Yazan Za3Za3

Community Organizer

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Yazan mentions how their organizing has been built by an intensive awareness made possible and informed by their family and friends.

This is a common theme among organizers and begs the question as to how has the different experiences of family and friends inform your own lived experiences and trajectory. Why is interrogating these trajectories important?

Yazan’s Story Offers Lessons In:

• Informed organizing through lived experience and willingness to grow

• Creating spaces of respect and dignity that reject traditional leftist exclusionary organizing

• reflecting on abolitionist futures that are powerful in its simplicity

Yazan discusses how movement building with the palestinian youth movement directly contradicts the barriers of organizing in the usa where people are often ‘burned’ or experience a trial before being welcomed into a space.

What’s unique about Yazan’s description of collective movement building? how does this version of organizing not only envision current movement-building but also radically different futures?

Yazan concludes their interview by reflecting on abolitionist futures in the simplicity of being able to do mundane things without fear.

Why is this such a pertinent vision of abolition that is not often talked about? What does the simplicity of the mundane mean for those without such possibilities?