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b'Making connections between the movement to abolish police and prisons in the US and the struggle for liberation in Palestine and beyond.\\n\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\u2014\\n\\nA historic multiracial rebellion has exploded and sustained across the U.S. in response to the police lynching of George Floyd and others brutalized and killed at the hands of US police. This uprising has coincided with the escalating colonization and annexation of Palestinian land, supported by the white supremacist Trump administration.\\n\\nOrganizers on the ground in the U.S. and in Palestine are using this moment to demonstrate the ongoing connections between colonization and modern militarized policing, and why in order to combat U.S. racial monopoly capitalism and imperialism, we must abolish policing, and all aspects of settler carceral regimes.\\n\\nThis discussion will bring together activists and scholars to examine movements organizing to dismantle the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) and free political prisoners as part of liberation struggles led by Black people in the U.S. and Palestinian people in occupied Palestine.\\n\\nPresenters include:\\n\\nZaina Alsous, an organizer with the Dream Defenders\\n\\nNyle Fort, a minister, activist, and Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University\\n\\nDerecka Purnell, human rights lawyer, organizer, and writer.\\n\\nSandra Tamari, Palestinian organizer based in St. Louis, Missouri and is director of the Adalah Justice Project.\\n\\nRanda Wahbi, former international advocacy coordinator at Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association in Ramallah.\\n\\nCo-sponsoring organizations: Jewish Voice for Peace (South Florida and New Orleans chapters), DSA Palestine Working Group, Dream Defenders, Adalah Justice Project, Palestine Legal, and Haymarket Books.\\n\\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/dND8keciMFo\\n\\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\\n\\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks'