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Dearest community,
How is your heart? As we approach the end of January of the new year, we’re finding it difficult to write our newsletter in our usual way, where we would recap all the wonderful projects and community actions we did together as a team last year.
Whilst we continue to bear witness to the ongoing genocide in Palestine, we’re reminded of what Dr. Layli Uddin said at our South Asians for Palestine teach-in n December, she said that “we are capable of producing more love, more joy, and more friendship than our oppressors will ever produce” and stressed the importance of sustaining hope in our collective solidarity. We want to share this reminder with you to energise you in your efforts over the new year. In doing so, we wanted to share a small snippet of our residential over September along with political education materials we’ve been engaging with over the past couple of weeks.
There can be no business as usual during genocide. Don’t let Palestinians die in vain. We must continue to protest, to resist, and to organise for a liberated Palestine.
In solidarity,
The Rights Collective
🍉South Asians 4 Palestine Teach in
South Asians for Palestine is an initiative to draw on the unique strengths of our collective anti-colonial histories and connect current struggles. Ours is a rich history of solidarity, and we recognise ongoing oppressions taking place - many of them enabled by the same corporations that oppress Palestinians.
Following on from our first teach-in in December 2023, this booklet contains speaker summaries, a glossary, various resources, and a display of beautiful Third Worldist resistance artwork related to Palestine.
To get involved with South Asians for Palestine, please email us at therightscollective@gmail.com or via our instagram.
Inquilab Zindabad ✊🏽
In solidarity,
The Rights Collective & Nijjor Manush
Imagining the Collective: Where We've Been, and Where We're Going
It’s been over a year since our last intentional communication about how we are organising together, Moving with Intention as a Collective. We shared with you then that we needed to slow down, take a step back from the rush of project work and social media and all the rest. We’ve written about our experiences which explores what we’ve been up to , the questions we’ve been asking ourselves, and some of the changes we’re making. You can read it here.
‘As Within, So Without’ Residential
In September, we co-designed and held a beautiful gathering with the Anne Matthews Trust at the Braich Goch in Wales, for a four night residential re-imagining new ways of being and ways of doing in our work.
It was intended as a slow spacious space for our team and wider community members to come together in nature and explore how we can build strong coalitions.
We want to extend our thanks and gratitude to the entire team at AMT for hosting us, and to our wider community members for joining The Rights Collective team.
📚Things we’re engaging with right now…
Watch Palestinian poet and writer Mohammed El Kurd deliver a moving speech on ‘mournable victims’ at this years Palestine Literature Festival. Every single life lost in Gaza deserves our grief and we mourn each one.
“These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.” - Israel is employing artificial intelligence software, called Habsora (‘the gospel’) to create targets in a mass assignation factory in the Gaza Strip.
Journalist and author Azad Essa sits down with Yousef Munayyer to discuss the evolving relationship between India and Israel. Listen to the podcast episode below.
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