Caracol DSA

🗓 5pm-6:30pm UTC//1pm-2:30pm EDT on Sunday, July 20
📍 REGISTER: https://actionnetwork.org/events/resist-genocide-ecocide-build-democratic-socialism
Hosted by: Caracol DSA

Why does the U.S. government keep backing Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza—despite global outrage?

Because empire depends on it.

U.S. capitalism thrives on cheap resources from the global South. Any movement for sovereignty—whether in Palestine, Chile, Congo, or Iran—gets crushed to keep profits flowing.

Israel isn’t just an ally. It’s a proxy force used to destabilize the Middle East and suppress liberation.

Fossil-fueled capitalism drives both ecological collapse and violent repression. From Gaza to the Amazon, genocide and ecocide are tools to secure land, resources, and power for imperial core economies.

An internationalist, ecosocialist perspective reveals that endless growth for the few means destruction for the many.

We must resist extractivism, militarism, and settler colonialism—not separately, but together. Another world is possible—but only if we organize for global solidarity, ecological repair, and democratic control of land and life.

Build resistance. Build alternatives. Build democratic socialism.

Panelists include:

• Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Palestinian scientist and author who is the founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History and the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University, where he also teaches.

• François Kamate, a young climate and human rights defender from North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo. He is a co-founding member of Amani Institute ASBL and Extinction Rebellion Rutshuru and is active with various aligned groups and campaigns such as Save Virunga, LUCHACongo.org, and Notre Terre Sans Pétrole

• Anna Libey, an ecosocialist organizer with the Stop Fueling Genocide Campaign targeting Chevron and a member of Caracol from Denver DSA.

• Gina Cortés Valderrama, a Colombian activist who advocates for climate, economic and gender justice at the intersections of feminism, decoloniality and degrowth. She serves as one of the Co-Focal Points of the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) of the UNFCCC and co-leads the Just Transition Thematic Group. She is also part of the collective of Colombian migrants in Germany, Aluna Minga.

After the panel presentations there will be an interactive session for discussion and generating organizing.

🗓 5pm-6:30pm UTC//1pm-2:30pm EDT on Sunday, July 20
📍 REGISTER: https://actionnetwork.org/events/resist-genocide-ecocide-build-democratic-socialism
Hosted by: Caracol DSA