The Past and Future of Resistance
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Spanning from the Vietnam anti-war movement to School Strike 4 Climate, Effie Karageorgos (Quiet Protest), Mahee Hossain and Casey Forsyth explore the past and present methods and impacts of political protest. Between the quieter, unseen acts of resistance and the effects of Australia’s largest climate strike in history; we can learn how to sustain political momentum and create hope through perseverance and action. Moderated by Diana Bolandparvaz.
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Effie Karageorgos
Effie Karageorgos is the author of Quiet Protest (UNSW Press) and a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle. She teaches and researches histories of protest, mental health, gender, war and violence. She was awarded the State Library of New South Wales David Scott Mitchell Fellowship in 2023. She is Deputy Co-Director of the UON Centre for Society, Health and Care Research and co-editor of Health and History journal.
Diana Bolandparvaz
Diana has been a volunteering at NIBS since 2021. She has been involved in various environmental and anti-war activism campaigns from age 17. She studied space science at university and is particularly interested in leftist movements within the STEM field.
Mahee Hossain
Mahee Hossain is the state Victorian Socialist candidate for Mordialloc. He believes in the possibility of a future where the power and profit motives of the rich do not ruin the world for the majority. He has been a proud community activist for many years, starting with climate change, then expanded to fighting racism and the far right, and against the closing of community healthcare clinics in Melbourne by the Labor government. Over the last few years, he has campaigned in solidarity with the people of Palestine and against Israel’s wars in Gaza, Iran and Lebanon.
Casey Forsyth
Casey was an organiser of the Gaza solidarity encampment at the University of Melbourne in 2024, and the ten day sit in of the Arts West Building, renamed Mahmoud’s Hall in honour of Mahmoud Alnouq, a prospective unimelb student who was killed by Israel during its genocide in Gaza. She is currently active with Students Against War, which is campaigning against Unimelb’s ties to Israel.
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