Featuring…

Live Music:

Parallel Play Collective, whose music is a call to action and solidarity, drawing inspiration from the revolutionary struggles of the Filipino people

Panel Discussion: 

Raw materials, goods, capital, and workers themselves are part of a network of global supply chains where each link is integral to the system of wealth distribution shaping our living and working conditions.

This panel discussion invites labour activists and organizers to address the movement of financial assets, cargo and labour, and the power we have to disrupt those supply chains. Speakers include Jody Chan (No Arms in the Arts), Mostafa Heneway (Immigrant Rights Network), Radhika Desai (Geopolitical Economy Research Group), moderated by Moe Alqasem (Labour for Palestine).

Refreshments:

Light dinner served, catering by Lebanese Garden

About the Artists & Panelists:

Jody Chan (they/them) is a writer, interdisciplinary artist, care worker based and community organizer with No Arms in the Arts. No Arms In The Arts is a coalition of artists, writers, film workers, musicians, and cultural workers that reject arts funding tied to the ongoing displacement and death of Palestinians. Our campaign is about recognizing artists as cultural workers with labour power, and cultural boycotts as labour actions. We’re here to identify the leverage we have in our mediums and industries to throw a wrench into Israel’s war machine.

Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies, Visiting Professor, Department of International Development, London School of Economics, Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada and Convenor of the International Manifesto Group. She proposed a historical materialist approach to understanding world affairs in her Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013) and an original framework for understanding party politics in India in the context its evolving political economy and social transformation in various writings. She has published a dozen books, over 100 articles and book chapters on UK, Indian, US and European politics as well as on international political economy. Her books and articles have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Turkish and Spanish. She is a regular opinion contributor to and her pieces have been published in CGTN, Counterpunch, Frontline, The Guardian, the Hindu, RT and the Valdai Discussion Club. She hosts a fortnightly show, Geopolitical Economy Hour on the Geopolitical Economy Report website. Her most recent book is Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy (2022, Open Access).

Parallel Play is a collective of Filipino and non-Filipino cultural workers dedicated to advancing the National Democratic movement in the Philippines. They fuse diverse genres into a sound that reflects the commitment to fighting imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat capitalism. Their music is a call to action and solidarity, drawing inspiration from the revolutionary struggles of the Filipino people. Parallel Play’s performances aim to create spaces for reflection, engagement, and mobilization, bridging culture and politics to inspire change within the Filipino diaspora and beyond.