This Week: Youth Resistance from US to Palestine Events




Dear Chris,

A powerful speaking tour is heading to a city near you this week. You don't want to miss it!

Combining grassroots community engagement with municipal boycotts, community actions, testimony, and education campaigns, the tour -- No Child Behind Bars: Living Resistance From the US to Palestine -- explores state violence, particularly the criminalization and detention of youth in Palestine and the US. The tour focuses on the interests and powers that reinforce these systems, with the goal of destabilizing them and breaking them down.

The tour is being organized by member organization Friends of Sabeel-North America with support from the US Campaign and other groups, and will feature three speakers:

Ahed Tamimi is 16 years old, charismatic, and articulate. She will be speaking from her home in Nabi Saleh, Occupied West Bank.
Amanda Weatherspoon is a Unitarian Universalist minister and Black liberation activist in the Bay Area. Her ministry is centered on collective liberation with an intersectional approach.
Nadya Tannous is a writer and organizer in the Bay Area. She has researched the detention of Palestinian minors since 2013.
Here are the details for the events near you:

Dearborn, MI

Wednesday, January 25, 4:30pm
University of Michigan- Dearborn
College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters Room 1030
4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, Michigan 48128
Facebook event page with more details

Chicago, IL

Friday, January 27, 5:00pm
University of Illinois- Chicago
Behavioral Sciences Building Room 140
1007 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60607
Facebook event page with more details

Saturday, January 28, 2:00pm
Oak Park Public Library
834 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60301
Facebook event page with more details

Minneapolis, MN

Sunday, January 29, 2:00pm
Capri Theater
2027 W Broadway Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55411
Facebook event page with more details

Madison, WI

Monday, January 30, 7:00pm
Urban League of Greater Madison Evjue Room
2222 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713
Facebook event page with more details

The national tour includes 18 cities over 3 weeks, from January 15 to February 9, 2017. The full list of cities can be found here.

Hope you can make it to one of these inspiring events!




RAMAH KUDAIMI

Director of Grassroots Organizing



P.S. -- You can also join the national tour event page on Facebook and help publicize to friends across the country.



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