4th Floor Skyline Room

For Joyce Ajlouny, General Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker activist, and a Palestinian-American, life under occupation revealed the insufficiency of the current solidarity model, which too often perpetuates a savior complex, ignoring how our oppressions and liberations are intertwined.

AFSC staff see proof in their work every day: Palestine is not an isolated issue, but a critical front in a global battle for our collective humanity and democracies. They observe the same blueprint of dispossession used against Indigenous communities, the same tools of surveillance tested on Palestinians and deployed on Black and Brown communities in the U.S., and the same corporations profiting from militarization at the U.S.-Mexico border. For these front-line workers, this is not coincidence; they are the same systems. Joyce will detail her conviction that the only effective response is to move beyond solidarity and practice the co-liberation an interdependent world demands.

In honor of the United Nation's International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

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