Artists and community members examine the impact of racism on our communities.
Savages Unite will present artistic and academic perspectives on the
history of hate speech within racial & religious discrimination
specifically, and colonialist & imperialist propaganda more
generally. This forum will examine the connections and solutions to
Islamophobia, xenophobia, White supremacism, and institutionalized
discrimination in the forms of surveillance, infiltration, predatory
policing and war.
Savages Unite will
be an open space for community members to share concerns and ideas for
countering hate and war and becoming part of the solution.
SPEAKERS
IMAM AL-HAJJ TALIB 'ABDUR-RASHID is the religious and spiritual leader
(Imam) of The Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood Inc. The mosque , located in
Harlem, New York City, is the lineal descendant of the Muslim Mosque
Inc. founded by the late El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X), in 1964.
Imam ‘Abdur-Rashid is also the Amir (President) of the Majlis Ash-Shura
(Islamic Leadership Council) of Metropolitan New York. Nationally, he
serves as the Deputy Amir (Vice President) of The Muslim Alliance in
North America.
MARK GONZALES has been described as ‘Khalil
Gibran meets Pablo Neruda.’ He is a HBO Def Jam poet who has shared his
writing on stage around the world, including the first TEDxRamallah
talks held in Palestine, which led him to trend worldwide on Twitter. As
a community builder he was an invited speaker at the United Nations
tribunal on Social Exclusion. He is currently a Visiting Professor and
Artist in Residence at the Institute of Diversity in the Arts at
Stanford University. Mark’s work breaks borders to wage beauty across
continents of language and culture, which has earned him respect for his
creative approaches to suicide prevention, human rights and human
development.
More speakers and co-sponsors to be announced soon...
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