2026 Panels

Larkin, Juan, and Sed — Black Rose/Rosa Negra

Black Rose Anarchist Federation will present about the intersections of trans organizing and immigrant organizing., discussing how trans and immigrant struggle are twin fights with lessons to share between both movements. We propose that these fights are won through workplace and neighborhood organizing. Our presenters are trans militants fighting against ICE and surveillance and for trans rights in the workplace. We will offer practical steps revolutionaries can take, and aim to inspire militants to take up these struggles for themselves, regardless of gender identity or immigration status.

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Jordan T. Camp, Lara Kiswani, and Isaac Ontiveros

To better understand lineages of anti-fascism in these times, Jordan T. Camp will join Lara Kiswani and Isaac Ontiveros to discuss lessons from his forthcoming book, The Southern Question. They will consider how we might “translate” Antonio Gramsci’s conjunctural analysis in and for our present. In doing so, they will suggest how this political method can be utilized by labor and social movements.

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Peter Olney, Jon Melrod, Steven Pitts, Joe Uehlein, Cole Rockarts

In workplaces around the world, young people are leading a wave of bold union campaigns to win real power on the job. Join experienced labor organizers, educators, and authors to reflect on the past decade(s) of their careers, and discuss lessons learned that inform how organizers can take on the fight in a time of monsters, and increasing uncertainty for working people.

Rachel Herzing, Amelia Kirby

In a period of rising fascism, fighting the prison industrial complex—the tip of fascism’s spear—is essential. In this session Yarrow Institute will reflect on lessons learned from a year-long People’s Movement Assembly (PMA) process aimed at strengthening the movement to dismantle the prison industrial complex. This workshop will help participants understand how to use PMAs as tools of power building and self-governance. Participants will learn about the PMA process, lessons learned, the propositions that were developed, and how to use the propositions to fuel the fight to abolish the prison industrial complex.

TBD - UFW ex women staffers, Indian Health Center Staff and more

How we treat women's issues - hunger, poverty, childbearing, and feminized activities in societies - is a critical challenge in our movements.This session highlights the struggles women and girls continue to face, and will discusses how to resist duplicating these prblems in our movements. One example is the impressive response to the series of violations Cesar Chavez committed against women in the UFW, and the changing approach to addressing misogyny within the movement. Another is the missing and murdered indigenous people crisis report issued by Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley, whose findings identify the human crisis in our indigenous populations in the Bay Area. Many of those surveyed had a relative missing, murdered or trafficked in the last year. Insecurity and violence tool kits are available to help, and we need to spaces to discuss the security of girls and women.

Sang Hea Kil, Ron Hayduk

Covering the Border War by Sang Hea Kil examines the notion of the body politic in border newspaper coverage of the USA-Mexico divide and how the nation and immigration are racially imagined in crime news discourse, where whiteness is associated with order and brownness is associated with disorder in a variety of imaginative, nativist ways. Untangling by Ron Hayduk asks how we understand the current conjuncture, characterized by multiple and colliding crises and monsters, from rising inequality, mass migration, and intensifying climate change to resurgent racism, gender violence, right-wing populism, and militarism, arguing that mass migration and inequality are two sides of the same coin, resulting from rapacious forms of capitalist accumulation and imperialist interventionism, which propel populist movements on the right and left. The right conjures up monsters that demonize immigrants, people of color, and “radical Marxists,” while the left targets “billionaires,” “Christian Nationalist Zionists,” and “tech bros” who threaten to bring on “end times fascism.” Join us to discuss valuable lessons for scholars and organizers interested in fighting these monsters and forging a more equitable, just and desirable future.

Marc Lispi, Jose Flores, Kyle Persy, Katherine Jones

Facing an onslaught of attacks — from ICE terror and genocide to cuts to hospitals, transit, education, ecological destruction, and more — depending on elections to confront these problems is a dead end. The resistance in Minneapolis and other cities to ICE terror has demonstrated that we cannot wait for elections — we must build up our forces to resist now. Many of the attacks from this administration are showing up right in front of us in our cities — in our workplaces, our schools, our neighborhoods. And revolutionaries must work alongside others to stand up in the face of these attacks. Hear about struggles in health care, against ICE in Dublin, efforts to block the coal terminal in West Oakland, and organizing to resist transit funding cuts.

