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| Both of these events went very well. We had a small crowd for Yasmin Yablonko and Khaled Farrag at a private residence in Woodstock. The movie, "Valentino's Ghost" showed at the UU in Kingston and we had about 30 people who attended. |
Two events for the beginning of May
Taha attends vigil in Woodstock
Our friend, Taha, attends a vigil for Palestine in Woodstock on Apr 17, 2016.
Boycott! The Art of Economic Activism in POUGHKEEPSIE.
Mon,
Feb. 1-15, Boycott! The Art
of Economic Activism in
POUGHKEEPSIE. Exhibit open to
the public between Feb 1 and Mar 7 at
the Retreat and Second floor of
the College Center, Vassar
College, Raymond Ave. Students for
Justice in Palestine (SJP)
and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)
co-host this exhibition
highlighting diverse historical
boycott movements from the 1950s to
the present. Contact 845
876-7906
This show was extended two weeks and was very popular. The following month, the Vassar Student Association passed a resolution supporting BDS of Israeli products.
Over 40 people came out to hear Lillian Rosengarten
Talk and book signing by Lillian Rosengarten, author of
Survival and Conscience: From the Shadows of Nazi Germany
to the Jewish Boat to Gaza, from 7-8:30 at the Inquiring
Mind Bookstore, 200 Main St, Saugerties.
Wed, Feb. 3, at 6 pm, Inhumanist Biopolitics: How Palestine Matters
INHUMANIST BIOPOLITICS: HOW PALESTINE MATTERS. LECTURE BY PROFESSOR JASBIR PUAR
Rockefeller Hall 200-Auditorium
This lecture theorizes oscillating relations between disciplinary, pre-emptive, and increasingly prehensive forms of power that shape human and non-human materialities in Palestine. Calculation, computing, informational technologies, surveillance, and militarization are all facets of prehensive control. Further, the saturation of spatial and temporal stratum in Palestine demonstrates the use of technologies of measure to manufacture a "remote control" occupation, one that produces a different version of Israeli "home invasions" through the maiming and stunting of population. If Gaza, for example, is indeed the world's largest "open air prison" and an experimental lab for Israeli military apparatuses, infrastructural chaos, and metric manipulation, what kinds of fantasies (about power, about bodies, about resistance, about politics) are driving this project?
Jasbir K. Puar is Associate Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999 and an M.A. from the University of York, England, in Women’s Studies in 1993. She has written widely on South Asian disaporic cultural production in the U.S., U.K., and Trinidad; gay and lesbian tourism; terrorist studies; surveillance studies; bio and necropolitics; queer theory; disability and debilitation; theories of intersectionality, affect, and assemblage; animal studies and posthumanism; homonationalism, pinkwashing, and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Puar’s forthcoming monograph, States of Debility and Capacity (Duke University Press, 2016) takes up the relations between biopolitics, disability, and forms of active debilitation pivotal to the operations of war machines and racial capitalism. The book will be among the first to appear in a new book series, ANIMA, which she co-edits with Mel Chen (author of Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, Duke University Press, 2012).
Jasbir K. Puar is Associate Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999 and an M.A. from the University of York, England, in Women’s Studies in 1993. She has written widely on South Asian disaporic cultural production in the U.S., U.K., and Trinidad; gay and lesbian tourism; terrorist studies; surveillance studies; bio and necropolitics; queer theory; disability and debilitation; theories of intersectionality, affect, and assemblage; animal studies and posthumanism; homonationalism, pinkwashing, and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Puar’s forthcoming monograph, States of Debility and Capacity (Duke University Press, 2016) takes up the relations between biopolitics, disability, and forms of active debilitation pivotal to the operations of war machines and racial capitalism. The book will be among the first to appear in a new book series, ANIMA, which she co-edits with Mel Chen (author of Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, Duke University Press, 2012).
Vigils in support of refugees and against Islamophobia
Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and Jim Crow are all in the same category. As an immigrant nation, those in power have always tried to pit one group against another. Closing the boarder to Middle East refugees after our bombs have devastated so many countries there would bringing such discrimination to a national level.
MECR held vigils in Woodstock and Rhinebeck, and more are being planned.
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