Only certain events at the confluence are part of the “workshop streams.” There will be other workshops, trainings, performances, exercises, and activities throughout.

There are a few events that are not scheduled at the same time as anything else. These are:

* Opening Ceremony with Tom Porter, Thursday July 31st, 7:30 - 9pm
We are honored and grateful to welcome Tom Porter, an Elder in the Mohawk community of Kanatsiohareke.

* Cages & Walls, Friday August 1st, 2 - 3:45pm
Description: Exploring the connections between the prison-industrial complex, colonial borders, and the state’s apparatus of occupation and political repression is the focus of this panel. There is an ongoing daily disaster of families being split apart, people being caged and warehoused in unprecedented levels, and communities of color being targetted, criminalized, and displaced. When unnatural disasters like Hurricane Katrina occur, reality is exposed. As climate change accelerates with more severe storms, higher fuel prices, increasing food costs and food shortages, and many more displaced people, what tools with those in power use to maintain their positions, and at whose expense?

Who:

Ashanti Alston - Jericho Movement, APOC, and former Black Panther and BLA political prisoner

Sundiata Sadiq - Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition (NYC)

Dorotea Manuela - Jamaica Plains Rapid Response Network

Leslie Jones - S.T.A.M.P. and Guerrilla Griots

Marta Rodríguez - Puerto Rican independentista, Jericho Boston and New England Committee to Defend Palestine

* Indigenous Struggles for Land, Saturday August 2nd, 2 - 3:45pm

The “United States” is a colonial settler state. Its entire history must be understood as the violent conquest of land, the basis of its global expansion as an empire. The “US” has played a key role in collaborating with and propping up other colonial settler states like “South Africa” and “Israel”. This panel will explore some of the historical parallels between indigenous peoples’ experiences of colonization and resistance. The panel will be led by indigenous people and will focus on the central importance of land in the struggle for liberation. The purpose of the panel is to develop concrete strategies for supporting indigenous movements to liberate land.

A finalized list of participants and moderator for this panel will be released shortly.

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The time block from 4 - 5pm each day will be for a wide variety of rotating and repeating events:

• Mental Health check-ins
• Self-Defense
• Anti-Authoritarian Games
• Massage Skil-Share Level 1
• Massage Skill-Share Level 2
• Plant Walks
• DIY Reproductive Health
• Seed Sharing
• Radical Love and Friendship Check-Ins
• Rad Music Strategy Session

Film Screenings (presented with discussions to follow):

• Green Guerrillas Blockumentary v2: Food Clothes Shelter Community
• In-House Freestyle: “Sketching Reality”
• PMS Media
• Red Hill Films: “Walkin’ to New Orleans”
• “Greensboro: Closer to the Truth”
• “Carbon Connection”
• Prout Economics