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Nakba Rally In Seattle: Save the Date
2022-05-15 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Save the Date for the Nakba
May 15 in Seattle at 1pm

Rage & Refuge: SCOTUS, Bodily Autonomy, and the War on Terror
2022-07-28 17:00 - 19:00 | WA
Join us for a conversation hosted by Vigilant Love, and jointed by
HEART, Palestinian Youth Movement, and For the Binat

Thursday, July 28, 2022
5 pm PDT // 8 pm EDT
Register at: bit.ly/RageRefuge
Have you felt alone in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to overturn Roe and Casey and uphold Mississippi’s 15 week ban on abortion? Are you holding anxiety about the possible ripple effects for your people in your community’s bodily autonomy?
Vigilant Love is hosting a virtual, multi-layered event to share political analysis examining the relationships between the SCOTUS leaks, Zionism, the War on Terror, and gendered Islamophobia.

“Rage & Refuge: SCOTUS, Bodily Autonomy, and the War on Terror” hopes to be an intentional space for grieving and processing, and to build with values-aligned community members. We hope to see you on Thursday, July 28th from 5-6:30pm PT!
Our partners for this event are HEART (@hearttogrow), Palestinian Youth Movement (@palestinianyouthmovement), Palestinian Feminist Collective (@palestinianfeministcollective), and For the Binat (@forthebinat).
This is a free event, but we encourage donations for anyone that is able!
Register at bit.ly/RageRefuge or visit the link in our bio.

Gaza: Beautiful Resistance - Virtual Delegation to Palestine
2022-08-28 10:00 - 11:30, 2022-08-30 09:00 - 10:30, 2022-09-02 09:00 - 10:30 | WA
Gaza is often portrayed as a place of desperation and violence, due to decades of occupation, siege and ongoing brutal assaults. What is far less often portrayed is Gaza as a place of life, laughter, joy, and creativity. On this Virtual Delegation of the Gaza Strip, we will introduce you to beautiful resistance in the Gaza Strip. Through music, art, dancing and more, Palestinians in Gaza resist the dehumanization inherent in colonization.
Join us to meet Palestinians in Gaza who insist on expressing their full humanity and on waging life!
This Virtual Delegation is co-sponsored by Donkeysaddle Projects and Just Vision.
Tour Date Options:
August 28: 1:00-2:30pm ET
August 30: 12:00-1:30pm ET
September 2: 12:00-1:30pm ET
(All tour times are listed in Eastern Time – USA)

REGISTER TODAY!

BuildPalestine Summit 2022
2022-10-07 - 2022-10-08 | Virtual
Our partners at BuildPalestine are planning their third annual summit under the theme of “Designing for Unity”. You are invited to join an exciting 2-day virtual gathering of the global Palestinian community to design the future of Palestine.
What does it mean to be Palestinian today? Furthermore, in the midst of struggle, how do we not lose sight of the society that we aspire to build? How do we ensure that unity is a reflection of the rich diversity that is the Palestinian experience? Can we actively ‘design for unity’ in a way that crosses geographic, economic, and political divides within Palestine and beyond?
Join 65+ speakers in discussion panels, workshops, and special talks with influential speakers, and get to know Palestine’s most dynamic social entrepreneurs to inspire you to make a change.

Super UW: Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
2022-11-29 09:00 - 14:00 | UW – HUB, 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
Join SUPER-UW on Tuesday, November 29th for an exhibit on the state-backed repression of Palestine activists! This Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, SUPER UW will be in the HUB first floor study area from 9am until 2pm learning about the repression of Palestine activism and Palestinian activists, celebrating Palestinian resistance, and making it clear that we will continue to stand against Zionism and for a free and unified Palestine. Stay tuned for a statement from SUPER about the ADL terror-tagging us earlier this fall.Wear a keffiyeh and show up, or take a photo of you in your keffiyeh and tag us in it @super_uw! If you don’t have one, order an authentic Palestinian keffiyeh from Hirbawi, made in al-Khalil, Palestine!

