This Sudan Uprising teach in was organized by Alaa Suliman, A Sudanese American residing in the Bay Area for about 20 years.

"Having been born and raised in Sudan, the recent events of the Sudan uprisings have been a very emotionally involved experience for my family and I. These events have hit so close to home, we felt a great sense of obligation to bring awareness to our struggle through educating others, and hopefully inspiring people to contribute to creating a better Sudan."

This event was organized alongside a team of youth of high school and college aged students.
Contact info is bayarea4sudan@gmail.com.

Panelists:

An alumni of San Francisco State University, Abdel Malik Ali graduated with a B.A in both Communications and Black Studies in 1982. He was a leader in the movement at SFSU to gain accreditation for the College of Ethnic Studies which stands today as the only College of Ethnic Studies in the country.

A community activist affiliated with Masjid-ul-Islam in the inner city of East Oakland for 27 years, Abdel Malik Ali served 20 years as the Amir of the masjid and Educational Director of Masjidul Islam School.

He is also a well known motivational speaker particularly on California college campuses. He is a product of the African American Islamic tradition, being heavily influenced by: The Holy Quran, The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X), and Imam Jamil Abdullah Al Amin (Formerly H. Rap Brown).


Gayle Donsky is a retired social worker who has worked in adoptions, foster care, a pediatric outpatient clinic and in private psychotherapy practice. Since retirement she has been active in multiple social justice issues, including the anti-genocide movement. She has organized events in the Bay Area as well as a New York event: The Judgement on Genocide: An International Citizens’ Tribunal for Sudan.

She is the producer of the short documentary, Faces of Genocide, that examines the culture of cruelty that has allowed the shameful succession of genocidal atrocities. It includes interviews with survivors of genocides of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries.

She was also a recipient of the Jewish Community Relations Council’s Honorable Tom Lantos Memorial Award for Unsung Heroes.

There will be a screening of Faces of Genocide July 23rd in San Raphael: https://rafaelfilm.cafilm.org/faces-of-genocide/


Bakri Ali is a Sudanese American social activist living in Connecticut and working in the aerospace industry as the Director of Strategic Planning and Business Development at Collins Aerospace. He has been engaged for several years in advocating for the people of Sudan and in raising public awareness about the many issues facing the country.

Since the start of the Sudanese uprising in December 2018, he has focused on collecting donations from Sudanese people and their friends around the world to support medical care for those wounded by the security forces and to help families that have lost a loved one or suffered property damage and loss as a result. This initiative has been organized under the umbrella of the University of Khartoum Alumni Association in the US, a non-profit for which he volunteers in on the financial committee.

The response has been overwhelming from around the world and Bakri, alongside the Association, have received over $700,000 in donations which has allowed the provision of food, medical supplies, and sanitation for the thousands of protestors at the Army HQ sit-in. Currently, Bakri is working on ways to provide sustainable sources of income and support for those affected by the events of the revolution.

Check out this resource for more updates and information about the Sudan uprising: bitly.com/sudanuprising