Jaryn Holbrook Janeway, Ceomhar Frederick

Bigender author of Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You, Jaryn Holbrook Janeway, MBA (formerly Kathryn Gonzales), sits for a conversation with agender activist Ceomhar Frederick. A 2020 ALA Rainbow Book List Selection, Trans+ reminds readers that trans and nonbinary people today, just like their ancestors throughout history, are no less than the stars and stardust covering the entire universe. Join two trans nonbinary nonprofit professionals as they reflect on the impact of this gender inclusive puberty book, explore how the political situation for transgender folks – especially trans youth – has changed since the book was published, and how adults of all genders can help youth co-create safety in these dangerous times.

David Vila Diéguez, Edurne Arostegui, Forrest Cole

In this workshop we will discuss David Vila Diéguez's book Spanish Punk: Screaming for Democracy in a Postdictatorial State and various other topics discussing the role of culture, and more specifically popular music, in social revolutions. In other words, we will be trying to answer the following questions from different perspectives: Can a musical movement or a song change the world?

Kate B. Maxwell, Neal Gorenflo, Jay Cumberland, Josh Wilson

Let’s consider mass media as a "monster." How can we turn this powerful beast into a force for positive change? At present, media and journalism financing is the domain of unaccountable commercial and philanthropic entities. While good journalism happens, this economic regime has produced an ongoing crisis of public trust, the spread of news deserts, rampant commercialism, the closure of newspapers nationwide, the enclosure of journalism practice in exclusive institutions, and the wider degradation of the mechanisms of a democratic society. Consumer and multi-stakeholder co-ops are an exciting alternative organizing model for financing independent media beyond the existing commercial/philanthropic paradigm, and can serve as empowering partners to the new wave of media-worker co-ops now emerging in the Bay Area and beyond. This workshop opens what we intend to be ongoing conversation and action toward a multi-stakeholder co-op ecosystem for independent journalism and mass media in a world that can’t wait for change.

Join Gruppo Pizzicato for Italian songs of love, labor, and resistance, including a Bella Ciao singalong in Italian, English, and Arabic (we'll provide the lyrics).

Aya de Leon, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Cat Brooks, Keenan Norris, Ashia Ajani, Robert Liu-Trujillo

Join these local African American authors to discuss the multi-faceted threat of data centers to our democracy, culture, economy and environment. We will focus on how, in particular, Black communities are on the frontlines for harm. We will also discuss effective strategies for winning fights to block data centers, including how authors are fighting back against AI piracy. Finally, the panel will include info on the BAAAD campaign for Black authors to pledge to donate 1% of any money they receive from lawsuits against AI to help fund Black organizations fighting AI and data centers.

Sophie Drukman-Feldstein, Lisa Feldstein

Faced with escalating Israeli settler and military attacks on their families, homes, and lands, Palestinian organizers in the West Bank have put out calls for international activists to come live with them, accompany them in their work, document settler violence, and provide rapid response. A panel of activists who stayed in the village of Burin and the region of Masafer Yatta will speak about their experience and how you can get involved.

Nelson Lichtenstein, Keane Chukwuneta, Fred Glass

In this panel we explore insights and themes drawn from two 2026 publications: Nelson Lichtenstein's Why Labor Unions Matter (Yale University Press), and Fred Glass's Labor 101: Socialism and the Labor Movement (PM Press). Lichtenstein will focus his remarks on one chapter of his book, which considers the conditions and strategies that make a general strike possible and winnable, taken from both historical examples (San Francisco in 1934; Brazil and Poland circa 1980) and those more current (The Red State Revolt in 2018 and Minneapolis in 2026). Glass will delineate the structures and orientation needed for unions to fulfill their promise of working class empowerment, describe the historic role played by socialists in helping unions function in this way, and provide examples of how the labor movement left is currently building toward mass militant action. Chukwuneta will comment on these strategies and tactics from the dual perspective of a labor studies instructor engaged with radicalizing working class students and a union representative whose job it is to serve the members' needs.

Guillermina Castellanos, Rachel West, Briana Jones

A successful Guaranteed Care Income pilot in San Francisco in 2024, initiated by In Defense of Prostitute Women's Safety with Global Women's Strike (GWS) and Women of Color/GWS, provided cash payments in recognition of mothers' caregiving work and is now the basis for a campaign for a citywide Guaranteed Care Income for low-income single mothers, including immigrant mothers. The campaign responds to a growing crisis in which women, especially single mothers—often women of color—are being driven into low-wage jobs or made more vulnerable to criminalization, ICE raids, child welfare investigations, and separation from their children. Tech billionaires and wealthy business interests are lobbying to further criminalize poverty and divert public money to law enforcement. Join our workshop to learn about the campaign and help build support for Guaranteed Care Income.

