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10:00am CDT

Community as Rebellion: Building Networks of Resistance Inside and Outside the University

Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

How can we create alternative ways to be, create, and live in the face of relentless assaults on immigrants, women, queer and trans people, workers, and all the oppressed? We need radical community-building to defend people from the attacks we face, both inside and outside the university. And we must build networks of resistance, globally, that can foster collective learning for liberation.

Speakers

Lorgia García Peña

Lorgia García Peña is a first generation Latinx Studies scholar. Dr. García Peña is a Professor of Latinx Studies at the Effron Center for the Study of America and the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and a Casey Foundation 2021 Freedom Scholar. She... Read More →

Saturday July 5, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA

Education Justice

1:00pm CDT

Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education

Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT

TBA

In just the last few years, scores of states have introduced or passed legislation that would require teachers to lie to students about structural racism and other forms of oppression, with countless books cut from curricula and teachers fired or threatened. In the face of these relentless attacks on antiracist education, join educator Jesse Hagopian for a much-needed reckoning with the roots of this latest wave of censorship and an urgent call to action to defend education.

Speakers

Jesse Hagopian

Jesse Hagopian has taught in the public schools for over 20 years, serves on the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee, organizes for the Zinn Education Project, and founded the Ethnic Studies course at Seattle’s Garfield High School. He is an editor for Rethinking Schools... Read More →

Sponsors

Rethinking Schools

Saturday July 5, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
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Education Justice, Intro

7:00pm CDT

The Blunt-Force Assault on Education: Resistance to Fascism

Saturday July 5, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT

TBA

Book-banning, attacks on Critical Race Theory, Black Studies and Queer Studies, the use of state violence to repress dissent—we are experiencing a furious backlash against modest steps to make education accessible to all children and youth. How should a broad movement for educational justice be framed and forged?

Speakers

Education Justice

Socialism 2025

10:00am CDT

Lorgia García Peña

1:00pm CDT

Jesse Hagopian

Rethinking Schools

7:00pm CDT

Bill Ayers

Wayne Au

Davarian Baldwin

Jesse Hagopian

Barbara Ransby

David Stovall