HOW WE DO FREEDOM: Rising Against Fascism

V-Day

a daylong educational & inspirational event to fuel us with information, strategies, solidarity & energy to ignite the movement we need now

Judson Memorial Church

JOIN US. On Saturday, 14 September for a daylong educational and inspirational event of speakers, poets, artists, activists to fuel us with information, strategies, solidarity and energy to ignite the movement we need right now.Throughout the day, we will unpack what fascism is in the US and globally and what we can do to combat it. We will explore the impact on all of us from women’s bodies to anti-Blackness and the suppression of LGBTQ+ and the disabled, to the banning of books, erasing history and immigration bans, union busting, increasing violence and expansion of the police state, and the destruction of the Earth.We come together in solidarity, the antidote to loneliness and alienation that are fundamental to fascism.Already confirmed are Abbas Alawieh, Lulu Alryati, Taína Asili, Hettie Barnhill and André Robles of Create A Space Now, Mahogany L. Browne, Rev. Micah Bucey, Colectiva Feminista en Construcción, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Robin Dembroff, Laura Flanders, Bill Fletcher, Alixa García, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Amalia Hochman, Lala B Holston-Zannell, Daniel Martinez HoSang, Vijay Iyer, Meena Jagannath, Guerline Jozef, Anjali Kamat, aja monet, Lori Ro, Jason Stanley, Hameeda Uloomi, Elizabeth Yeampierre, V (Formerly Eve Ensler), Simone Zimmerman AND MORE.The event will be paired with a series that V (formerly Eve Ensler), founder of V-Day/One Billion Rising, is guest editing for The Guardian on this topic featuring Susan Abulhawa, Sophie Binet, Petra Costa, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Laura Flanders, Daniel Martinez HoSang, Mukul Kesavan, Pia Klemp, Gabor Mate, Luisa Rizzitelli, Monica Simpson, Jason Stanley, V, and Terry Tempest Williams.JOIN US: $10 tickets if you would like to purchase more than 6 tickets, please email <a href="mailto:info@vday.org" title="mailto:info@vday.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">info@vday.org</a>.HOW WE DO FREEDOM: Rising Against Fascism Saturday, September 14 from 10-6pm Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South, NYCSponsored tickets are available, please email <a href="mailto:info@vday.org" title="mailto:info@vday.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">info@vday.org</a>.Accessibility: ASL Interpretation will be provided. Judson’s 243 Thompson Street entrance is accessible.

We encourage you to stay for the whole day. Doors will open at 9:30am, and the program will run from 10a-6p. We will offer boxed lunches for sale, and free pizza courtesy of Two Boots Pizza (until it runs out). Following is a snapshot of the program*. REMARKS BY: Rev. Micah Bucey Tiokasin Ghosthorse V (formerly Eve Ensler) Anjali Kamat Hameeda Uloomi Bill Fletcher Lulu Alryati Simone Zimmerman Colectiva Feminista en ConstrucciónPANELS: THE FUCKERY OF FASCISM MODERATOR: Laura Flanders Kimberlé W Crenshaw Daniel Martinez HoSang Jason Stanley ARTIST RESPONSE: Vijay IyerTHE BODY AS THE FRONTLINE MODERATOR: V (formerly Eve Ensler) Lulu Alryati Robin Dembroff LaLa B. Holston-Zannell Lori Ro ARTIST RESPONSE: Hettie Barnhill and André Robles of Create a Space NOWTHE EARTH’S MANIFESTA MODERATOR: Taína Asili Amalia Hochman Karen Washington Elizabeth Yeampierre ARTIST RESPONSE: Alixa GarcíaTHE AUDACITY OF ABOLITION MODERATOR: aja monet Meena Jagannath Guerline Jozef Marbre Stahly-Butts ARTIST RESPONSE: Mahogany L. BrowneHOW WE DO FREEDOM Abbas Alawieh Taína Asili (One Billion Rising) aja monet (VOICES) Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson CLOSING SONG: Taína Asili “We Are Rising”

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