Sheela Ivlev, Dr. Lateef McLeod, Leroy F.Moore Jr., Nida Liftawiya
Across movements and borders, disabled communities of color have long resisted colonialism, racism, and ableism—not through institutions, but through each other. This panel shares global perspectives on what care looks like when systems abandon—or actively target—our communities.
Panelists will share stories where people have built liberatory forms of care with limited resources. We’ll explore how global disability justice movements are fighting co-optation, resisting supremacist systems, and reclaiming storytelling, culture, and healing as tools of resistance. This session is meant to spark action in building collective care grounded in resistance—not reform. It’s not about inclusion, it’s about liberation!
Moazzam Sheikh
My talk will explore the complicity of American fiction using examples from novels written by American authors. My talk will highlight the ways in which American fiction writers have touched on Israel either as if it's a country like any other, victim of aggression or dealing with conflict but never bothering to go deeper or probe the nature of its existence, from settler colonialism to apartheid to occupation.
Anakhbayan Collective, City College of San Francisco
Students from City College of San Francisco discuss ways to connect local, campus and international solidarity organizing.
Eric Mann
A talk based on his work with CORE, SDS, the United Auto Workers, and the Labor/Community Strategy Center and his books Katrina’s Legacy—U.S. genocidal climate crimes from New Orleans to the Third World and Playbook for Progressives: The 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer.
Carol Costa, Roger Harris, Gerry Condon, David Paul, Rick Sterling, Marilyn Langois
The Task Force on the Americas, a 39-year-old human rights activist organization, reports back on the positive examples of Latin American countries and grassroots movements offering a vision of a better world, resisting US imperialism .
Sarah Alzanoon and Jamie Swanton
This presentation explores the life experiences of a Palestinian refugee through her grandparents’ powerful stories of a Palestine before Zionism and then surviving the Nakba. Despite the Zionist entities’ current genocide wiping the family name from the civil registry, Sarah Alzanoon continues the fight for a free Palestine in the diaspora. Specifically looking at the long history of the Zionist mission to dismantle the Palestinian medical infrastructure, Sarah, along with Jamie Swanton from Healthcare Workers for Palestine, focus on the continuing Palestinian-led resistance to Zionism through education and action in the diaspora as well as the fight for a liberated Palestine in the U.S. by Healthcare Workers for Palestine. The presentation includes sections from the Al Jazeera documentary, “The Disappearance of Dr. Abu Safiyah” and time for questions and discussion. We will also have zines, pamphlets, handouts and other resources on Zionism as racism and settler-colonialism created by Palestinians in the diaspora and anti-Zionist organizers.
