Resisting Dystopia, Supporting Grassroots Resilience: From Gaza to the Caribbean to the U.S. Border and Beyond is a political education series co-organized by Funding Freedom, Funders4Palestine, and Rawa in March 2026. The series brought together journalists, organizers, cultural workers, researchers, and human rights defenders to examine how communities facing genocide, crisis and displacement build grassroots responses that challenge dominant systems of oppression and violence while strengthening resilience.

In Part 1, we heard directly from Palestinian journalists, organizers, and cultural workers about post-“ceasefire” realities on the ground in Gaza, with an emphasis on their efforts to resist the dominant culture of politicized aid, corporate complicity, and disaster capitalism through the development and growth of Palestinian-led community initiatives—even amid the ongoing genocide. In Part 2, we’ll place the dystopic plans for the future of Gaza in the context of global trends in disaster capitalism, surveillance, and humanitarian aid, featuring perspectives from organizers and human rights defenders from Palestine, the Caribbean, and the US. Co-sponsored by Solidaire, Women Donors Network, In Our Name, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN), Justice Funders, MADRE, 18 Million Rising, Funders for Justice, and Better Preparedness Initiative.