Guillermina Castellanos, Francisco Herrera, Bill Shields, Mariana Aguilar, Raquel Botello, Ines Lazarte, Maria Ochoa, Maris Teresa Palacio, Tomaza Ramirez and Evangelina Tirado

"Voces de los Trabajadores", in Spanish with English translation, will showcase work by the storytelling group, "El Nuevo Sol", and their new book of scripts "Nuestras Vidas, Nuestras Historias/Our Lives, Our Stories". Group members will perform a short scene from their most recent piece "Resistiendo Trump", and then invite attendees to discuss it as a vehicle for women's leadership development. The presenters will conclude by conducting an improvisation exercise that shares tools of the storytelling trade, and connects participants to the "Workers Voices Community".

"Voces de los Trabajadores" estará en español con traducción al i'nglés. Presentará trabajo del grupo de narración "El Nuevo Sol" y su nuevo libro de guiones "Nuestras Vidas, Nuestras Historias". Las integrantes del grupo representarán una breve escena de su pieza más reciente "Resistiendo Trump" e invitarán a los asistentes a discutirla como un vehiculo para el desarrollo del liderazgo femenino. Las ponentes concluirán realizando un ejercicio de improvisación que comparte herramientas del narradores y conecta a las participantes con la "Comunidad de los Voces Trabajadores."

Robert Ovetz, Kevin Van Meter

Worker organizing, strikes and class conflict are on the rise. Worker interest in unionizing, salting, and striking is the highest it’s been in decades and reflects the development of new tactics and strategies. Autonomist Marxist thinker Harry Cleaver, Points of Departure (Common Notions 2026) provides us with a class analysis putting the refusal of work at the center of our struggles to disrupt and move past capitalism. Since capitalism organizes life around endless work, our struggles must make the struggle against work the central focus of our organizing. We will explore Cleaver’s methodology of examining the current class composition and practice using workers’ inquiry to inform our struggles against work at work. This panel begins with a short introduction to the ideas of Harry Cleaver about the strategy of the struggle vs. work to transcend capitalism. During this panel presentation we will have several short breakouts to turn, talk and report back and learn how to do a mini workers' inquiry to identify tactics and strategies for organizing the refusal of work.

Carla Belinda Orendorff, Anthony Orendorff, Lupita Limón Corrales, Paisley Mares, Gelly Harrell

As rent rises, evictions increase, and houselessness grows, the homeless encampment becomes both a symptom of organized abandonment and a site of insurgent knowledge and practice. We Live in Public was written by residents and organizers of one such encampment, Aetna Street. Their experiences offer strategies for solidarity and survival in the face of escalating state violence. Many people’s worst fear is to be homeless, equating it with social death.Throughout this book, Aetna residents and organizers share insights and analysis and offer maps and wisdom that is grounded in reality but also rooted in vision for poor peoples movements here in the United States. Our histories and experiments with living and organizing in public provide critical lessons in modes of collective living and must be at the center of public history and knowledge. In a time of monsters, we refuse the criminalization of homelessness and the longer arc of the unrelenting settlement of the US. Our words are an invitation to revolutionary care in the time of class war.

Jessica Lawless, Josh Fernandez

Violence takes many forms and carries different meanings depending on who wields it and who gets to define it. Drawing from social movements, punk culture, queer life, labor struggles, and lived experience, PM Press authors Jessica Lawless and Josh Fernandez will examine violence as a political strategy, gendered performance, and social force. Through discussion and readings from their work, they will explore the complex ways in which violence can shape leftist resistance and everyday life. (Bonus of low-key participatory self-defense exercises).

Sarah Leon Guerrero, Will Parrish, Tom Wetzel, Steve Ongerth

With the global warming emergency upon us and other destructive effects of capitalism, we need to think about the alternative. What is is our vision of eco-socialism? And what is our strategy to achieve this social transformation? A discussion sponsored by the East Bay Syndicalists Group.

Enrique C. Ochoa, Gilda L. Ochoa

Presenters will discuss their recent and forthcoming books that address coalition building, solidarity, and resistance since the late 20th century to the present. Particular emphasis will be placed on the use of history, including oral histories and multiple forms of archival research, to challenge exclusionary narratives and reframe our understanding of social movements and revolutionary struggles. Session will include a collective discussion of how others can engage in this research and tie it to current struggles.

