Zine Release! MASK UP, WE NEED YOU: Palestinian Solidarity, Covid-19, and the Struggle for Liberation
📚 Come get a copy at our release this THURSDAY, May 9th from 6-8pm!
Please join me and Sheyam Ghieth for the release of our new zine, MASK UP, WE NEED YOU, this Thursday from 6-8pm at the SWANA Rose Culture and Community Center!
📍 SWANA Rose Cultural and Community Center: 2942 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Portland, OR
⏰ 6-8pm
😷 Masks required! More access info here.
💸 Bring cash to help us fundraise for a Gazan family!
At the release, we'll have free zines to share (and also some to sell by donation for Reem's family to escape the genocide!), we'll read a little from the zine and answer questions about the project, and we'll end with open-ended discussion time for attendees to make connections and have conversations!
We think it will be great, and we'd love if you'd join us 🧡
If you can’t make it or you’re not local, look out for a fully-digital version of the event we plan to host later this month!
About the zine:
MASK UP, WE NEED YOU is a 40-page illustrated primer for those who consider themselves co-strugglers for Palestinian liberation, yet may not understand the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic as both a genocide in itself, and a tool of genocide that perpetuates all others.
What if we told you there was a tangible way you could refuse to take on the empire’s deadly work, every day?
Drawing connections between the underlying forces of eugenics, capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism, the zine is organized into the following chapters:
🧐 “I Know People Are Dying Each Day”
⚠️ Covid Never Ended
🦠 Not Just a Virus, But a Disease: Covid’s Cumulative Damage
💰 An Economy of Death
🚫 Refuse Eugenics
🕊️ Free Them All: On Palestinian Political Prisoners
😷 Masks Offer the Most Effective Means of Protection, Resistance, and Solidarity
❤️🔥 Provide and Require Masks for Our Liberated Future
🌍 A Mask is a Beacon of Global Solidarity
🛠️ Skill-Up Your Covid Knowledge and Protocols
As we build our liberated future, this zine is a call to action and collective consciousness to notice the connections that the empire desperately does not want us to see!
🥰 Come to our zine release if you’re an organizer! Bring your comrades! Bring your pod! Come if you’re curious why solidarity with Palestinian liberation requires us to take to the streets with masks on! Come if you’re skeptical about why our actions HERE (in the imperial core!) materially impact the spread of viruses and disease in Gaza! Come if you want to meet a friend! Come to learn something new!
And like I mentioned in my last email, it’s really important to keep supporting families in Gaza directly.!
It's really important to not stop pushing fundraisers, even as the Rafah crossing's been closed. Things could change any minute and families need the financial ability to escape or rebuild as soon as possible! Please share this printable document of fundraising families that Sheyam has connected to and find families to support!
with love and rage,
🧡 mo