraging a $15 per hour minimum wage to lift vulnerable populations and help more people to live in the city…

 

…Savabieasfahani said while the carbon-neutral measures are necessary, they won’t address all the word’s environmental crises because greenhouse gases and other pollutants are deposited into the environment by large organizations such as the U.S. Department of Defense. 

 

“I want us to pay attention to the fact that that will actually be a Band-Aid on a gushing wound,” Savabieasfahani said.

Mozhgan indicates that she's running for City Council on her own dime and therefore has to answer only to her own conscience. 

Mozhgan indicates that she’s running for City Council on her own dime and therefore has to answer only to her own conscience. 

Dr.  Savabieasfahani’s campaign video: https://youtu.be/4kYdnvS6aQI

“Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, an environmental toxicologist who is running for council, urged city officials to look to lessons learned in other countries and set up field hospitals now.”

* See full coverage in MLive, March 17, 2020, at https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2020/03/heres-what-ann-arbors-state-of-emergency-declaration-means-for-the-city.html 

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Shovels in the ground now!

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Feb 15, 2020 | News

ANN ARBOR, MI — After many years of speaking out before City Council, Mozhgan Savabieasfahani is eyeing a seat at the table. 
 
The Ardmoor Avenue resident publicly announced her campaign this week, vowing to challenge 4th Ward incumbent Jack Eaton in the August 2020 Democratic primary. 
 
An Iran native, Savabieasfahani has regularly demonstrated before council, decrying the killing of Palestinians by the state of Israel and calling on council to pass resolutions to boycott Israel and to call for an end to United States military aid for Israel. 
 
Savabieasfahani, an environmental toxicologist who does grant-funded research internationally, also is frustrated about what she considers a lack of progress on addressing threats to the city’s drinking water supply, including the Gelman dioxane plume and PFAS. 
 
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Jan 18, 2020 | News, Press

ANN ARBOR, MI (MLive.com) — After many years of speaking out before City Council, Mozhgan Savabieasfahani is eyeing a seat at the table.

The Ardmoor Avenue resident publicly announced her campaign this week, vowing to challenge 4th Ward incumbent Jack Eaton in the August 2020 Democratic primary.

An Iran native, Savabieasfahani has regularly demonstrated before council, decrying the killing of Palestinians by the state of Israel and calling on council to pass resolutions to boycott Israel and to call for an end to United States military aid for Israel.

FULL ARTICLE: https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2019/12/anti-israel-activist-and-environmentalist-running-for-ann-arbor-council.html