Register: For Saturday's events register here (scroll to July 31) http://fmfp.org/registration/

Details: July 31 through August 1 2021 (schedule of events below) - The current attacks on Critical Race Theory (CRT) are a terrifying indication of the rabid racism of the right wing. CRT isn’t an abstract idea for graduate students. Authentic Ethnic Studies, all anti-racist education, is based in CRT. When elementary school teachers have their students write counter-narratives about the strengths of their communities, they’re teaching CRT. When middle school teachers compare “Manifest Destiny” in the US to the “Promised Land” in Israel as ideologies of settler colonialism, they’re teaching CRT.
So we have to fight for ethnic studies, including Palestine, and CRT in the same breath. And we need a united strategy and organizing to do that!
In coalition with Save Arab American Studies and the Free Minds, Free People conference, we're launching a National Liberated Ethnic Studies Coalition, and we hope you will join us on the weekend of July 31st to learn more, and get plugged into the national fight against rightwing, Zionist attacks on education!
Saturday, July 31st:
Plenary: “Ethnic Studies Without Borders: On the Move and Under Attack”
Time: noon edt
Moderator: Awo Okaikor Aryee Price, educator, organizer, and founding steering committee member for Black Lives Matter at School. Okaikor is executive director of Education for Liberation.
Speakers: Lupe Carrasco Cardona, Jason Ferreira, Jesse Hagopian, Lara Kiswani, Ashlyn So
International Panel: “Building Transnational Solidarity”
Time: 3 pm edt
Moderator: Raquel Saenz, has taught in Boston, Texas and Nicaragua. Originally from New Mexico, Raquel is a Program Director for a Boston-based nonprofit.
Speakers: Giovanna de Paula Guimarães (Brazil), Noncedo (Cedo) Madubedube (South Africa), Nichola McCall (New Zealand), Edgar Pérez Ríos (Mexico).
Interactive Workshops: 5 pm edt
“Fighting for Ethnic Studies Amidst Zionist & Rightwing Attacks”
“Teaching Solidarity Through Ethnic Studies”
“Teaching Arab American Studies”
“Ethnic Studies in Elementary Grades”
“Insurgent Education in Iowa: The Fight for Youth-Led Ethnic Studies”
Sunday, August 1st:
Ethnic Studies People’s Assembly
“Organizing Nationally for Decolonial, Anti-Racist, Liberatory Ethnic Studies” 12-4 edt
The Ethnic Studies People’s Assembly culminates a weekend of panels and workshops on Ethnic Studies and Transnational Solidarity at the Free Minds, Free People Conference.
Additional info can be found here (scroll to July 31) https://fmfp.org/registration/
Sponsored by: Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) with Save Arab American Studies and Free Minds, Free People;  Contact: info@araborganizing.org