Without stopping utility shutoffs and supporting home weatherization, racism and inequality will keep everyone from staying warm this winter.
Participatory defense promotes the agency of the families and communities of people facing criminal charges.
A reflection on the day Ruby Bridges walked to school and role of white protestors to prevent racial integration in education.
The prison system tolerates and creates sexual violence against incarcerated people. The pervasive nature of this violence led to legislation like the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
Jamaal Henderson (they/them) is from ACT UP Philly. ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, is best known for confrontational direct actions that forced the government to address the AIDS epidemic. Jamaal explained why ACT UP Philly is now taking a leading role in organizing alongside and as unhoused people.
Emerald (ze/hir), is a housing activist and member of the board of the South Bay Community Land Trust (SBLCT). Emerald talked about what runaway housing costs look like in the area and discussed their particular effects on oppressed populations like queer youth and elders.
David Carbajal Torres organizes with Tenants United Santa Ana (TĆŗ Santa Ana). shows how rent hikes and gentrification displace immigrant communities. David also discussed the community resistance to displacement through organizing, culture, and community ties.
Vasudha Kumar is a resident of Californiaās Silicon Valley. After playing a leading role in a multi-year campaign to stop a new Google megacampus, Vasudha now studies the dynamics of economic displacement in cities around the U.S.
Noni Session is the Executive Director of the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative in Oakland, California. In a city with a deep Black radical history and some of the most pronounced modern-day displacement, EB PREC is building shared economic and community power by preserving land without landlords.
Don Abram, M. Div analyzes queerphobia in the Black church and the relationship between religious beliefs and systemic oppression.
