Yalla Y'all | Episode 1 | w/ Prof. Alex Lubin

About Yalla Y'all

After last year’s killing of George Floyd and the much-needed national reckoning with racial injustice and white supremacy which has been sparked by his death, AMP decided to better educate itself and its supporters about anti-Black racism, convening a series of powerful monthly webinars entitled #LetsTalkBLM​.

Building on this webinar series, Felicia Eaves, AMP's Black-Palestinian Solidarity Coordinator, undertook an oral history project of Black and Palestinian activists and allies to better document the long-standing history of solidarity between the two communities and how they have supported each others’ struggles.

Sunday, February 21st at 3pm ET

Jewish Voice for Peace - Westchester  is proud to present a screening of THERE IS A FIELD A FILM BY JEN MARLOWE www.ThereIsAField.com Panel discussion to follow Sunday, February 21st at 3pm ET

A timely new documentary tells the story of Asel Asleh, a 17 year old Palestinian peace activist who was murdered by Israeli police, through the lens of Black Lives Matter activists in the United States.

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You are invited to watch our Zoom panel

Watch the video here:

https://youtu.be/Wh_elSbf348

Friday, Dec. 4 from 7 to 8:15 pm ET

Zoom panel on "How police and vigilantes operate

to attack and undermine minority groups and

progressive movements in the U.S. and Palestine." 

Speakers will explore how we can support local and national movements in overcoming racism and political repression to achieve basic human rights for all. The panel will include a Kingston, NY BLM activist (Anne Ames), the editor of mondoweiss.net (Philip Weiss), and a radical feminist, revolutionary member of Black Alliance for Peace (Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture). To register in advance for this Zoom meeting, click on the button above. Sponsored by Jewish Voice For Peace - Hudson Valley, Middle East Crisis Response, NYC Veterans For Peace, US Boats to Gaza, and Women in Black - New Paltz. 

Investigate the charitable status of the Hebron Fund

Palestinian organizations are laying out a series of steps that Biden and Harris can take to start moving towards a platform that will secure Palestinian human rights. The Adalah Justice Project has made the call that “Biden must overturn this Trump executive order punishing campuses for organizing for justice in Palestine.” This is just one example of strategic policy changes that this movement will have to take, because the Israeli government has shown no signs of slowing down its program of settler colonialism.

https://twitter.com/AdalahJustice/status/1325267757940822016?s=20

The Good Shepherd Collective, along with large coalition of Palestinian organizations in Hebron are calling for Letitia James - the New York Attorney General - to investigate the charitable status of the Hebron Fund. The Hebron Fund is a radical Israeli settler organization operating in the old city of Hebron. Settler organizations have long exploited US charitable giving laws in order to finance their operations to displace the indigenous Palestinian communities.

https://goodshepherdcollective.org/defund-the-hebron-fund/

GUEST: Dalit Baum, co-founder of Who Profits from the Occupation

 Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Dalit Baum, Ph.D., Director of Economic Activism for the American Friends Service Committee, and co-founder of Who Profits from the Occupation as well as the Coalition of Women for Peace in Israel, talks about what boycott means and why it is being applied to companies profiting from the occupation of Palestine.

https://www.whoprofits.org

Activist Radio is broadcast: Thursdays 5-6 pm from WVKR 91.3 FM at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Sundays 4-5 pm from WIOF 104.1 FM in Woodstock, NY; and Sundays 5-6 pm from the Progressive Radio Network at PRN.FM. It will also be posted on the ClassWars website for the next ten weeks. Simply click on the date to hear it.

Thanks,

Fred

Activist Radio

https://www.classwars.org

Watch the "Losing Our Homes" panel on YouTube

Thursday, Sept. 10 was the date of our Zoom panel on Losing Our Homes: The Destruction of Community, Culture and Identity. In this perfect storm of economic and pandemic crisis, millions of people run the risk of displacement through evictions, foreclosures, gentrification, and ethnic cleansing. Rashida Tyler, Founder of The REAL Kingston Tenants Union and Board Member of Citizen Action of New York, and Talal Jabari, Palestinian journalist and documentary filmmaker, will each make a short statement, including their own personal observations of displacement. We will then open the panel up to questions. To register in advance for this Zoom meeting go to https://mideastcrisis.org. Sponsored by Jewish Voice For Peace - Hudson Valley, Middle East Crisis Response, NYC Veterans For Peace and Women in Black - New Paltz.

Short movies recommended for the Zoom panel:

-HuffPost  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIEgpmRj1ns

5 min. on how COVID-19 exposes America’s housing crisis.

-Al Jazeera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUiCyIqBFTo

2:33 min. on Lebanese camps. Recaps the Nakba, shows the current living conditions, talks briefly about return.

-BBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuZrD5JjfXA

6:14 min. on generations of refugees, Trump administration efforts to erase Palestinian refugees and force a solution.

-Just Vision films https://justvision.org/homefront

four short films about settler eviction of Palestinians from their homes in the Sheik Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem.

We are publishing this ad

We are publishing this full page ad in the Sunday Daily Freeman late in August. The total cost of the ad will be $750 with a circulation of 17,000 people. Would you or your organization support us by donating towards our goal? Any contribution would be welcomed, and would help us hold our elected officials accountable for their unquestioning support of Israel's human rights abuses. If we raise more than the $750, we plan to take this ad to the next major newspaper in the Hudson Valley, the Poughkeepsie Journal.

-Make checks out to "MECR" and mail them to: MECR, PO Box 614, Shady, NY 12409. Please put "newspaper ad" on the memo line.  OR

-Make checks out to "JVP-HV" and mail them to: JVP-HV c/o John Dashman, 58 N Slope, Shokan, NY 12481. Please put “Newspaper ad” on the memo line.

Together we can make more people aware Israel's blatant violations of international laws.