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Mendenhall Laboratory - Ohio State University

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The Theme

The theme for the Confronting Racism: Building United Movements conference will be “Connecting the dots: racism and issues of global capitalism.” We envision a conference with workshops and action-oriented discussions exposing the interconnectedness of racism with issues of global capitalism affecting us locally such as;

• affordable housing • employment justice
• access to healthcare • public transportation
• immigration • environmental and food justice
• police brutality and prison abolition • physical and sexual violence
• queer & trans liberation • indigenous solidarity
• militarism, and more.

This is an opportunity to examine our common ground within seemingly separate issues and develop a unified voice of resistance against global capitalism and imperialism as we continue building a collective liberation movement in Ohio. We are committed to building an anti-racist, anti-imperialist, multiracial, feminist, queer and trans liberationist, anti-authoritarian movement against global capitalism and promoting the understanding that there are multiple valid approaches to doing this work. Please come and let us hear your voice.

Workshop Highlights Include:

1) Employee Free Choice: Your Rights to Organize – SEIU

2) Working in Solidarity with Communities on the Frontlines – Rainforest Action Network

3) The History of Hip Hop and Social Justice - Victorio Reyes of Broadcast Live

4) Confronting the Racist Court System: Community Alternatives &
Strategies for Taking Action - Community Accountability Action Collective

5) Histories of Race and Racialization: a critical genealogy of race. - Damon Berry and Andrew Culp, OSU Comparative Studies graduate students

6) Beyond Gentrification: “Bronzeville Garden,” Community Building Future with our Past. - King Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association

7) Latino Workers in Ohio: Migration and Capitalism - Dan La Botz

8) Johnny, What do you Learn at the University?: White-Supremacist, Capitalist Patriarchy in the Academic Industrial Complex - Errol Lam & Joelle Ruby Ryan

9) “The Alibi’s” - IMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY

10) “Reimagining Each Other”: A Community Roundtable - Melanie Beaudette, Ph.D. student in Women’s Studies at OSU

11) "Workshop on Palestine.": Apartheid & the Boycott Divestment & Sanctions Movement – OSU Committee for Justice in Palestine

Additional Information:

The The Organize Cbus Collective website is at http://organizecbus.blogspot.com/

The Organize Cbus Collective  would like to thank Catalyst Project, LeftTurn Magazine, SOUL, Colors of Resistance, organizers at the BASTARD conference, and many others for providing us inspiration in both language and in concept for this conference.

Childcare Available!:

we recognize the importance of trustworthy and accountable childcare services. Parenthood should NOT be a barrier to liberation! If you're planning on coming to the conference and need somewhere for your young revolutionary to kick-it while you're in workshops please fill out the registration form located on our event website: http://organizecbus.blogspot.com/  and email it back to us ASAP

TO RSVP & Register your child(ren) for day-care: send us an email at organizecbus@googlegroups.com

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