The recording of our live discussion is intended to serve to purposes: education and mobilization.
Please view this post as a simple tool that that you can share to educate the public about the current situation in Lebanon and to mobilize supports. See below for a list of links that will help you to direct your efforts to the most critical needs and to organizations working on the ground.
Context: On Tuesday, August 4th, a massive blast rocked Beirut's port when tons of improperly stored ammonium-nitrate was ignited by a fire in the storage facility. Within 24 hours of the explosion the death toll already numbered more than 130 people, approximately 5,000 injured and hundreds of thousands left homeless. This man-made disaster also came at a time of ongoing political and deep financial crisis in the tiny nation that is also home to the world's largest per-capita population of refugees. For more information on the political context for the ongoing protests and escalating crisis be sure to listen to Episode 52 with Jad Sakr in Beirut, from back in November of 2020. There have been new developments since our conversation, but the root causes that we discussed remain largely unaddressed.
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