Why get involved

You don't have to be Palestinian to feel called to this work. When a family is forced out of their home in Gaza, Jerusalem or the West Bank, it's not happening in a vacuum. It's part of a pattern we recognize from our own neighborhoods, from Detroit to Oakland, from Standing Rock to Gaza.

The same systems that erase Palestinian families also gentrify our cities, criminalize our neighbors, pollute our water, and fortify our borders. When you stand with Palestine, you're standing with everyone fighting to keep a roof over their head, to walk without being watched, to belong to the land they call home. To live with dignity and justice for all.

International solidarity matters.

Solidarity is the recognition that struggles for liberation are interconnected, and that the defense of human dignity anywhere strengthens the fight for justice everywhere.

Through this project, that solidarity takes a tangible form. 

78 Days. 78 Acts of Steadfastness.

This campaign is simple: 78 public art installations uplifted in 78 days, one for each year of the ongoing Nakba.

The work itself is layered: This campaign builds bridges between movements. It recognizes that when Palestinian families paint murals on homes marked for demolition, declaring "we exist, we remain, we refuse to disappear," they're speaking a language we all understand.

That language shows up as:

  • Housing organizers blocking evictions in Brooklyn

  • Land defenders standing with water protectors at pipeline sites

  • Prison abolitionists supporting families separated by incarceration

  • Immigrant rights groups refusing deportation raids

  • Indigenous nations protecting sacred sites from extraction

These are converging roads, not parallel tracks. 

The Cultural Interventions are Yours Too:

We want to meet people where they are.

  • Add your ongoing project to the call.

  • Your installation can carry local to global messages. 

  • Use our templates and downloads

  • Paint your organization's campaign alongside symbols of Palestinian solidarity,

    • a climate justice mural that includes olive branches, 

    • a housing rights banner featuring eyes watching over neighborhoods, 

    • a workers' rights piece with keffiyeh patterns woven throughout.

What gets measured?

Numbers matter: 78 years of illegal occupation, 78 cultural interventions, countless civilians at risk across the region, and 78 days to flood the media, social media, and public consciousness with creative resistance—centering Palestine and its connection to our everyday lives.

Moments we can't quantify also matter. The conversation that starts when someone stops to look at a mural on their commute. The organizer who feels less alone after finding community through this campaign. The student who learns history that wasn't taught in school.

Together, we know the impact of this campaign will be far reaching and deeply moving.

No Gatekeepers Here. You don't need permission to care. You don't need to have studied the full history of Palestine before showing up. You don't need perfect words or a polished platform.

What you bring?

Curiosity: willingness to learn alongside others

Capacity: whatever time, money, or skills you can share

Connections:  friends, coworkers, community members who might join too

Commitment:  to seeing this through, not just posting once and moving on

Why this way?

Public art becomes part of daily life, confronting corporate advertising and corporate media. It reaches people who won't show up to a rally. It lingers after a protest disperses. It makes invisible violence visible. A public installation doesn't ask permission, it declares existence.

When Silwan residents painted homes marked for demolition, they weren’t decorating—they were bearing witness, recording history, and declaring: "See us. Remember this. Do not let this disappear."

As murals and cultural installations across the region are erased amid displacement and massive violence, we carry this spirit of resistance outward—amplifying Palestinian voices and creating new spaces for gathering, collective action, and movement building.

Who's Already In?

This is collective action built on mutual aid:

  • Artists transforming blank spaces into sites of memory and defiance

  • Organizers linking local campaigns to global movements

  • Students demanding universities divest from occupation

  • Faith communities responding to calls to protect vulnerable neighbors

Whether you share their faith tradition, professional role, or background, there's space for you here. The question isn't whether you fit the mold. The question is whether you're ready to help break it.

What's happening right now? Why is this moment significant?

As the genocide in Gaza continues to rage on, we also see accelerating ethnic cleansing in the West Bank by armed settlers (backed and protected by Israeli forces) burn homes, kill Palestinians, seize land, and terrorize villages until families flee.

In Jerusalem, Palestinians are forced from homes their families have lived in for generations, while homes are demolished or handed over to Israeli settlers. Inside ’48, communities face displacement, demolition, land theft, and forced removal.

This is is the continuation of a century-long process of dispossession that began with the Nakba - the catastrophic forced displacement of approximately 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948, when more than 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed or depopulated. That same system that erased entire communities persists today. Palestinians remain barred from returning to their original homes, their descendants still denied the right to return even as the land they belong to is occupied and ethnically cleansed of Palestinians currently living there. This is the 78th year of the ongoing Nakba, this on going catastrophe.

At the same time, communities across Lebanon continue to endure escalating bombardment, military attacks, and the constant threat of further violence. 

These situations are part of one system of Israeli domination and Jewish supremacy working across all of Palestine and extending across the region to remove Palestinians from their land, erase Palestinian life, history, and resistance, and expand power across the Middle East. For many in the region, there has been no meaningful pause from war. Families who have already survived years of instability are once again being forced to live under the shadow of airstrikes, displacement, and loss.