Big Tech: Anti-Muslim Racism, Surveillance, and Violence in the 20 Years since 9/11 A Roundtable Discussion This Thursday, September 9 at 4PM ET Anti-Muslim racism and policing has been a facet of U.S. White supremacy since the dawn of the Atlantic slave trade. In the two decades following 9/11, anti-Muslim racism and state violence enacted on Muslims has been a core component of the U.S. security state and altered the very nature of surveillance and policing at home and abroad. And through it all, Big Tech has capitalized on war, incarceration, and violence enacted on Black and Brown bodies to amass power and substantial profit. Featuring: Fatema Ahmad: Fatema (she/hers) is the Executive Director at Muslim Justice League, where she leads MJL's efforts to dismantle the criminalization and policing of marginalized communities under national security pretexts. She joined as Deputy Director in 2017 and increased MJL's focus on organizing within and collaborating across impacted communities to resist and subvert surveillance. Fatema leads the national StopCVE network and organizes with local partners on abolitionist campaigns. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Political Research Associates. Linda Sarsour: Linda is an award-winning racial justice and civil rights activist, seasoned community organizer, mother of three, and a Palestinian Muslim American born and raised in Brooklyn. She is the former Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York, co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington, and co-founder of the first Muslim online organizing platform, MPower Change. Ramah Kudaimi: Ramah is Deputy Campaign Director of the Crescendo project at the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE), which focuses on corporate complicity in Islamophobia and anti-Muslim violence. She was previously the Deputy Director at the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, where for nine years she led and supported BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) campaigns in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. She has been a member of the National Committee of the War Resisters League and also organizes with the Syrian Solidarity Collective. Vanessa Taylor: Vanessa is a Minnesota-born and Philadelphia-based writer focusing on Black Muslim womanhood and technology. She is specifically interested in surveillance, Afrofuturism, and the revolutionary potential of fiction. She is the curator of NAZAR, an independent journalism project on surveillance, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Drinking Gourd, a Black Muslim literary magazine. Moderated by Dr. Koki Mendis. Register Now Recommended Reading for Thursday's Discussion: Muslim Community Resistance: Organizing & Advocacy in a Time of Struggle (2012) by P. Adem Carroll Terror Network or Lone Wolf?: Disparate Legal Treatment of Muslims and the Radical Right (2015) by Naomi Braine Law Enforcement Training and the Institutionalization of Islamophobia (2012) by P. Adem Carroll Homeland Security: Low-Intensity Conflict Targets Non-Citizens (2003) by Matthew N. Lyons Rac[e]ing Abroad: Exploring Racism in/and U.S. Foreign Policy (2003) by Nikhil Aziz Biden repealed the Muslim Ban. That’s nowhere near enough. (2021) by Ramah Kudaimi The (Anti) Black Ass Roots of America’s Islamophobia (2017) by Vanessa Taylor Stop Calling It Terrorism (2021) by ACRE: Action Center on Race and the Economy Fanning the Flames: How Big Tech, Wall Street, and Right-Wing Media Corporations Were Complicit in the Christchurch Mosque Shootings and Continue to Enable Anti-Muslim Violence and Bigotry (2019) by Saqib Bhatti, Molly Gott, and Jessica Quiason ‘I Helped Destroy People’ – A Profile of Former FBI Agent and Whistleblower Terry Albury (2021) by Janet Reitman Abolishing the War on Terror, Building Communities of Care Grassroots Policy Agenda (2021) by Justice for Muslims Collective, HEART Women & Girls, Vigilant Love, the Partnership to End Gendered Islamophobia, Project South, the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA), and the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) Political Research Associates | 1310 Broadway, Suite 201, Somerville, MA 02144 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice Sent by [email protected] powered by Try email marketing for free today!