Maria Sohn Hasman
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Maria Sohn Hasman Resilience Internship Program Coordinator, Arizona Institute for Resilience. Maria coordinates the Resilience Internships and Student Experiences Program in AIR. She is passionate about serving students and providing them with the support needed to set them up for success after graduation. In her role at AIR, she connects undergraduate and graduate students to internship opportunities to ready them for careers. Before joining AIR, Maria managed local political campaigns, worked in local government, and coached BIPOC recent graduates in their careers at the Environmental Leadership Program.[1]
Education
B.S. Natural Resources, University of Arizona.
National March on Washington to Free Palestine
On Saturday, November 4 2023 at 2 p.m., members of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) from around the country will attend the National March on Washington to Free Palestine. Comrades will stand with Palestine alongside hundreds of thousands from all walks of life. They are demanding an immediate end to U.S. aid to Israel and an end to the siege on Gaza.
FRSO joins with the U.S. Palestinian Community Network, Palestinian Youth Movement, and many other Palestinian and Arab American and anti-war organizations at Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C. There will be a massive rally and then a march.
“We invite people coming to the march to join with the FRSO contingent this Saturday. It promises to be a turning point in the Palestine solidarity movement as we oppose President Biden and the warmakers in Congress,” said Maria Sohn Hasman of FRSO.
FRSO member Andrew Josefchak, traveling with the Minnesota Anti-War Committee, states, “The Minnesota Anti-War Committee has a full bus of 55 people going to the D.C. protest. We could have filled three buses if we had more time. Minnesotans really want to go to D.C. to yell at the White House in person. We want to demand an end to U.S. support for Israel’s ethnic cleansing.”[2]
“Palestine is our demand"
In the second rally in three days, organizations and community members gathered outside the Federal Building in downtown Tucson on Monday, October 9 2023 to show their support for the Palestinian struggle for liberation. Around 75 people gathered with signs reading, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
First, the diverse group of trade unionists, students, youth, elders and community activists heard from Mohyeddin Abdulaziz, an organizer with Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance. He mentioned the historical record of Israel brutalizing Palestinians across his lifetime. Abdulaziz is as old as the occupation itself – 75 years. He continued describing the complicity of the U.S. government and other actors who align themselves with the Zionist project.
Later, Maria Sohn Hasman of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization spoke to the group about the coordinated Palestine resistance that achieved historic results in operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Calling Israel a paper tiger and the U.S. an empire in decline, the fiery speech called for continued, escalated actions to not only demand an end to U.S. aid to Israel, but to “make damn sure none of it is delivered and contributes to ongoing bombing and oppression of Palestinians.”
The Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance, Tucson Anti War Committee, Students for Justice in Palestine, and others co-sponsored the event.[3]