Join us for two days of discussion about social movements, the radical imagination and the struggle for a better world.

Details

• September 19, 2014: 4:30 – 9 pm
• September 20, 2014: 10:30 am – 4 pm
• Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen St.
• Free.
• Please pre-register (below) for lunch.

Schedule and speakers

September 19

5-6:30 pm, Panel I: Building Radical Community

• Chris Dixon: “For the Long Haul: Care, Intention, and Steadiness in Radical Organizing”
• El Jones: “Making Revolution Irresistible: Is Art Radical?”
• Sherry Pictou: “Indigenous Struggles over Natural Resources and Alliance Building”

7 pm, Triple Book Launch

• Chris Dixon’s Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transofrmative Movements
• Max Haiven and Alex Khasnabish’s The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity
• El Jones’ Live from the Afrikan Resistance!

September 20

11am-12:30, Panel II: Radicalism Beyond Privilege

• Alexis Shotwell: “‘Interdependence Means Fight’: Queer Disability Lessons on how to Live in Unbearable Times”
• Andrea Smith: “Igniting a Radical Mothering Movement”
• Ardath Whynacht: “Against Autonomy: Thoughts on Mad Pride, Youth-led Movements and Activist Neoliberalism”

12:30, Lunch & Activist Information Exchange

2-3:30 pm, Panel III: Learning from Struggle

• John Munro: “Imagining a World without Empire: Some Lessons from the Twentieth Century”
• Isaac Saney: “Lessons from Cuba: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality & Revolution”