Sudan – Ali’s list

Sudan is bleeding, El Fasher has been emptied, filled with mass graves and mass makeshift crematoriums. At the last official count, 60, 000 people dead, a further 150, 000 “missing”. In just 3 weeks. The RSF is completing the genocide begun in Darfur in 2003. The rest of Sudan remains under comprehensive attack affecting all areas of civilian life, and targeting all civilians of all ages. It’s not possible to truly put the scale and intensity of the atrocities committed daily against Sudanese civilians into words. At the very least, we can show up and stand with our Sudanese neighbours, colleagues, peers, siblings. Come listen to the community, come meet them. Add your body, add your voice.

Get down the rabbit hole: Solidarity with Sudan

To watch (w. a couple articles):

  • Gidam: Drums of protest in Khartoum:
  • How to Advocate for Sudan (and how not to) (Politically Depressed):
  • Distraught About Sudan w/ Sara Al-Hassan (Politically Depressed podcast):
  • Getting People to Care About Sudan (Politically Depressed talks to Sara al-Hassan (aka bsonblast)):
  • A Message From Sudan & How To Help (Prince Shakur):
  • Article containing the anarchists’ statement and links to further reporting w. ways to support:
    • https://tdugout.substack.com/p/statement-from-the-anarchist-group
    • Why is anti-Muslim hate on the rise, and who’s cashing in? Yassmin Abdel-Magied (Dr Myriam Francois, The Tea podcast):
  • Speed run run-down: Ask yourself ‘Where did the gold go?’ (@this.cypher): https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQlApqBEYMV/?igsh=OGRoNXgwNWQ5Y2Jk
  • The Bloodied Emirates II: How the UAE Failed in Sudan with Dr. Andreas Krieg (The Thinking Muslim):

    • (Disclaimer: civil war framing)

  • PSA WEBINAR ON SUDAN’S PROXY WAR Gulf Power and the Zionist Logic of Extraction (Palestinian Solidarity Alliance) (Panel of Sudanese voices, analysts, academics):
  • Call for Boycott of UAE and Dubai Over Role in Sudan Genocide (Salaamedia):
  • Seeing the World Through Sudan Conference (playlist) (Watson School of International and Public Affairs):

    • To read:

    The 2018 Revolution:

  • The Revolutionary Charter for Establishing People’s Power (Jan 2023): chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://migration-control.info/documents/131/The_Revolutionary_Charter_For_January_2023.pdf
  • Resistance Committee site (find press releases/statements here): https://resistancecommittee.com/en/
  • Revolution in Every Country Comic Series: Episode 2 – Sudan: Building Power from Below: https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/revolution-in-every-country-comic-series-episode-2-sudan-building-power-from-below/
  • A Letter from a Besieged People (Al-Fashir Resistance Committee Statement read by Politically Depressed):
  • INSIDE ANARCHISM IN SUDAN: An Interview with Fawaz [English] (The Dugout podcast):
  • A Revolution Betrayed, Pt. 2: Lessons from Sudan’s Resistance Committees (The Institute for Social Ecology):
  • A Revolution Betrayed, Pt. 1: Sudan and the Imperial Negation of a People’s Aspirations (The Institute for Social Ecology):
  • Sudan’s third uprising: is it a revolution? (Sara Mohammed, 2019) (Le Monde diplomatique): https://mondediplo.com/openpage/sudan-s-third-uprising-is-it-a-revolution
  • Sudan’s traitors, saboteurs and masakeen (Magdi El Gizouli, Dec 2018) (Still Sudan): https://stillsudan.blogspot.com/2018/12/sudans-traitors-saboteurs-and-masakeen.html?fbclid=IwAR3OKdkGr96Z7P-n4SjnpxzqfzZRlp-bpxC2Z_q7Re4Uz2lFEjQNp9YWrN4

    • ACTIONS for Sudan + where to stay up to date:

    Some general recommendations for further learning:

    • Read the literature (if that’s your thing) – anti-colonial authors and scholarship, surf journals, read some genocide scholarship. (Some well-known authors to start with: Edward W. Said, Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon)
    • Learn more about the region (North Africa, Middle East) and Africa, and the peoples, cultures, and histories that belong to these places (e.g. Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Somalia, Congo, etc.) (some starters below)
    • The Continent (African Journalism): https://www.thecontinent.org/
    • Not Just Sudan – How the UAE wrecked Libya, Yemen and Egypt w. Andreas Krieg (Middle East Eye, UNAPOLOGETIC podcast):
  • Yemen’s History of Resisting Empire w/ Isa Blumi (Adnan Husain):
  • Yemen: Solidarity & Resistance w/ Isa Blumi, Part 2 (Adnan Husain):
  • Achille Mbembe’s theory of Necropolitics (and applications)
  • Surf the links and references in the sources suggested above – there’s plenty of good stuff there. Check out the channels/creators/political voices whose work is linked here.

    • A few cultural resources:

    https://soundcloud.com/nosir-nomaam

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