New York Anarchist Book Fair Presents:
Thinking Revolutionary Health: Artsakh and Palestine in the Horizon of Planetary Struggles
On September 19th, the Azeri state, using as pre-text of a ‘terrorist’ attack against its occupation forces; relying on military arms and diplomatic support from Israel and Turkey culminated a 10 month genocidal siege against the self-governed republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) with a full scale invasion forcing its largely Armenian inhabitants to choose between death or abandonment of their ancestral lands. On October 7th, using as pretext of a ‘terrorist’ attack by Hamas militants, relying on military arms and diplomatic support from Europe and the United States, the Israeli state culminated a 17 year genocidal siege of the self governed enclave of Gaza with an attempt to destroy not only communities but also nearly every element of the sustenance of common life including homes, neighborhoods, refugee camps, mosques, churches, cemeteries, historic sites, art, cultural spaces, bakeries, markets, stores, libraries, schools, universities, aid centers, newsrooms, health clinics and hospitals. In Artsakh and now in Gaza we see a genocide unfold in real time. Where the former was met largely with tacit approval and indifference by most states, in Gaza we see the explicit collaboration by Western States including a coordinated campaign to criminalize attempts to stop this genocide.
Yerevan based journal Revolutionary Health as well as friends from Anti-Denialist Coalition convene a gathering at PIT by inviting some of the contributors to the last edition of the journal published in the summer of 2023 before these most recent invasions.
We will try to open the collective discussion by first inviting a few of the contributors to relate their contributions to the journal to Artsakh, Palestine and/or the wider health of our planetary struggles. Afterward we will open to a discussion with everyone.
Contributors will include:
Reading Materials:
Revolutionary Health
Summer 2023
http://transversality.org/rh/revolutionary_health_vol2.pdf
Exit Plans Palestine
Condemning Hamas / Condoning Genocide
October 2023