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PRA launched it's newest webinar series Subverting State Violence last week with a roundtable conversation of experts and movement strategists on racism, surveillance, and state violence enacted on Muslims in the 20 years since 9/11.

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.
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Featuring:

Fatema Ahmad 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 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 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.

Moderated by Dr. Koki Mendis
Featured Reading on 9/11 from PRA:
From the Archives:

Stop Calling It Terrorism (2021) by ACRE: Action Center on Race and the Economy


‘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)

Up Next!

We will be continuing our roundtable discussion series on October 7 with
Far Right Alignment of County Sheriffs and the Violent Policing of Immigrant Communities
October 7, 2021 at 4PM ET