Staff Students Platform (SSP) is a bottom-up, grassroots collective of students and staff who are determined to work together to organize and facilitate the kind of events that we feel are necessary to (re)build understanding at AUC, in the face of the ongoing violence in Palestine and the protests addressing it.
Brainstorm session #1
On April 26th 2024 a group of staff and students came together in the common room to come up with, and discuss ideas for events that SSP could organize/facilitate.
The talks were organized around three tables, each with their own theme:
- Ideas for activities
- Rebuilding trust
- Topics and speakers
After about 30-40 minutes, we discussed the outcomes of each table in a plenary session.
The post-its were collected and turned into the visualization below:
…Monday movie night #1: Naila and the uprising
On 21th of April, at 7pm we watched the movie “Naila and the uprising”:
Missed the movie: watch it here:
From the website justvision.org:
When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a young woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time. Naila and the Uprising chronicles the remarkable journey of Naila Ayesh and a fierce community of women at the frontlines, whose stories weave through the most vibrant, nonviolent mobilization in Palestinian history - the First Intifada in the late 1980s.
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