DESCRIPTION
Sponsored by the International People's Tribunal on US Imperialism.
The NLG was a co-sponsor of the International People's Tribunal on US Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, Coercive Economic Measures. Following the verdict of the tribunal -- and the US-backed genocide in Gaza -- it is more urgent than ever to put that verdict into practice through both litigation and a popular campaign. This major panel will discuss the effects of sanctions in Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Palestine (with a particular focus on Gaza), Haiti, and nations around the world, as well as the resistance in these countries. It will also serve as a major launching and promotion point for the new campaign to involve Guild chapters, students, and a mass movement in confronting US imperialism through directly challenging sanctions and blockades.
SPEAKERS
Nina Farnia
Helyeh Doutaghi
Jeremy Miller
Eyad K
Masar Badil
DETAILS
DATE/TIME:
Friday November 1, 2024 6:30pm - 7:30pm CDT
LOCATION:
Virtual
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and Professor of Africana Studies and the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She is co- founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies. Noura is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival and a Board Member of Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights. In 2024, she served as the Co-Chair of an Independent Task Force on the Application of National Security Memorandum-20 to Israel, which submitted a report to the White House recommending suspending U.S. weapons transfers to Israel. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as national organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including "Gaza In Context" and "Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Her writings have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, Al Jazeera, and Boston Review. She is a frequent commentator on CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, the BBC, and NPR, among others. She has been awarded fellowships at Harvard Divinity School and Brown University’s Center for Middle East Studies. In 2022, she was selected as a Freedom Fellow by the Marguerite Casey Foundation.