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1:00pm CDT

The Border is Everywhere; The Border is the Crisis

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

Historically border enforcement has been a tool of repression and intimidation. While the current administration has shown a cruel escalation in its attacks on the immigrant community, this panel will trace back the roots of these attacks and will make the case to how our side can fight back against immigration policing and border imperialism under authoritarianism.

Speakers

Angélica Cházaro

Sergio González

Sergio M. González is a historian of U.S. immigration, labor, and religion. He teaches at Marquette University and is the author of Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin (University of Illinois Press) and Mexicans in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society Press). He is a co-founder and former organizer for the Dane Sanctuary Coalition and is currently completing an edited volume with Lloyd Barba entitled Sacred Refuge: New Histories of the US Sanctuary Movement (under contract with New York University... Read More →

Silky Shah

Silky Shah has been working as an organizer on issues related to racial and migrant justice for over two decades. Originally from Texas, she began fighting the expansion of immigrant jails on the US-Mexico border in the aftermath of 9/11. In 2009, she joined the staff of Detention... Read More →

John Washington

John Washington is a staff writer at Arizona Luminaria, a community-focused media outlet where he writes about the border, climate change, democracy, and more. He has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Intercept, and other outlets. His first book, The... Read More →

Sponsors

Detention Watch Network

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

Migrant Justice

3:00pm CDT

Building Abolitionist Campaigns To End Migrant Detention: Case Study on Dignity Not Detention (Free them all!)

Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

TBA

Abolitionist organizing that builds the power of migrant communities is crucial now more than ever. Abolish ICE NY/NJ has been building a broad-based coalition utilizing cross-wall solidarity & legislative efforts to end immigrant detention in NY for the Dignity Not Detention campaign. Learn about DND & how to develop and strengthen your abolitionist anti-deportation campaigns.

Speakers

Sophia Gurule

Sophia Elena Gurulé is a member of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA)-UAW Local 2325 as well as an organizer with Critical Resistance and UAW Labor for Palestine. She is also a Senior Staff Attorney and Senior Policy Counsel to the Immigration Practice at The Bronx Defenders... Read More →

Viju Mathew

Viju is a member of Critical Resistance and has been fighting abolitionist campaigns in coalitions across California & New York for the past few years. Viju & Critical Resistance see the abolition of ICE as Part and Parcel of prison industrial complex abolition.

Sponsors

Critical Resistance

Saturday July 5, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
TBA

Migrant Justice