Makan

Palestinian Digital Rights, Genocide and Big Tech Accountability Talk with Amnesty & 7amleh
2024-10-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Moderated by Makan and anchored in 7amleh’s and Amnesty Tech’s critical work, this event will centre the necessity for organisers and human rights defenders to become educated on their digital rights one year into Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing apartheid regime. Providing both legal and research based expertise, speakers will unpack how Israel violates digital rights, with the complicity of big tech corporations such as META and Instagram, to spy on and punish human rights defenders globally, and will speak to advocacy and policy efforts offer practical steps on what activists can do to protect themselves and their advocacy efforts across digital platforms.
Where: Palestine House, 113 High Holborn, London, UK / In-person event

How to Talk About Palestine Workshop
2024-09-18 18:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
Sign up to our ‘How To Talk About Palestine Workshop’ to unpack common misconceptions you come across in the conversation on the Palestinian liberation struggle. In a safe discussion space, we will go through a variety of recurring talking points regularly heard in the media and the wider public conversation, and collectively analyse these arguments and how to respond to them.
Apply here.

Palestine and Intersectional Anti-Racism in Schools
2024-09-14 10:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
Sarona Bedwan, Makan’s Programmes manger will take part in this workshop on issues of race and racism surrounding Palestine. The workshop will examine the colonial connections between antisemitism, anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia, and discuss intersectional strategies for confronting these forms of prejudice in UK schools.
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How to Talk About Palestine with Queercircle
2024-08-28 18:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London)
This workshop helps participants hone their skills when talking about Palestine by offering communication tips on how to engage in such conversations, and by building participants’ confidence to know how to respond to various arguments. Through facilitating a safe discussion space, we go through a variety of recurring talking points regularly heard in the media and the wider public conversation, and we collectively analyse these arguments and how to respond to them.
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Reframing Palestine with Reform Jews for Justice
2024-08-22 20:30 - 22:00 (Europe/London)
In this training we delve into the key frameworks and concepts through which the Palestinian struggle can be understood, such as settler-colonialism, occupation, apartheid, peace process, Nakba, and more.
We will focus on providing grassroots organisers in the USA who are working with Reform Jews for Justice the ability to articulate the Nakba as a structure, not an event, understand the reality of Palestinian fragmentation, and how this a result of the continuing Nakba and to equip them with the educational tools needed to be able to practice meaningful solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation. The training will provide an overarching history of settler colonialism in Palestine, the Nakba and the limits and advantages of using the occupation and apartheid frameworks.
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How to talk about Palestine
2024-08-17 16:00 - 17:00, 2024-08-17 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London)
In this session you will be able to unpack what happens when conversations about Palestine close down. You will collectively unpack common misconceptions you come across in the conversation on the Palestinian liberation struggle.
The session will guide you through the building blocks of a storytelling process that lets you compellingly start the conversation where you intend to finish it. Bringing in the historical and political context so you can centre realities of displacement, dispossession, and the values of dignity, freedom and justice.
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How To Talk About Palestine Workshop
2024-07-16 18:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
Join our workshop to boost your confidence in discussing Palestine and improve your communications skills. Through facilitating a safe discussion space, we go through a variety of recurring talking points regularly heard in the media and the wider public conversation, and we collectively analyse these arguments and how to respond to them. To apply, click here.

Land, Water and Destruction: Israel's Ecocide in Palestine
2024-07-16 17:30 - 19:00 (Europe/London)
Makan’s Programmes Manager, Sarona Bedwan, will be a part of this panel discussion on the ecological consequences of the Israeli war and occupation. There will be discussion on the impact of the Palestinian environment and the climate crisis in the Middle East. In this event you’ll gain a deeper understanding on how the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and military governance of Palestine impacts water, land and other resources of Palestinians. For more information and to attend this event, click here.

Mobilizing for Gaza: Speaking Truth to Power
2024-05-22 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London)
In a time where misinformation, falsehoods, and outright lies are enabling death and destruction of epic proportions, it’s imperative that we seek, uplift, and learn from leaders that do the courageous work of speaking truth to power and guide others to follow suit. Makan Director, Aimee Shalan will be joining Inès Abdel Razek, Executive Director of the Palestinian Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD), and Anam Raheem, BuildPalestine’s Global Community Organizer to discuss how language, when used with intention and precision, is a powerful tool and vehicle for resistance.
Register for the event here.

Between the Local and Global: Palestine as Indigenous & anti-Imperialist Struggle' Online Workshop
2024-05-21 18:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
In this new interactive workshop, we examine the concepts of indigeneity and imperialism in relation to Palestine. Through growing our understanding of indigeneity and imperialism, participants will understand Palestine as a local Indigenous struggle for decolonisation, frame Palestine as part of a global anti-imperialist struggle, and explore how together these frameworks shape our demands and strategies.

