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This forum took place today. It is two hours long.
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Today in Sudan and Algeria, people's uprisings that broke out this past winter
have won momentous victories for the first time since the start of the 2011
Revolutions, overthrowing the heads of the regimes in both countries. But the
people have vowed to go beyond the overthrow of their dictators, to take down
the entire structure of the old regimes and replace them with governments that
represent the people. They have also been working diligently to avoid the same
mistakes as in Egypt and Syria, where the counterrevolution came to dominate by
2013 through the fracturing of peaceful protest and the large-scale acceptance
of a military coup in Egypt.
What sparked these latest uprisings, and what has made them so successful thus
far? What are the balance of forces today in Algeria and Sudan? And what has
changed since 2011 that may allow for a different outcome than the bleak
reality we have seen across the Middle East for the past 6 years? What has been
the role of women fighting patriarchy? What is the anti-racist dimension of
these struggles, especially concerning solidarity with the victims of genocide
in Darfur? How are labor unions involved? What role does the opposition to
capitalism play in these uprisings? What kind of international solidarity is
needed?
Four speakers--two Algerian activists, and two Sudanese--will be tuning into
Facebook Livestream on June 1st to answer these questions and more.
SPEAKERS:
Dr. Hamza Hamouchene is a London-based Algerian scholar-activist, commentator,
researcher, and a founding member of Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC), and
Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA). He is the author/editor of two
books: “The Struggle for Energy Democracy in the Maghreb” (2017) and The Coming
Revolution to North Africa: The Struggle for Climate Justice (2015).
Sara Abbas is a doctoral candidate in political science and a feminist who
researches social movements in Sudan. She has written for Transition magazine,
OpenDemocracy and The Nation. The views expressed are her own and do not
represent those of insitutions she is affiliated with.
Adam Baher is a Sudanese human rights activist based in Berlin, Germany. He is
a member of Justice Equality Movement Sudan (JEM).
Selma Oumari is a member of the New Anticapitalist Party in France, involved in
antiracist struggles as well as international solidarity.
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