Emergency Calls

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In this Emergency Call, we spoke with Maisan Hamdan from Urfod – a collective working in within ’48 Palestine (the parts of Palestine that came under Israeli state sovereignty in 1948). Urfod was founded to support youth of the Druze Palestinian minority in refusing conscription into the Israeli army.
 
Thumbnail picture: an Urfod protest banner with the caption “Refuse, your people will protect you”.
 
 
 
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In this Emergency Call, we spoke with Gathanga Ndung’u from the Mathare Social Justice Centre – a community initiative working to promote social justice in Mathare, Nairobi, Kenya.

We discussed the colonial and anti-colonial history of Mathare – an informal settlement in Nairobi’s Eastlands – and the powerful organizing that began there and has since spread across the country. Gathanga Ndung’u spoke about the repression and extrajudicial killings in Mathare since 2013/14, and how they have mobilised around socio-ecological justice as a political tool.

The Mathare Social Justice Centre leads a range of campaigns, including against police violence, extrajudicial killings, forced evictions, and gender-based violence. They also organise with domestic workers and for the right to water.

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Emergencies of authoritarianism require not only a precise theoretical analysis, but also an urgent political response. In our series ‘Emergency Calls’, we talk to non-academic partners to ask them for advice: What is changing under authoritarian rule, especially for marginalized and vulnerable groups? What are the international connections of different authoritarian conjunctures? And above all: What is to be done?

In this Emergency Call, we spoke with Lili and Ari from YoNoFui, an abolitionist, transfeminist, and anti-punitivist collective in Buenos Aires. They shared how they organize against authoritarianism and prisons, which they call ‘contemporary legalized torture centers’ as well as the changes and continuities they are experiencing under Milei’s government, and why we should unite under the banner of anti-repression. YoNoFui uses art, creativity, and popular education to build solidarity between incarcerated people and those outside. They work on prison, gender, and capitalism. Photo credit: yonofui.org.ar/

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In our first episode, we talk to Silky Shah, Executive Director of the Detention Watch Network in the USA, about Trump’s attack on immigrant rights, migrant self-organization, and perspectives on the antifascist struggle.

Silky Shah is the Executive Director of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition building power to end immigrant detention in the United States, and the author of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition. She has been working as an organizer on issues related to racial and migrant justice for over two decades and has appeared in numerous national and local media outlets, including The Washington Post, NPR, and MSNBC.

Photo credit: Detention Watch Network