Opening Plenary of the 2013 SJP-National Conference, 'From Margin to Center: Connecting Struggles, Forging a National Movement' with Loubna Qutami & Mezna Qato.

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In the everyday urgencies of student mobilizations, and in our celebration of the tremendous successes of BDS campaigns across the country, we have scarce opportunity to acquaint ourselves with the histories of our national movement, and in particular the storied role of students within it. How have those who forged paths before us carried their responsibilities in this exhausting, extraordinary, remarkable, anti-colonial struggle? What can we learn from the strategies and tactics they crafted, and the principles and politics they upheld? As we continue to build on our campaign successes, what does this knowledge of our past require of us? Retrieving often forgotten episodes spanning the last one hundred years of student organizing for Palestine in the US, this talk hopes to open up conversation on how we, both Palestinians and allies, can contribute to the re-generation of Palestinian emancipatory spirit, the restoring our body politic and the reclaiming our popular sovereignty and liberation movement. Our struggle began with students, and it is only when students seize their revolutionary responsibility and take a lead in bringing together the energies, voices, talents, and strengths, of all Palestinians, will we begin to walk, together, the path towards liberation and return.

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