NEA Educators for Palestine
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From: NEA Educators for Palestine <nea4palestine@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Subject: Gaza: The A to Z of Educator Activism BDS from Anti-Apartheid to Anti-Zionism
Gaza: The A to Z of Educator Activism
BDS from Anti-Apartheid to Anti-Zionism
Join Educators for Palestine (National Education Association) for a teach-in on why Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) organizing is important for educators and their unions. With the National Black Lives Matter at School week around the corner, February 3-7, it’s important educators connect the issues of Black Lives Matter with the struggle for Palestinian liberation. We hope to see you for this important discussion!
When: Saturday February 1 at 10am pacific/1pm eastern
Where: Zoom Registration link
Shahinaz Geneid is a member of GENU-UAW (Northeastern graduate students union), HAW-UAW (Harvard adjunct faculty union), and UAW Labor for Palestine and Labor for Palestine; an organizing fellow with the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights; and an international human rights lawyer and social scientist. She draws on her lived experience as an Egyptian-American to inform her human rights work, whether in the region or in the diaspora, combining her legal and policy experience with her experience in research, writing, teaching, and organizing/activism to seek justice for individuals and communities in and from the region.
Jesse Hagopian is a Seattle-based educator, author of Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education, and the co-editor of Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices. His African ancestors were enslaved on plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana, and his Armenian great-grandfather survived the genocide perpetrated by Turkish Empire. Jesse is an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine, a founding member of Black Lives Matter at School, a member of Black for Palestine, and the Director of the Zinn Education Project’s Teaching for Black Lives campaign. In 2011, he participated in Eyewitness Palestine's first African Heritage delegation to Palestine/Israel with veterans of the Civil Right Movement.
David Letwin is a member of Rutgers Faculty for Justice in Palestine, a Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union (PTLFC AAUP-AFT) member, and a co-founder of Jews for Palestinian Right of Return.
Maura McMichael is an art teacher and member of the Oakland Education Association, OEA for Palestine, Bay Area Labor for Palestine and Educators for Palestine (NEA).
Isaac Watts is a member of the Massachusetts Teachers Association Rank and File for Palestine and Mass Artists for Palestine.
For additional information about some of our scheduled list of speakers, check out these links!
Shahinaz Geneid speaking on the Break the Bonds National Network: How Communities are Divesting from Israel Bonds
For more information about Educators for Palestine: https://linktr.ee/NEAforPalestine
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In solidarity always,
EdScholars4Palestine
EdScholars4Palestine@gmail.com