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On Thu, 23 May 24 03:00:11 UTC, NefeshBarYochai <void@invalid.noy>
wrote:

>Two hundred days into the Zionist war of aggression on Gaza, the
>Palestinian struggle is in the midst of a critical conjuncture. For
>months, organizations in North America have been strengthening and
>leading a mass movement to advance the cause of Palestinian national
>liberation from within the imperial core. The popular and
>revolutionary character of the movement has been borne out by the
>millions marching in the streets, direct actions across all major
>cities, new and newly-energized sector-based organizing and campaigns,
>victories across ideological and media struggle, and most recently,
>student encampments demanding divestment in the universities and
>colleges. Through these developments, thousands of people have been
>brought into the struggle, moved to act by the depravity of the
>U.S.-led and -funded genocide and the moral clarity of Palestine’s
>resistance. 
>
>Amidst this mass movement, we have witnessed the martyrdom of over
>50,000 Palestinians, the destruction of the Gaza Strip, and a
>concerted effort by Zionism and Western imperialism to break
>Palestinian resistance and to sever our people from their lands. To
>live through an ongoing genocide has meant battling feelings of
>despair and confusion; while daunting, the task of committing
>ourselves to political clarity amidst these difficult conditions
>remains essential. 
>
>On October 18, 1975, the largest public gathering of Palestinians in
>the Zionist state since the nakba of 1947–49 took place in al-Nasra
>(Nazareth), aimed at confronting Zionist plans to confiscate Arab
>lands across the Galilee. This conference was associated with
>leadership of the uprisings now commemorated by Palestinians as “Land
>Day,” having produced many resolutions, laid the groundwork for a
>general strike, and established committees to implement its political
>goals. It is one node of many in a long history of Palestinians using
>conferences to concretize strategic objectives and consolidate on
>ideological questions, dating to the pre-nakba period: from the First
>Arab Women’s Congress in October 26, 1929, to the Youth Congresses in
>Jaffa on 4 December 1932, and in Haifa on 10 May 1935—all of which
>asserted opposition to British and Zionist colonization, and supported
>the Great Peasant Revolution of 1936–39. In moments of crisis and of
>revolution, Palestinians have turned to conferences in order to bring
>our people and movements together and to breathe conviction and
>political clarity into organizations and civil society.
>
>In honor of this tradition, from May 24–26, 2024, 14 convening
>organizations and over 300 endorsing organizations – including
>Palestinian organizations that have been leading the mass movement for
>Palestine in North America – will convene in Detroit, Michigan, for
>The People’s Conference for Palestine. A city that is no stranger to
>the depredations of American capitalism, Detroit has been a site of
>revolutionary struggle for decades, playing host to the League of
>Revolutionary Black Workers (and their participation in the historic
>National Black Economic Development Conference, first held in the city
>in April 1969), and to one of the largest settings of Arab diasporic
>life.
>
>
>The People’s Conference for Palestine appears at a juncture when the
>liberation struggle in Gaza has generated pockets of revolutionary
>energy all across the world. That call has been answered: in the labor
>movement, on the campuses, and in the streets, people are being
>politicized around Palestine and its attendant imperial contradictions
>at a rate heretofore unseen in the 21st century. The popular action of
>the last seven months has also posed important questions around
>consolidation, unity, scale, and structural form, particularly related
>to how the struggle builds on the existing mass mobilizations towards
>deeper organization. An organized movement is an effective movement,
>better able to politicize and maintain the gains in mass
>consciousness, to sustain the long-term relationships required for
>base building and advocacy, to protect against and resist state
>repression, and to coordinate across the different settings of
>struggle with scale and historical specificity.
>
>The question of organization is particularly important in light of the
>sustained attacks on the institutions of Palestinian social and
>political life, accelerated by a post-Oslo neoliberal period that has
>led to a collapse in the strength and militancy of the struggle in the
>West. These conditions are being readily challenged by a movement
>being rebuilt and led by politically-committed Palestinians, who have
>convened this conference alongside  journalists and aid workers in
>Gaza, activists from Palestine, anti-war movement elders, and student
>leaders in order to support each site of struggle in developing its
>own assessment of conditions and objectives. 
>
>The conference’s sessions, assemblies, and teach-ins will focus on
>building strong political organizations; confronting Zionism and
>imperialism in the heart of empire; advancing the ideological struggle
>through art, culture, media, and education; and supporting the student
>movement to continue to exert pressure inside and outside their
>campuses. Through its direct fundraising role of contributing all
>registration fees to Gaza, the conference has already raised over
>$100,000.00 USD, asserting that the Palestinian diaspora has a
>historic role to play in the national liberation struggle not only in
>the realm of political organization, but also with regards to
>supporting the steadfastness of our people – a concept known in Arabic
>as ta3ziz al sumud.
>
>These forms of struggle are critical not only for opposing the horrors
>of the ongoing genocide, but for the historic challenge of ending U.S.
>support for the Zionist project, lifting the siege on Gaza, and
>liberating Palestinian land and people until our return is achieved.
>We hope you will join us!
>
>Palestinian Youth Movement
>The Palestinian Youth Movement is a transnational, independent
>grassroots movement of young Palestinians and Arabs dedicated to the
>liberation of our homeland and people. We currently comprise of 15
>chapters across North America and Europe.
>
>https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/strengthening-our-movement-in-times-of-crisis-a-historic-task-of-the-palestinian-liberation-movement/
>