a guide to pandemic-safe action for Palestine 🇵🇸
virtual actions, online resources, and safer ways to show up 😷
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Contact your representatives. ☎️
Email Congress and demand they support the Ceasefire Now Resolution.
Call Congress and demand a ceasefire.
Join a virtual event. 🛜
Attend Centering Palestine: Covid Cautious Action for Palestine, weekly on Tuesdays at 5:00 PM PT / 8:00 PM ET.
Register for Jewish Voice for Peace’s Power Half-Hour for Gaza: Channel grief & fear into action to stop a genocide, every weekday Monday through Friday.
Organize and act. 👥
Participate in One Hour of Action.
Organize or join a COVID-safe action for Shut It Down for Palestine.
Take action with this Stop Gaza Genocide toolkit from US Campaign for Palestinian Rights.
Download the Palestinian Feminist Collective’s Palestine Digital Action Toolkit at bit.ly/PFCToolkit.
Download The Black and Palestinian Solidarity Organizing Toolkit from Dream Defenders.
Check the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement’s guide to what to boycott.
Support the boycott of literary organizations with the Writers4Palestine Resource Doc.
Visit Visualizing Palestine’s Action Toolkit and Resource Guide.
Explore resources and downloads from Queers in Palestine.
Explore these Ceasefire on Gaza Digital Resources.
Sign a letter or petition in solidarity. 💌
Please read anything you sign to make sure you are in agreement!
Read and reference this list of Principled Statements of Solidarity with Palestine.
Sign onto the Artists Against Apartheid letter.
Sign onto this Writers in Solidarity with Palestine letter.
Sign onto Writers Against the War on Gaza’s Statement of Solidarity.
Sign this petition to Demand NYU Protect Palestinian Speech and Divest from Israeli violence.
Read and sign this Open letter to progressives: The ADL is not an ally.
Share art and zines. 🎨
Download graphics to support Palestine from Justseeds’ free collection.
Download 100 posters from the Art Against Apartheid toolkit.
Download this "Queers, wake up! Free Palestine!" zine.
Download this What You Can Do For Palestine and Gaza DIY Mini Zine and add local resource information.
Explore The Black Zine Archive’s Zines and Resources on Palestinian Liberation & Protesting.
Connect with kids and families. 🖍️
Download this Ceasefire Now! Coloring Activity & Social Media Toolkit for kids, families, and communities.
Read The Books I Never Had as a Child: Palestinian Children’s Literature.
Download Handala’s Return: A Children’s Story and Workbook from The Palestinian Feminist Collective.
Visit Resources for Educators to Support a Free Palestine from Abolitionist Teaching Network.
Read.📚
Read The Gaza Monologues.
Visit DecolonizePalestine to learn more about Palestine.
Learn about Palestine through graphics with Visualizing Palestine 101.
Download Haymarket Books’ Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine.
Visit The Palestine Academy for information and resources.
Explore Solidarity with Palestine - A Radical Black Feminist Mandate: A Reading List.
Read from All the Walls Will Fall: 2023 Palestine Liberation Resource List.
Explore The Popular University of the Palestinian Youth Movement’s
Explore this Queer Solidarity with Palestine Resource Guide.
Read poetry from Palestinian poets from this Google Drive.
Protest safely. 😷
Read and share the People’s CDC’s Guide to More Accessible Protests (also on Instagram).
Use this COVID Advocacy Groups Directory to find a mask bloc in your area that can help provide masks for in-person events.
Read and share Equality Labs’ Anti-Doxing Guide for Activists Facing Attacks.
Watch and learn. 📺
Watch recordings of The Gaza Monologues presented by Theatre of the Oppressed NYC and NoorTheatre.
Watch free films through the Arab Film and Media Institute’s Palestinian Voices program through the end of the year.
Watch the recording of Black Women Radicals’ Black Feminist Writers and Palestine on YouTube.
Watch Haymarket Books’ Palestine: "Women and Children" and the Politics of Appeal on YouTube.
Watch Haymarket Books’ Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: Building Solidarity with Palestine on YouTube.
Art credit: Tina Orlandini for AgitArte - @orlandini (from Just Seeds).
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Sign up for Seeding Soverignty’s How to Organize a Gaza Solidarity Action Pod webinar on Monday, October 30th from 12:00 to 1:00 PM ET / 9:00 to 10:00 AM PT. The Zoom registration link is also here.
Register for Rising Majority’s Teach In: No to Genocide, No to War, Ceasefire Now! Call for Palestine on Monday, October 30th at 8:00 PM ET. More information on Instagram.
Sign up for Covid Safe Maryland’s Ceasefire Power Hour on Monday, October 30th and Wednesday, November 1st at 12:00 PM ET. More information on Instagram.
Register for the Palestinian Feminist Collective and California Faculty Association’s Palestine, Arab, Muslim Caucus Teach-In on Tuesday, October 31st on 12:00 to 2:00 PM PT. More information on Instagram.
Register for the online stream of The People’s Forum’s The Media War on Palestine with Mohammed El-Kurd on Tuesday, October 31st at 6:30 PM ET.
Register for Political Solidarity & Feminist Teach-ins: Palestinian Voices and Feminist Resistance on October 31st, November 2nd, and November 6th. More information on Instagram.
Sign up for Abolition Means No More War: FREE PALESTINE NOW! on November 1st from 4:00 to 5:30 PM ET.
Register for Teach-In on the Genocide in Palestine on November 1st at 6:00 PM ET.
Register for Filipinos for Palestine: National Teach-in on Thursday, November 2nd at 8:30 PM ET.
Reserve a spot for The Future is Us Collective’s Free Palestine Virtual Film Screening on Thursday, November 2nd at 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET.
Sign up for Jewish Voice for Peace’s New Jersey Statewide Power Hour on Sunday, November 5th at 5:00 PM ET.
Sign up for Asian Mental Health Collective’s Grieve Together: Emotional Processing for Those Affected by the Palestinian Genocide on November 6th at 9:00 PM ET. More information on Instagram.
Register for What's the Tea?: Understanding the intersections of Black & Palestinian Liberation Movements on Wednesday, November 8th at 6:30 PM ET.
Register for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: Building Solidarity with Palestine on Thursday, November 9th from 1:00 to 2:30 PM ET.
Submit art in support of Palestine to Arts Against Apartheid by October 29th.
Join Firefly Action Medical’s Free Palestine and Solidarity Protests Health and Safety Training on Friday, November 10th from 6:00 to 7:30 PM.
Sign up for Teach-In: The Architecture of Settler Colonialism in Palestine on November 11th at 12:00 PM ET.
Get tickets to A Cause for Every Revolutionary: Palestine & the Global Solidarity Movement on Tuesday, November 14th from 9:00 to 10:30 AM ET. This event is $0 to $25.
Sign up for Unlocking Our Voices: Writing Against Genocide on Thursday, November 9th and/or Tuesday, November 14th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET. More information on Instagram.
Register for Literary Palestine’s seminars: Gaza Writers on November 22nd at and Expressions of Exile on November 29th at 11:30 AM ET. These events are free.
Organize a reading of The Gaza Monologues on November 29th.
Join #ReadPalestine Week from November 29th to December 5th.
About Justin
Justin Clarel is a Black queer writer, performer, and educator creating vibrant stories for a better world. They are most proud of their work with sketch comedy team The Rhubarbs, original works for stage and screen, and love for musical theatre. Keep up with their adventures at @theeclarel and theeclarel.com.
