Long live the student intifada!
Students across the UK need our unwavering solidarity in calling on their universities to divest!
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Dearest community,
Collectivism and its role in the intifada is the subject of our reflections this month. This newsletter reintroduces Ansuni Stories which took place in 2021 and explored participants experiences with collectivism. These insights on collectivism were shared in the midst of the pandemic and BLM protests.
As we consider collectivism now in the light of the student protests for Palestine, we are moved by this demonstration against individualism and reimagining of collectivism, which prioritises liberation for all.
As Paolo Freire put it:
Unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task.
In Solidarity,
The Rights Collective
✨Re-introducing Ansuni stories!
We’re excited to re-introduce Ansuni Stories!
Ansuni Stories is a storytelling and research project, where we are captured the experiences of the South Asian diaspora across the U.K. in relation to our diverse and sometimes conflicted experiences with our families and our community. The project explores the healing, nourishing and positive aspects, along with the challenging, toxic and harmful impacts that result from our "collectivist culture".
Join the South Asians 4 Palestine bloc!
Join the South Asians 4 Palestine bloc this Saturday at the National March for Palestine! We will be meeting at Cavendish Square Gardens at 11am - look out for our banner.
🧣Please make sure to wear masks & cover your face!
🥾Wear comfy shoes, bring snacks and water
💚Bring placards, flags, signs and things to make noise
🥁 Get in touch if you’re a drummer, dhol player or can make some music!
🍉 South Asians 4 Palestine on Daytimers Radio
Our very own Dhruv and Hajera from Nijjor Manush were on Daytimers radio show discussing, amongst other topics, how the South Asians For Palestine coalition was formed, the importance of political education and the role of cultural work to liberation struggles.
Listen to the episode here!
Community Film Screening: While We Watched
Join The Rights Collective in a community screening of the documentary While We Watched! This documentary slowly unfolds the story of NDTV and Ravish Kumar, where both come under increased scrutiny under the new India, where journalists critical of the government have limited room to operate.
This screening comes in the midst of the Indian election season and hopes to shed light on the difficulty of being able to do good journalism in India under the current regime.
We will also be joined in discussion with Vijayta Lalwani, a journalist reporting on political violence and human rights in India. She has extensively covered mass demonstrations, like the farmers' agitation and the citizenship protests, sectarian conflict, and the impact of the pandemic on lives and livelihoods. Her investigations on public health have necessitated government action.
We will be at Pelican House in Bethnal Green tomorrow at 6pm.
We Will Not Stop, We Will Not Rest - DIVEST! Solidarity With The Student Encampments
Across the country, university students have set up encampments in solidarity with Palestine and Gaza, and are demanding their institutions to divest from Israel. Student uprisings across the globe have mobilised into ‘liberated zones’ and need our unwavering support to end their universities complicity in genocide. Liberation for all requires resistance from all!
From the anti-war protests in Vietnam and South Africa, to Palestine, students have been at the forefront in using their rage to demonstrate against the war machine.
May they be victorious.
In the Encampment, seeing transcends passive observation and becomes a deliberate political choice. I see you, and you cease to be the Other. I see you, and we become one.
‘The Encampment As a Radical Reimagining’ by Abdelrahman ElGendy
“The most important thing is how important this is for the Palestinians, and how they must be feeling in Gaza and the West Bank” - reflections from Tariq Ali on
student protests.
from the river to the sea!! 🍉