PALESTINE: REPAIR & RETURN | Stories of Activism

This event will be a public conversation about activism and creativity. It will engage with activists in the UK and Palestine and ask what people in both contexts consider effective and inspiring. There will be a bias towards asking how art activity relates to furthering the movement for justice and liberation in Palestine. We will talk about building community, gatherings, meetings, posters, performances, direct action. Also about how far activism relates to sanity and mental health.

What is the nature of action? Are actions like the Flotilla and those carried out by Palestine Action similar to creative artworks? Can artworks and performances be considered as activism and an impact on the struggle for justice and liberation?

‘According to my observations and impressions of Palestinian people who participate in mature activism and planned acts of resistance to the occupation, that is, not the impulsive accidental actions of adolescents and children. I notice the following : such people are usually self confident, sincere, altruistic, and brave.They possess the intelligence and the sensitivity to feel the pain caused by oppression. Because of their characteristics, they see the occupation as the illness, not their reaction to it.’ Dr Samah Jabr, Head of the Mental Health Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

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