People’s Alliance to Host Talk “Challenging Racism and Islamophobia”

Manzoor Cheema from MERI (Movement to End Racism and Islamophobia) will speak on the topic of racism and Islamophobia in Durham, North Carolina, on March 10, 2016. This talk will be organized by Durham, NC, based People’s Alliance and will take place at at the Center for Responsible Lending, 302 W. Main Street from 6:30-8:30pm.

From Durham People’s Alliance website:
“A community can be more than a place where people live. It can be a place where people live well. We are committed to a community where all basic needs are met and each individual has the opportunity for a life of accomplishment, dignity and pride.
We envision our community, from local to global, as one which follows these principles:
Community Guarantee of Basic Needs
Celebration of Diversity
Stewardship
Local Decision-Making”

Learn more at:
http://www.durhampa.org/

What is Islamophobia?
Islamophobia is a contrived fear or prejudice fomented by the existing Eurocentric and Orientalist global power structure. It is directed at a perceived or real Muslim threat through the maintenance and extension of existing disparities in economic, political, social and cultural relations, while rationalizing the necessity to deploy violence as a tool to achieve “civilizational rehab” of the target communities (Muslim or otherwise). Islamophobia reintroduces and reaffirms a global racial structure through which resource distribution disparities are maintained and extended.

Learn more at:
http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobia/defining-islamophobia