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Social Work, Abolition, and Palestine

Join us for a discussion of the need to center Palestine liberation as a transnational and abolitionist social work issue. Join Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, PhD, Suhad Tabahi, PhD, and Stéphanie Wahab, PhD for an abolitionist discussion concerning the criminalization of Palestinians, dead and alive, in Palestine. Drs. Shalhoub-Kevorkian and Tabahi will offer a critical analysis of the current political moment, exposing the ways settler colonial criminalization operates to uproot, dispossess, dismember, and further oppress Palestinians. They will also address the ethical concerns and moral imperatives for disrupting settler colonial violence enacted through criminalization, alongside the need to center Palestinian voices, epistemics, and practices within Palestinian liberation and solidarity work. Why Palestine matters and the intersectional struggle for justice and human rights will also be addressed. Speakers: Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a Palestinian feminist, is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Global Chair in Law- Queen Mary University of London. Her scholarship focuses on knowledge production in relation to accumulative trauma, state criminality, surveillance, gender violence, and law and society. Author of: Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case Study, Security Theology; Surveillance and the Politics of Fear; Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding; co-edited volumes Engaged students in conflict zones, community-engaged courses in Israel as a vehicle for change; When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism; and is currently finalizing The Cunning of Gender Violence. Suhad Tabahi is a proud first generation Palestinian American. She currently serves as Director and Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Dominican University, Illinois. She received her Masters from the University of Chicago in Social Service Administration and her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago ( UIC). Her research focuses on anti- Muslim racism/ Islamophobia, International Social Work and Palestine, decolonizing social work curriculum, Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in the Muslim community, and immigrant and refugees’ experiences and the role of transnationalism. She currently uses photovoice as a method of understanding the lived experiences of the Palestinian/Arab and Latinx communities navigating a post- Trump U.S. in the times of COVID. She has over 15 years’ experience in working with minoritized populations across the Chicagoland area. She teaches across the curriculum in areas of practice, policy, research, and diversity. This event is sponsored by the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work (NAASW), Social Workers for Palestine, and Haymarket Books. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/K2F0ZszqLb0 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

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February 24th marked the fourth anniversary of Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine. Right now, it is bombing the country’s energy system, cutting off heat and electricity for millions in the depths of a bitterly cold winter. At the same time, the Trump administration is trying to bully Ukraine into a land for peace settlement that rewards Putin’s aggression and, with the willing collaboration of Ukraine’s oligarchs, puts the country up for sale to Western multinationals. Join this webinar to hear about Ukraine’s struggle.

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We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities

Join editors and contributors of We Are Each Other's Liberation, a major anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarities between Black and Asian feminists.

A collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, We Are Each Other's Liberation envisions a cross-racial and internationalist politics that explicitly addresses solidarity between Black and Asian feminists. Bringing together organizers, artists, journalists, poets, novelists, and more, this collection introduces readers to new ways of understanding and reflecting on race and feminism.

Drawing out lessons from the revolutionary work of movement forebearers—including the Combahee River Collective, Claudia Jones, Grace Lee Boggs, Yuri Kochiyama, and Third World Women’s Alliance as well as struggles today—We Are Each Other’s Liberation offers an urgent call for the just future we might build together.

Get a copy of We Are Each Other's Liberation from Haymarket: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2519-we-are-each-other-s-liberation

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Rachel Kuo is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and cofounder of the Asian American Feminist Collective, which engages intersectional feminist politics grounded within Asian diasporic communities.

Jaimee A. Swift is the creator and executive director of Black Women Radicals, dedicated to uplifting and centering Black women and gender-expansive people’s radical activism in Africa and in the African diaspora.

TD Tso is a feminist writer, editor, cultural organizer, and cofounder of the Asian American Feminist Collective.

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