Three Upcoming Opportunities to Radically Imagine Our Future
We are working hard to plant the seeds of a flourishing future fueled by the hope that another world is possible. A major part of this work is building relationships and communicating ideas with others who have spent their time thinking about how this new world can be realized. We are excited to bring you three upcoming opportunities to radically imagine and build an international struggle for justice.
Right to Narrate: Policy Roundtable on Centering Palestinian Voices
Wednesday, August 19th at 11:30am ET | 8:30 am PT | 6:30pm Palestine
Join us for a policy roundtable by Palestinian analysts and organizers including Sahar Francis of Addameer, Yara Hawari of Al-Shabaka, Amira Mattar of Palestine Legal, Nas Abd Elal of AlQaws, Tala al-Foqaha, University of Minnesota, and Omar Zahzah of Eyewitness Palestine and Palestinian Youth Movement to hear about what it means for Palestinians to claim their right to narrate and demand an end to US complicity in Palestinian oppression. Register here.
The Struggle for Prison Abolition from the U.S. to Palestine
Thursday, August 20 5 pm ET | 2 pm PT
Organizers on the ground in the U.S. and in Palestine are using this moment to demonstrate the ongoing connections between colonization and modern militarized policing, and why in order to combat U.S. racial monopoly capitalism and imperialism, we must abolish policing, and all aspects of settler carceral regimes.
This discussion will bring together activists and scholars to examine movements organizing to dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) and free political prisoners as part of liberation struggles led by Black people in the U.S. and Palestinian people in occupied Palestine.
Presenters include Zaina Alsous, Dream Defenders. Nyle Fort, a minister, activist, and Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University, Derecka Purnell, human rights lawyer, organizer, and writer, Randa Wahbe, former international advocacy coordinator at Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association in Ramallah, and Adalah Justice Project's Director, Sandra Tamari. Register here.
Abolition and Liberation: A Conversation with Angela Davis and Jamal Juma'
Friday, August 28 1 pm ET | 10 am PT | 8 pm Palestine
Join us for an international discussion of the connections between Black Lives Matter calls to defund the police and abolish the prison industrial complex, and Palestinian calls to tear down all apartheid walls and free Palestine.
Our speakers bring years of on-the-ground experience and strategic thinking to the conversation. Angela Davis has been an activist and liberatory scholar since the 1960s. Her 2003 book Are Prisons Obsolete laid the strategic groundwork for the current abolition movement. She will be joined, from Palestine, by Jamal Juma', a leading grassroots organizer since Palestine’s First Intifada in 1987. Juma' is coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and Stop the Wall.
Kristian Davis Bailey, who will be moderating their conversation, is a co-founder of Black for Palestine and a co-author of the 2015 Black Solidarity with Palestine Statement signed by more than 1,000 Black activists. Register here.
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