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b"Join a panel of experts for a discussion of the growing imperialist interventions into the Sahel and East Africa, and how to fight them.\\n\\nThe United States is escalating its military presence in Africa, with the construction of new military bases, drone facilities, and more. Both the CIA and Pentagon are conducting operations with little to no public scrutiny. France and other major powers are also increasing their presence to 'combat terrorism' and protect what it regards as its \\u201cown\\u201d strategic resources, including land, oil and uranium.\\n\\nThe militarization and the conflict it perpetuates in and around the Sahara has created extremely dire circumstances for the people of the region, creating a major barrier to working class organizing on the continent. Understanding these dynamics is critical for building international solidarity from the Sahel to East Africa and beyond.\\n\\nSpeakers;\\n\\nSamar Al-Bulushi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of California, Irvine. Her research is broadly concerned with surveillance, militarism, and policing in the context of the so-called 'War on Terror' in East Africa. She is a contributing editor at Africa is a Country and her work has appeared in The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, Intercepted, Jacobin, Pambazuka, and Africa is a Country.\\n\\nBrittany Mech\\xe9 is the Gaius Bolin Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Studies at Williams College. Brittany earned her PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley, and she is currently writing a book about transnational security regimes, environmental knowledge, and the afterlives of empire in the West African Sahel.\\n\\nAlex Thurston is Assistant Professor Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of three books, most recently Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.\\n\\nFacilitator:\\n\\nAndom Ghebreghiorgis is a former special education teacher who recently ran for Congress in NY\\u2019s 16th District. He is active with the Eritrean justice organization One Day Seyoum and is a member of Lower Hudson Valley DSA and the DSA International Committee.\\n\\nThis event is co-sponsored by Africa Is A Country, the DSA International Committee, and Haymarket Books.\\n\\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/gu3tZy6KLCE\\n\\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\\n\\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks"