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Revolutions of Our Times: Ottawa Stop on the Peoples Want North American Tour
Our global generational experience of uprisings have not left the hearts of empires untouched. The encampments of the 2011 Occupy movement and the Student Intifada, street battles against police from Montreal to Minneapolis, land defense from Standing Rock to Unistʼotʼen—each of these struggles in North America is tied to global waves of upheaval stretching from Cairo to Santiago, Jakarta to Gaza, Hong Kong to Khartoum. From this generational experience, we want to weave a fabric of transnational solidarity even as empires desperately project their violence globally.
The Peoples Want will be touring North America through the fall and winter to present the network and our manifesto Revolutions of Our Times, recently published in English by Haymarket Books. From the encounters between rebels from the global peripheries, fighters from the margins of North America, and dissidents from the centres of Empire, we hope to grow an internationalism of popular struggles beyond states suited to our turbulent times. We want to meet those transformed by revolt, politicized diaspora and exile communities, and all who want to build a common plan to hasten the fall of Empire.
Meet our speakers :
Leila al-Shami is a British-Syrian writer and researcher. She is the co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution & War, a member of The Peoples Want and a co-founder of From the Periphery media collective @fromtheperipherymedia
Elia Ayoub is a Lebanese/Palestinian anti-authoritarian researcher, member of The Peoples Want and a co-founder of the From the Periphery media collective. He is the host of The Fire These Times podcast @firethesetimes, and writes at Hauntologies.net