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Books as Tools of Activist Struggle - Reading Vigil for Free Palestine

Reading session

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Thursday, Jul 2, 2026, 17:00 - 19:00

Reading Vigil for Free Palestine is a daily action at Dam Square (12:30-13:30) to read aloud books on Palestinian love, life, resistance and their struggle for the liberation and return. Since November 2023, it has claimed public space for political education while building a collectively organised, self-described 'un-willing' audio archive of daily readings and a library dispersed across ever-shifting members. During the group’s participation at the Archive in Residence program of de Appel Amsterdam (October 2025 – March 2026), RVFP gave their archive a public presence. Physical copies of the books the group have read can be accessed and borrowed at the de Appel library, and recordings of past and current readings are available at readingvigil.net. The readings continue in solidarity with the people of Palestine that continue to resist the ongoing genocide committed in various intensities since 1948 by the settler colonial Zionist state of apartheid.

For the session at If I Can't Dance, the group will bring the book they are currently reading daily on Dam Square and will invite readers to join them in a live reading session.

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