Monday, January 15 All Day

Read for Refaat: Join a Global Day of Action, January 15th

On January 15, 2024, forty days after Palestinian poet, editor, and educator Refaat Alareer was killed in Gaza under Israeli bombardment, Publishers for Palestine are calling for a Global Day of Action, followed by a week of events, in which we read his poetry in public and refuse business as usual, demanding an immediate ceasefire and an end to the genocide and the occupation.

Last month, during Read Palestine Week, Publishers for Palestine called on people around the world to read works about Palestine and by Palestinian writers. Now, we are asking everyone to go out in public and make reading an act of protest.
 
On January 15, readers around the world will honor the life, work, and resistance of Refaat Alareer (1979-2023) and other Palestinian writers silenced and/or killed by Israel. Forty days after Refaat’s death, people around the world will be reciting one of his poems in public. The reading can be in your workplace, at your school, in the mall, on the bus, or out on the street. Read in a group or during a demonstration. Disrupt business as usual. Record and share your reading on social media.

For more information on actions go to Publisher for Palestine events page here.

Amplify Palestinian voices as we work to end the genocide, to end the occupation, to end apartheid, and free Palestine. Refuse to be silenced.