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Hi friends,
My name is Dhruv and I'm a cultural worker, filmmaker, and the newest member of The Rights Collective!
As a new member I've been thinking about what it means to be in an organisation and revisited Grace Lee Boggs' 1970s piece, Organization Means Commitment. She says:
This work and struggle, this time and patience, this continuing relationship, this expansion and enrichment, this independence and discipline, this criticism and self-criticism, can only come from a continuing commitment in theory and in practice to the conviction that at the heart of (every great revolution) is the urgent need to transform people into a new and more advanced form of human being by means of struggle.
Much of this month's newsletter explores the carceral nature of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and how similar technologies of repression are used in various parts of South Asia.
We invite you to think about ways in which we can all amplify the voices of the incarcerated and to continue to struggle for a new world.
Dhruv
🌖They Cannot Extinguish The Moon: Political Prisoners from South Asia to Palestine - Teach In
Join us for the second teach-in hosted by the South Asians for Palestine coalition, focusing on political prisoners from South Asia to Palestine, to discuss how their resistance to settler colonialism and state violence are criminalised, and how we in Britain can challenge attempts to suppress our support of their struggles.
Our speakers will draw together the role of Political Prisoners in occupied Palestine to the broader Palestinian liberation struggle, along with struggles of prisoners in present-day Kashmir, Pakistan and India.
Join us on Sunday 25th February from 2pm. This is a family friendly event so please feel free to bring your children, we will have a crèche available on the day.
Inquilab Zindabad ✊🏽
📚Things we’re engaging with right now…
WATCH: Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence aims to expose and analyse the insidious means of surveillance, control, and violence employed by states to ‘protect their borders.
LEARN: Breaking the Prison Door: Palestine, Prisons & Abolition. This online teach-out will provide a critical analysis of the intersections of prison liberation and anticolonial liberation, as well interrogate the sites of criminalisation and counter-terrorism structures. Hear from PYM, Nijjor Manush and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association.
We recommend..
READ: Bread and Salt by Palestinian-American artist and folk herbalist Amanny Ahmad.
From the international community we demand far more than just our daily bread: we demand more than condemnation and empty gestures. We demand a full stoppage to life as usual, to refuse to set a precedent of complacency and collusion in war crimes and genocide.
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