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DESCRIPTION:When heavily militarized police in Ferguson, Missouri, confronted African 
 American protesters angry at the police murder of Mike Brown in 2014, 
 Palestinians watching events unfold from Gaza began sending tweets about 
 how to cope with the teargas filling the streets.\n\nSuch an act of 
 solidarity was more than a mere expression of support from people who, 
 though half a world away, know firsthand about state repression.  Police in 
 cities across the U.S. – including police in Ferguson and Baltimore – 
 have turned to Israel for training in how to deploy tactics honed in 
 suppressing the Palestinian struggle for justice.  The U.S. directly 
 supports Israel’s dispossession of the Palestinians – to the tune of 
 some $3 billion per year.\nMany of the issues facing the Black community in 
 the U.S. – police violence, job discrimination, poverty, and 
 environmental racism – are the same problems that Palestinians face.\n\nA 
 new generation of activists is forging ties of solidarity between the 
 struggles of Palestinians and African Americans – struggles for equal 
 rights, for dignity, for freedom.  This tour hopes to make a modest 
 contribution to this project – by unearthing the inspiring history of 
 Black/Palestinian solidarity and by making these lessons relevant for 
 present-day efforts seeking to transform the future.\n\nFeaturing\n\nAaron 
 Dixon is one of the co-founders of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther 
 Party, chronicled in his 2012 book 
 http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/My-People-Are-Rising. Dixon has since 
 founded Central House, a nonprofit that provides transitional housing for 
 youth, and was one of the co founders of the Cannon House, a senior 
 assisted-living facility. Aaron ran for US Senate on the Green Party ticket 
 in 2006.\n\nKhury Petersen-Smith co-authored, with Stanford alum Kristian 
 Davis Bailey, the influential 2015 Black Solidarity Statement with 
 Palestine, covered by Ebony and other outlets.  Khury is a member of the 
 International Socialist Organization and is active in Palestine solidarity 
 and anti-racist organizing.  He has written about the politics of Black 
 liberation for Jacobin Magazine and the International Socialist 
 Review.\n\nWael Elasady* is a Palestinian-Syrian activist living in 
 Portland.  He is a co-founder of Students United For Palestinian Equal 
 Rights at Portland State University and a member of the International 
 Socialist Organization.  He was co-host of One Land, Many Voices a 
 community radio show bringing the question of Palestine to the Portland 
 area.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/04/04/18784857.php
SUMMARY:Toward Justice: The Black/Palestine Solidarity Tour
LOCATION:Oakland Peace Center, Shelton Hall\n111 Fairmount Avenue, Oakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/04/04/18784857.php
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