We will connect together over a meal and think about how we can co-create spaces of change and sanctuary as we continue resisting the violence in these tumultuous times. We hope to see you there! Rsvp: bit.ly/CounterpublicCafe

Our Counterpublic Cafe will include a viewing of the “The First Rainbow Coalition,” a documentary about the coalition spearheaded by Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton that included The Young Lords and the Young Patriots. Register: http://bit.ly/CounterpublicCafe

On Saturday, February 15th, we will be holding our first Counterpublic Cafe of the year, titled "Building Coalitions to Confront State Violence." This cafe will focus on renewing our commitments to each other and our communities to tackle the threat of U.S. state violence.

1) On Friday, February 14th 2025, we will host “A Muslim Kind of Love” - an evening to honor our community’s strength and joy. The event will include food, activities, a raffle, and most importantly, connection. Allies welcome too! Register: http://bit.ly/MuslimKindOfLove

Finally, while this latest transfer brings the Guantanamo population down to 15 men, we must continue to push for the closure of the prison and the base, not just because of the brutal detention of the Muslim men housed there, but because of its use as a site for detaining and abusing migrants.

So the Guantanamo chapter, is far from over, for the men just transferred and the other survivors who have struggled for years and decades.

We will continue to fight for justice in this vein and articulate & demand our rights so loudly & relentlessly so that the state knows we will not settle for anything less.

#FreePalestine🇵🇸 #FreeCongo🇨🇩 #FreeSudan🇸🇩
#InternationalHumanRightsDay #HumanRightsDay2024 #HumanRights

That’s why on human rights day, we also take heed from Black revolutionary Assata Shakur, who reminded us that “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

Today, it is imperative to remember that human rights are not gifts from the state; they are inherent to every individual, existing beyond the boundaries of permission or power. Our struggle for justice is about claiming what is already ours.

We stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine, Sudan, the Congo & other communities around the world where ongoing genocides have rendered human rights obsolete by those in power, but who have shown us what the courage to defend these rights really looks like.

While we commemorate human rights day, it is not to uplift a system that was slated to benefit the powerful & the privileged from this framework’s conception, but to reassert our position that we will never let states decide who deserves rights or to adjudicate our humanity.