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✨NEW TALK ALERT!✨ 📍 Where? The Apollo Cinema, 135 Aghmashenebeli Avenue ⏰ When? Friday 21 October at 19:30 GMT +4 📺 Can't join us in person? The lecture will be made available on replay on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj3lSHtg1YLbHOlPnzOYIr 💸 Donations welcome - all profits go to Helping to Leave 🗓 For more information, see our Facebook event:https://fb.me/e/3yERjkIaR For our lecture this Friday, Kamran Mammadli will come to talk to us about the National Liberation movement, nationalism, and minority rights in Georgia. The collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in Georgian independence. At the same time, the national liberation movement of Georgia took a deep dive into nationalism, to the detriment of all ethnic minorities. The slogan ‘Georgia for Georgians’, is aimed not only at supporting the independence of Georgia, but having Georgia for ‘real’ Georgians, meaning ethnic Georgians and Orthodox Christians. Even though this narrative has been rejected by the Georgian elites, the existing reality and challenges in the face of ethnic minorities are the echo of its legacy from the 1990s. Kamran Mammadli works with the Social Justice Center, where his role is to identify, analyse, and bring into the political agenda the visible, hidden, and invisible forms of power that keep minority ethnic groups oppressed and excluded. He explores the challenges, needs, and concerns of these groups. Kamran is also one of the founders of Salam Platform, an organisation that works on community-organising and power-building among ethnic minorities. All profits go to the Helping to Leave project. Our streams and lecture recordings also support Helping to Leave. Find out more about the project on their website, https://helpingtoleave.org/en