Ali Abu Awwad and Robi Damelin on Nonviolence as The Path to Freedom for Palestinians and Israelis

Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

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Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The Parents Circle – Families Forum (PCFF) is a joint Israeli-Palestinian organization of over 600 families, all of whom have lost an immediate family member to the ongoing conflict. In this podcast, we talk to their spokesperson and bereaved mother, Robi Damelin, and Ali Abu Awwad. Ali was imprisoned by Israel for his resistance, bereaved of his brother by a soldier’s gun, and is the founding leader of Taghyeer, a nonviolent movement for social and political change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone I'm Brine Brown and this is unlocking us.
0:03.0	So before we jump into the podcast today,
0:12.4	I want to give you a little bit of context about kind of
0:14.9	what's going on and what we're doing. I came back from the holiday.
0:23.0	I took a couple of extra weeks.
0:24.5	Many of you know that my mom passed away
0:26.2	on Christmas Day after a long and awful dementia journey. And I've also been off social for I think maybe a year. So I came back, got back
0:39.2	on social and plan to release kind of new podcast with Unlachiness and Dare to lead
0:50.0	this spring. One of the things that happened when I got back on social
0:54.6	is a collision of me wanting to address what's happening in Israel and Palestine
1:00.0	and a call for me to do that,
1:01.9	and a really reasonable call because I share my beliefs and thoughts about
1:08.1	these kind of issues all the time, both globally and
1:14.0	I think it was a really reasonable question about where's your voice on this.
1:17.0	So I wrote a piece and I posted on the website
1:20.0	and the reactions were swift and there were some people that were supportive and thank you and there were a lot of people who
1:29.7	thought, man, this is a huge disappointment you missed a lot of things that you should have
1:36.2	gotten right here and so I've spent the last this was probably a week and a day
1:41.5	ago maybe eight or nine days ago we left comments open for a week and a day ago, maybe eight or nine days ago.
1:43.0	We left comments open for a week.
1:44.7	I just want to say for the people who commented on the website,
1:47.3	we did not leave social media open.
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