Fanon, Rodney, and "The Palestine Laboratory"
Join our space to discuss Antony Loewenstein’s “The Palestine Laboratory”, Walter Rodney’s life and works, and Frantz Fanon’s “The Wretched of the Earth”.
The Palestine Laboratory: a discussion on the new tools of occupation based on Antony Loewenstein’s work
Session 10: solidarity teach-ins & conversations for Palestine
Open to all | 2 October 2024, 18:00 CEST | via zoom
For more than 50 years, Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has provided the “startup nation” with a battle testing ground for defense hardware, spying technology and weapons systems.
From authoritarian suppression of protestors to EU border control, to US prison systems, the same technology and weapons used to oppress Palestinians are exported globally to mass surveil us all and prevent “an outbreak of peace.” Antony Loewenstein, an investigative journalist, shares his research on his disaster capitalism and Israel’s oppressive technologies and their exportation in his 2023 book, The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world.
Join us for a discussion on the exportation of occupation and a discussion of chapters 1 and 4 of Loewenstein’s book where we will collectively learn “how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world.” As a “brave space,” this is not a virtual lecture, but instead, a session to exchange ideas, challenge preconceptions and build solidarity. Feel free to attend and join the discussion even if you did not get the chance to read.
This session, co-organized with Adam Smith, is part of our ongoing series of solidarity teach-ins & conversations for Palestine.
Reading list
Chapter 1 (Pages 27-51): “Selling Weapons to Anyone Who Wants Them”-documents some historical weapon sales as well as the relationship of Israeli weapons manufacturers and the CIA. Ironically, some of the victims of this exported occupation in the 70s were Jewish citizens of South America.
Chapter 4: (Pages 99-117): “Selling Israeli Occupation to the World”-one of the most unsettling chapters, as it explores some of the existing business relationships between the Israeli war industry and governments including selling of drones and spyware.
Groundings: A discussion series on Walter Rodney's life and works
Open to all | via Zoom
In his scholar-activist praxis, Walter Rodney raised political consciousness through an engaged pedagogy of “groundings” in community and with the people.
Taking inspiration from these groundings, South/South Movement and the Learning Network on Decolonisation at Ghent University are partnering to co-organise a discussion series on Walter Rodney’s life and works. His immense contributions in and outside the ivory tower continue to hold power for anti-colonial and liberatory struggles of our own time.
We are virtually meeting on these dates to talk about Rodney’s life and works:
16 October 2024 (17:00-18:30 CEST) – Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know (Please watch the documentary film before the session. Currently, we are in touch with the Walter Rodney Foundation to bring the film to our community. We will update you later on how to access the film.)
20 November 2024 (17:00-18:30 CEST) – How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (selected chapters tba)
15 January 2025 (17:00-18:30 CET) – Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution (selected chapters tba)
Depending on interest, we may organise more sessions in 2025.
This series is co-organised by Jan Orbie and Antonio Salvador M. Alcazar III under our Countering the Colonial Project
Wretched of the Earth: On Coloniality and Lifemaking
a south/south reading series, via Zoom, this fall + winter
Register here if you are joining from Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Europe
The wretched of the Earth, according to Frantz Fanon, are political creatures “in the most global sense of the term” (Fanon, 1963, p. vii). The centuries of colonization on a planetary scale (Young, 2003) have produced accumulative death and damage and destruction across lands and generations, as well as subjects who, by navigating and gliding through the structures of ongoing coloniality, possess the capacity to generate ruptures.
This reading series will provide an in-depth discussion of Frantz Fanon’s seminal work, The Wretched of the Earth, and will explore how the colonized can transform their situated and lived realities of ongoing coloniality into multiple forms of lifemaking. The series will be divided into four sessions, each focusing on specific chapters of the book. Those who wish to join are highly encouraged to read the designated chapters thoroughly before each session to facilitate meaningful and generative knowledge-sharing.
This reading series is co-organized by Andya Paz, Hien Phan, and Shahed Shafazand under our Countering the Colonial Project.
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