Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $30).

Step 2: Register for “Anticolonial Resistance from Puerto Rico to Palestine” here.

This workshop will explore the connections between anticolonial struggle in Puerto Rico and Palestine. Participants will learn about the history of U.S. colonization in Puerto Rico and how that has led Puerto Ricans to understand themselves as part of a shared struggle against colonial and military violence alongside Palestinians.

Marisol LeBrón is an Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2019) and Against Muerto Rico: Lessons from the Verano Boricua (Editora Educación Emergente, 2021). Along with Yarimar Bonilla, she is the co-editor of Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (Haymarket Books, 2019). She is also one of the co-creators and project leaders for the Puerto Rico Syllabus, a digital resource for understanding the Puerto Rican debt crisis.