Yalla Y'all | Episode 2 | w/ Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Channel: American Muslims for Palestine
Date: 2021-03-10

✊🏾 Yalla Y’all: From the Frontlines of Black-Palestinian Solidarity
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📺 About this Episode
Our second episode features Bill Fletcher Jr, a racial justice, labor, and international activist. He is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of “The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941”; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of “Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice“; and the author of “‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ – And Twenty other myths about unions.” Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio, and the Web.
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Through this oral history project, we learned so much about the history of Black-Palestinian solidarity, heard such inspiring stories about how people became activists and what sustains their work, and gained a deeper understanding of the path forward for the liberation of oppressed peoples. We're sure you will as well!!
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