Date: Friday, August 8

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 022: Resistance and Survival
Room: Grant Park Parlor

Sponsor: Program Committee

Organizer &

Presider: Melanie E.L. Bush, Adelphi University

Description: 

Over the last 600 years, the globe has been organized through hierarchies reflecting the capitalist imperialist, white supremacist, Euro and Western-centered, heteronormative patriarchal world-system. We are now witnessing a great upheaval characterized by multiple crises of new proportions.

Our times also exemplify intensifying resistance, particularly of those who have faced the brunt of the system’s brutality. Local organizers will share reflections on the way forward at a time when genocide is televised, fascism is on the rise and democratic processes that existed if at all, are being abandoned. They will highlight the work they are doing in relation to the current moment. A cross-movement dialogue will seek to draw lessons and lift possibilities for engagement, for those in attendance.

Panelists:

Darakshan Raja, Muslims for Just Futures

Patrick Baranovskis, Chicago Patchwork Farms

Abbie Illenberger, Chicago Teachers Union

Saqib Bhatti, Action Center on Race and the Economy

Frank Chapman, Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression

Xochitl Espinosa, Co-op Ed Center

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