Fighting Systems of Oppression: How Do Our Principles Guide Our Work for Justice?

Makan Director, Aimee Shalan,  will be joining educators and organisers that are doing powerful work for justice, locally, nationally, and globally–from resisting genocide to fighting for abolitionist futures.

We will discuss and learn from each other’s experiences about how the principles we hold dear help guide and shape our work for justice.

Speakers:

Welcome: Nina Mehta is a community educator and co-director of PARCEO, a community research, resource, and education center that partners with a range of groups and institutions to strengthen our collective work for justice.

Moderator: Morgan Bassichis is a writer and performer who has been a member of Jewish Voice for Peace-New York City since 2014. They co-edited the anti-zionist anthology Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah, published by Wendy’s Subway in 2023.

Ujju Aggarwal is an Assistant Professor at The New School. She brings a long history of working to build organizing for educational justice, immigrants’ rights, and abolition as well as projects at the intersection of arts and social justice, popular education, and adult literacy.

Nyle Fort is a minister, organizer, and scholar. He is currently an Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.

Darakshan Raja is the founding director of Muslims for Just Futures (MJF) where she manages the organization’s overall development, programming, administration, and strategic direction. She leads MJF’s national advocacy and movement-building efforts, local Chicago power-building programming, and DC Guaranteed Income Program.

Aimee Shalan is a British-Palestinian and Director of Makan, a not for profit organisation providing transformative education to strengthen the movement for Palestinian liberation.

Lesley Williams is a longtime advocate for Palestinian rights and for anti racism in local and municipal government and services.

Register here.