Zein El-Amine is a longtime DC community activist and regular contributor to Left Turn magazine (www.leftturn.org). Zein was born and raised in Lebanon and most of his immediate family was recently evacuated from there. He is now a member the newly formed Coalition for Justice and Accountability—a DC based group of Arab Americans, African Americans and Jewish American activists who are focusing on grassroots education and action to deal with the most current attack on Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territories. He has recently launched an effort to hold regional town hall meetings on this crisis in DC, Maryland and Virginia.