Building Solidarity between Struggles
Rita Adel was raised in Ukraine to a Ukrainian mother and a Palestinian father. She later moved to Jordan, where she is based now. In recent years, Rita has been working to build solidarities and foster meaningful connections and mutual understanding between her two homelands. Rita has a master’s degree in Development Studies, and she is also a researcher working in the humanitarian field.
Frieda Afary, Philosophy M.A., M.L.I.S., is an Iranian American public librarian, translator, writer, activist in Los Angeles. She is the author of Socialist Feminism: A New Approach (Pluto Press, 2022) and produces the blogs, Iranian Progressives in Translation and socialistfeminism.org She has collaborated with Ukrainian filmmaker, Alla Solod and the Ukrainian Feminist Workshop in Lviv to produce the film, Solidarity with Ukraine: A Feminist Perspective (2024).
Oksana Briukhovetska is an artist, curator and researcher from Kyiv, Ukraine. Her interests include feminism, war trauma, race and racialisation, transnational connections, storytelling and craft of textile. Her MFA degree is from the University of Michigan, and she participates in art exhibitions internationally. She is an author of the book “Black Lives Matter Voices” (Choven, 2025) based on her interviews with Americans across the US in 2020-2021. She writes on contemporary art and curated several feminist projects in Ukraine, including editing of the collection of wartime art projects by Ukrainian women artists “Meaning after Loss” (2025) and co-curating the Ukrainian chapter for Secondary Archive, platform for women artists from Eastern and Central Europe. She is a recipient of The Igor Zabel Award Grant for Culture and Theory in 2022.
We sent a survey about Ukraine to all 5 NDP leadership candidates. 4 responded. Here are their positions on support for Ukraine:
Fundraiser: Support Ukrainian Firefighters and Rescue Workers:
https://chuffed.org/project/150370-support-firefighters-and-rescue-workers-in-ukraine
Webinars:
USA-Ukraine Mineral Deal: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? with Maryna Larina
Why the Left Should Support Ukraine NOW: with David Camfield and Cheryl Zuur
Three Years of War: Where are We Now with Maria Popova and Dominique Arel
Environmental Consequences of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the need for Green and Sustainable Reconstruction
Link to declaration: https://emanzipation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024_06_11_Ukraine_peace_conference_letter_declaration_endorsements.pdf
Ukraine Solidarity Information 