Cultivating Solidarity: Responding to Political Repression

From anti-pipeline protests to Gaza solidarity student encampments to the indictment of forest protectors in Georgia, we are seeing that as conditions worsen and mobilization increases, political repression of social movements is escalating. With widespread organizing against genocide in Gaza and increasingly militant action to defend the planet and on many other fronts, we are moving into a period where social movement participants are facing mounting surveillance and criminalization. In these times, solidarity and support is essential, particularly as efforts to divide and delegitimize resistance abound.

This webinar introduces a new tool developed by abolitionist organizers addressing common talking points that undermine solidarity in the face of repression of movements. It invites journalists, organizers, and writers of all kinds to resist divisive frameworks that stigmatize resistance and legitimize unjust legal systems. The hope is to equip commentators to respond to legal repression with nuance and attention to long histories of legal subjugation. Please join us for a presentation of this tool, a discussion of how these dynamics have been playing out in our movements, and how we can build a more robust shared analysis of what solidarity looks like in these dangerous and pivotal times.
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This event is cosponsored by Community Justice Exchange and Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.

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