And So, Hello everyone good evening.

As I'm going to everyone tuning in.

We're so excited to have you with us.

My name is Isra Ibrahim and I am an organizer with the South Florida Coalition for Palestine.

First, I want to thank the organizations of our co-sponsoring and help to co- develop this webinar series.

We have Al-A-Dah, South Florida,

which is the Palestinian organization

that focuses on the right of return for Palestinians worldwide.

We have S.J.P. at Ford International University,

an incredibly active impressive student group

in the social movement for Palestine.

And we also have Hood Communist, which is a revolutionary African nationalist

newsletter that I feel like a lot of us read. I know personally I do that has produced some of the most impressive

anti-colonial analyses by and for African people and we also have which is the all African peoples revolutionary party,

which is a pen African Africanist organization that seeks the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific

socialism. And last but certainly not least we have Black Alliance for Peace, a project that advances

anti-war and anti-imperialist positions via the Radical Black Movement. Thank you so much to our incredible organizations that help to

co-sponsor and co-developed this series and everyone who is listening and watching in.

So before I start our webinar series and introduce our panelists,

I first want to provide the framework of why we develop this series. We recognize that Palestine, that

Palestine, specifically the Islamic resistance in Gaza is currently the Vanguard of this of the world historical

movement. It's the Vanguard of anti-colonial struggle today. And with this, we recognize as organizations, as organizers

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