Black Lives Matter, Czech Edition: Limits and Challenges of International Solidarity

Paths in Emancipation
Discussion series in the Prague City Library – online, spring 2021

Episode 1, Tues. 23. 2. 2021, 7pm CET

Black Lives Matter, Czech Edition: Limits and Challenges of International Solidarity

What could the Black Lives Matter movement mean for Czechs? What is the history of relationships between the African American community and the Czech lands? How were Czech solidarity demonstrations in 2020 organized? How does US racism work and why should we care? These are some of the questions discussed in the first episode of our discussion series Paths in Emancipation. The guest of this episode is Kelsey Roman, one of the organizers of the solidarity demonstrations in Prague, the event is hosted by Františka Schormová (CEFRES).

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Coming episodes in the series Paths in Emancipation

16. 3. Poland's Czarny Protest
20. 4. Free Kurdistan
11. 5. Against antigypsyism
1. 6. The labor movement today

Paths in Emancipation
This spring Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought and the Prague City Library present a series of discussions on emancipation. Each month we focus on a new theme drawn from contemporary social movements. Together with experts and activists, we’ll discuss the most pressing questions of our moment and delve into the longest-standing social problems. Because we know that the present moment will soon be history – but also that history is never entirely past. We’ll ask hard questions, because human freedom doesn’t have time for easy answers.