Marking over a year of ongoing genocide and unprecedented, worldwide resistance in defense of Palestinian lives, the CT Palestine Solidarity Coalition put out a call for this conference as a space that will gather in power, learning, and community. With over thirty organizations endorsing, the "Breaking Chains, Building Bridges" conference will host Palestinian and pro-Palestinian organizers and activists to speak on a variety of topics.

Featuring a plenary with leading local, regional, and national Palestine solidarity organizers, the conference will include a day packed full of panels, discussions, and community building. Organizers and community members have put together over 10 panels and workshops on topics including campus repression, reflections on the encampment movement, prison abolition and the struggle for Palestinian liberation, CT's links with the war economy, Muslims for Palestine, and building Palestine solidarity in the labor movement! There will also be a special meet-up for healthcare workers hosted by Healthcare Workers for Palestine - New Haven! The concluding session of the conference will be a democratic discussion and vote to collectively determine plans for future demonstrations and educational campaigns.

Childcare will be available! COVID masking is required and masks will be made available for all attendees

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Conference Outline

1. Registration and coffee: 9-10:00am

2. Panels and workshops 10am-3:45pm (includes lunch)

3. Action planning 3:45-5:15

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Speakers to include:

Kristian Bailey - Programming and Operations Manager Eyewitness Palestine and Co-Founder of Black 4 Palestine!

Hesen Jabr - Palestinian Healthcare worker fighting workplace repression as a member of NYSNA Members for Palestine!

Sultana Hossain - Recording Secretary, Amazon Labor Union (IBT); Co-chair, NY Labor for Palestine!

Seamus Malekafzali - journalist in Beirut during Israeli invasion; by-lines in the Intercept, the Nation, and other major publications!

Jeff Schuhrke - Historian of the fight for an anti-war trade union movement in the United States; journalist with by-lines in the Nation, Jewish Currents, and other major publications!

Theia Chatelle - Independent Journalist covering Israeli international intelligence surveillance; recent article topics include Israel's high-tech harassment of Queer Palestinians in the West Bank and coverage of anti-Palestine solidarity repression at Yale!

Representatives from Free the UConn 26 and Yale Political Defense!

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Endorsers List (in formation):

We Will Return CT

Palestine Museum US

American Muslims for Palestine CT

Palestinian Youth Movement Boston

Jewish Voices for Peace New Haven

PowerUp CT

Islamic Association of Central Connecticut IMPACT

New Britain Racial Justice Coalition

Justice for Jayson

Palestine Solidarity Working Group

CT Dissenters

Wesleyan Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)

Yalies 4 Palestine

Western Connecticut State University SJP

Southern Connecticut State University SJP

UConn Storrs Muslim Student Association

Veterans for Peace CT

Muslim Advocacy for Rights Unity and Fairness - CT

UConn Jews Against Genocide

Labor for Palestine National Network

Science for the People New Haven

Maine Coalition for Palestine

CT Committee for Labor for Palestine

New York City Labor for Palestine

New Haven Healthcare Workers for Palestine

IATSE Members for Palestine

Healthcare Workers for Palestine - Maine

Maine Labor for Palestine

UAW Labor for Palestine

Jewish Voice for Peace - New Haven

Nurses Against Genocide

Doctors Against Genocide

Physicians for Humanity

Workers' Voice

Party for Socialism and Liberation - CT

Stop Cop City CT

UConn Unchain

UMass Young Socialists

All-Empire Worker's League

Upper Valley DSA

Connecticut DSA

Workers' Aid to Ukraine

Green Party CT

To be added to endorsers list, please fill out endorsement form! https://forms.gle/rdyafWvhbR8dwJdUA

Breaking Chains, Building Bridges: CT for Palestine