Join SURJ for their first Abolition Action Hour of 2022! As usual, we’ll gather en masse on Zoom to take collective action together to close jails, defund police, invest in communities, and protect Indigenous rights to land and water. You’ll receive education and training in community, and then be supported to participate in frontline racial justice campaigns.
This month’s actions will include making sure people detained by ICE in Illinois are released under the Way Forward legislation, taking action in solidarity with Oʻahu Water Protectors, pushing for free phone calls in jails and prisons across the country, and joining the organizing work to stop detention expansion in Georgia.
A conversation with Sahar Francis and Ubai Aboudi, directors of two of the Palestinian NGO’s that the Israeli government outlawed
In late October, 2021, the Israeli minister of Defense falsely declared that six eminent and world respected Palestinian human rights and civil society organizations are terrorist groups. In this webinar the directors of two of those organizations will describe the work their organizations do and this attack on them.
In these perilous times, we desperately need to be seeking and supporting the truth. Please listen to these courageous people and discern for yourself if reporting human rights and defending civil liberties should be outlawed and consider our suggestions for doing something about it.
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Sahar Francis:
Since 2006, Sahar Francis has been the General Director of Ramallah-based Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, a Palestinian NGO providing legal and advocacy support to Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli and Palestinian prisons. An attorney by training, she joined the association in 1998, first as a human rights lawyer, then as head of the Legal Unit. With over twenty years of human rights experience, including human rights counseling and representation, Ms. Francis also was on the Board of Defence for Children International – Palestine Section for 4 years.
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Ubai Aboudi:
Father of three, Husband to Journalist Hind Shraydeh, Msc Economics focusing on Development and Social protection, Executive Director of Bisan Center for Research and Development, Editor in Chief of Altaqadomi (The Progressive) a peer reviewed journal on Development in Arabic. Human Rights Defender and former Political Prisoner by Israel and the P.A. Ubai is one of Scientists for Palestine’s (S4P) closest partners and worked tirelessly to make the Third International Meeting on Science in Palestine, which took place on January 10-12, 2020, at MIT, happen, though his detention prevented him from attending and presenting his own research.
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With Basir Bita, Afghan refugee relocated to Vancouver, CA; Doug Mackey, Fellowship Of Reconciliation; Ladaisha Williams, Community Outreach for Urban League’s Young Professionals Program (focus includes Afghan refugees resettling in Buffalo); Deidra EmEl, Executive Director of the WNY Peace Center; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Community Coordinator, and Consultant for the Interfaith Peace Network.
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- values we bring
- the fall of Kabul – eyewitness account from Basir
- international efforts for peace and human rights
- local efforts to help with resettlement in Buffalo
- ways to help and get more involved
The show is taped for just under an hour by Think Twice Radio: Home of the Future (thanks to Richard Wicka, our wonderful producer. The Zoom recording, livestreamed on Facebook during the taping, will air on WBNY 91.3FM on the following Monday (1/10) at 2pm EST. After airing, you can also find the video archived on the WNY Peace Center YouTube channel.
