Study Circles
SALAM Study Circles are geared towards collective study. We mostly read relevant texts together, and have also hosted film screenings and had movement organizers and academics join us for these sessions. Study Circles are usually held on a biweekly schedule, with sessions hosted in a hybrid format—in person in New York City and accessible by videoconferencing.
Palestine
Sunday, October 29th at 3 pm ET
Required
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History
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Framing
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"The Palestinians' inalienable right to resist," Louis Allday (2021).
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Terrorism, Theirs, and Ours - Eqbal Ahmad (p. 10-19) (1998).
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BISR Reading (will be sent out later)
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Primary Source (2017) (will be discussed at study circle)
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Contemporary moment
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Recommended*
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"Distorting Hamas’s Origins: A Response to Mehdi Hasan," Raja Abdulhaq (2018).
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"What Anti-Semitism is And What It Is Not," Mark Tseng-Putterman and Donna Nevel (2019).
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"Rejecting Victimhood, The Case For Palestinian Resistance," Rana Baker (2014).
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"On Mourning and Statehood," Gabriel Winant (2023).
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BDS 101 - Decolonize Palestine.
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Apartheid-Hafrada comparison, Visualizing Palestine (images)
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Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, Fayez Sayegh (1965).
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Concerning Violence, The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon (1961).
Climate Justice
Sunday, Oct 15th
Deepening our analysis and evaluating organizing strategies for climate justice.
Readings:
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Mike Davis, Chapter 9: “The Origins of the Third World” in Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World (2009);
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Naveeda Khan, Chapter 1: How to COP in In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South (2023);
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Christos Zografos, The contradictions of Green New Deals: green sacrifice and colonialism (2022).
Sunday, Oct. 1
Following up on NYC Climate Week, we read about strategies for addressing climate change and about reparations
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Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything, Chapter 2: ““How Free Market Fundamentalism Helped Overheat the Planet”
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Olufemi Taiwo, Reconsidering Reparations, Chapter 2: “Reconsidering World History” & Chapter 5: “What’s Next: Why Reparations Require Climate Justice”
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Ashim Roy, Benny Kuruvilla, Ankit Bhardwaj, Energy and Climate Change: A Just Transition for Indian Labour
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