Our first-ever feature (😳🥰) “Think Globally, Educate Locally with the NOLA Freedom Forum” deep dives into how NFF is building a space where global struggles are understood as interconnected, from Palestine to Sudan to Louisiana’s own history of Jim Crow, environmental racism, and incarceration.
In a world that wants us overwhelmed, disconnected, and silent, political education becomes an act of resistance. As we come up on two years of resisting repression through our NOLA Freedom Forum conversation series, we sat down with @marybethcampbell of @antigravitymag to reflect on its impact and what’s next.
We set out to prove that no struggle exists in a silo, that learning together is a tool for collective liberation, and that when you commit to any struggle for justice, you advance them all.
Through that single mission came countless conversations, unfiltered education about taboo topics, and dozens of meals shared between strangers.
Join us January 23rd for our next Freedom Forum on Louisiana’s data centers, hosted at @justicespromise . In the meantime, grab a copy at a local coffee shop or head to the link in our bio to read the full article on Antigravity.
Thank you to @stephanietarrantphoto for these photos 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
100% Palestinian, 100% New Orleanian, 100% profits to Palestinian causes. Make this shirt your new personality.
The “our swamp is our enemy’s graveyard” shirt will be exclusively sold at @bjslounge on Sunday, 11/16 at the 3rd annual Palestine Benefit Show. 🐊🇵🇸🤠 $25. be there or be ugly?
We may have made some special, secret shirts too 😳
🎉 Congrats to Thafer Abu Qamir for being named one of Arab America's 40 Under 40 for 2025! 🌟
Thafer Abu Qamir is a Palestinian American writer and organizer based in New Orleans. He is the co-founder and co-host of the NOLA Freedom Forum, a lecture series that explores the interconnectedness of global liberation struggles. He is also a founding member and board member of the Palestinian Youth Movement New Orleans and an organizer of the Palestine Film Day event series. Thafer is also a 2025 Young Leaders for Social Change Fellow.
#FutureLeaders #ArabAmerica #40Under40
thank you all for the bday love. it was a day filled with exciting little tasks including a video shoot with bestie @imthecameraguy , a panel with an incredible palestinian scholar, two meals with the most precious friends, cat naps with my child, prancing around the house with the glinda wand @sp4cecat gave me, and countless loving messages.
life is terrible! but sometimes it is not. i love you all
Designed and modeled some merch for our P4lest1ne Film Day fundraiser at @channelvivid . Come out and support so you, too, can stylishly layer your turtleneck!
Keffiyeh logo by my incredible friend @emilyandras
Wanted to share this amazing piece @marcelflisiuk did for me featuring The Radiation Man and some of my favorite belongings.
PS thanks @donitablanche for introducing us