An acoustic performance of radical labor music and songs of resistance drawn from the IWW Little Red Songbook, connecting historical worker struggles to today's housing battles in San Francisco. Facing the modern monsters of displacement, real estate speculation, and economic insecurity, members of the San Francisco Tenants and Neighborhood Councils (TANC) use the living tradition of working-class song to build collective courage. Through stripped-down acoustic instruments and shared song, this performance aims to lift spirits, spark conversation around local tenant organizing, and keep a vibrant culture of resistance alive.

Delio Vasquez, James Tracy

Only the second scholarly treatment ever of the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton: I am We is an intellectual history and biography that establishes him as a true philosopher. Newton left behind dozens of unpublished manuscripts analyzing politics, economics, technology, feminist thought, education, philosophy, spirituality, and the sciences – texts presented here for the first time. The book also finally provides a real explanation for Newton's late descent into addiction and madness – a direct effect of US government techniques of cognitive war that targeted his body and mind in ways that remain all too relevant today.

Susan Simensky Bietila, David Solnit, Fernando Martí

This session features a slideshow and discussion on making art for the front lines for demonstrations, campaigns, and movements throughout the years. The session speakers have collaborated with diverse movements on Global Warming, Farm Labor, Immigrant Protection, Indigenous Treaty Rights, Water Protection, Teachers Unionization, Anti-War, just to name a few over the decades.They will discuss the development of the Art Build and how art has transformed activism.

Diana Block, Pam Fadem, Crystal Le

“They say fire doesn't survive without oxygen. Someone on the outside has to keep feeding it. For thirty years, The Fire Inside has been that breath.” Kwaneta Harris, Writer & advocate, currently incarcerated in Texas. The Fire Inside newsletter is a cross-walls collaboration between incarcerated people in California women’s prisons and advocates on the outside who are all dedicated to challenging the carceral monster through ideas, writings and art. In 2026, The Fire Inside, which is produced by the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), is celebrating thirty years of continuous publication, making it the longest running publication for people in women’s prisons in the U.S. This panel will offer an overview of how The Fire Inside is created and the range of topics it has dealt with from forced sterilizations, struggles against deportation, egregious sexual violence, incarcerated trans people, U.S.-held political prisoners and Palestinian prisoners. The workshop will also explore how CCWP’s core commitments to collectivity, inter-generational building and abolitionist feminism have enabled us to sustain this cross-walls endeavor in the face of prison imposed barriers and censorship and discuss the challenges/monsters we expect to be fighting in the future.

Aisha Nizar, Peter Olney, Sam Levens, Gifford Hartman

By understanding production systems and supply chains, and drawing on our own experience, logistics workers can identify chokepoints and vulnerabilities that give us leverage to win. Historically, workers have used this power to take political positions and even to block arms from being shipped to war zones. Examples include ILWU militants refusing to handle shipments to Central America in the 1980's, international solidarity actions stopping the movement of weapons to Gaza, and the mass strike of Italian workers in September 2025 when millions blocked ports, train stations and major roads. These lessons apply to the war on Iran today. This workshop will bring the experiences of veteran organizers to the project of identifying choke points and key areas of leverage to empower workers to act in solidarity against the global monster of war.

Yousef K. Baker

This talk examines the parallel logics behind the ICE raids across the United States, the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, and the Israeli-American war against Iran. Though differing in scale, geography, and relationship to the state, these events share a foundation: the spectacle of state violence used to legitimize coercive power and deflect from deeper structural crises. Across these contexts, legality is mobilized selectively to mark migrants, Muslims, Arabs, and Iranians as threats to order. Together, they reveal a narrative architecture that renders such violence righteous. These parallels are personal to me. I am connected to these places and people not just through my study of them, but also familially and politically. Drawing on my travel to Mexico during the June 2025 bombing campaign against Iran and the ramp-up of ICE raids, this talk thinks through sovereignty, liberalism, and power in order to uncover how colonial legacies operate today. In addition, it uses these different cases to think about the nature of global capitalism and the contemporary nation-state system. It asks: How do we think outside these structures? Can we construct and conjure a borderless global public—or, better yet, a global commons? What would it take to cultivate a utopian political imaginary and disposition in the current context?

Mahnaz Badihian, John Curl, Lucille Lang Day, Greg Pond, the Revolutionary Poets Brigade

Engaging the power of poetry in the struggle for a just world and a green environment, we will explore what poets have done in the past and are doing now.