Streaming: There is Field + panel discussion
2023-01-22 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Amnesty International Puget Sound AIPS and Local Group AI-270 will be presentingThere Is A Field this Sunday, January 22, 2023 from 6-8pm PT. The film will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Nada Elia, with Alicia Koustoulieris, Jesse Hagopian, and Jen Marlowe.
About the film:
In October 2000, a police officer shot and killed unarmed 17-year old Asel Asleh. His story is tragically familiar for Americans, but Asel was not killed in Ferguson, New York City, Atlanta, or Minneapolis. Asel was a Palestinian teenager who was murdered by Israeli police as he participated in a demonstration, calling for an end to the Israeli occupation and settler-colonization.
There Is A Field begins as a play about Asel’s life and his death, told from the perspective of his older sister, Nardin. Through Nardin’s struggle to cope with the murder of her brother, the play offers a uniquely personal lens for learning about intersecting systems of oppression, the root causes of state-sanctioned violence and structural racism. Learn more about the film.
About The Panelists:

Nada Elia PhD, (moderator) is a diaspora Palestinian scholar and activist who teaches in the American Cultural Studies program at Western Washington University WWU, and is the author of Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine.
Alicia Koutsoulieris, Amnesty International, USA country specialist for the Israel Occupied Territories – Palestinian Authority – IOPT-PA.
Jesse Hagopian is an educator, author, and part of the 2011 African Heritage Eyewitness Palestine delegation. Jesse’s African ancestors survived the middle passage and enslavement on plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Jen Marlowe is the founder of Donkeysaddle Projects and director and producer of the documentary film There Is A Field.

The free event will take place on Sunday at 3pm ET/6pm PT. Follow this link to register.

Amnesty International Puget Sound AIPS and Local Group AI-270 will be presentingThere Is A Field this Sunday, January 22, 2023 from 6-8pm PT. The film will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Nada Elia, with Alicia Koustoulieris, Jesse Hagopian, and Jen Marlowe.

Continuous Trauma and Social Devastation: Gaza and Washington leaders in discussion on social trauma and healing
2023-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 | St Marks Cathedral, 1245 Tenth Avenue East, Seattle, WA, 98102-4398, United States
The Gaza Strip’s visiting lead psychiatrist updates us in person on current conditions there with local leaders and audience questions and reflections on “glocal”social divisions building best ways forward together.

Trauma & Hope Tour “Continuous Trauma and Social Devastation – or Caring for ALL?"
2023-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 | St Marks Cathedral, 1245 Tenth Avenue East, Seattle, WA, 98102-4398, United States
FREE

The Rachel Corrie Foundation is honored to be one of multiple co-sponsors of this Seattle event featuring Dr. Yassar Abu-Jamei, who has led the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme – a leading Palestinian non-governmental organization providing mental health services to the Gaza Strip – for fifteen difficult years. During this time, those in Gaza have suffered daily from an international blockade, and continuing military threats and raids by the Israeli army.

The event, organized by the Massachusetts-based Gaza Mental Health Foundation, will also feature the following local leaders speaking about social and racial disparity globally and in Washington State:

Imraan Siddiqi, Executive Director, Council of American-Islamic Relations (Washington Chapter)
The Honorable Damon Shadid, Seattle Municipal Court judge
Dr. Jonathan Kanter, Director, Center for the Science of Social Connection (University of Washington)
Dr. Brian Baird, psychologist, and U.S. Congressman for 12 year

In person and also on zoom: register for zoom: http://bit.ly/3k1Aflv

Settler Colonialism from Turtle Island to Palestine: Teaching in an Ethnic Studies Framework
2023-02-04 09:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Settler Colonialism from Turtle Island to Palestine: Teaching in an Ethnic Studies Framework
Saturday, February 4
9 am–12 pm PST/noon-4 pm EST
We’re honored to be collaborating on this virtual workshop with XITO (Xicanx Institute for Teaching and Organizing). Rooted firmly in the decolonial framework of Tiahui, we’ll build knowledge and pedagogy for connecting Indigenous histories of Turtle Island and current struggles in the US to Palestinian history and resistance. You’ll leave with deeper knowledge, inspiration, and resources!

Register for this free workshop at bit.ly/xito-meca

What's next for the right to boycott in America?
2023-03-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Thursday, March 2 at 1:00 pm Eastern.
This virtual gathering, co-sponsored by the Institute for Middle East Understanding, Jewish Currents and Just Vision, will provide a unique opportunity to hear directly from Alan Leveritt, publisher of the Arkansas Times and protagonist in Boycott, together with his attorney, Brian Hauss, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). I will also be joined by Boycott protagonists Bahia Amawi, a speech therapist and plaintiff from Texas; Mikkel Jordahl, an attorney and plaintiff from Arizona; Dima Khalidi, a lawyer and the Executive Director of Palestine Legal; Lara Friedman, a researcher and the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace; and our very own, Julia Bacha, Just Vision‘s Creative Director and Director of Boycott.
This is an opportunity to be in community as we mark the worldwide online release of Boycott on the heels of the Supreme Court’s announcement earlier this week. We’re counting on you to bring your curiosities and questions, and to be part of the next phase of our campaign to bring attention to anti-boycott laws and their implications.
Please register here by Wednesday, March 1, and feel free to extend this invitation to your family, friends and community. Our shared work to protect the right to dissent continues, and we hope you can join us in this important conversation.

