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URL:https://democracywatchnews.org/events/we-will-not-be-silenced/
SUMMARY:We Will Not Be Silenced
DESCRIPTION:Defending Dissent &amp\; Building Resistance to Political Repre
 ssion\nAt a time of escalating censorship\, attacks on protest\, political
  expression\, immigrant and labor rights\, and Palestine solidarity\, the 
 Ida B. Wells Media Defense Network brings together leading voices to exa
 mine political repression—and how we build the solidarity needed to resi
 st it.\n\nFeatured speakers include Vijay Prashad\, historian\, journalist
  and author and Executive Director of Tricontinental Institute for Social 
 Research\; Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly\, historian and political economist 
 and author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the U
 nited States\; and Omali Yeshitela\, longtime Black liberation activist an
 d Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party\, whose prosecution a
 s one of the Uhuru 3 has raised major questions about political expression
 \, organizing and state repression.\n\nDrawing on the legacy of Ida B. Wel
 ls\, the forum asks not only how dissent is being silenced\, but how we or
 ganize collectively to defend freedom of political expression and build re
 sistance to repression.
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LOCATION:The People’s Forum\, 320 W. 37th Street\, New York\, New York\, 
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