Workshops

Squatting History: Using Memories of Resistance for Current Direct Action Campaigns
The Bronx has a long history of radical responses to crisis, eviction, and abandonment. This panel will bring together historians, activists and squatters from several generations to share skills and knowledge from past anti-eviction, occupation, and squatting movements. The goal is to support current campaigns and strategies for direct action growing in the city and across the world in response to the current wave of evictions and abandonment.

Hip-Hop Is Our Life, Our Resistance
This interactive workshop reflects upon the importance of hip hop in today's movements. Spirit Child, of Movement in Motion and Mental Notes, will guide us through some hip hop 101 and an autonomous cipher (freestyle session) to highlight hip hop's historical connection with, and ability to inspire and ignite, black and brown liberation movements.

Anarchism and Education
This participatory workshop will explore the ways in which anarchist practices can be used in schools, as teachers, as parents, and as self-educators. We will share basic principles behind deschooling and get to the heart of how we can build an truly alternative way of educating ourselves.

Beyond a Police State
Society and the state tell us that the police are a necessary force that keep us safe. Do they really? What role do the police actually play in our communities and what are alternatives that create genuinely safe and empowering spaces? The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement will explore these questions and discuss knowing your rights when stopped by the police and some alternatives such as cop watch.

Consensus & Liberation: An Introduction
The consensus process is much more than a decision-making tool. It is a creative process that synthesizes the raw materials and ideas each of us brings to group work, while confronting power and rejecting hierarchy. This session is an overview of the consensus process and includes a discussion with groups who use consensus as their decision making model. It is open to anyone who desires to communicate more openly and work more creatively with others.

Afterparty and beyond!