{"id":276949,"date":"2019-05-23T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEGuL3xwGjuz8_zdVFPzLrGEqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow-9WECzDZyIEDMOf5gwY?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:53:29","slug":"an-ethiopian-refugee-in-boise-filed-to-run-for-a-seat-on-the-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276949","title":{"rendered":"An Ethiopian refugee in Boise filed to run for a seat on the city council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 the Idaho Statesman reported that Tecle Gebremichael, an Ethiopian refugee who had settled in Boise, filed paperwork to join the race for a City Council seat.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-263547\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Immigration-on-the-top-of-agenda-for-Australia-visit-of-Germany-President-730x486.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"An Ethiopian refugee in Boise filed to run for a seat on the city council\" \/>\n<p>The profile framed a familiar diaspora arc: arrival after conflict and resettlement, years of work and community organizing, and then a decision to seek local office in the city that had become home.<\/p>\n<p>Stories like this matter for Horn readers because they show how Ethiopian migrants translate exile into civic life abroad, even when the politics of home remain unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as diaspora politics archive, the Boise filing dates one early attempt by an Ethiopian refugee to enter mainstream U.S. city government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahostatesman.com\/news\/local\/community\/boise\/article230760909.html\">Idaho Statesman<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He came to Boise as a refugee. Now he\u2019s working toward a seat on City Council.&nbsp;&nbsp;Idaho StatesmanAnother candidate joined the Boise City Council race when Tecle Gebremichael filed his paperwork Thursday. Gebremichael is an Ethiopian refugee who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":263547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Immigration-on-the-top-of-agenda-for-Australia-visit-of-Germany-President-730x486.jpg?fit=730%2C486&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a2V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754896,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276949\/revisions\/754896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}