Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain, of MTL / Decolonize This Place
Thursday, February 18, 2021, 4pm
Virtual (via ZOOM), UC Santa Cruz

 

On Thursday February 18th 2021 the Center for Creative Ecologies hosted the fifth lecture in the Beyond the End of the World series, bringing Nitashe Dhillon and Amin Husain of Decolonize This Place (DTP) into conversation with T. J. Demos (History of Art and Visual Culture) of UC Santa Cruz. The conversation explored DTP’s action-oriented organizational practices around Indigenous rights, black liberation, free Palestinian, and de-gentrification.

 

Speaker bios:

Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain, are MTL, a collaboration that joins research, aesthetics, organizing and action in practice. Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain are co-founders of Anemones and Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy, both movement-generated theory magazines; Global Ultra Luxury Faction, known as the direct-action wing of Gulf Labor Coalition; Direct Action Front for Palestine; and, most recently, Decolonize This Place, an action-oriented movement and decolonial formation in New York City and beyond. MTL has published in Alternet, Creative Time Reports, eflux, Hyperallergic, Jadaliyya, and October Magazine. Currently they are directing and producing Unsettling, an experimental documentary film about land, life and liberation in occupied Palestine.

Download Decolonize This Place’s recently published and freely accessible reader here for more info on the collective. For more resources and information follow DTP on Instagram: @decolonizethisplace

 

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