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Exciting Upcoming Events!

Published 27 days ago • 2 min read

Exciting Upcoming Events!

Today at 6 PM!!!

SDS: PROTECT TRANS WOMEN!​
Turn out to show Riley Gaines and TPUSA that their reactionary, transphobic ideology isn’t welcome here! Shame on UMN for platforming her bigotry while hiding behind “political neutrality”
TRANSPHOBES GO HOME!
​📆 Wednesday, Oct 14th
⏰ 6pm
📍 Coffman Memorial Union

________________________________________________________EJP and Let Iran Live: Screening "Still Minab." A documentary by Dr. Doutaghi.
Free and open to all.

⏰ Friday, October 16, 6:30-8:30 pm
📍100 Rapson Hall, UMN
Closest Parking: Church Street Garage

Join us for the screening of a documentary film about the bombing of Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran. 168 Iranian children were killed on February 28th in multiple attacks by the U.S.-Israeli forces.
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Organized by Let Iran Live and UMN Educators for Justice in Palestine. @ejpumn​
Cosponsored by @sjpumn and @umnsds​

________________________________________________________EJP: Genocide in Palestine: Stories of Resistance​
​📍301 Cedar Avenue S. Minneapolis
⏰Sunday. October 25, 3:30-5:30 pm

‼️‼️‼️‼️Please notice the change in date and time! We decided to postpone our event to Sunday, October 25, due to an overlap with the event organized by Mizna and Milkweed for our friend, Fady Joudah’s new book, Exhibit G, scheduled for October 21st at 7 pm.
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The UMN Educators for Justice in Palestine is proud to feature three brilliant PhD students from Palestine who will discuss their life experiences and their academic and journalistic research on resistance to the Israeli settler colonial violence in Gaza and the West Bank. Join us to hear Malak Alhaw, Rania Abu Taima and Tasneem Alzamara speak at the Twin Cities Liberation Center on Wednesday, October 21, from 6-8 pm. Topics of discussion include but are not limited to, scholasticide, reproductive genocide, Palestinian prisoners, and Israel’s femicide in Palestine. Moderated by Dr. Sima Shakhsari.
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Cosponsored by the Twin Cities Liberation Center, UMN Students for Justice in Palestine, UMN Students for a Democratic Society, Mizna, and Let Iran Live.
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Free and open to all. Masks encouraged.
Questions? umnejp@gmail.com

________________________________________________________Mizna launches the Mizna Distinguished Lecture Series, welcoming Wafa Ghnaim, art and dress historian, fashion researcher, embroiderer, educator, and the founder of the Tatreez Institute, as the inaugural lecturer.

Lecture: October 18, 2026 at 1:30pm in Pohland Hall, located on the second floor of the Minneapolis Central Library.​
Textile Circle: Following the lecture, Mizna and Wafa Ghnaim will host an hour-long Textile Arts Circle.
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RSVP REQUIRED FOR BOTH EVENTS: Ticket proceeds from this event go toward supporting the critical work of Mizna. Please consider donating a minimum of $20
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RSVP + more information at mizna.org

________________________________________________________Milkweed Editions and Mizna: Reading and conversation with award winning poet and translator, Fady Joudah.

Note: This event is accessible and will include an ASL interpreter. Please reach out if you have any specific accessibility needs.

October 21, 2026 at 7pm
American Swedish Institute, 2600 Park Ave, Minneapolis, MN

________________________________________________________WAMM and MNAAC: Imperialism & Sexual Exploitation: From Palestine to Korea - Occupation is Gender Based Violence​
​Sunday, October 18th @ 3 pm at
Lucy Parsons Center, 4100 S 28th Ave, MPLS​
SPEAKERS:
Layla Zbinden, a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, will speak about the new report, A Predatory State, which details Israel’s systemic sexualized and gendered violence against Palestinians from 1948-onward.
Meredith Aby, WAMM director, will speak about the Jaju Delegation to South Korea in August where she met with activists protesting the U.S. occupation of South Korea and the U.S. policy of sexual exploitation of Korean women from the 1950s-1990s.

________________________________________________________WAMM’s US Out of Africa Committee:

Protest Against AFRICOM!
Saturday, October 17th @ 1pm @ May Day Plaza, 301 Cedar Ave, MPLS

________________________________________________________SDS: STUDENTS SAY NO TO PROPOSED $225 MILLION BUDGET CUTS​
Join UMN SDS to demand university administration cut their own overinflated salaries before cutting classes, professors, and benefits to campus workers.
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​📆 Tuesday, October 20th
⏰ 5pm
📍Northrop Mall

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Educators for Justice in Palestine is a collective of majority Muslim and SouthWest Asian and North African (SWANA) faculty, staff, and graduate students at the University of Minnesota (UMN) who organize for Palestinian liberation. We are a chapter of the National Network of Faculty for Justice in Palestine.

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