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Black-Palestinian solidarity is neither a guarantee nor a requirement - it is a choice. We choose to build with one another in a shoulder to shoulder struggle against state-sanctioned violence. A violence that is manifest in the speed of bullets and batons and tear gas that pierce our bodies. One that is latent in the edifice of law and concrete that work together to, physically and figuratively, cage us. We choose to join one another in resistance not because our struggles are the same but because we each struggle against the formidable forces of structural racism and the carceral and lethal technologies deployed to maintain them. This video intends to interrupt that process – to assert our humanity – and to stand together in an affirmation of life and a commitment to resistance. From Ferguson to Gaza, from Baltimore to Jerusalem, from Charleston to Bethlehem, we will be free.
Over 60 leading Black and Palestinian artists and activists affirm Black-Palestinian solidarity in our new video for Black-Palestinian Solidarity. Featuring Ms. Lauryn Hill, Danny Glover, DAM, Omar Barghouti, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Yousef Erakat, Annemarie Jacir, Boots Riley, Dr. Cornel West, and many others. o-sponsored by Quilting Point.
DC Palestinian Film + Arts Festival
Nehad Khader, Gabriella Kaiyal-Smith, Zakiyyah Jackson, Alicia Criado, Nisreen Zaquot, Ahmed Zaqout, Nour Joudah, Sara Choufi, Lena Ghannam, Musaab Balchi, Raymar Hampshire, Huda Asfour, and Cordaye Ogletree
Angela Davis
Noura Erakat
Danny Glover
Lauryn Hill
Alice Walker
Producer:
Noura Erakat
Script writers:
Mari Morales-Williams, Remi Kanazi and Kristian Davis Bailey
Narrators:
Umi Selah, Dina Omar, Samantha Masters, and Remi Kanazi
Sponsoring Organizations:
Dream Defenders, Black Youth Project 100, DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival, Arab Studies Institute - Quilting Point Productions and Jewish Voice for Peace. Produced with assistance from the Institute for Middle East Understanding.
Video Participants:
Danny Glover is an accomplished actor, film director, humanitarian and political activist.
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney, activist, and Assistant Professor at George Mason University.
Rasmea Odeh is a Chicago-based community organizer and the associate director of the Arab American Action Network.
Sapphire is a performance poet and the author of the critically acclaimed novel Push.
Yousef Erakat is a YouTube sensation better known as FouseyTube whose work earned him the Best Show of the Year at VH1’s The Streamy Awards.
Ms. Lauryn Hill is an award-winning singer, songwriter, rapper, producer, and actress.
Fred Wreck is a renowned musician, record producer, and social justice advocate.
Cornel West is a philosopher, academic, activist, author, and public intellectual.
Angela Davis is a prominent prison abolitionist, political activist, scholar, and author.
DAM are a crew of accomplished lyrists and musicians who make up Palestine’s first hip hop group.
Donna Murch is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and an award-winning author.
Tahani Salah is a performer, poet, organizer, educator and activist from Brooklyn.
Linda Sarsour is a Brooklyn-based organizer, civil rights activist, and a media commentator.
Robin D.G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA and an award-winning author.
Mariam Abu Khaled is a West Bank based actor and filmmaker.
LisaGay Hamilton is a critically acclaimed film, television, and theater actress.
DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival: Nehad Khader, Gabriella Kaiyal-Smith, Zakiyyah Jackson, Alicia Criado, Nisreen Zaquot, Ahmed Zaqout, Nour Joudah, Sara Choufi, Lena Ghannam, Musaab Balchi, Raymar Hampshire, Huda Asfour, and Cordaye Ogletree
Tajai Massey is an Oakland-based rapper and one of the founding members of Souls of Mischief.
Diana Buttu is a Ramallah-based analyst and a former legal advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Dream Hampton is a cultural critic, award-winning filmmaker, writer, and social justice organizer.
Hamza Saftawi is an independent reporter and writer based in Gaza.
Dream Defenders: Steven Pargett, Jonel Edwards, Sherika Shaw, Umi Selah, Curtis Hierro and Ahmad N. Abuznaid.
Amer Shomali is an animator, designer, and filmmaker best known for his work, The Wanted 18.
Mari Morales-Williams is an educator, activist, writer, and member of BYP 100.
Deema Alsaafin is a student and writer based in the occupied West Bank.
Shatha Hammad is a student based in the occupied West Bank and participant in the US Right2Education tour.
Aja Monet is a contemporary poet, writer, lyricist, activist and Nuyorican Poets Café Grand Slam Champion.
Annemarie Jacir is an award-winning filmmaker, poet, and journalist.
Remi Kanazi is a poet, editor, and organizer based in New York City.
Sandra Tamari is an organizer with the St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee and a Steering Committee of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.
Suhad Khatib is an organizer with the St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee
Baha Men are a Grammy Award-winning Bahamian world music band.
Boots Riley is a rapper, organizer, lecturer, and lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club.
Sherene Seikaly is a historian, the editor as the Arab Studies Journal, and co-founder of Jadaliyya.
Omar Barghouti is a Palestinian human rights activist and a co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
Kristian Davis Bailey is a journalist, writer, and organizer based in Detroit.
Rafeef Ziadah is a performance poet and activist based in London.
Rashid Khalidi is an author and the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University.
Alice Walker is a Pulitzer Prize winning author, poet, and activist.