Book Launch and Activist Gathering
2023-03-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States
“Greater than the Sum of Our Parts” is by Nada Elia, local author and activist, and is newly published by Pluto Press. Nada’s book launch provides an opportunity to connect with fellow activists, expand our knowledge of each other’s struggles, and hear from Nada about this important book!

WHEN: Saturday, March 4, 4:00-6:00 pm
WHERE: Cherry Street Village, 720 25th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122

Please Register here! (If you can’t make it but would still like a copy of the book, you can get one here!)

ABOUT THE EVENT:

Today, there is a growing understanding that Palestinian liberation is connected to numerous other struggles for safety, dignity, freedom, and self sovereignty. This book launch and gathering will be an opportunity to hear more about and celebrate the launch of GREATER THAN THE SUM OF OUR PARTS. Equally important, It will be a much-needed opportunity to meet and network with fellow activists and organizers, so we can expand our knowledge of each other’s struggles, and better show up for each other.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

How is the struggle for Palestinian freedom bound up in other freedom struggles, and how are activists coming together globally to achieve justice and liberation for all?
In this bold book, Palestinian activist Nada Elia unpacks Zionism, from its hypermilitarism to incarceration, its environmental devastation and gendered violence. She insists that Palestine’s fate is linked through bonds of solidarity to other communities crossing racial and gender lines, weaving an intersectional feminist understanding of Israeli apartheid throughout her analysis. She also looks deeper into the interconnectedness of Palestine with Black, migrant, and queer movements, and with other indigenous struggles against settler colonialism, including that of Native Americans.
Greater than the Sum of Our Parts is a powerful and hopeful account, highlighting the role of the Palestinian diaspora, youth, and women, and inspired by activists across the world.

Hosted by: Dunya Productions-Seattle

Faza'a Immersion Program in Palestine - Summer 2023
2023-03-21 - 2023-03-26 | WA
Apply for a fully funded youth organizer immersion program to Palestine with @fazaaprogram for this July (2023)
Apply at bit.ly/apply-fazaa

Eligibility Criteria:

Between the ages of 20-34.
Reside in the United States.
Have a minimum of 1 year of grassroots/volunteer organizing experience for Palestinian liberation.
Be available and ready to commit to a 4 week program from July 1st to July 31st, 2023 and attending pre and post trip zoom meetings.
Be able to commit to fundraise based on an equity sliding scale, between $100-$500 USD by June 15th.

Solidarity in storytelling: Meet & Greet with Fadi Abu Shammalah from Gaza!
2023-03-31 19:00 - 21:00 | WA
Meet and hear from Fadi Abu Shammalah, the manager of Donkeysaddle’s Palestine Grassroots Distribution Project, who is visiting from Gaza!

Community Gathering on Rachel’s Birthday and Twenty Years of RCF
2023-04-10 18:30 - 21:00 | South Bay Grange, 3918 Sleater-Kinney Rd NE, Olympia, WA, 98506, United States
On Monday, April 10th, the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice will mark Rachel’s 44th birthday with a celebration of the foundation’s 20 years of work in the Olympia community, Gaza, and beyond – and with a look to the future. Hear from our community, from those who have worked with us, and from those who have lived the issues the foundation addresses. The event will feature:

Dessert, tea, and coffee
Voices from RCF, from Olympia, from our region, and from Gaza
Open Mic
Connections with Partner Organizations
Dancing with the Seattle-based Jafra Dabke Team

Whether you’ve been with us on our twenty-year journey or want to learn more, we invite you to join us at this community gathering, Monday, April 10, 6:30-9:00 pm, at South Bay Grange, 3918 Sleater Kinney Rd NE, Olympia, WA 98506.

Remember and celebrate!
Please note this event is in-person, free, and open to the public.

A Two-Part Virtual Symposium Hosted by the Palestinian Feminist Collective
2023-04-29 - 2023-04-30 | Virtual
The PFC invites all our communities to a two-day virtual symposium honoring Palestinian Political Prisoners. The symposium centers the Palestinian concept and practice of sumoud.

Part I will address the historic and contemporary enactment of sumoud in the Palestinian prisoners’ movement with a special focus on organizing among Palestinian women prisoners featuring Milena Ansari, Dr. Lena Meari and Dr. Samah Saleh.

