Solidarity with Palestinian Liberation
Standing Together
In 2009, Setsu Shigematsu started Teachers Against Occupation (TAO), a collective organized to coordinate various efforts by scholars and teachers to critique and resist the Israeli occupation of Palestine. TAO was started with the hopes of being a virtual "meeting point" for different academic groups engaged in building opposition to imperial policies in Israel and elsewhere, and a resource for groups challenging government support for such policies.
On May 26th, 2009, Shigematsu organized From Palestine to the Prison Regime: The Politics of Apartheid and Settler-Colonialism in the 21st Century, an event held at the University of California, Riverside. The event featured a lecture by guest speaker Angela Davis.
Watch footage from the event below.
Angela Davis at UC Riverside
This lecture was given on May 26th, 2009 at From Palestine to the Prison Regime, an event organized by Setsu Shigematsu.
Students for Justice in Palestine
Setsu served as the faculty mentor for Students for Justice in Palestine in 2009 leading up to the protest that became known as the Irvine 11, which included 3 Riverside students (Taher Herzallah, Shaheen Nasser and Khalid Akari). Setsu supported the production of a student documentary film, The Politics of Protesting Palestine, about the Riverside 3 of the Irvine 11 made by N. Shatila. S
