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Join Mayday Space for a special evening online with activist and movement leader Linda Sarsour upon the release of her new book, “We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love & Resistance”. We’ll discuss the global dimensions of the COVID-19 crisis, the upcoming national elections post-Bernie, and a just future for NYC beyond this dark moment. The Zoom conversation will be followed by a moderated Q&A with our virtual audience.

ABOUT LINDA: Linda Sarsour is one of the most prominent Muslim-American, racial justice, and civil rights activists in the country. Outspoken and independent, Linda shatters stereotypes of Muslim women while also treasuring her religious and ethnic heritage as a Palestinian-Muslim American. She is the former executive director of the Arab American Association of New York and co-founder of the first Muslim online organizing platform, MPOWER Change. At the forefront of major civil rights campaigns, she most recently was the national co-chair of the Women’s March on Washington, dubbed the largest single day protest in U.S. history.

Featured on TIME’s list of “The 100 Most Influential People” in 2017, Linda is known for her intersectional coalition work and building bridges across issues, racial, ethnic and faith communities. She engages and enlightens on key civil rights topics, including the impact of domestic policies that target Arab and Muslim American communities, criminal justice reform, Middle East affairs, mass incarceration, immigration policy, and voter registration, while inspiring audiences to stand up to injustice, speak truth to power, and demand change.

MODERATOR: Katie Halper is a radio talk show host of The Katie Halper Show: a WBAI radio show and podcast and the co-host of the Rolling Stone's Usefull Idiots potcast with Matt Taibbi.

ABOUT MAYDAY:
Mayday Space is a collectively-managed organizing and social hub for grassroots groups, neighborhood residents, artists and activists from across NYC (and beyond!) to hold classes, training, meetings, film screenings, retreats, conferences, art builds, and all-ages events on an affordable sliding scale. While our space is closed due to the COVID-19 crisis, we will be offering on-line programming and supporting mutual aid efforts on the ground. Inbox us if you want to get involved in planning other on-line events like this.