June 18, 2024 at 4.00pm – 5.30pm EDT - Online

Cultivating Solidarity: Responding to Political Repression

This webinar introduces a new tool developed by abolitionist organizers addressing common talking points that undermine solidarity in the face of repression of movements. It invites journalists, organizers, and writers of all kinds to resist divisive framworks

From anti-pipeline protests to Gaza solidarity student encampments to the indictment of forest protectors in Georgia, we are seeing that as conditions worsen and mobilization increases, political repression of social movements is escalating. With widespread organizing against genocide in Gaza and increasingly militant action to defend the planet and on many other fronts, we are moving into a period where social movement participants are facing mounting surveillance and criminalization. In these times, solidarity and support is essential, particularly as efforts to divide and delegitimize resistance abound. 

This webinar introduces a new tool developed by abolitionist organizers addressing common talking points that undermine solidarity in the face of repression of movements. It invites journalists, organizers, and writers of all kinds to resist divisive frameworks that stigmatize resistance and legitimize unjust legal systems. The hope is to equip commentators to respond to legal repression with nuance and attention to long histories of legal subjugation. Please join us for a presentation of this tool, a discussion of how these dynamics have been playing out in our movements, and how we can build a more robust shared analysis of what solidarity looks like in these dangerous and pivotal times.

Speakers:

Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law. 

Zohra Ahmed writes and teaches about the US carceral state and US militarism. She is particularly interested in the interactions between law and political economy and law and social movements in these two domains.

Dylan Rodriguez is a teacher, scholar, organizer and collaborator who has maintained a day job as a Professor at the University of California-Riverside since 2001. He is a faculty member in the recently created Department of Black Study as well as the Department of Media and Cultural Studies.

Kamau Franklin is the founder of Community Movement Builders a grassroots organization dedicated to creating sustainable Black communities through organizing and cooperative development. Kamau has been a dedicated community organizer for over twenty-five years, first in New York City and now based in the south.

More information, including more speaker bios content, and to RSVP: Cultivating Solidarity: Responding to Political Repression | HaymarketBooks.org

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