calls to action 🍉

+ our meeting next Wednesday

Hello all! We’ve been reflecting on the year of the dragon and are coming into this new reading cycle with a renewed commitment to studying and fighting towards abolitionist futures. In January, we discussed three pieces in intimate break out groups at our first book club session of this cycle as we read Letters To Palestine: Writers Respond To War and Occupation edited by Vijay Prashad.

Buy the book here! Comes w/ a free digital download. If you can’t afford the purchase let us know and we’ll work something out.

Our next session is next week (first timers/haven’t-read-yet folks welcome!)

• WHEN: Wednesday, February 28th, at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT

• WHERE: Zoom link (registration required) https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcodOmopj0uH9OY8Je-w4t1TNlvVGh-a3oM#/registration

• FOCUS READINGS:

  • “How Not to Talk About Gaza” by Colin Dayan (pages 94-102)

  • “Diary of a Gaza War, 2014” by Najwa Said (pages 107-125)

  • “Yes, I Said ‘National Liberation’” by Robin D.G. Kelley (pages 139-153).

And if you want to get ahead, we’re reading The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Lowenstein during March and April. Get a copy of the book here.

~~🌻CALLS TO ACTION🌻~~

📝 READ/SIGN THIS SOLIDARITY STATEMENT from organization Sông2Sea in both English and Vietnamese

✊ FILL OUT THIS LETTER to support artists in a show at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts who turned their work into a pro-Palestinian action and faced censorship from the institution. Read more about it on Hyperallergic here.

🐲 FIGURE OUT HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT THIS ACTION this weekend by Asians4Palestine. They need support from folks with many different skills if you’re based in NY (check out this form) and funds to fuel the action if you are elsewhere. Check the IG post for donation instructions.

As always please reach out if you have any question/concerns, have calls to action you’d like to share, or if you would like to help us plan!

In solidarity,

APIs4Abolition