Organized Resistance From the Ground Up

{ "name":"Organized Resistance From the Ground Up", "description":"Learn from the best of community organization leadership in this empowering panel, which will get to the bottom of how to build resilient and justice-oriented communities. Jaz Brisack, a leader of the Starbucks and Tesla union movements, narrates their stories from the front lines in the context of current social unrest and shows us how we too can organize our workplaces in Get on the Job and Organize: The Making of a New Labor Movement. Shaping strong organizers requires shaping strong individuals, and James Tracy draws on his book A Southern Panther: Conversations With Malik Rahim to highlight Rahim's unique approach to organizing—updating the politics of intercommunalism, rainbow coalitions, and municipalism—offer vital lessons for today's social movements. Certain identities are unjustly disadvantaged by the “game” of the complex modern world, especially women of color as Vanessa Priya Daniel points out in Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning, a playbook based on interviews with 45 of the most powerful women of color movement leaders of our time. This inspiring discussion, moderated by Christina Heatherton (author of Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution), will lean on our panelists’ valuable experiences to discuss the best strategies for organization—so we can all win.", "startDate":"2025-06-01", "endDate":"2025-06-01", "startTime":"11:00", "endTime":"12:00", "location":"Freight & Salvage", "options":[ "Apple", "Google", "iCal", "Microsoft365", "MicrosoftTeams", "Outlook.com", "Yahoo" ], "timeZone":"America/Los_Angeles", "iCalFileName":"Reminder-Event" }