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3:00pm CDT

Migrant Sex Workers Against Fascism: Lessons from 150 Years of Resistance

Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

Travel bans, ICE abductions and deportations of green card holders are nothing new for migrants in the sex industry. But their lives and struggles also offer us a blueprint for resisting surveillance, criminalization and the “good immigrant” vs “bad immigrant” division. Instead they inspire us to transform fear and uncertainty into creativity, power, empathy and noncompliance.

Speakers

Yves Tong Nguyen

Yves Tong Nguyen (they/she/he) is a Vietnamese queer trans disabled abolitionist organizer and cultural worker who is currently organizing with Red Canary Song and Survived & Punished NY, and formerly organized with Free Them All 4 Public Health and other formations. They are personally... Read More →

Chanelle Gallant

Chanelle Gallant is a movement writer, organizer, strategist and consultant and co-author of Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice (Haymarket Books, 2024). She co-founded the Migrant Sex Workers Project, SURJ-Toronto and has provided training and advocacy... Read More →

Elene Lam

Elene Lam is an activist, artist, community organizer, educator, human rights defender and the coauthor of Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice. She has fought for sex worker, migrant, gender, labor and racial justice for over 20 years. She is the founder... Read More →

Emi Koyama

Emi Koyama is a multi-issue social justice activist and writer synthesizing feminist, Asian, survivor, dyke, queer, sex worker, intersex, genderqueer, and crip politics, as these factors, while not a complete descriptor of who she is, all impacted her life. She is the Coordinatrix... Read More →

Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA

Migrant Justice

5:00pm CDT

Nos Defendemos: Community Deportation Defense from Workplaces to Neighborhoods

Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT

TBA

Worker, tenant, and immigrant organizers discuss the need to organize to defend immigrants in our workplaces and communities and lessons from the attacks in the first six months of the Trump regime.

Speakers

Hector Rincon

Hector Rincon has been active in the socialist movement for four decades. Since moving to the USA from his native South America more than 20 years ago, he has worked in factories in California and has been involved in organizing unions and the struggle for immigrant rights. Hector... Read More →

Jorge Mujica

Jorge Mújica was one of the main organizers of the 2006 immigrant rights marches and co-author of “Voces Migrantes, Movimiento 10 de Marzo”. Jorge immigrated from his native Mexico to the United States in 1987 and was elected to the Mexican Federal Congress in 2021, representing... Read More →

Jazmin Tlaxcala

Jazmin Tlaxcala is a member of the Los Angeles Tenants Union. A Mexican American daughter of immigrants has organized in school and her community for over a decade.

Sponsors

Workers' Voice

Friday July 4, 2025 5:00pm - 6:30pm CDT
TBA

Migrant Justice