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Peace & Justice Conversations: Dynamic Community Resistance in West Africa

Mon February 10 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EST

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In West African cities, urban poor families and communities must struggle every day to survive — not just to live on meager day-to-day incomes, but to tenaciously resist and mitigate the dynamics that threaten their very shelter and livelihoods. This conversation looks broadly at over a decade of work supporting multi-pronged community resistance to mass forced evictions, and dives deep into the struggle of the Otodo Gbame community in Lagos, whose true story of resistance from 2016-2017 inspired the co-production of The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos, which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Megan Chapman is a human rights lawyer who has worked on the ground in West Africa, principally in Lagos, Nigeria and Cotonou, Benin, over the last 12 years. The organization she co-founded in West Africa works with urban poor communities threatened by mass forced eviction using a multipronged approach that empowers residents to lead the changes they want to see in their communities and the cities where they must fight to remain. She is now the co-director of the World Fellowship Center, supporting progressive movements for social justice, facilitating exchange between activists, and fostering global grassroots solidarity.

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About NHPA’s bi-weekly Zoom Peace & Justice Conversation Series: 2020’s upheavals brought us to a new moment of reckoning and possibility. How do we want to live in the world? What do we value? How can we make the changes we’ve been yearning for? NH Peace Action has been engaged in working for change for decades. We’d like to bring you into these conversations about issues and options for the future.  There is no charge to attend, but your contributions in any amount are greatly appreciated.

Cosponsored by NH Peace ActionMassachusetts Peace Action & Peace Action Maine.

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Mon February 10
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New Hampshire Peace Action
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