My name is Noon. My dad was born in Nabilis in Palestine and been moved to the US before I was born.

So I was born in the US, but I have quite a bit of family still living in Palestine.

I've been able to go back several times and I studied at Brazil University for a semester last year.

I am currently an undergraduate student in the Twin Cities.

So I've been studying Political Science and Arabic, trying to be able to speak more, you know, like with Palestinians from Palestine that don't have English, especially a lot of my family because they're from a smaller village.

And I currently, one of the board members in like a leadership position, as soon as for justice in Palestine at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and have been working with the Freedom All campaign that addresses connections between incarcerated folks, especially black political prisoners and Palestinian political prisoners in Palestine.

So yeah, that's kind of a little bit about me.

Beautiful. Yeah, well, it's an absolute honor to have you on from a million different perspectives. This is something that's obviously close to your heart.

You're an organizer as well as I think it would be fair to say first generation or second generation Palestinian immigrant.

First generation, I mean, my mom's like white white, but oh my dad said yeah.

And you're doing your undergrad work in the Twin Cities right now. So before we get into the topic at hand, how are you basically holding up during this uprising that really started in Minneapolis? How are things going on the ground there?

I mean, yeah, it's, you know, it's heartbreaking, but it's also like so fucking beautiful at the same time.

I mean, I live maybe a 10 minute drive where George Floyd was murdered. So I was fortunate enough and grateful enough to be welcomed into that space and be able to pay for our respects there.

And, you know, like, I would get up in the morning and try to go and clean up in the neighborhoods that, you know, like had had had protests.

And by the time I got there, maybe like 10 or 11 in the morning, everything was already clean and everyone would just like had rooms.

So it was really incredible. And I have a block away from the highway where that semi truck ran through the crowd and meet my girlfriend were actually like in the crowd when I ran through.

So I mean, there's like a lot of horrible stuff happening from the right and the white supremacists and the Nazis.

But I mean, that's all the same thing. But, but also I mean, like this beautiful community stuff that's happening too. So yeah.

Well, I'm glad you and your loved ones are okay. And, you know, one thing that I always like to sort of think about and advocate for is, you know, a lot of times when like people initially saw some of the cleaning up of the protest after the fact that it was like snarky comments made on Twitter and stuff.

And I actually saw an interview with some of the people who were cleaning up and they're saying like, you know, 90% of the people cleaning up are also at the protest at the end of the day.

And he's like, the cleaning up is part of the protest. We're on both sides of this. So, you know, we're tearing shit up and we're also cleaning shit up because that's what this whole movement is about and the community having control and shit.

So I kind of like that idea of, you know, somebody that's involved in the struggle also, you know, taking accountability and coming together to help clean up.

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