SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Weekend Reading

Bana and her brother have lost loved ones and their home in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Photo: AFSC/Gaza 

Hi Friend,

To be displaced is one of the hardest experiences a human can endure. Over the past several months, AFSC has published the stories of some of the 1.9 million Palestinians who have been repeatedly displaced in their homeland amid the ongoing genocide. These are stories that have been largely absent from the mainstream narrative and deserve to be told. Recently, AFSC’s Firas Ramlawi met a young girl named Bana, who has faced immense loss and now lives in a tent in Khan Younis. Read more.

COMMUNITY HIGHLIGHTS 

Art and activism flourish in California’s Central Valley 

Earlier this summer, a group of young artists and activists concluded a transformative journey. AFSC’s Pan Valley Institute (PVI) wrapped up its 2023 ArteVism fellowship. The nine-month program “provides opportunities for youth to produce provocative programming that engages the community and paves the way for a more democratic and equitable region,” says PVI Director Myrna Martinez Nateras.  

JOIN OUR WEBINAR

Medical apartheid in Palestine (Sept. 17, 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT) 

Health care is a human right. But under the Israeli occupation, Palestinians have been deprived of access to even basic medicine, services, and treatment. Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza and the West Bank have deepened the crisis. To learn more about medical apartheid in Palestine, register for our next Apartheid-Free webinar featuring public health experts and activists Dr. Alice Rothchild and Yazid Barhoush.  

ANNIVERSARY

A history of the Attica uprising 

This week marks the 53rd anniversary of the start of the Attica Correctional Facility uprising. That’s when more than 2,000 people incarcerated in upstate New York took over the yard to protest inhumane conditions. They demanded freedom, wages, education access, medical care, and more. AFSC’s Akira Rose reminds us of that history and why we must work for a future without incarceration.  

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