Part II features former Palestinian women prisoners who will provide live testimony that details the dehumanization of the Zionist settler-colonial and carceral structure and the various ways sumoud animated their resistance, resilience, and survival. The discussion features Dareen Tatour, Muna Qaddan, Shatha Odeh, Anagheem Awad, Elya Abuhijleh, Rasmea Odeh, and Nida Abubaker.

Register at: bit.ly/PFCPrisonersSymposium

This event is co-sponsored by:

Addameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association, AROC: Arab Resource & Organizing Center, Black Women Radicals, Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Critical Resistance, Freedom Archives, International League of Peoples’ Struggle – ILPS US, Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)- حركة الشباب الفلسطيني, Right to Education Campaign – Palestine حملة الحق في التعليم, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, @Solidarity Across Borders, and US Palestinian Community Network

Sign-making Party for Nakba Rally
2023-05-06 12:00 - 14:00 | UW – HUB, 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
Prop-making party on May 6 at UW Hub, 12 PM! We’ll make some signs and banners, hang out, and eat!

in preparation for the 75th anniversary of Al Nakba which will be taking place on May 13th at 12pm. We will be gathering at the North Lawn in Cal Anderson Park for a community gathering, rally and march. Join us to honor 75 years of resistance against the Zionist occupation of Palestine! (See flyer below)
If you have any interest in joining Samidoun Seattle and would like to learn more about that process-please fill out this form!
Stay Connected! Follow up on Instagram @SamidounSeattle!

**Any future emails received by Samidoun Seattle will come from Seattle@Samidoun.net (please add this address to your contact list so that it doesn’t go into spam).
In Solidarity,
Samidoun Seattle

Commemoration of Al-Nakba (Gathering , Rally and March)
2023-05-13 12:00 - 14:00 | Cal Anderson Park, 1635 11th Ave., Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Join SUPER-UW, Falasiniyat, Samidoun Seattle, and many other allies for a community gathering, rally, and march to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine—Al-Nakba— and create a space to channel our grief into action. We will uplift 75 years of Palestinian sumud (steadfastness) and unified resistance to Zionism and call for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea! Bring signs, keffiyehs, and your rage to channel into collective action! More info here.”
Via Seattle Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network:

We want to uplift another upcoming action commemorating the 75th anniversary of Al Nakba which will be taking place on May 13th at 12pm. We will be gathering at the North Lawn in Cal Anderson Park for a community gathering, rally and march. Join us to honor 75 years of resistance against the Zionist occupation of Palestine! (See flyer below)
If you have any interest in joining Samidoun Seattle and would like to learn more about that process-please fill out this form!
P.S: For those who want to support the upcoming Nakba 75 rally, we’d also like to invite you to our prop making party on May 6 at UW Hub, 12 PM! We’ll make some signs and banners, hang out, and eat!
Stay Connected! Follow up on Instagram @SamidounSeattle!

**Any future emails received by Samidoun Seattle will come from Seattle@Samidoun.net (please add this address to your contact list so that it doesn’t go into spam).

Middle East Peace Camp: Family Picnic and Activities
2023-08-13 10:30 - 14:30 | Ravenna Park, 2000 NE 58th Street, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Dear Peace Camp Community,

We are excited to announce that we have been invited to hold our activities at ArabFest which is held at the Seattle Center Armory.

Schedule of Events:

11 am Morning Circle with Mary K,
(meet at ARMORY STAGE) followed by camp activities
12:30 – 1:30 Picnic Lunch
(bring your food, or buy from ArabFest vendors or Seattle Center restaurants.)
1:30 -2:30 Camp activities for children, Adult discussion on MEPC future.
2:30 Wrap up of MEPC activities. All are welcome to stay and enjoy ArabFest

Please come at 10:30 am -we will have camp activities – then we can start on time at 11 am.

Masks are strongly recommended for indoor activities.

Directions to our new location:
https://www.seattlecenter.com/explore/attractions/armory

Questions? Email Sara Lerner sjlerner@gmail.com

*Please note, our dream is to return to a more in-depth camp experience for summer 2024, possibly a week-long camp like summers in the past! We are asking for a new crop of volunteers to carry the torch into the years to come, perhaps parents of current young campers. As the generations grow, we need a new generation of camp planners and organizers, too! Do not hesitate to reach out if this sparks your interest at all! Email Sara at sjlerner@gmail.com.

With love,
MEPC Leadership
MEPC is a project of Kadima, co-founded with the Arab Center of Washington and Kay Bullitt.

