October 30, 2023
In solidarity with the people of Palestine, we have compiled a list of resources including where to donate, upcoming events and actions, other resource compilations, and a section of media, literature, films and art from or about Palestine. The School for Poetic Computation is a school for a Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
Last updated May 17, 2024PACBI
In total solidarity with the people of Palestine, the School for Poetic Computation commits to adhering to the Palestinian international call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and to complying with the underlying guidelines of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
In our organizational and individual capacities we therefore commit to:
- Refrain from participation in any form of academic and cultural cooperation, collaboration, or joint projects with Israeli institutions;
- Advocate a comprehensive boycott of Israeli institutions at the national and international levels, including suspension of all forms of funding and subsidies to these institutions;
- Promote divestment and disinvestment from the state of Israel by international academic institutions;
- Work toward the condemnation of Israeli policies by pressing for resolutions to be adopted by academic, professional and cultural associations and organizations;
- Support Palestinian academic and cultural institutions directly without requiring them to partner with Israeli counterparts as an explicit or implicit condition for such support.
The BDS movement, including PACBI, rejects on principle boycotts of individuals based on their identity (such as citizenship, race, gender, sexuality, or religion) or opinion. Mere affiliation of Israeli cultural workers to an Israeli cultural institution is therefore not grounds for applying the boycott. If, however, an individual is representing the state of Israel or a complicit Israeli institution, or is commissioned/recruited to participate in Israel’s efforts to “rebrand” itself, then their activities are subject to the institutional boycott the BDS movement is calling for.
More information available at https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi.
Where to Donate:
- Palestine Solidarity Microgrants
- Donate eSims for Gaza
- Donate to the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
- Adalah Justice Project
- Decolonize Palestine
- Medical Aid for Palestine
- Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
- Psychological First Aid for People in Gaza
- Taawon
- Donate to Sol Band, musicians in Gaza
Upcoming events & opportunities for action:
- NY: Shoestring Press action packs
- For NY Arts Spaces & Collectives: Commit to PACBI
- All Eyes on Rafah: Mobilizations for Palestine Worldwide
- Petition to Shut Down Ghost Robotics
Resource compilations:
- No Tech for Apartheid
- Post by YK Hong on Rafah
- Adalah Justice Project
- Journalists to follow
- Palestine Solidarity: Comprehensive Resources, Donations and Actions
- US Campaign for Palestinian Rights | Toolkit for political action
In this section, you’ll find films, art and literature from or about Palestine:
Media & art:
Geocities webpage created by Palestinians in the late 90s - early 00s by @badgalansari- Art by Aarati Akkapeddi
- Ruha Benjamin Spellman speech
- Infographic by Mona Chalabi
- Why university divestment matters infographic
- Song by Sol Band
- Afro-Palestinian / Imperialism Literature by Dweller Electronics
- Geocities webpages created by Palestinians in the late 90s uploaded to Instagram by @badgalansari
- Time Travels: Building a State in the Middle East: Custom software, high school history textbooks, 2016-2018 by Or Zubalsky
- Solidarity Cinema: Free film archive of solidarity and struggle!
- Palestine Film Institute | Unprovoked Narratives: A series of films celebrating the beauty of Gaza, its people, its struggle and its survival. The program aims to resist the demonisation of this beautiful place.
- Reading list on the ongoing struggle for Palestinian liberation compiled by Verso Books
- Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine provided by Haymarket Books
- Decolonize Palestine: Resources collected by two Palestinians for organizers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine.
- Prints for Palestine
- Free Palestine posters by TinyTechZines
- Palestine will be free! Graphic care-package by Justseeds Collaboration
- Radio alHara: Learning Palestine through Montez Press Radio
- Virtual Conversation with Layan Fuleihan through Anticapitalism for Artists