<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><b style="font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif">Toward Justice: The Black/Palestine Solidarity Tour</b><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><font face="Garamond, Georgia, serif" size="3" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><b>Dudley Branch Library, 65 Warren Street, Roxbury</b></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji',NotoColorEmoji,'Segoe UI Symbol','Android Emoji',EmojiSymbols"><span 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style="color:rgb(102,17,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none">RSVP on Facebook</a></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji',NotoColorEmoji,'Segoe UI Symbol','Android Emoji',EmojiSymbols"><font face="Garamond, Georgia, serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji',NotoColorEmoji,'Segoe UI Symbol','Android Emoji',EmojiSymbols"><font face="Garamond, Georgia, serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><i>Presented by Haymarket Books</i></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji',NotoColorEmoji,'Segoe UI Symbol','Android Emoji',EmojiSymbols"><font face="Garamond, Georgia, serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><i>Co-sponsors: International Socialist Organization, Northeastern University Students for Justice in Palestine, Progressive Student Alliance at NEU, Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine, Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine, Black and Pink</i><br></font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:11pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"></span></font><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"></span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></div><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"></span></div><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"></span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji',NotoColorEmoji,'Segoe UI Symbol','Android Emoji',EmojiSymbols"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"></span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"></span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt">When heavily militarized police in Ferguson, Missouri, confronted African American protesters angry at the police murder of Mike Brown in 2014, Palestinians watching events unfold from Gaza began sending tweets about how to cope with the teargas filling the streets.</span></div><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"></span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"></span></div><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"></span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt">Such an act of solidarity was more than a mere expression of support from people who, though half a world away, know firsthand about state repression. Police in cities across the U.S.—including police in Ferguson and Baltimore—have turned to Israel for training in how to deploy tactics honed in suppressing the Palestinian struggle for justice. And the U.S. directly supports Israel’s dispossession of the Palestinians—to the tune of some $3 billion per year. </span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"></span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"></span></div><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Garamond,Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:medium;color:rgb(78,86,101);line-height:18.76px">Today, the movement in solidarity with Palestine is facing an unprecedented assault, especially the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign on college campuses. This assault has come in the form of punishment and reprisal of students in solidarity with Palestine, the firing or public smearing of pro-Palestinian professors, the de-funding of pro-Palestine students groups, and the prohibition of the Palestinian flag on campuses.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:medium;color:rgb(78,86,101);line-height:18.76px"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:medium;color:rgb(78,86,101);line-height:18.76px">T</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(78,86,101);line-height:18.76px;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:medium">he Black Lives Matter movement is also seeing push-back as we see campus administrations cut African American studies programs and cops continue to get away with murder. Still, many on our side are drawing parallels between anti-racist struggles on an international scale, as evidenced by the success of the 2015 <a href="http://www.blackforpalestine.com/read-the-statement.html" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;text-decoration:none">Black Solidarity Statement with Palestine</a> </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(78,86,101);line-height:18.76px;font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:medium"> and campus Black Lives Matter chapters demanding divestment from Israel’s apartheid state. Many of the issues facing the Black community in the U.S.—police violence, job discrimination, poverty, and environmental racism—are the same problems that Palestinians face.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="3" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(78,86,101);line-height:18.76px">The solidarity poses a significant threat to US’ global hegemony and the racism on which it relies. A new generation of activists is forging ties of solidarity between the struggles of Palestinians and Black people—struggles for equal rights, for dignity, for freedom. This tour hopes to make a modest contribution to this project—by unearthing the inspiring history of Black/Palestinian solidarity and by making these lessons relevant for present-day efforts seeking to transform the future. <br><br><br>------<br><b>Featured speakers:</b></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="3" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(78,86,101);line-height:18.76px"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:medium;line-height:18.76px">Aaron Dixon</b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:medium;line-height:18.76px"> is one of the co-founders of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party, chronicled in his 2012 book My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain. Dixon has since founded Central House, a nonprofit that provides transitional housing for youth, and was one of the co-founders of the Cannon House, a senior assisted-living facility. Aaron ran for US Senate on the Green Party ticket in 2006.</span><font size="3" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(78,86,101);line-height:18.76px"><b><br></b><b><br></b></span></font></div><span style="color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:medium;font-weight:700;line-height:18.76px">Khury Petersen-Smith </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(78,86,101);font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:medium;line-height:18.76px">co-authored, with Stanford alum Kristian Davis Bailey, the influential 2015 Black Solidarity Statement with Palestine, covered by Ebony and other outlets. Khury is a member of the International Socialist Organization and is active in Palestine solidarity and anti-racist organizing. He has written about the politics of Black liberation for Jacobin Magazine and the International Socialist Review.</span></span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif" color="#666666" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><br></font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif" color="#666666" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Remi Kanazi </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">is a poet, writer, and organizer based in New York City. He is the author the author of </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and the editor of </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Poets For Palestine</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. His political commentary has been featured by news outlets throughout the world, including Salon, </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Al Jazeera English</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BBC Radio. </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kanazi has toured hundreds of venues across the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East, and he has appeared in the Palestine Festival of Literature as well as Poetry International. He is a Lannan Residency Fellow and an Advisory Committee member for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.</span></font></div>
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