Dear friends & comrades,

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So, as you probably already know, we’re mid-way through releasing the first season of the Justice for Palestine Magandjin podcast. In the first three episodes (link), which we released last Sunday, we focused on the centrality of settler colonialism and Indigenous solidarity as a key way to understand both what’s happening in Palestine at the moment, and the forms of resistance that we’re seeing globally. In Episode 1.1 Genocide and Settler Colonialism, we tried to situate the current atrocities as part of a much longer, brutal history of Israeli colonisation, occupation, oppression and subjugation. In Episode 1.2 Zionism & White Supremacy, we looked more closely at the origins and functions of zionism as a modern political ideology purpose-built to legitimise colonial occupation. And then in Episode 1.3, Blackfulla Palestinian Solidarity, we listened back to a discussion between Dr. Amy McQuire, Dr. Jamal Nabulsi, Professor Chelsea Watego & Dr. Ramzy Baroud as they reflected on a long-standing and growing tradition of Indigenous solidarity with Palestine. We wrapped up that episode by reflecting on the power of global anti-colonial solidarities based, as Dr. Jamal Nabulsi put it, in the material fact and embodied practice of Indigenous sovereignty. 

In these next episodes, we pick up on this thread of emergent and long-standing solidarities with Palestine, and the lessons that the movement for Palestinian liberation offers all of us concerned with fighting against repression, occupation, coercion, and incarceration.

In Episode 1.4, Globalise the Intifada, we listen back to speeches from rallies and public meetings, to interviews and discussions, which help illuminate the intersecting genocidal systems of colonialism, capitalism and racism as they operate with life-destroying consequences in this moment. We open with reflections from First Nations organisers on this continent, drawing clear and incisive connections between the experiences and struggles on this continent, and those unfolding through unthinkable violence in Gaza. We then trace the connections being drawn through the Justice for Palestine movement as they criss-cross the globe, forging the possibilities for mass solidarity movements grounded in a deep understanding that colonialism cannot be ended until it is uprooted everywhere.

Then, in Episode 1.5, Palestine to the Pacific: Land Back & Climate Justice, we focus on understanding the connections between the unfolding genocide in Gaza and the crisis conditions of climate change. We attend to the long history of colonial occupation and capitalist expansion across the world, and the way that exploiting and destroying Indigenous knowledges, communities, kinship networks, ecosystems and lifeworlds has been crucial to managing the contradictions of capitalism. We also look at the ways that movements for climate justice and Palestinian liberation are working together to contest the destructive forces of colonialism, capitalism, racism, heteropatriarchy and white supremacy that are the root causes of the crisis conditions of the present.

As always, the purpose of this podcast is to inform and support active participation in the ongoing resistance against genocide in Palestine - the co-learning we hope this living archive contributes to is learning in, from and for the struggle. These are not lessons to passively hold, they are to be carried with us, put in motion, practiced, folded into our lives. We know not all sites/tools/techniques of struggle are accessible to all of us, all of time, but the movement for justice for Palestine and Palestinians exists on so many fronts, and needs so many kinds of contributions, that there are ways for us all to be involved.

And it’s crucial that we keep coming together: to keep learning new ways to organise and resist, to keep practicing and honouring the old ways, passed across generations; to keep up our momentum; to keep demanding more for each other; and to keep sustaining ourselves and our communities for the struggles we face on every horizon.

Some upcoming events:

TUESDAY 19TH MARCH, 6:30PM-8PM AEST (7:30PM-9PM AEDT) Online Working Bee for Palestine. This event, hosted by the resistance, explores ways we can take action in solidarity with Palestine from home, and offers support around emailing politicians, checking super funds, purchasing e-Sims, amplifying Palestinian voices, and staying connected. A great one for those of us who can’t make it to in person events. Free event, register here so you get the zoom link!

SATURDAY 23RD MARCH, 7PM Palestine Fundraiser for Union Aid Abroad - Gaza Emergency Appeal 2024 with Phil Monsour - 41 Peel St, South Brisbane. This fundraising event will feature stories and songs by Phil Monsour. Tickets here.

SUNDAY 24TH MARCH, 3PM-5PM Palm Sunday Rally for Peace and Refugees - King George Square, brisbane CBD. Join this year’s Palm Sunday Rally and raise your voice to demand a ceasefire in Palestine now, reinstatement of UNRWA funding, permanent visas for all refugees, and to refuse the AUKUS military alliance, and nuclear subs.

Please get in touch with us if you’re interested in getting involved but not sure where to begin.

Finally, if you’d like to use any of the materials shared in this podcast in your own projects, please reach out via the Substack or via email (radio.reversal@gmail.com).

Yours in solidarity,

Anna and Nat for the Radio Reversal Collective

P.S The LANDBACK tile for this post is from the incredible Matt Chun, who generously made these illustrations available to the Justice for Palestine movements around the country.

You can follow and support Matt’s brilliant work here: https://mattchun.com/

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