Solidarity & Resistance: Recent Episodes
Zach B.
“Over the past year we have continued to see the rampant rise of white nationalism — from their presence in the streets, to the U.S. government, to the global rise of fascism and authoritarianism. In this webinar we will discuss different strategies to contest power from ensuring voter protections, to building anti-racist movements that sustain us for the long haul. We will hear about the concrete ways white nationalist and fascist forces are collaborating and what our different roles are in defeating them. This panel will include a range of perspectives on strategy and tactics so we can better hold the complications and contradictions of this moment.”
Co-sponsored by Center for Political Education, Catalyst Project, and the National Lawyers Guild
Adapted from: https://vimeo.com/456976964
Webinar from July 25, 2020, sponsored by No to the New Cold War (https://twitter.com/nocoldwar).
Adapted from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz_u-ejEcmQ
“We are in a historic moment brought on by the consistent exertion of people power across the country and around the world. This has brought us to a place where our communities are poised to win significant victories against the violence of policing on a large scale. To guide us in this moment, we need to hold central that Abolition is both a vision and a political strategy. Part of this strategy is recognizing and actualizing that we cannot call for reforms that further entrench and legitimize policing in any form as a solution to social, economic or political problems. As prison industrial complex abolitionists, the reforms we call for in our demands must be aimed at diminishing the political power of policing.”
Presented by Haymarket Books and Critical Resistance
Adapted from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHdg4dqBMyk
“The current crisis is laying bare the extreme injustices and inequalities of our economic and social system. We are in a battle of visions for how we’re going to respond to this crisis. We will either be catapulted backward to an even more brutal winner-takes-all system — or this will be a wake-up call. Ideas that were dismissed as too radical just a week ago are starting to seem like the only reasonable path to get out of this crisis and prevent future ones. We need to use every tool that we have that allows us to hear each other’s voices, to read each other’s words, to see each other’s faces, even if it’s just on screens, to stay organized and stay connected. We have to create spaces where we’re able to deliberate and strategize about what it means to protect our neighbors, our rights, and our planet. We have to have the confidence to say this is the moment when we change everything.”
Sponsored by Haymarket Books, The Leap, Debt Collective, and Democratic Socialists of America
Republished from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gi5qGHRJ9c
A teach-in with Angela Davis, Naomi Klein, Thenjiwe McHarris (Blackbird), Cindy Wiesner (Grassroots Global Justice), Maurice Mitchell (Working Families Party), and Loan Tran (Southern Vision Alliance).
Sponsored by the Rising Majority (therisingmajority.com)
Republished from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUP0swVDmtg
“Our friends, family members, and loved ones who are locked up in prisons, jails, and detention centers are facing significant risk as states, local governments, and communities try to fight the spread of COVID-19. This webinar brings together a panel of organizers from across the country to share campaign updates, strategies, and tools in their efforts organizing for decarceration during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Featuring:
Amber Akemi Piatt, Human Impact Partners, part of the Audit Ahern Campaign
Eunisses Hernandez, JusticeLA Coalition
MK Orsulak and Tifanei Ressl-Moyer, Decarcerate Sacramento
Kyle Neil, Communities United Against Violence, part of the No New San Francisco Jail Coalition
Sharlyn Grace, Chicago Community Bond Fund
Amber-Rose Howard, Californians United for a Responsible Budget
Laura Whitehorn, Release Aging People in Prison
Andrea James, National Council for Incarcerated & Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls
Anna So and Rory Elliot, Critical Resistance Portland chapter, Care Not Cops PDX
Moderator:
Lara Kiswani, Arab Resource and Organizing Center
Republished from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7beivUtP_dg
“The current crisis is laying bare the extreme injustices and inequalities of our economic and social system. We are in a battle of visions for how we’re going to respond to this crisis. We will either be catapulted backward to an even more brutal winner-takes-all system — or this will be a wake-up call.”
Sponsored by Haymarket Books, The Leap, Debt Collective, and Democratic Socialists of America
Republished from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lxwLHRKaB0.