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As we mourn the lives lost to white supremacist violence this week, I wanted to share a moment of joy and resistance. Dorothy Zellner was a leader with SNCC during the Civil Rights movement and now does Palestinian solidarity work. She was the original Jewish student journalist writing and reporting for social good - she co-edited the SNCC paper, the Student Voice, with Julian Bond, typing up reports about the field work SNCC members were doing across the South. Often, the Student Voice reported on incidents of retaliation and violence around voter registration projects that didn't make it into national news. In the beginning, the team would print and fold and distribute the paper all by themselves. In this photo from 1963, Dottie is giving an affidavit to James Forman after losing her shoes to high-pressure fire hoses in Danville, Virginia. In the video, from her 80th birthday party this Saturday evening, her SNCC friends/fellow activists sing "This Little Light of Mine," to Pittsburgh, Palestine, and prisoners everywhere.
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