Antonio Roman-Alcalá

San Franciscan activist/scholar/educator Antonio Roman-Alcalá has spent over two decades in California's social movements organizing around food and farming to confront right wing forces while building a liberated world. His new book North Stars of Emancipation: California's Diverse Food and Farming Movements in Times of Racial Reckoning, based on historical research and interviews with diverse movement leaders, describes how food movements' racial politics and change-making strategies have radicalized in recent decades. Antonio will discuss how the book's lessons apply to our conditions today, including its call for a "North Star" approach to change that pragmatically navigates the here-and-now while aspiring to a world beyond capitalism, colonialism, and the nation-state. How can our movements seek a radical change to society, while also pragmatically navigating problematic political and economic systems not set up to serve us? The book also proposes principles – building on what BIPOC food movements already practice – to both diversify, strengthen, and interweave movements. Join us for candid discussion of where the practical meets the transformative.

Carolyn McConnell, Amanda Roberti

Demonizing women’s exercise of reproductive autonomy is a tactic for controlling women’s reproductive capacities with deep historic roots. Like the witch hunts of the 17th century, attacks on women on welfare, immigrant mothers, and abortion seekers revolve around labelling these women and their choices as monstrous. These attacks on reproductive autonomy serve to divide and conquer and must be seen as the latest effort to extract reproductive labor at a discount. In this panel we will discuss these historic patterns and how activists are fighting back against both stereotyping and policies alike by demanding reproductive autonomy for all.

Chris Dixon, Rachel Herzing, Clare Bayard

In a time of monsters, how do we keep going? This is a question that Chris Dixon’s new book For the Long Haul seeks to answer. In this session, panelists will use the book as a starting-point to discuss how to sustain long-term involvement in transformative social movements. Drawing on personal organizing experiences and movement histories, they will talk about developing the collective conditions – such as modes of organization, practices of care, and methods of planning – that enable people to stick around, fight, and build together.

David Paul, Laura Wells, Roger Harris, Rick Sterling, Gerry Condon, Karl Kramer, Angela Marino, and Alice Loiza

The 41-year-old anti-imperialist human rights group Task Force on the Americas will report back on the struggle in Latin America and the Caribbean based on visits and close collaborations with activists in Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras, Venezuela, Colombia, and El Salvador.

Dave Zirin

This is a presentation about a new, deeply researched biography of Howard Zinn, the beloved author of the classic national bestseller with more than four million copies sold, A People's History of the United States, and of course the inspiration for our great annual book fair! The People’s Historian shows Zinn’s presence on the great canvases of the 20th century: from the Depression to World War II to the Civil Rights Movement to the war in Vietnam all the way until his death in 2010. With intimately researched stories from Zinn’s life and career, The People’s Historian explores Zinn’s past while also demonstrating how his 75 years of political engagement with the social struggles of his time informs our perilous present.

Hy Thurman, Jesse Montgomery

Hy Thurman, author of Revolutionary Hillbilly and founding member of both the Young Patriots Organization (YPO) and Original Rainbow Coalition, interviewed by Jesse Montgomery, author of the recent It Is Not Enough to Survive: The Young Patriots Story. Formed in the late 1960s, the Young Patriots Organization was a Chicago-based radical group made up of young white migrants from Appalachia and the South who, along with the Young Lords, helped found Black Panther activist Fred Hampton’s Rainbow Coalition. The YPO grew from a local street gang into a powerful political and social force in the city’s Uptown neighborhood, where it fought against police brutality, racism, economic exploitation, and displacement through community organizing, the establishment of survival programs, and working-class cultural organizations. In the summer of 1969, the Patriots traveled from Chicago to participate in the Black Panther Party’s United Front Against Fascism, a pan-ethnic, pan-tendency, gathering of New Left groups that were convened to defend the people against an increasingly tyrannical state. As a group of poor white revolutionaries, the YPO’s participation was especially notable. In this interview, we plan to discuss the history of the YPO, their work with the Panthers, and the lessons this story of anti-racist working class organizing holds for those fighting fascism today.

Benjamin Heim Shepard, Laurie Wen

We both believe in the power of social movements, as well as the need for oral histories tracing the lost stories, underground tributaries of resistance and activism. Throughout this workshop, we trace examples of oral histories as means of resistance, opening stories, recalling struggles from New York, Hong Kong, San Francisco, and Berlin. From there, we will engage the audience in a conversation and group oral history process on taking on monsters, sharing stories of collective struggles, and building communities of resistance. Everyone has a story worth sharing.