Palestine 101 and Intro to Organizing
2023-10-09 08:00 - 17:00 | University of Washington – Thomson Hall, 1911 Skagit Lane, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Join us on October 9th in Thomson Hall (rm. 135) to learn about the ongoing Nakba, imperialism today, and how to get organized within the movement. Play Kahoot, win some merch and enjoy some snacks with fellow comrades!

RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/uwpalestine101

Rally For Palestine
2023-10-12 12:00 - 14:00 | WA
UW STUDENTS RALLY THIS THURSDAY FOR PALESTINE:
STUDENTS, WORKERS AND COMMUNITY WELCOME
Bring banners, kuffiyahs, flags, posters, signs, and spread the word!
THURSDAY, OCT. 12, NOON
Meet at Red Square

All out for Palestine: Rally for Return
2023-10-14 13:00 - 15:00 | WA
Saturday | 1pm | Westlake Park, Seattle
All out for Palestine: Rally for Return

Join us Saturday to stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine i…
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Saturday | 1pm | Westlake Park, Seattle
All out for Palestine: Rally for Return

Join us Saturday to stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine in their struggle for freedom from the chains of Zionism!

Please bring signs, flags, and dress for the weather
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Join us on Saturday to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their fight for freedom from Zionism!

Please bring signs, flags and weather appropriate clothing

Community Vigil
2023-10-19 18:30 - 20:00 | WA

Vigil and March
2023-10-21 15:00 - 17:00 | WA

Palestine: "Women and Children" and the Politics of Appeal
2023-10-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Virtual
Part of the Until Liberation: A Series for Palestine collection
Join this broadcast for the lecture on Palestine justice by Mohammed El-Kurd cancelled by the University of Vermont.

PAMA Fundraiser for Gaza Hospitals
2023-10-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Muslim Assocation of Puget Sounds (MAPS), 17550 NE 67th Ct, Redmond, WA, 98052, United States
Come donate to send medical supplies to hospitals in Gaza.
Or donate now: https://palestinian-ama.org
Dinner included

Protest for Palestine: Westlake Center
2023-10-28 15:00 - 16:30 | Westlake Center, 400 Pine Street, Seattle, WA, 98033, United States
On Saturday we will once again march with all of our community in solidarity with the Palestinian people. For more information on both of these actions see below. For future updates on all upcoming Seattle for Palestine actions and events join our WhatsApp announcement group tinyurl.com/seattlepalupdates

Gathering and Webinar: Violations of International Humanitarian Law
2023-11-02 18:30 - 20:00 | WA
On Thursday 11/2 we will join with @bayanseattle @samidounseattle and allies to hold a gathering (and webinar) from 6:30-8:00 PST discussing these violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), especially urgent as we have now lost contact with those on the ground in Gaza.
✉️ We are calling for sign-on support to a letter from Labor for Palestine to cease the genocide in Gaza now, as well as a letter to US Congress denouncing the extrajudicial killing of Jude Fernandez (both sign-ons are linked in event registration).
The 11/2 gathering will be held at MPOP x CID Coalition Worker Center, with remote webinar access also available; registration and letter sign-on info available here: tinyurl.com/humanrightsunderattack

On October 3rd, Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) released an urgent update on the brutal killing of Jude Fernandez, a Filipino labor leader who spent his time organizing workers to campaign for higher wages and better working conditions. Jude Fernandez started labor organizing during the era of Martial Law under Marcos Sr. and had continued the work until now.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) who perpetrated the murder, claimed that Jude attempted to fight back in an attempt to justify the killing, despite him being an unarmed unionist. This is the 72nd labor-related killing in the Philippines since 2016 and the fourth within this year of 2023, by paramilitary units funded by the United States. We view these attacks as not just against one person, but the whole of the Philippine labor movement, and of the international labor movement.
US funding and support for attacks against the people is not isolated to the Philippines, as we have continued to see with the most recent bombings on the Palestinian people. The Biden administration has continued to express support for the apartheid state of Israel, despite their campaign of genocide against civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, dropping 6,000 bombs between October 7th and October 12th, the use of White Phosphorous bombs against populated areas, as well as en masse “terror-tagging” and continued bombings of civilians and evacuation routes.

March on Washington (State)
2023-11-04 12:00 - 14:00 | WA
UPCOMING ACTION: March in Olympia, Washington
Saturday, November 4th @ 12pm 🇵🇸 Washington State Capital.
Join us in demanding an end to the genocide‼️
SHARE widely!!🇵🇸🇵🇸
