On this edition of Free City Radio we feature a conversation with Sami, a Palestinian team member and student coordinator at BDS NL, the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement in the Netherlands.
Sami started his activism in university in the UK and is now leveraging his experience to support and empower student groups across the Netherlands, involved in the Palestine justice movement. This interview is a window into the logistics and details of organizing around the BDS movements in the Netherlands and more broadly within the EU context.
Specifically this interview outlines the importance of projects like the #DontBuyIntoOccupation report that focuses on investigating and highlighting "the financial relationships between business enterprises involved in the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and European Financial Institutions (FIs)."
https://dontbuyintooccupation.org
This interview was recorded at the OCCii space in Amsterdam, thank you to Sarah Teixeira St Cyr for helping to coordinate this interview. This program includes an excerpt of a track from the Amsterdam based artist Zea, more info:
https://zeamusic.bandcamp.com
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