Join us for a teach-in on May 25th hosted at Human Resources!

labor & collective action as resistance will explore how collective action can be applied to the spaces we inhabit. In awe of hundreds of organizing students and faculty across the US and beyond, we come together to share cooperative strategies as both lineage and fuel to the momentum of mass mobilizing. A series of invited speakers will discuss their work and experiences as organizers and union workers from the tech industry to the university to the museum. They will share ways to activate our work for a liberated Palestine and continue to build our toolkit for ongoing resistance in our every day. How does this tradition of people organizing show us ways we can pose an existential threat to American empire and what new modes are being born? When tactics can be shared, practiced, and mobilized together – the people have power. RSVP here!

Speakers

Jackie Johnson is finishing her PhD in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies at USC. Over the past year and a half, she has helped organize Graduate Student Workers including serving on the bargaining team for the union’s first contract.

Meryem Kamil is an assistant professor of Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine. Her research is on Palestinian uses of technology. She has been a Palestine organizer since 2009, working on divestment campaigns at UC San Diego, University of Michigan, and through the UC-wide coalition of Faculty for Justice in Palestine.

Gabi Schubiner is a founding worker-organizer with No Tech for Apartheid. They reside in Brooklyn and imagine a world where the conditions of Tech labor support global liberation.

Dana Kopel is a writer, editor, and union organizer currently pursuing a PhD in US history at UCLA, where her research focuses on labor and leftist organizing during the later twentieth century.

Amara Higuera is an artist and educator who began her teaching journey in the 74% Latinx LAUSD school district where 59% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. She began developing an anti-oppressive pedagogy while there. She was recently published in the anthology Cultivating Critical Conversations in Art Education, co-published with fellow educators who she started her organizing journey with.

Co-organizers

Amara Higuera & 

Anna Cho-Son is an artist and writer and currently works as a community programs manager at a food hub located in South Central LA. She was previously the curator and editor at Active Cultures. She studied Fine Arts and Food Studies.

Presented by

untune is an organism reliant on the contribution of interchanging parts —a social experiment in building support and natural resources with parameters continually reset to remain grounded in current issues relating to the correlation between culture, ecology, and food sovereignty—a creative entity for learning and supporting the teachings of Indigenous wisdom and ecological knowledge—within and outside a curatorial fieldwork.

Additional Notes

We encourage participants to arrive at 11am for tea & coffee* and stay throughout the day. The program of speakers will be from 11:20am-2:15pm (15 minute midpoint break included). Speakers will gather at the end of individual presentations for a Q&A panel and discussion.

Masks are required for this event and free masks will be available at the door. Testing encouraged! HR is physically accessible with a small ramped entrance and ADA-compliant bathroom. Event will be held in English.

*Bring your own mugs or tumblers if you can

Please remember to RSVP