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After the assassination of George Jackson, the revolutionary prisoner who had
been recently designated Field Marshal of the Black Panther
Party, prison guards seized Palestinian resistance poetry from
his prison cell in San Quentin, California. Some of this poetry
by Samih Al-Qasim, Palestinian resistance poet par excellence,
was thought to be written by Jackson and published under his
name in the Black Panther newspaper. An uncanny resemblance
between the voices of Jackson and Al-Qasim, as well as the conditions
of Blacks in North America and Palestinians, made this
‘mis-attribution’ possible. It is thus argued that what might be
viewed as a literary ‘mistake’ instead can be viewed as a powerful
illustration of kinship in the practice of revolutionary political
solidarity. Ultimately, this solidarity would be recalled and renewed
in a 2015–16 exhibition featuring George Jackson at the
Abu Jihad Center for Prisoner Movement Affairs in Palestine.

Greg Thomas is Associate Professor who teaches Black Studies and literature
in English at Tufts University. Currently, he is at work on a book
manuscript on the revolutionary writings of George L. Jackson, “The Dragon.”
As an outgrowth of that project, he curated the “George Jackson in
the Sun of Palestine” exhibit in October 2015 for the Abu Jihad Museum
for Political Prisoner Affairs at the Abu Dis campus of Al Quds University.


When: Monday 19 February 2018, 16.00 - 18.00
Where: Minard, Wallpoortstraat 15, 9000 Gent

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// PROCESSIONS OF THE SUN

At a moment of growing resistance against state violence, political imprisonment and injustice, ‘Processions of the sun’, the latest project of Eye On Palestine, focuses on the historical and contemporary role of artistic production and political activism in forging global alliances between decolonization and liberation struggles. More specifically, this program explores carceral politics through the long legacy of Black-Palestinian solidarity.

For the full program, and all further information, please visit www.eyeonpalestine.be