Palestinian Movement Assemblies represent a powerful method of building for our liberation movement and our community and associational life in the US. They provide an organizing strategy for us to enter the Popular Conference with our own ideas, and emerge with stronger coordination, more defined directions and mandates for change. PMAs seek to empower Palestinians in the US to learn together and from each other, and take control of their own movement for justice.

A PMA is coordinated by several Palestinian organizers representing various parts of our community who facilitate discussion around how to best advance our struggle within our particular localities, as a US community, and as part of the Palestinian people. Community members come together to set priorities for our movement, think together about ways to intensify collaboration, and develop Action Proposals to be adopted by the General Assembly and implemented by our community as a whole. In our PMAs, we will lift each other’s voices as we think collectively. All of us have a place within our movement, and all of us must participate.

Palestinian Movement Assemblies will be held on Civil and National Rights, the Palestiian Student Movement and the Palestinian Women’s Movement. The PMAs will culiminate in the General Assembly on Sunday, October 31st, where Action Proposals will be voted on and adopted. Representatives from each PMA will gather to synthesize all Action Proposals and PMA recommendations into a National Call to Action for the Palestinian Community in the United States.