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A DC neighborhood group just voted to rename the street in front of the Saudi embassy for Jamal Khashoggi
By Doug Criss, CNN
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/11/29/politics/khashoggi-street-renaming-trnd/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F
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(CNN) An effort underway in Washington, D.C., would create an in-your-face way to remind Saudi Arabia of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi: Rename the street in front of the Saudi embassy in honor of the slain journalist.
The first hurdle for this proposed honor was cleared Wednesday when a neighborhood group approved a resolution that would symbolically designate part of the street that runs in front of the Embassy of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as "Jamal Khashoggi Way." The embassy's address is 601 New Hampshire Avenue NW.
The resolution from the seven-member Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2A passed unanimously, commissioner James Harnett told CNN. The commission, which is part of the government in the District of Columbia, normally handles local issues like zoning, parking and trash collection in the West End and Foggy Bottom neighborhoods. But Harnett said commissioners were outraged by Khashoggi's killing, as well as President Trump's reaction to it, and felt the need to take action on an international issue.
"I think our concern ... and the need to say we want to weigh in on this issue, which has international implications, is that we are extremely disappointed over the lack of concern" in the White House's response to the incident, Harnett said. "It's our belief ... that when there's a vacuum of leadership that someone steps up and makes sure that the community knows that this is something that we take seriously."
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fierywoman
(7,683 posts)bluestarone
(16,918 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,585 posts)dalton99a
(81,455 posts)HoosierDebbie
(291 posts)Henceforth anything delivered, any location information would bear his name and the Saudi Embassy would have to constantly invoke his name.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)kimbutgar
(21,137 posts)Naming the street is the best in your face response to Saudi Arabia and the orange maggot.
It appears that the media realizes this could happen to every reporter and newsperson if the orange maggot tightens his grip on this country.
BaileyBill
(171 posts)Duppers
(28,120 posts)Change the name of prisons to Trump Towers.
littlemissmartypants
(22,632 posts)Thanks for sharing this, applegrove. Kicking for Jamal.
applegrove
(118,629 posts)with the people she met there. I'm not surprised. It feels like Americans are going to do the right thing regardless of what the WH does.
appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)spooky3
(34,441 posts)Skinner lives in the DC metro area, IIRC.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,632 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,792 posts)applegrove
(118,629 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,792 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)bdamomma
(63,840 posts)the Saudi Embassy will never forget... .good.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)I suspect tho that they might move their Embassy.
Takket
(21,563 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)djacq
(1,633 posts)eggplant
(3,911 posts)...they should all rename *their* streets as well.
pazzyanne
(6,549 posts)It is wonderful that citizens are stepping up to fill the gap left by the man in the white house. Sad, but wonderful none the less.
elleng
(130,865 posts)located at 601 New Hampshire Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood, near the Watergate complex, and Kennedy Center.
So not viewed by many usually, but those attending KenCen events (and Watergate visitors.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_Saudi_Arabia_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://wtop.com/dc/2018/11/group-votes-to-name-street-near-saudi-embassy-jamal-khashoggi-way/
Az_lefty
(3,670 posts)Volaris
(10,270 posts)I support this 100 percent!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Apollyonus
(812 posts)Now all the business cards, letterheads and webpages of the Saudi embassy will have Jamal Khashoggi's name on them. Infinitely poetic.