12 August @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm - in person at World Fellowship Center, 368 Drake Hill Rd, Albany, NH
Antisemitism: Where It Comes From & How It’s Used as a Political Tool (Tamara Shapiro, Diaspora Alliance)
Antisemitism is both real and rising, and being mis-used to attack movements and initiatives for justice. In this session we will conceptualize antisemitism in the framework of a power analysis that integrates a holistic understanding about intersectional oppression and explores the role antisemitism plays in justice movements. We will review both where antisemitism came from, and how the narrative gets weaponized as a tool to disempower Black women in leadership and other marginalized communities. We will use a range of examples and explore how local grassroots communities are using a solidarity framework to reclaim ground.
Tamara Shapiro (Tammy) is an organizer and facilitator, and a trainer and advisor at Diaspora Alliance based in Brooklyn, NY. Previously, she was the Program Director for the NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives for almost a decade, and a freelance facilitator and movement trainer. She was also the coordinator of Movement Netlab and one of the lead coordinators of Occupy Sandy, a citizen-led relief effort, as well as Rockaway Wildfire and Worker Owned Rockaway Cooperatives, a community organizing project and worker-owned coop incubation project with residents hit by the hurricane, respectively. She was also a lead strategist and facilitator of the InterOccupy network, created and implemented a networked hub structure for The People’s Climate March, and worked at The Murphy Institute for Labor Studies. Back in 2009, she became the first director of J Street U soon after graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a Bachelors in International Studies.