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The lecture makes a comparative analysis of the European colonization of North America and Palestine, the systems of occupation and apartheid used by colonial states and the forms of anti-colonial struggle employed by resistant indigenous populations.

About the Speaker

Gord Hill is an Indigenous writer, artist and activist of the Kwakwaka'wakw nation. He is the author and illustrator of , , and (all three published by Arsenal Pulp Press in Vancouver, Canada), as well as the author of the book , published by AK Press in Oakland, California. His art and writings have also been published in numerous periodicals, including Briarpatch, Canadian Dimension, Redwire, Red Rising Magazine, The Dominion, Recherches Amerindiennes au Quebec, Intotemak, Seattle Weekly, and Broken Pencil.

The labour movement was built internationally with the idea of an injury to one being an injury to all. Building unions and fighting collectively for workers鈥� rights has been integral to the fight for a just society throughout the existence of capitalism. This has required the rank and file of the labour movement to push back against racial, gender, ethnic, and national divisions. It has required understanding that the fight against oppression is important in itself, and that oppression in any form is poisonous to the solidarity that is indispensable to successfully fight back against the capitalist class and the elite to win victories for the rest of us.

Racism, and anti-Black racism in particular, has been a prized tool of the capitalist class in the United States and North America in their efforts to divide working people and exploit them. In fighting back, radical Black, white, and immigrant workers and socialists played a decisive role in educating their fellow workers and the wider working class, putting forward strategies based in class-struggle unionism, and demonstrating the self-sacrifice needed for such movements.

Today, you can easily find many elected officials, especially in supposedly progressive parties, who say that they are against racism and sexism and other forms of oppression. However, 鈥減rogressive鈥� politicians use their platform neither to expose the overtly corporate and right-wing elected officials nor to call for and help build grassroots rallies or actions that can activate ordinary working people. Instead, they will do the bidding of big business, defend the status quo, and become strike-breakers. The entire multiracial, multi-gender working class needs leaders who will adopt a fighting approach 鈥� we need politicians who will fight alongside the working class.

About the speaker

Kshama Sawant is the first elected socialist in Seattle in nearly a century. She was first elected to the Seattle City Council in 2013, running openly as a member of Socialist Alternative, long before Bernie Sanders and AOC were household names. She is currently the longest-serving sitting Seattle Councilmember. Kshama only accepts the average worker鈥檚 wage, and after taxes, donates the rest of her six-figure City Council salary to a for worker organizing and social movements.

When much of the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Robyn Maynard, influential author of "Policing Black Lives," and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, award-winning author of several books, including the recent novel "Noopiming," began writing each other letters鈥攁 gesture sparked by friendship and solidarity, and by a desire for kinship and connection in a world shattering under the intersecting crises of pandemic, police killings, and climate catastrophe. Their letters soon grew into a powerful exchange on the subject of where we go from here.

"Rehearsals" is a captivating book, part debate, part dialogue, part lively and detailed familial between two razor-sharp writers convening on what it means to get free as the world spins into some new orbit. In a genre-defying exchange, the authors collectively envision the possibilities for more liberatory futures during a historic year of Indigenous land defense, prison strikes, and global Black-led rebellions against policing. By articulating to each other Black and Indigenous perspectives on our unprecedented here and now, and the long-disavowed histories of slavery and colonization that have brought us to this moment in the first place, Maynard and Simpson create something new: a vital demand for a different way forward, and a poetic call to dream up new ways of ordering earthly life.

About the speaker

 is an author and scholar based in Toronto, where she holds the position of Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms in Canada at the University of Toronto-Scarborough in the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies. She is the author of Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present (Fernwood 2017). The book is a national bestseller, designated as one of the 鈥渂est 100 books of 2017鈥� by the Hill Times, listed in The Walrus鈥榮 鈥渂est books of 2018,鈥� shortlisted for an Atlantic Book Award, the Concordia University First Book Prize and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-fiction, and the winner of the 2017 Errol Sharpe Book Prize. Her most recent published work, co-authored with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, is titled . Maynard is the winner of the 鈥�2018 author of the year鈥� award by Montreal鈥檚 Black History Month and was nominated for Writer鈥檚 Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. She has published writing in the Washington Post, World Policy Journal, the Toronto Star, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Canadian Woman Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, Scholar & Feminist Journal, as well as an essay for Maisonneuve Magazine which was the 鈥渕ost-read essay of 2017鈥�. Her writing on borders,  policing, abolition and Black feminism is taught widely in universities across Canada and the United States, including her most recent peer-reviewed publication  published in TOPIA.