TOPICS
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Day 1: September 20
Fascism, Climate Change, and Shifts in Racial Capitalism
An exploration of the looming threat of authoritarianism, including how real it is and what its implications are.
Imagining Alternative Economies & Cultures, Building Better, Sustainable, and Accessible Futures
Do cooperatives, solidarity economies, mutual aid networks, and demands for housing as a human right prefigure the future?
What time is it on the clock of the world?
What trends are emerging, and how can grassroots movements build international solidarity and power?
Day 2: September 21
Censored Curricula and Carceral Campuses: What is a Democratic Response?
What is education for? Who deserves quality education? What should be taught, and who decides?
Challenges and Imperatives of Building Mass Movements And Coalitions
What is the role and power of organized labor to the larger social justice movement? What’s next?
Feminists On The Frontlines: What Does a Feminist Politic of Transformative Change Look Like?
What has been the backlash and why is it so important to forge intersectional feminist frameworks in our efforts to change the world?
Implications of Gaza For the World
A reflection on the significance of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the upsurge in protests on U.S. campuses and around the world.
Inside/Outside: Governing Power, Municipalism and Radical Democracy
What does accountability look like in systems not designed for it, and what systemic changes are needed for a real and robust democracy?
Nothing Advances Without Art
How art serves social movements and touches, provokes, inspires, and teaches on levels that more conventional forms of organizing and scholarship cannot.
Race, Class, State Violence, and the Future and Promise of Abolition: A Decade After the 2014 Ferguson Uprising
A discussion of police, prisons, state violence, safety, and the legacies of the Ferguson protests, exploring what abolition means in 2024.
Solidarity, DeColonization, Migration, and Land
An exploration of the tactics, demands, and strategies of land and migration related to a justice agenda for the 21st century.
Speaking Out In Dangerous Times — Making Enduring Commitments
An intergenerational conversation between beloved freedom fighters who have made long-term commitments to fighting for justice in the world.
Day 3: September 22
Holding onto our Souls: Forging a Spirit of Resistance in a Love-Driven Revolution… “Only Love Can Save Us”
The Ground on Which We Stand: An Aerial View of the Urgency of Now through the reflections of Truth-Telling Journalists
This panel will discuss why alternative media is so important and offer some behind-the-scenes reflections on what’s required to sustain it.