Rashid Khalidi in Conversation with Chicago Activists Bill Ayers & Ricardo Gamboa

Latinxs for Palestine
Under the Tree Podcast + The Hoodoisie present:

Chicago activists Bill Ayers and Ricardo Gamboa in discussion with

Rashid Khalidi
author of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Proceeds from the event will benefit Palestine Legal.

photo credit: Alex Levac

Book sales courtesy of Pilsen Community Books

"The Art of War" album from Amal Music Group available for sale.
Amal Music Group is dedicated to amplifying the diverse voices of the diaspora and our homelands, fostering hope through music.
As a creative community, we navigate the realms of recorded music, publishing, and audiovisual content with a commitment to innovation. Our mission is to identify, develop, and promote artists who inspire and address the pressing challenges of our time.

Latinxs for Palestine will be a masked event! 

We will be taking pre-orders onsite for custom-made Palestine football scarfs. Samples will be available for viewing at the event. Net proceeds of sales to benefit PalLegal. 

SPEAKERS:

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He is editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and was President of the Middle East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He is author of: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017 (2020); Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009);The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1996); Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (1986); British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980); and co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991), and The Other Jerusalem: Rethinking the History of the Sacred City (2020).

Bill Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired), founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, taught courses in interpretive and qualitative research, oral history, creative non-fiction, urban school change, and teaching and the modern predicament. Ayers has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. Ayers’ articles have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review, Rethinking Schools, The Nation, and the New York Times. He has published over a dozen books including Demand the Impossible! A Radical Manifesto, Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident, and Fugitive Days: A Memoir.

Ricardo Gamboa is an activist, artist and scholar born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. They are the creator of Chicago’s only live radical news show The Hoodoisie and founder of The Storyfront, a theater in Back of the Yards offering radical political education, storytelling, performance and theater programming. They are a screenwriter for film and television in Los Angeles and are completing their doctoral degree at New York University in American Studies program.