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Boycott Divestment Sanctions vs. Israeli Apartheid:

The Legacy of Mandela and King

A talk with Omar Barghouti

Featuring a panel discussion with

Lynette Jackson, Professor of African History and Gender and Women's Studies

Prexy Nesbitt, Making the Road, South Africa - US Delegations

Toussaint Losier, Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign

Lah Tere, Inner-City Queen Productions

Sunday February 26, 3:00pm

Experimental Station

6100 South Blackstone Avenue

International boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) efforts helped topple South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime. As awareness of the systemic use of apartheid by Israel continues to grow, Omar Barghouti presents a renewed call to action. In his new book, 'Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights', Omar Barghouti makes the case for a rights-based BDS campaign to stop Israel’s rapacious occupation, colonization, and apartheid against the Palestinian people. Since the time of W.E.B. Dubois, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, and Paul Robeson, Black Freedom Struggle activists and scholars have been linked and in solidarity with international struggles, especially the anti-apartheid movement of South Africa. Join us as we commemorate Black History Month and discuss the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela in the context of solidarity with the Palestinian people, and for a global civil society movement for freedom, justice, and equality for all.

Omar Barghouti is an independent commentator and human rights activist based in Ramallah.

He is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Palestinian Civil Society BDS campaign against Israel.

Hosted By:

Barbara Ransby, Standish E. Willis, Toussaint Losier, Lynette Jackson, Lisa Brock, Dara Cooper, Mia Henry, Cathy Cohen, Alice Kim, Harish Patel, Prexy Nesbitt, Tracy A. Matthews, Mariame Kaba, Fredrick Douglass Dixon, Adam Green, Haki Madhubuti, Phil Jackson, Cheryl Johnson Odim, Keeanga Taylor, Anna Guevarra, Mezna Qato, Paula Roderick, Michael Dawson, Basil Clunie, Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Lisa Lee, Mary Scott Boria, Jennifer Bing, Aisha Truss, Beth Richie, Michelle Lugalia-Hollon, Darlene Nava Munoz, Muhammad Sankari, Elce Redmond, Camille Odeh, Dima Khalidi, FMSupreme, Nancy Mansour, The Arab Jewish Partnership for Peace and Justice in the Middle East