No Child Behind Bars:

Living Resistance from US to Palestine

Tuesday, January 24th

6:30-8:30 pm

University Congregational United Church of Christ

4515 16th Ave. N.E., Seattle

Ahed Tamimi, Amanda Weatherspoon and Nadya Tannous will discuss the connections between state-sponsored violence, criminalization and incarceration of youth in the United States and Palestine. Speakers will highlight the intersectional nature of injustice to children, including detention practices in the U.S., which disproportionally impact children and youth of color. The tour goal is to spread awareness and highlight congressional, economic and educational opportunities for coalitions to mobilize around the common goal to fully realize children’s human rights. This event offers an opportunity to engage with prophetic voices of our time — national tour speakers and those in our own community — powered by distinctive and united visions and sharing a platform to mobilize for systemic change.

SPEAKERS

Fifteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi, from Nabi Saleh in the West Bank, has been detained by the Israeli army several times. She has personal experience describing her maltreatment, both as a child growing up under occupation and as a detainee. Ahed will speak by video from her home in Nabi Saleh in the Occupied West Bank.

Amanda Weatherspoon is a Unitarian Universalist (UU) minister with a focus in Africana Studies and Womanist Theology. She serves a congregation in Oakland, California, where her ministry is centered on collective liberation and cross-movement solidarity between oppressed peoples. She is passionately involved in collective organizing towards Black liberation. Having traveled to Palestine in 2015, Weatherspoon provides a strong foundational knowledge of the geopolitical terrain of Occupied Palestine, liberation movements in the United States, and the collective threads between them.

Nadya Tannous, a writer and organizer in the Bay Area, has researched the detention of Palestinian minors since 2013 and will provide additional insight into the realities Palestinian minors face within the Israeli detention system.

This national tour is sponsored by Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) and is supported by a diverse coalition of national and local cosponsors, including Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Defence for Children International (DCI), Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU), Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME), Addameer,Tree of Life Educational Fund and Interfaith Peace-Builders (IFPB).

The Seattle event is sponsored by the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and by Huda Giddens of Kairos Puget Sound Coalition.

Let us know you’re coming on Facebook. For more on the tour, see FOSNA.

No Child Behind Bars tour in Seattle, Tuesday 6:30-8:30