The Urgency of Now: Showing up for Palestine: Lara Elborno, Omar Dajani, & Laila El Haddad

'Where Olive Trees Weep' June 6-July 31, 2024
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This conversation is released with the premiere of the documentary 'Where Olive Trees Weep,' along with 21 days of talks on Palestine with leading historians, spiritual teachers, trauma therapists, poets, artists and more.
Watch this full video and all 21-days of this collection of talks around "Where Olive Trees Weep": we.scienceandnonduality.com/o...
The Urgency of Now: Showing up for Palestine
With Lara Elborno, Omar Dajani, & Laila El Haddad
As the Palestinian struggle for self-determination faces escalating violence and human rights violations, a new generation of activists and artists are rising. In this critical conversation, three powerful voices explore what it means to show-up for Palestine in this pivotal moment.
Omar Dajani is a Palestinian-American attorney and co-founder of Decolonize This Tour, using education and immersive experiences to build solidarity with Palestine. He offers insights into channeling privilege to challenge oppressive systems and support liberation movements.
Lara Elborno is a Palestinian-American international lawyer and activist as well as the co-host to a weekly podcast called the Palestine Pod in support of the Palestinian struggle for liberation against Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid.
Author and activist Laila El-Haddad has spent over 15 years advocating for Palestinian rights through writing, multimedia storytelling, and grassroots organizing. She is a plaintiff in the federal lawsuit against Joe Biden, and former UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness, charging them with being complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Together, they'll discuss creative tactics to build awareness, the intersections of art and activism, navigating identities in the diaspora, and why showing-up authentically for Palestine has never been more vital. This conversation models intergenerational solidarity in the struggle for justice and human dignity.
'Where Olive Trees Weep' is a poignant, heartbreaking film about the struggles and resilience of Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice. We follow, among others, Palestinian journalist and therapist Ashira Darwish, grassroots activist Ahed Tamimi, and Israeli journalist Amira Hass. It features Dr. Gabor Maté as he offers trauma-healing work to Palestinian women tortured in Israeli prisons.
The program expands on the themes explored in the film and provides a larger historical and social context. Access to the program and the film is by donation.
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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction of Lara Elborno and Omar Dananar
00:03:07 - Family and Connection to Gaza
00:06:00 - Generations of Trauma in Gaza
00:09:09 - Massacre in Deim, Palestine
00:12:21 - The Role of Lawyers in the Negotiation Process
00:15:24 - International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
00:18:18 - Violations of International Law
00:20:51 - The Ineffectiveness of International Law in Gaza
00:23:19 - The Need for Total Isolation

[@scienceandnonduality]

Find Palestinian links and resources at whereolivetreesweep.com/resources/

[@fireweed6094]

Zaya and Maurizio, please know how deeply your wonderful webinars are appreciated, helping hold our collective anguish with such gentle loving care and passionate commitment to doing all we can for justice.

[@scienceandnonduality]

Thank you immensely! we are in this together and it's a joy and an honor to share community with you! Maurizio here

[@margike100]

I think as I hear more and more it is incredibly important to call on all our reserves, to recognize that this will not end in the near term, but that change IS occurring now and the distant future WILL be brighter and more just as long as we all remain committed, calm, resolved to see more and more change incrementally. In other words, we remain steadfast, doing whatever we can to help our fellow human beings live in freedom without chains, bars, and these systems of oppression.

[@kappa9gamma]

"The only solution is total isolation" Well said! Free free Palestine! 🇵🇸🇬🇷

[@bethechange52]

Thank you so much for these amazing people! Such much needed information regarding laws!

[@Franimally]

Thank you, I continue to watch. If Israel can ever get to "truth & reconciliation" there is hope. I don't see it happening in our life times, hopefully in our children's. From the deep dive I have done on this tragic reality for the past 9 months, it is clear that the vast majority of Israelis actually want the Palestinians gone, ethnically cleansed, in whatever way is possible, including genocide. It is up to those states , those countries, that can intervene with a clear voice of conscience, to force Israel into a shift. Clearly the US is not that state. I am an American citizen, who decries our complicity in this genocide.

[@margike100]

To the point of the young people of Israel saying no to being called up for military service, there is the supremely brave and articulate 18 year old Tal Mitnick who did exactly that. Interviewed on Democracy Now, may be back in prison now

[@elanra12345]

thank you

[@rosannasun99]

@SAND - for those of us who watch the recording, we have no access to the chat during live broadcast, and thus do not have any of the links to people and organizations that are mentioned during the conversations. If possible, could each day's links be placed in these KZbin comment segment for each day? Much appreciated.

[@scienceandnonduality]

Thank you Rosanna! Very good point! Let me see if we can make it happen...

[@bethechange52]

@@scienceandnonduality is not the links to people and organizations on your website under Resources? I saw a few? Will it be updated with all the newer people and organizations for one more week?

[@scienceandnonduality]

@@bethechange52 It is but we are discussing a more "precise" plan to add them in the descriptions and maybe comments. Give us a second more to figure it out! and thank you for your amazing support!!!!!

[@scienceandnonduality]

We will be adding them here each day: whereolivetreesweep.com/resources/

[@scienceandnonduality]

As you can see we pinned the resources at the top of teh comments. Hope this helps!

[@rul4522]

Zaya, you have such a beautiful voice- your heart is in the voice.🙏🌈

[@scienceandnonduality]

Just read this to her and... thank you... you made her day brighter from the start. Love, Maurizio

[@rul4522]

@@scienceandnonduality 🙏🙏🌈