This is NOT about water but we felt that this is an important event to share; the Alliance is a co-sponsor.
from Rabah Abdulhadi:
I am writing on behalf of AMED Studies, the National Black Education Agenda and IFCO/Pastors for Peace to invite you to attend, share and/or co-sponsor our online open classroom, From Vietnam to Palestine: The New York Times Black Statement 50 Years Later," on Sunday, November 1st, 2020 at 11am-2pm PT (2-5pm ET, 9pm-midnight Palestine).
This event will mark the exact 50 years since the publication of The New York Times statement on Palestine by Black leaders on November 1, 1970. We are fortunate to host Black leaders who signed and published the statement. Fran Beal, Phil Hutchings, Robert Van Lierop will join Sam Anderson who edited the statement (and lost any possibilities of being tenured as a result). None of our distinguished luminaries need any introduction. We are so honored that they have agreed to share their oral histories, critical analysis, and what that statement means for today on Sunday.
This event will also mark the last in a 3 part series we held this year as a collaboration between AMED Studies and the National Black Education Agenda co-founded by our comrade Sam Anderson. As some of you know, we held the first event in person on February 15th in San Francisco in collaboration with the NBEA, the Freedom Archives and several other community groups, in honor of Black History Month. We held our second event on May 19th in response to the global pandemic that forced us, our students and classes to connect online due to global pandemic. And now we arrive at our third and last conversation.
We are so fortunate that Gail Walker, Executive Director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organizing will be co-moderating the discussion with me so we can give more time to Dr. Anderson to speak and discuss. Ms. Walker and IFCO/Pastors for Peace have had their share of retaliation and bullying by Israel lobby groups. Part of our discussion will focus on the cost of such bullying and intimidation while we insist, along with our Jewish comrades, that Zionists do not own Jewishness nor speak for all Jewish people.
There are so many issues to discuss, analyze, and draw historical lessons around. What I've shared is but the tip of the iceberg.
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