Steve Early, Mark Smith, Oscar Arbulo, Suzanne Gordon, Josh Zeier

The murder of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) nurse Alex Pretti during anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis last winter highlighted the role of federal workers in resistance to the Trump Administration. This workshop features two VA care-givers, a VA patient, and a healthcare reform advocate who will describe the on-going community-labor struggle to prevent the VA from being de-funded and dismantled. The panel will also report on union mobilization of military vets within their own ranks, efforts to build cross-union unity among federal labor organizations, and “Save The VA” coalition building with veterans’ groups and healthcare reformers.

Aya de Leon, Zach Norris, Kimi Lee, JK Fowler

In a corporate funded two-party system, the left has been rightfully suspicious of electoral politics. Join these authors and organizers to discuss how social justice movements are currently contesting for power in the electoral terrain, as well as the cultural strategies--including books--that are an important part of that effort.

Michael Doan, Myrtle Denice-Thompson

James and Grace Lee Boggs were two of the most influential American radical thinkers of the twentieth century. Over the course of more than forty years of partnership and participation in labor, civil rights, Black Power, anticolonial, and feminist movements, they articulated a revolutionary philosophy called “dialectical humanism.” Rejecting state socialism and traditional Marxism, dialectical humanism instead attributes social change to the conscious, collective activity of people engaged in place-based organizing with a view to transforming everyday life. In this session, the presenters (both members of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership) introduce a newly released book, Rehearsing the Future: The Thought and Practice of James and Grace Lee Boggs (AK Press, 2026), which lays out the intellectual history of dialectical humanism, the far-reaching theory and practice that continues to inspire visionary organizing and emergent strategy around the world.

Julia Harte, Persis Karim

This conversation will spotlight the stories of individual Americans and Iranians who transcended geographic, ideological, and political borders, seeking solidarity with other freedom-seeking movements while being demonized and persecuted by domestic and foreign authorities. It will feature a director of a recent documentary about Iranians who moved to the Bay Area since the 1970s, forging alliances with civil rights movements in their new home, and the author of a new book about Americans who traveled abroad to join revolutionary liberation causes and were targeted by the U.S. government as a result. The discussants will explore what motivated these individuals throughout their perilous trajectories, what made their forms of transnational resistance so threatening to repressive regimes at home and abroad—and what we can all learn from them about applying universal principles of social justice in a truly universal way.

Lara Sheehi, Arlene Eisen

PART I, Dialogue:(approx. ½ the time). From Brooklyn to Beirut; from the 1960’s to today; from liberatory psychoanalysis to organized anti-imperialist women’s struggles, this conversation between the speakers will share insights from our practice and writing. Our aim is to arm all of us for protracted struggle against both the psychological warfare and overt state repression waged by the genocidal Empire. PART II: Participatory Workshop (1/2 time). We’ll encourage further exploration and questions from the group by offering prompts such as: What work, psychic and strategic, might we need to sustain our spirit and capacity to struggle as the U.S. intensifies genocide and militarized and psychological warfare worldwide? Where do we get our inspiration? What specifically, can we learn from people, especially women, who have challenged Empire? What is the relationship between psychological warfare and fascist patriarchy? How do we organize resistance against the psychic and military machinery of Empire?

Blanca Missé, Michael Hale

This panel will discuss how to confront the Trump administration's attack on civil liberties and immigrant rights. From the defense campaigns for Tom Alter, Prairieland, to the resistance emerging in LA and Minneapolis against immigration raids, we'll explore what it takes to fight back against the multifaceted oppression our class faces. Defending our communities means uniting immigrant organizing against detention camps and deportations with the collective power of organized labor and broad united front campaigns. This panel is sponsored by the The United Left Platform (ULP): International Marxist Humanist Organization, Socialist Horizon, Solidarity, Speak Out Socialists, Tempest Collective, and Workers Voice.

Michael Ellsberg, Jan R. Thomas, Judith Ehrlich, Patricia Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg's posthumous book, Truth and Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance, and Hope (Bloomsbury, March 2026) draws from 50 years of entries in his personal notebooks, starting with the year he released the Pentagon Papers. An Ordinary Insanity, a newly released 29-minute documentary film, features Ellsberg's wisdom and warning on the growing danger of nuclear war. This session brings film and book together: first with book talks by co-editors Michael Ellsberg and Jan Thomas, interspersed with excerpts from the film, followed by Q&A with the co-editors and Oscar- & Emmy-nominated filmmaker Judith Ehrlich.