[News] Palestine Webinar - Abolition Means No More War - Wed, November 1st - 4pm Pacific

[Anti-Imperialist News]

criticalresistance.org
<https://criticalresistance.org/event/free-palestine-2023/>
Critical Resistance
Prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionists have always understood the
work to dismantle the PIC to be connected to global movements against war,
militarism, and colonialism. In the past few weeks, we’ve seen mass
mobilization for solidarity with the Palestinian people as they face one of
the deadliest assaults by the Israeli military in its history.

<https://criticalresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Free-Palestine-Speaker-Banner-e1698178690629.png>On
*Wednesday, November 1, 2023,* join us for *a critical discussion on the
ongoing war on Palestine*. Critical Resistance’s Campaigns Director, *Mohamed
Shehk*, will be joined by *Dr. Angela Y Davis*, *Lara Kiswani* (Executive
Director of *the Arab Resource and Organizing Center
<https://aroc.herokuapp.com/>*), *Stefanie Fox* (Executive Director of *Jewish
Voice for Peace <https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/>*), and *Nadine Naber*
(*INCITE! Women of Color against Violence – National
<https://incite-national.org/>*) to help us understand the situation on the
ground in Palestine, how our organizations and people everywhere can mount
effective resistance to the genocidal war against Palestinians, and how we
can use abolitionist strategies such as dismantle-change-build,
divest/invest & “defund,” and “shrink and starve” to do so.

*RSVP for the online event here.
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/abolition-and-the-liberation-of-palestine-tickets-744491984567>*

Aiming to *contribute to fighting against war-making more broadly, *this
event will examine the relationship of *the PIC with Israel’s apartheid and
occupation of Palestine*, and why *abolitionists must strongly mobilize* in
this time, by bringing together *experts on PIC abolition, solidarity,
liberation movements, war and militarism to:*

   - Unpack the relationship of racist and imperialist structures that
   support the ongoing Israeli occupation in Palestine
   - Expose the Israeli imprisonment system including Gaza’s forced
   configuration into an open air prison
   - Disrupt Israel’s role in worldwide repression of marginalized peoples
   and revolutionary struggle
   - And interrupt the media’s role in criminalization, inciting more
   violence, and maintaining systems of oppression by empowering colonial
   ideology through Islamaphobia, Anti-Arab racism, and anti-semitism

*…And all the while discussing concrete strategies for how we can fight
back.*

In the last few weeks alone, *the apartheid-state of Israel has killed over
6,000 Palestinians in Gaza *and wounded nearly 18,000 while the conditions
in the 16-year-long blockade continue to worsen for over 2 million
Palestinians as the healthcare system in Gaza has completely collapsed. *In
only two weeks, I
<https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/10/21/number-of-palestinian-prisoners-in-israel-doubles-to-10000-in-two-weeks>srael
has doubled the number of imprisoned Palestinians
<https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/10/21/number-of-palestinian-prisoners-in-israel-doubles-to-10000-in-two-weeks>,*
as the war has claimed 10,000 prisoners of war (POWs) by the Israeli Prison
Services (IPS). Meanwhile, *the US government has been giving $3.8 billion
in military aid per year to Israel
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/11/how-big-is-israels-military-and-how-much-funding-does-it-get-from-the-us>
unconditionally*, which has *funded over 6,000 Israeli bombs dropped on
Palestinians in only six days
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker>*,
almost
as many bombs as the US dropped on Afghanistan in one year of war.
As abolitionists, we know our praxis requires that we both sharpen our
analysis while contributing materially to those struggling in Gaza.

*Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) <https://www.mecaforpeace.org/> is
on the ground distributing humanitarian aid and relief to those in need in
Gaza. **This event will also be a fundraiser for MECA. Donate before,
during or after the event here.
<https://secure.everyaction.com/b00t33wD-EOVJ1cNTyHixg2>*
Haymarket Books will be hosting the event
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/abolition-and-the-liberation-of-palestine-tickets-744491984567>
and
live-streaming on Youtube.

*Closed Captioning, ASL, and Spanish Interpretation will be provided.

*RSVP on Haymarket’s eventbrite to receive the link to join on November 1!*
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/abolition-and-the-liberation-of-palestine-tickets-744491984567>

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