IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 9 2019
Book release
On the occasion of November 9, the Palestinian Stop the Wall Campaign releases “Build Resistance Not Walls – a reader for a World without Walls”, a collection of essays and interview that presents in 33 contributions in depth analysis and research on the phenomena as well as experiences from the struggles against the walls.
Please see: http://book.stopthewall.org (English) http://antologia.stopthewall.org (Spanish)
This unique and timely compilation, edited by the Palestinian Stop the Wall
Campaign, is the result of three years of discussions with academics and
movements and on the ground efforts to connect struggles against walls across
the globe. Intellectuals, investigative journalists and grassroots activists
from Palestine, Israel, Mexico, the United States, Greece, Italy, Spain, the
Basque Country, Morocco, the Western Sahara, Brazil, Argentina, India and
Kashmir share their views and visions. They highlight ways to build the
necessary strength to, eventually, truly overcome the walls of oppression.
Walls have been effectively a political taboo for a long time. The process of
legitimization and rise of walls as a geo- and sociopolitical tool coincides
with Israel’s construction of its wall in occupied Palestinian territory. The
US president’s Donald Trump’s infamous comment that “Bibi Netanyahu told me the
wall works” points a spotlight on a more complex dynamic. Over the last decade,
the rising right wing forces across the world from India’s Modi to Donald Trump
consider Israel and its walls a model for supremacist and exclusionary
policies.
This reader unearths the connections between the walls around the globe and, in
a last chapter that collects diverse initiatives undertaken as part of the call
for a World without Walls given out by Palestinian and Mexican movements in 2017
and by now endorsed by over 400 movements and networks across the globe, gives
inspiration and ideas for all those that want to stand together in order to
turn the tide.
November 9 is since 2017 as well the Global Day of InterAction for a World without Walls. During the weekend dozens of activities are taking place across the globe – from Malaysia to California – to mark the day and call for an effective end of walls of injustice.
For an initial list of actions, please see:
https://www.stopthewall.org/2019/11/08/november-9-initial-list-action-world-without-walls
For continuous updates, please follow:
Twitter: @stopthewall
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stop.the.wall.campaign
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