Chris Hedges: Resistance in Occupied Palestine

Please join KPFA Radio at First Congregational Church of Oakland on Thursday, May 29th at 7:00pm when we welcome Pulitzer-prize winning author Chris Hedges in celebration of the release of his most recent book, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine. This live, in-person event will be hosted by Law & Disorder’s Cat Brooks.

“An authoritative argument against the singularity of the conflict and an indictment of Western media narratives that present it as exceptional and beyond critique.”

—Publishers Weekly, starred review

With intimate and harrowing portraits of the human consequences of oppression, occupation, and violence experienced in Palestine today, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges issues a call to action urging us to bear witness and engage with the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

Hedges wrote the first section of the book when he was in Ramallah in July 2024, and he draws from his experience doing extensive reporting from the Middle East, including Gaza, for the New York Times.

A Genocide Foretold confronts the stark realities of life under siege in Gaza and the heroic effort ordinary Palestinians are waging to resist and survive. Weaving together personal stories, historical context, and unflinching journalism, Chris Hedges provides an intimate portrait of systemic oppression, occupation, and violence.

Chris Hedges is the former Pulitzer Prize–winning Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times. An Arabic speaker, he spent seven years covering the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, much of that time in Gaza. He is the author of 14 books. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He has also taught for over a decade in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University in the New Jersey Pr*son system. He holds a B.A. from Colgate University in English Literature and a Master of Divinity from Harvard University. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Cat Brooks is a community organizer, director, playwright, and actress. She is also the host of KPFA’s Law & Disorder. She’s the co-founder and executive director of the Anti Police-Terror Project whose mission is to eradicate police terror in communities of color. As an organizer, she played a central role in the struggle for justice for Oscar Grant, and has spent the last 17 years working with impacted communities and families to rapidly respond to police violence and radically transform the ways we define and implement public safety strategies. Cat was the runner-up in Oakland’s 2018 mayoral election, facing incumbent Libby Schaaf.

EVENT DETAILS:

Thursday, May 29 at 7:00pm

Chris Hedges in conversation with Cat Brooks book release of A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine

LOCATION: First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St, Oakland, CA 94612

TICKETS: $25.00 in advance / $30.00 at the door

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