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Carene spoke on behalf of Yerazad and as a representative for the Armenian community at a press conference to demand LAUSD leaders refuse to be complicit in genocide. This coalition includes LAUSD parents, LAUSD students, LAUSD teachers, UTLA members, anti-Zionist Jews, Palestinian Youth Movement, Union del Barrio, LA Educators for Justice in Palestine, Association of Raza Educators, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, Socialist Unity Party, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Los Angeles (CAIR-LA), and MANY more.

Yerazad’s annual action on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day will be international for the first time! We will be holding safe gathering spaces and community flyering events in Yerevan, Los Angeles, Portland, and New York City.

Arya Jemal will represent Yerazad at Ararat Berlin’s hybrid virtual and in-person symposium honoring the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and our fallen ancestors by bringing together global voices to deepen our collective commitment to resilience and struggle.

Yerazad is proud to join SWANA LA, Palestinian Feminist Collective, and a long list of feminist orgs committed to human rights this International Working Women’s Day at Cheviot Hills Park in West LA! Join us as we lift up and center the struggle of working women and the role they play across all our communities as fighters for justice, caretakers of our communities, and protectores of our homes and land.

This teach in will focus on how the Kurdish, Armenian, and Palestinian struggles are intertwined. Come learn more about how our imperial oppressors support each others’ geopolitical agendas. This event is organized by a coalition of Armenian, Kurdish, and Palestinian activists from various organizations including

Carene represented Yerazad by speaking alongside a representative from Jewish Voice for Peace and other community leaders as part of Pasadena Community College’s Anti-War Club’s protest. She also had the honor of paying tribute to the late great Refaat Alareer.

Yerazad is honored to co-sponsor this event that convenes Armenian and Palestinian writers to denounce the normalization of genocidal violence, in solidarity with those under siege in Gaza. The event is staged in opposition to Islamophobia, anti-Arab racism, antisemitism, and anti-Armenian racism, in recognition that there can be no justice until all are free. Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank are now witnessing the escalation of an ongoing campaign of genocidal violence.

As the death toll of Palestinian civilians in Gaza reaches 3,000, Yerazad is proud to join leading U.S. justice organizations call on people of conscience across the country to converge on the National Mall to pray for the dead and fight for the living, in a Mass Mobilization to demand President Biden and Congress call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Never again means never again for everyone. As a multiracial and multifaith coalition, we maintain that all peoples deserve to live in safety and dignity. The U.S. gives 3.8 billion in aid to Israel each year and we will not stand idly by while our tax dollars are used to fund more atrocities against Palestinian civilians.

Yerazad will host an Instagram Live with CEO and Co-Founder of Gradarak Libraries Arusik Zeynalyan about the work they are doing to empower youth in Armenia by developing libraries and community spaces.

Yerazad will once again be holding a safe gathering space and community flyering events in honor of April 24th in Los Angeles, Portland, and New York City.

Yerazad will once again be holding a safe gathering space and community flyering event ahead of the major Los Angeles protest outside of the Turkish Consulate.

Carene Rose Mekertichyan will represent Yerazad and her perspective as a Black Armenian artist at Pasadena Community College's Disruption, Denial, & Innovation panel as part of their Armenian Heritage Month programming. This panel will explore community resilience after genocide and political violence.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day marks the one year anniversary of Yerazad Coalition's launch. We'll be going live on Instagram with the Center for Truth and Justice to discuss their petition to stop Azerbaijan from erasing the Indigenous Armenian names of cities and regions from Google maps. We’ll also be joined by four guests who uplift Armenian and SWANA liberation in their anti-colonial work.

Yerazad stands in solidarity with the Afghan community. Carene Roe Mekertichyan will speak on behalf of Yerazad and joining SWANA Los Angeles and other local organizers outside the U.S. Federal Building.

Arya Jemal will present Yerazad’s Regenerative Agriculture Project at the United Armenian Inter-Org Conference. The conference will be a dynamic event with prominent community leaders, influential speakers like keynote speaker Noubar Afeyan, and fifteen proposals.

Discussion about autism in the Armenian Community on Instagram Live with Mischa Simonyan founder of Misha Apparel facilitated by Joel Mardirossian.

We are part of Glendale Library Arts & Culture and ReflectSpace Gallery 's virtual exhibition Sites of Fracture: Diasporic Imaginings of Occupied Artsakh a virtual exhibition that brings together diasporan Armenian artists—from the United States, Canada, and Germany—to build collective counter-narratives to the forces of occupation and cultural erasure in the Republic of Artsakh.

Our work, entitled Images of Crossing // Հատման Պատկերներ (Hutmun Patkerner), is displayed alongside Kamee Abrahamian, Ali Cat/Entangled Roots Press, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Naré Mkrtchyan, Nelli Sargsyan, She Loves Collective, Scout Tufankjian, and Anahid Yahjian. Thank you to Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Ara Oshagan, and Anahid Oshagan for co-curating this amazing digital work of art.

On April 29th, Carene Rose Mekertichyan will represent Yerazad in To Intervene at a Distance: an online discussion with selected artists from Sites of Fracture to discuss this question: As diasporan cultural workers, how do we intervene in crises at a distance?

If you are looking for a safe and inclusive group to march with this 24th, register to join Yerazad in Los Angeles this Saturday ahead of the large annual community protest outside of the Turkish Consulate.

Please join us on Friday, April 23rd at 7:00 PM for a class on Ancestral Healing for the Armenian Community with Tiran Krikorian and Tata Digi and hosted by Yerazad.

In preparation for this year’s 106th Annual Recognition of the Armenian Genocide, we offer this class to provide a model for connecting with, honoring, venerating, elevating, and creating healing mutual relationships with dearly departed loved ones, and by doing so bringing healing into our own lives as well as the collective future of our people.

Carene Rose Mekertichyan will speak as part of Generation Ratify’s 106 Years of Denial virtual event exploring Intergenerational trauma and the Armenian Genocide as we move forward in our organizing through an intersectional framework.

Learn the basics of systems thinking and how to apply it to policy action and coalition building with Manous Mardirosian.

Join us for Justice Organizing in the U.S. Armenian Community: from Racial & Gender Justice to the Struggle in our Homeland presented by Armenian Action Network.

Organizers will share organizational history, the campaigns they are focusing on now, efforts around Armenia/Artsakh, and how to get involved. Don’t miss this panel of organizations leading the next generation of resistance in the U.S. Armenian community.

Speakers:
Carene Rose Mekertichyan, Yerazad
Haig Minasian, Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) - WUS
Karine Eurdekian, Kooyrigs
Maral Karaccusian, GALAS
Sepouh Aghababayan, Zoravik Collective
Sevan Mujukian, The Hye-Phen Magazine
Yetvart S. Majian, CCAN
Moderated by: Sophia Armen

Join us with guest Tim Jemal (GlobalARM USA) as we explore Learn how how to get policy passed in your, city, state and county.