Until Liberation III

Dear listeners, friends, comrades in this world,

Hope you are fine, wherever you are listening from. This is the third 12 hour programme of Learning Palestine.

It is two years now, that the genocide has been unfolding before our eyes. Yet we continue to re-invent ways of speaking out and organizing against the grain, against this overdose of destruction and annihilation of life, against warmongering and militarisation, against attempts to silence and immobilize us.

We return to what has been said and spoken before us to comprehend the history that precedes and informs the current political moment, focussing this time on the transnational solidarity relations between South Africa and Palestine. Inspired by ways in which apartheid was ended, it sheds some light on the decades-strong and still ongoing solidarities.

For the third 12-hour programme we again share lectures, talks, teach-ins as well as poems, music, and chants in the hopes of expanding our political horizons and engagements through study and struggle; to continue imagining ways of acting together, to tear apart the walls and borders that separate us, for a life in freedom, justice and dignity for all.

Timecodes

00:00:00 Introduction, Learning Palestine Group: Until Liberation III
00:01:32 A recording: what does a missile sound like?, a conversation between father and daughter (2025)
00:02:24 An interview: Mandla Mandela on Global Sumud Flotilla, Democracy Now!, (2025)
00:09:21 A song: Maya Al Khaldi, ‘By Numbers’ from the album عالم تاني Other World, (2022)
00:16:42 An encampment: student of University of Chicago responds to campus police tearing down encampment, (Chicago, May 2024)
00:22:40 A student occupation: Emil-Fischer-Hörsaal occupation of the Humboldt University, Berlin, April 2025)
00:24:53 A speech: Rep Ruwa Romman speaks on the ICE abductions and Palestine in response to the arrest and disappearance of Rumeysa Ozturk, March 2025
00:26:47 A witness account: recorded by Palestine Youth Movement, during the March On Washington, April 2025
00:27:19 A speech: Taher Dahleh, Palestine Youth Movement, giving a speech during the March On Washington (Washington, April 2025)
00:27:58 An conversation (excerpt): Fred Moten, ‘A Dam against the Motion of History’, (October 2023)
00:34:53 A poem, ‘Shades of Anger’: performed by Rafeef Ziadah, (London, December 2011)
00:38:20 A song, Rim Banna Nami: ‘Ya Lo3ba (checkpoint 303 Remix)’, (2021)
00:41:13 A lecture: Walid Khalidi, ‘From 1947 to 1897: From Partition to Basle’, keynote lecture at The Nakba conference (SOAS - University of London, February 2009)
01:31:38 A poem: Mohamed El Kurd , ‘My Nakba Birthday’, Oud played by Clarissa Bitar, from the album Bellydancing on Wounds (2021)
01:34:56 A conversation (excerpt): Nelson Mandela, on Palestine, Cuba and other issues, Town Hall Meeting (New York, 1990)
01:46:12 A song: Hugh Masekela Marcus Miller, ‘Bring Him Back Home (Nelson Mandela)’ International Jazz Day (Paris, 29022)
01:53:43 An address: South Africa’s opening statement, ICJ Hearing, Israel's Genocide of Palestinians, (The Hague, January 2024)
02:18:23 An address: Vusi Madonsela Soth African amabassador, ICJ Hearing On Israel's Genocide of Palestinians (The Hague, January 2024)
02:23:00 A song: Palestinians sing South Africa's anthem as a thank you to South Africa for the ICJ genocide case against Israel, (Nelson Mandella Square, Ramallah, January 2024)
02:25:02 A panel (excerpt): Briona Simone Jones speaks as part of a panel ‘Black Feminist Writers and Palestine’, (online, October 2023)
02:30:52 A song: Kamilya Jubran, ‘About a Human’ by Mahmoud Darwish
02:35:34 A conversation: Angela Y. Davis, Dr. Jess Ghannam, Robin D. G. Kelley, ‘Divesting from Apartheid: Continuity, Difference, and Historical Lessons’ (online, May 2024)
04:16:39 A song: ‘Your sun will rise, Palestine, despite the darkness’
04:17:18 A conversation: Ta-Nehsisi Coates, ‘My life wil never be the same’ (Al Jazeera, October 2024)
05:01:02 A song: a little boy singing ‘My Homeland (Mawtini)’ going back to the rubble of his home
05:02:53 A song: Neyssatou & Likkle Mai, ‘War’, Bob Marley cover Pay It All Back Volume 7, (On-U Sound, 2009)
05:07:21 A lecture: Omar Barghouti and Mahmood Mamdani, ‘Palestine's South Africa Moment? The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement’, The Center for Palestine Studies (Columbia University, New York, December 2014)
06:18:42 A song: Miriam Makeba, ‘Khawuleza (Hurry! Mama)’ (1965)
06:22:26 A speech: Naledi Pandor, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, addressing the Global Anti-Apartheid Conference on Palestine at the Sandton Convention Centre, (Johannesburg, May 2024)
06:33:44 A song: Miriam Makeba, ‘Ifriqiya (Africa)’ for Algeria, Arabic
06:39:31 An interview: Miriam Makeba during her visit to Finland (1969)
06:48:14 A song: Labess, ‘Palestine’ (2016)
06:53:24 A chant: Moroccan soccer fans sing for Palestine, (Agadir, March 2025)
06:54:10 A song: Jill Jilala, ‘Palestine’ (1986)
06:59:18 An interview: Naledi Pandor, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, speaking to Ashfaaq Carim, The global fight to isolate Israel as a ‘pariah’ state (2024)
07:43:29 A performance: Bint Mbareh ‘The Call For Rain. The Call for Time’, opening of the exhibition 'The Ecologies of Peace', Posada del Potro, Córdoba (September 2024)
08:18:41 A sound recording: a Palestinian girl speaks about the sugffering in Gaza, the Gaza Circus School, (Gaza, March 2025)
08:19:51 A conversation: Andy Clarno, ‘Apartheid, BDS and Palestinian-South African Transnational Solidarity’ hosted by Mikey Muhanna for the arfika podcast (This Is Not a Watermelon) (online, December 2023)
09:09:20 A shout out: Benjamin Zephaniah, for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and the March for Palestine (London, May 2009)
09:12:07 A song: Benjamin Zephaniah, ‘Palestine’, from the album Back To Roots (1995)
09:16:52 A speech: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Apartheid and economic sanctions on the first national Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 21 (Stanford University,1986)
09:19:29 A lecture: Salim Vally during the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Conference on Trade Union Solidarity with Palestine (2009)
09:25:43 A sound recording: Basil Al Araj, a song for Arafat and Laila's Wedding (2017)
09:36:31 A press briefing: Francesca Albanese presenting UN report ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide’ UN press conference (Geneva, July 2025)
10:38:19 A sound recording: FM Free Music Free Palestine : Generally Anti-Imperialist Ensemble (Keegan Steenkamp, Ru Slayen, Thandi Gamedze, Zwide Ndwandwe, Reza Khota, Garth Erasmus, Asher Gamedze, No Buhle Ashanti) (July 2024)
11:05:16 A reading: Rana Issa ‘Poetry against Language Dioxide for the programme ‘Collective Study in Times of Emergency’, L'Internationale and De Appel (Amsterdam, May 2025)
11:59:52 A recording: what does a missile sound like?, a conversation between father and daughter

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