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size="+2"><b>The Criminalization of Home: Organizing to Protect
Communities from NYC to Palestine</b></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Wednesday, November 29 at Verso Books, 20 Jay
St., Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY</b><b><br>
</b><b> Doors open at 7 p.m., panel begins at 7:30</b></font><br>
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With <br>
Sahar Francis of Addameer <br>
Darializa Avila-Chevalier of Black Youth Project–100<br>
Mujahid Farid of Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP)<br>
And moderated by Bina Ahmad<br>
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This panel explores the different ways criminalization fractures
communities and separates people from the place(s) they call home.
Bringing together activists from New York City to Palestine, it
looks at how state violence enforces a system of racialized
dispossession, whether through eviction, deportation,
incarceration, or colonization and<span class="text_exposed_show">
ethnic cleansing. We'll also learn how people are protecting
their communities by fighting back against the increasingly
militarized policing of their neighborhoods, supporting
prisoners' rights, and advancing a vision of freedom and
self-determination.<br>
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DARIALIZA AVILA-CHEVALIER is an organizer with the NYC chapter
of Black Youth Project 100, a member-based organization of
radical 18-to-35-year-old people that work toward the liberation
of Black people. BYP100 works to center the most marginalized,
which includes incarcerated people and trans/gender
non-conforming people. Their work is done via direct action,
political education, and internal leadership development. Their
current long-term project is Campaign H.O.M.E. (Housing Over
Monitoring and Evictions), which seeks to end the racist NYCHA
policy of Permanent Exclusion. Before joining BYP100, Darializa
organized with Students for Justice in Palestine and helped
launch the Columbia University Apartheid Divest campaign. <br>
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MUJAHID FARID is the lead organizer for the Release Aging People
in Prison Campaign (RAPP), which aims to decarcerate US prisons
by accelerating the release rate of elderly people. Farid
himself was confined for 33 years in New York State and released
in 2011, after entering the system in 1978 with a sentence of 15
years to life. While confined, Farid earned four college
degrees, including two Master’s, and was part of a trio that
created the first HIV/AIDS peer education program in NYS
prisons, which later developed into the widely acclaimed PACE
(Prisoners AIDS Counseling & Education) program. In 2013 he
was awarded an Open Society Soros Justice Fellowship, a joint
NYS legislative commendation, and a Citizens Against Recidivism,
Inc. award for social activism. In 2016 RAPP was awarded the New
York Nonprofit Media’s Cause Award.<br>
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SAHAR FRANCIS has been the director of Addameer (Arabic for
conscience), a prisoner support and human rights advocacy
organization, since 2005, and has been a human rights legal
advocate since 1994. She specializes in issues of Palestinian
political prisoners, including ill treatment and torture,
administrative detention, prison conditions, and prisoners'
rights. She has extensive litigation experience in the Israeli
military court system as well as in Israeli civil courts.<br>
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Co-organized by Adalah-NY: Campaign for the Boycott of Israel, <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/AddameerAssociation/"
data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=82295125199&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A513700239003246%7D"
data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1">Addameer Prisoner
Support & Human Rights Association</a>, BYP100 NYC
chapter, and the <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/CenterforConstitutionalRights/"
data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=31070403665&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A513700239003246%7D"
data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1">Center for
Constitutional Rights</a><br>
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Verso Books is wheelchair accessible.<br>
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If you can't be there in person, go to the Verso Books Facebook
page on Wednesday at 7:30pm EST and watch the event live: <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/VersoBks/" rel="nofollow"><span>https://www.facebook.com/</span><wbr><span
class="word_break"></span>VersoBks/</a></span></span>
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