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Palestine and a Changing World Order

RESISTING ZIONISM, GENOCIDE & THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS

an online course & community of engagement

Facilitated by Eleanor Hancock of Comrades Education

with contributions from Adalah Justice Project & the Palestinian Youth Movement

“After the failure of all previous experiments by the governments that came on the heels of wars or revolutions, the authority of the people is the only guarantee for building a just state that can permanently eradicate the roots of those crises and wars. The people’s authority ensures fair representation and distribution of power and wealth and acts as the guardian of the country’s resources.”

- Ra-ad Sahaba, spokesperson for the Revolutionary Charter for Establishing People’s Power (Hammer & Hope, 2024)

What is happening in Sudan is more than a “humanitarian crisis.” It is a crisis of capitalism, white supremacy, imperial violence and neocolonialism. The root cause of this crisis is not tribalism or rivalry but the violent scramble for Sudan’s resources by foreign powers. The ongoing genocide and colonial siege that began in 2023 unfolded in the wake of the Sudanese people’s 2018-2019 revolution, yet the mass's demands for self-determination endure in ongoing resistance at home and in the diaspora.

Education and research are tools of resistance, and knowing the forces behind this violence is critical to building solidarity and action.

SUDAN: Confront Empire Together is a six session online course and community of engagement designed to build awareness and solidarity with the Sudanese people’s struggle for self-determination.

Working with guest teachers from a wide variety of disciplines and experiences, educating ourselves through a connection to Sudanese reporting from the ground, and building our understanding and analysis through six distinct units of study, participants will build our capacity to advocate for and take action in solidarity with Sudan as part of a broader, global struggle.

All of our struggles are connected, and we have much to learn from our Sudanese siblings in what is so clearly an international fight. From ICE to the Epstein files, war on Iran to climate change, the global elite appear to be at war with life itself. No one is safe. Our survival depends on our solidarity with each other.

The goal of this course is not only to understand or bring attention to a dramatically under-reported genocide. It is to help us confront Empire together so that, ultimately, all of us can survive & thrive.

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Major themes in the course include:

See learning goals & session topics for more detail.

1. Situate Sudan within a global landscape of genocide, neocolonialism, and resistance
2. Make strategic connections between Sudan and the Palestine solidarity movement
3. Understand and be able to articulate how genocide emerges not as a breakdown of the system, but as one of its functions.
4. Reframe how we talk about Sudan in order to shed light on the power structures behind the genocide and empower ourselves others to act
5. Center the role of Sudanese women’s struggle in the face of gendered violence and leadership in the context of revolution, resistance and community survival
6. Understand how national borders are weapons of war, and connect our fight against the Trump administration’s assault on immigrants to solidarity with Sudanese refugees
7. Reflect critically on the role of diasporic populations, and make room for a critique of internal political struggle without playing into externally orchestrated destabilization of an entire country by imperial forces
8. Translate political education into collective action by identifying concrete pathways for advocacy and sustained solidarity in order to confront empire together.

April 5 ➡️ Sudan, Palestine, and the Politics of Solidarity
with guest teachers:
Noura Erakat (human rights attorney and legal scholar)
Ahmed Bashbash (Gazan creator of NoThanks boycott app)
April 12 ➡️ Economy of Genocide: Gold, Arms, Tech & the UAE–RSF Axis Overview
with guest teachers:
Mutasim Ali (chair of the international inquiry into RSF breaches of the Genocide Convention in Darfur)
Ahmed Kaballo (Sudanese activist, political analyst & media entrepreneur)
April 26 ➡️ Resistance, Revolution & Sudanese Women at the Heart of Survival
with guest teachers:
Alaa Salah (Sudanese activist & community leader; iconic representative of 2019 revolution)
Sarah Ahmed (co-founder, Rise Up for Sudan)
Mastora Bakhiet (founder & ED, Darfur Women Network)
May 3 ➡️ Borders As the Second Battlefield: Sudan, Deportation, and Empire in Trump’s America
with guest teachers:
Sara Louis-Ayo from VOTE (Voice of the Experienced) to speak on refugee resettlement
Abraham Paulos (Black Alliance for Just Immigration)
May 17 ➡️ Sudan, Iran, Venezuela, and the Role of U.S. Diaspora Inside Empire
with guest teachers:
Geo Maher, P.h.D (abolitionist educator, organizer & writer)
Aaron Maté (independent journalist & author)
Joubin Khazaie (Iranian American attorney and activist)
May 24 ➡️ From Education to Action: Processing, Strategy, and Solidarity
with Suad & Eleanor

Course Details

Six live sessions:

July 19, 26 and Aug 2, 16, 23, 30

4-6:30pm eastern / 1-3:30pm pacific

Live attendance is not mandatory.

Sessions will be recorded.

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Suggested registration fee: $160-320

No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

A portion of all proceeds will be donated to on-the-ground mutual aid efforts in Gaza.

Comrades Education is a US-based organization. We love having folks join us from outside the US, but there will be aspects of the curriculum that are US-centered, especially in relationship to domestic issues and US-based campaigns.

Primary course facilitator

Eleanor Hancock

has built Comrades Education (formerly White Awake) from a small website to an organization of national significance. As founder and director of the organization, Eleanor holds a strong vision for Comrades Education’s work, and has built a supportive team of leadership to guide it. Her leadership grows out of years of experience as an activist, academic, artist, educator, and mother of a multiracial young woman. For more on how Eleanor frames her work, you can listen to this interview on Upstream Podcast.

Palestinian Youth Movement & Adalah Justice Project contributor details coming soon!

What participants have said about our courses

“I am so grateful for the language, the love, the empowerment, and the honest respect shown by the facilitators for everyone's experience. This is the kind of work I've been looking for. You have helped me feel so much less alone.”

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“This course helped me to feel more motivated to work in community and at a community level - that there could actually be meaningful change that comes from that kind of action."

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"Many of the activist spaces I have been in used shame tactics to bring people into the movement, and it was really meaningful (and healing!) for me to be in a space that instead focused on what we can do starting now and what our individual and collective capabilities are."

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This course is actively supported by our Advisory Council Members:

Katrina Messenger

Betty Burkes

Bonnie Duran

"Why do you charge for your work?"

We believe the work that we do is significant, and we want to do it well. To this end, we charge a modest fee for our online programs, and solicit donations from participants and supporters, in order to meet our financial needs. This allows Comrades Education staff and instructors to focus their time and energy on the educational work this project promotes, for the benefit of all.

Comrades Education and our instructors support a transition away from capitalism, imperialism and white supremacy; we support reparations to historically targeted groups, communities and Peoples; and we make our work available to all regardless of financial means.

If you have further questions, please contact: info@comrades.education