What is apartheid?  How are the South African and Palestinian experiences the same?  Different?  How can and should apartheid be opposed?  Join MFSA and UMKR on March 10th for a conversation with South African and Palestinian anti-apartheid activists, Rev. Kelvin Sauls and Sandra Tamari respectively, addressing these questions.

Rev. Kelvin Sauls was born and raised in townships south of Johannesburg, South Africa and became a leader in the anti-apartheid movement through his local Methodist Youth Fellowship. After a career in pastoral ministry he now serves as the Network Strategist at Community Health Councils in Los Angeles and is a Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Institute for Racial Equity where he is engaged in faith-rooted multi-racial and multi-faith community organizing through sacred resistance and moral re-imagination. Rev. Sauls hosts a monthly podcast, “Faith Without Borders,” is a Co-Founder of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration and serves on the boards of multiple movement-building organizations working towards a more just, fairer and inclusive society. After a 2008 Holy Land pilgrimage, he joined the United Methodist effort to oppose the occupation of Palestine.

Sandra Tamari is a Palestinian Quaker, a lifelong advocate for Palestinian rights, and is now barred from visiting her homeland because of her activism. A specialist in Arab studies and education, she is currently the Executive Director of the Adalah Justice Project, a Palestinian advocacy organization based in the U.S. that incorporates the struggle for Palestinian rights into existing liberation movements around the world. Sandra has been a key liaison with the Black Lives Matter movement, was on staff with the American Friends Service Committee, and was co-chair of the Steering Committee for the from 2015-2018.