Yasmeen Obeid

Community Organizer

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Yasmeen mentions how the financial impact of the War on Terror justified increased military spending, which had reverberations on communities worldwide.

What was the financial impact that she talked about? In what ways were communities affected? Why is it important to talk about the financial impact of the War on Terror when organizing for community liberation?

Yasmeen’s Story Offers Lessons In:

• Having your identity and community inform your organizing as part of a symbiotic experience of being 

• Intentionally bringing along all communities towards futures that tend and care to their historically excluded needs

• Connecting the dots of institutionalized and systemic harms that financially gain from uprooting and disenfranchising marginalized communities

Yasmeen talks about how to organize with community as a central focus. This includes bringing people of different backgrounds and understanding of the world together. In what ways can activists learn to make organizing more accessible to their community outside of activism circles?

What would accessibility look like? How would we know that it has been obtained?

Yasmeen mentions the difficulty for organizing with progressives on every issue except for Palestine. She also states how this has impacted her personally in addition to her community.

How would you resolve this common issue in allyship spaces? How can organizers better address issues within coalition-building that go uncheck due to unfounded fears, popularity etc?