From the Favelas and Rural Brazil to Gaza: How militarism and greenwashing shape relations, resistance, and solidarity with Palestine in Brazil (Makan x TNI)
Join Makan & TNI’s joint upcoming online webinar that will provide an overview of Andressa Oliveira Soares’s article, “From the Favelas and Rural Brazil to Gaza: How militarism and greenwashing shape relations, resistance, and solidarity with Palestine in Brazil”, featured as a part of TNI’s Palestine Liberation Series. This session will:
- explore relations between Brazil and Israel, providing some historical context and setting out the countries’ military cooperation, agribusiness deals, oil trade, and diplomatic postures – especially in the past 20 years
- examine how resistance and solidarity with Palestine, specifically BDS, has developed in Brazil over the last decade.
- discuss the challenges currently faced in pro-Palestine solidarity, and how to overcome them, including priority targets and a promising path forward
The session will include a 1 hour talk and a Q&A. It will take place on Thursday 18th June, 6.30pm London time.
About Makan:
Makan is an independent, non-partisan organisation dedicated to intersectional learning. Our approach is grounded in a belief that education is a liberatory act that can lay the ground for structural change. Situating Palestine within the context of other human rights, social justice and global liberation movements, we work towards transformation by adopting educational approaches that capture the history of the Palestinian struggle and the realities on the ground. We aim to support advocates as part of a community that is not only well-informed, interconnected, and empowered, but passionately committed to cultivating a future for Palestinians built on freedom, justice, and dignity.
About TNI:
The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic, and sustainable planet. For over 50 years, TNI has served as a unique nexus between social movements, engaged scholars, and policymakers. TNI envisions a world of peace, equity and democracy on a sustainable planet brought about and sustained by an informed and engaged citizenry, and whose research uniquely combines a ‘big picture’ analysis with proposals and solutions that are both just and pragmatic. Our capacity to build long-term respectful mutual relationships with strategic social movements is helping put radical ideas into movement.