Facilitated By: Elisabeth Long

Audience: Open to All

Description: As fascism rises, the state is increasing its use of surveillance, criminalization, and repression to target movements for liberation and justice. Yet many of us and our organizations lack specific, agreed-upon principles of how to keep our movements as safe as possible from these ongoing attacks while we continue to be big and bold in challenging the current racial, economic, and social order. If we want our movements to succeed, we must change this.

To understand what the state is doing today, we need to remember what it has done in the past. This workshop will ground participants in historical examples of state repression, analysis drawn from on-the-ground lessons and experiences, and principles for collective resistance to these attacks that not only protect but also build our movements. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of how the state targets liberatory movements, specific actions they can take to protect and defend their organizations and an orientation to security that balances the need to be well-informed and prepared with the need to build mass movements that can win. 

Facilitated By: Ben Lorber

Audience: Open to Everyone

Description: Antisemitism is a form of injustice that impacts all of us. And today, authoritarians in power are twisting the fight against antisemitism to serve their own purposes--stifling movements against Israel's genocide in Gaza, attacking universities, deporting students, and undermining democracy. Christian Zionism is one powerful, and often invisible force behind these campaigns, and behind US support for Israel more broadly. Millions of American Christians support Israel because of Biblical prophecies about the End Times, and these antisemitic, anti-Palestinian beliefs are also a cornerstone of Christian nationalism in America, the deeply exclusionary movement to turn America into an authoritarian 'Christian nation' that impacts women, LGBTQ folks, and practically everyone else.

Now more than ever, we can't let these forces divide us. We need an intersectional, justice-driven agenda to fight antisemitism, Christian Zionism and rising authoritarianism with solidarity. In this workshop, we'll work together to understand these intertwined forms of oppression and explore how to counter them together.

Facilitated By: Angelica Euseary

Audience: Open to Everyone

Description: This yoga class will be a 50-minute, beginner-friendly, yoga flow. We will be flowing to Pop, R&B, Reggaeton, and Hip-Hop music. Throughout the class, I will be sharing my journey as a yogi and what it means to yoke as a community, especially right now. I will also share ways that we can connect with each other during the conference in-person and emphasize the gratitude I have for being able to connect virtually and flow in community. I will also draw connections between the practice of yoga and the conference theme of getting together and becoming a liberated ecosystem. After our flow, I will guide participants through a 10-minute Loving-Kindness Meditation where we manifest and send love to ourselves, to loved ones, and throughout the world. After our meditation, I will have the last 10 minutes available for those who would like to reflect on the experience and share contact information, if interested.

Facilitated By: David Dean

Audience: Open to All

Description: With particular focus on Palestine, we'll discuss how the rich and powerful have for centuries used settler colonialism as a weapon to divide and rule over the global 99%. Through this, we'll come to clearly see how all of our well-being depends on decolonization, Palestinian freedom, and global justice. We'll consider how these truths can help us build a powerful mass movement based in a profound commitment to both solidarity and repair. This experience will include engaging presentations as well as time for small and large group reflection. The session will expand upon David's essay, "The "Set-Up" of Settler Colonialism: From the US, to Ireland, to Palestine," which we ask that participants read or listen to prior to our time together.

Facilitated By: Karla Hargrove

Audience: Open to Everyone

Description: In a world grappling with the weight of racial injustice, repair must begin within. Recovery for the Creative Healer is an immersive workshop designed for artists, activists, therapists, educators, and caregivers—those who carry both the burden of advocacy and the gift of healing. Rooted in the summit's theme of repair, this session offers a sacred space to restore the inner landscape through mindful poetry, guided meditation, and creative expression.

Participants will explore the restorative power of language and presence, using mindfulness as a compass to navigate emotional fatigue, racialized trauma, and vicarious grief. Together, we’ll breathe, write, reflect, and reconnect to the creative force within us that resists, reimagines, and rebuilds.

Workshop Take-aways:

• A collection of healing poems and affirmations (your own and others’)

• Tools for grounding and resilience through mindfulness practices

• A renewed connection to your creative voice as a site of liberation and restoration

As a community, we'll create an emotional container for those who give so much to others and need a moment to return home to themselves.

No prior writing or meditation experience required. Open to all identities and bodies.

Facilitated By: Cynthia Garcia

Audience: Open to Everyone

Description: Join us for a dynamic and interactive session exploring how immigrant justice is vital to building a thriving liberation ecosystem. Through stories, strategy, and solidarity, we’ll uncover how immigrant-led movements are shaping a just future for all. Together, we’ll map connections between migration, systemic oppression, and community care — and co-create visions of collective freedom where no one is left behind.

Facilitated By: ananda de oliveira mirilli and Colleen Butler

Audience: Open to All

Description: In a time when DEI efforts are under attack and many organizations are questioning how to stay committed, the nINA Collective offers hard-earned insights from the frontlines. Drawing from our work with more than 80 organizations and 200+ individuals across 13 states and a wide range of sectors, including women’s sports, healthcare, education, local government, and nonprofits, this session will explore what’s working. We’ll share highlights from our recently released brief on transformational strategies for turbulent times, focusing on the practical tools and mindsets that are helping organizations not just survive, but move closer to justice. Whether you're navigating backlash, burnout, or big transitions, this session is designed to re-energize your purpose and sharpen your approach.

Facilitated By: Eva Wingren

Audience: White People but Open to All

Description: Answering the call from Black organizers for white people to organize their own communities, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) has brought thousands of white people in hundreds of communities into movements for racial justice. SURJ offers concrete ways for white people to take action in solidarity with national groups that represent and are accountable to BIPOC communities. Along the way, members deepen their understanding of how race and class are used to divide us and weaken our collective power. Members develop organizing and leadership skills while practicing a "shared interest" approach that emphasizes what white people stand to gain by fighting racism. This session will introduce participants to the conversation skills used by SURJ organizers to move people from nearly anywhere on the political spectrum into anti-racist action. text goes here