As an organisation our primary focus is to work with student activists, trade unionists, social justice campaigners and journalists based in Britain & Ireland. We do also encourage applications from other individuals who are:

Active and engaged with Palestine outside Britain & Ireland
Involved with other social justice struggles/human rights struggles looking to start/get more involved in Palestine
Diaspora Palestinians and Palestinians based abroad or planning to study/work abroad.

Click here to apply.
*APPLICATION DEADLINE – Wednesday 15th May 2024, 12pm noon London time*

ESEA Green Lions: Palestine Solidarity & Climate Justice Teach-in
2024-05-12 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London)
Sarona Bedwan, Makan’s Programme Manager will be joining this Palestine solidarity and climate justice teach-in and presenting on the extractive ideology of political Zionism, how Israel uses the land to greenwash its land theft, and the exploitation and theft of natural resources by Israel in its settler colonial project.
The teach-in will feature other knowledgeable speakers who will shed light on how these two crucial movements are interconnected. Book your tickets here.

Film in Solidarity with Palestine
2024-04-27 15:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London)
Makan Director, Aimee Shalan, will be participating in the Open Documentary Festival by holding a talk on narrative reframing. The event itself will explore how filmmakers can work together to end institutional complicity with occupation and apartheid both within the industry and the world beyond. It will also discuss what Palestinians are calling on cultural workers to do, and what does meaningful solidarity can look like.
Book your ticket here.

Climate Justice Power Hour for Palestine
2024-04-18 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London)
We are teaming up with Tipping Point for Power Hours at 5pm every third Thursday of the month. Together we will provide overviews of different areas of Palestine’s history and its current struggles followed by taking collective action. Get informed, get inspired, and join us in a targeted actions to call for a permanent ceasefire, an end to the blockade on Gaza, and uplifting Palestinian calls for freedom and dignity. RSVP now and share this with people in your networks.

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Reframing Normal: Disability, Dehumanisation, and Solidarity with Palestine
2024-04-04 18:00 - 19:15 (Europe/London)
Makan and Diversity & Ability present: ‘Reframing Normal: Disability, Dehumanisation, and Solidarity with Palestine’. Join us as explore how disability and debility configure into the collective Palestinian experience, and how disability justice is at the core of Palestinian liberation, especially amidst the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip. Whether or not Palestinians self-identify as Disabled according to Western definitions, there is no doubt that all Palestinians, in Gaza and beyond, live under violent, debilitating conditions. Yet disability justice is rarely part of the mainstream conversation on Palestinian liberation. Equally, Western disability rights and inclusion frameworks don’t sufficiently meet the needs of the Palestinian people, often rendering conversations about Palestine and disability into depoliticised, humanitarian frameworks. In this context, what does useful, informed solidarity look like? How are decolonisation and disability justice related? What is a useful way to build frameworks and practices that anchor our understanding of Palestinian liberation in an anti-colonial disability politics?

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'Reframing Palestine' workshop
2024-03-28 17:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
Dive deep into understanding Palestine with our ‘Reframing Palestine’ training and explore crucial frameworks like settler-colonialism, occupation, resistance, and more that shape the Palestinian struggle. Our training will help you gain insights through historical analysis and conceptual exploration, unraveling the discourse surrounding Palestine.

Thinking about the future at a time of Nakba reoccurring
2024-03-27 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/London)
Makan Outreach & Programmes Manager, Saron Bedwan, will be a panel member at this event organised by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) to discuss how we can imagine a future in a time of genocide and ongoing Nakba. In the webinar, the speakers challenge the ongoing desecration of Palestinian lives and ponder Palestinian futurity beyond war rhetoric. They read Palestine as a praxis of wujud (presence) and memory-making that imagines liberation as a praxis of building bridges and taking place.
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Practicing Freedom in a Time of Crisis: Political Education, Movement Building and Accountability’ with Resist + Renew
2024-02-28 18:30 - 19:45 (Europe/London)
As genocide and ethnic cleansing continue to unfold in Palestine, everywhere around us a narrative war is taking place, while a campaign to silence voices calling for a ceasefire has gone into overdrive. The need to speak up for freedom, justice and equality has never been more acute or challenging. Friendships and working relationships are rupturing as a deep-set breach in values and beliefs is revealed, resulting in painful feelings of alienation and even betrayal with those close to us. In such a defining moment, we are starkly reminded not only of the importance and necessity of mobilising, but of the centrality of political education in working towards change.

In our first virtual talk of 2024, we aim to explore the fraught process of political education in our wider and immediate surroundings since October, and in movement-building at large. How can we guide each other through the necessary pain that arises with a developing political consciousness, of moving people from one political point of view to another? And how do we navigate the emotional and radically intimate terrains of trying to collectively learn to build a world rooted in a long-term vision of liberation?

Resist + Renew is a facilitation collective developing and holding participatory workshops, courses and spaces for groups working towards social justice and collective liberation.

The talk will be facilitated by Kelsey (they/them) from Resist + Renew. The speakers will include Sami (she/her) from R+R, and Aimee Shalan (she/her), Director of Makan.

Register for the talk here!
