Workshop #2: Strategies for Change in Your School
With Special Guests:
Merrie Nijimy, Lebanese American, former President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and co-founder of MTA Rank and File for Palestine.
Colette Cavanagh, education director for the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
Laura Pinho, high school dance teacher and supervisor of an SJP club in Los Angeles.
Strategies for Change in Your School will look at how to establish Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) clubs and incorporate Palestinian culture--poetry, art, music, dance--into curriculum.
Homework: Grab our Workshhop #2 Study Prompts!
And more resources:
- Dabkeh, Traditional Dance in Palestine - UNESCO
- History, Types, Technique, Costumes & More
- Young Palestinians Speak Living Under Occupation By Anthony Robinson & Annemarie Young
- Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History By Nur Masalha
- Teaching Palestine Lessons, Stories, Voices Edited by Bill Bigelow, Jesse Hagopian, Suzanna Kassouf, Adam Sanchez, and Samia Shoman
- Understanding Palestine & Israel by Phyllis Bennis
- Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation By Sim Kern
- Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba Edited by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro
- Palestine Mapped From the River to the Sea in Early Geographic Thought By Thomas Suárez