Harsha Walia, Program Friday, October 6 Location: Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey School, University of MN-West Bank campus (Dakota Territories) 6:00pm-8:00pm – Plenary Panel Event: Nick Estes, Ricardo Levins Morales, K-Sue Park, and Harsha Walia Her research focuses on the history of dispossession, displacement, real estate creation and development in Nick Estes (Kul Wicasa Sicangu Tintonwan) holds a BA North America. Her dissertation, entitled “If Your World and MA in history from the University of South Dakota Was Built on Dispossession: Strategies of Conquest and is currently a PhD candidate in American Studies by Settlement in America,” gives an account of the at the University of New Mexico. Born and raised along early development of racial capitalism in America by the Mni Sose (Missouri River), much of Estes’ previous examining the legal tools that white settlers developed research focused on the river’s environmental history to dispossess indigenous peoples of land and expand the and politics of the Pick-Sloan dams, federal Indian real property markets that produced colonial wealth. policy, South Dakota political history, and the Oceti Her article, “Mortgages, Money and the Conquest of Sakowin (The Seven Council Fires or “The Great Sioux America,” appeared in the Fall 2016 issue of Law and Nation”). Historian by training, he also incorporates Social Inquiry. critical Indigenous studies, oral history, decolonization methodologies, settler colonial theory, affect theory, Harsha Walia is an author and activist who is formally and new materialism into his current research. Estes’ trained in the law. She immigrated from India and work interrogates the political economy of the northern currently resides in Vancouver, on the lands of the Great Plains, the politics of property, land tenure, Indigenous Coast Salish people, and works as an resource extraction, border town violence, Indigenous advocate in the poorest postal code in Canada. Harsha internationalism, Lakota treaties and history, and human is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism, and her rights. writings have appeared in over fifty academic journals, anthologies, and magazines. She has also been active Ricardo Levins Morales describes himself as a “healer in anti-racist, migrant justice, Indigenous solidarity, and trickster organizer disguised as an artist.” He was feminist, anti-imperialist, and Palestine solidarity born into the anti-colonial movement in his native movements for over a decade. As an activist, Harsha is a Puerto Rico and was drawn into activism in Chicago cofounder of the migrant justice group No One Is Illegal when his family moved there in 1967. He left high school and Radical Desis. She is an organizer in the Annual early and worked in various industries, and over time Women’s Memorial March Committee, South Asian began to use his art as part of his activism. This activism Network for Secularism and Democracy, and Defenders has included support work for the Black Panthers and of the Land network, and is co-creator of the film Young Lords to participating in or acting in solidarity “Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the with farmers, environmental, labor, racial justice and Downtown Eastside.” peace movements. Increasingly he has come to see his art and organizing practices as means to address individual, Evening: collective and historical trauma. He co-leads workshops - reception after the plenary on trauma and resilience for organizers as well as trainings on creative organizing, social justice strategy Party options later in the evening: and sustainable activism, and mentors and supports Bars nearby: The Republic, Palmers Bar, The Nomad young activists. His art has won numerous awards but World Pub (note there will be a cover charge on Friday the greatest affirmation is the uses to which is has been night), Triple Rock, Dangerous Man Brewing put by grassroots movements and communities. Restaurants nearby: The Red Sea, Malabari Kitchen, Dilla’s Restaurant, The Republic, Jewel of India K-Sue Park is the Critical Race Studies Fellow at Dance party: the UCLA School of Law. Previously, she was a legal SOUL FRIDAY at the Nomad Pub, 501 Cedar Ave aid attorney on the Texas-Mexico border, where she 10pm-2am specialized in investigating predatory mortgage lending Soul Friday is a semi-monthly dance party created and providing foreclosure and eviction defense. She for QUEER WOMEN of COLOR and friends. holds a JD from Harvard Law School and received her Spinning the best in old school, R&B, old and new Ph.D from the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. hip-hop and more…. ($7 cover / 21+) Saturday, October 7 Locations: 2) Midtown Global Market - Community Room 1) Division of Indian Work (DIW) 920 E. Lake St., Minneapolis 1001 E. Lake St., Minneapolis (across the street from each other) 8:00am-8:45am – BREAKFAST and • Transfeminismo, or a Transnational Critique of REGISTRATION Masculinity, Ana Baginski, UC Irvine • “Empty Lands” to “Empty Signifiers”: Nativism, Location: DIW Race, Gender, and National Populism, Jasmine Noelle Yarish, Abolition Collective 8:45am-9:15am – Opening Ceremony led • (moderator: Ray Noll) by Jim Thunderhawk Location: DIW Abolition, Decolonization and the Politics of Pleasure & Play 9:15am-10:30am – SESSION I (location: DIW Dakota Lodge) • Black Pleasure as a Political Project, Jallicia Jolly, Abolitionist Strategies in Brazil and the US to Counter Abolition Collective Police/Penal Terror against Anti-Racist Activists • A Field of Dreamers: Place, Space, and Belonging in (location: Midtown Global Market - Community Room) Toronto’s Recreational Softball Leagues, Craig Fortier Debora Maria: The mother of a black youth killed by & Colin Hastings, Abolition Collective the police and founder of Maes de Maio (Mothers • The Rent is Too Damn High: Place-making as politic, of May) a coalition against police violence in Brazil. Scz, Abolition Collective (*skype*); Jalil Muntaquim: Former member of the • Race, Colonialism, and the Politics of Indian Sports BPP/BLA, political prisoner, author, prison educator Names and Mascots, Kevin Bruyneel, Abolition and activist; Mumia Abu-Jamal/EMAJ: Political Collective prisoner, author, activist. (*invited via skype*); Co-facilitators: Jaime Alves, Abolition Collective/ CUNY-Staten Island; Dina Alves, Catholic University 10:30am-10:45am – BREAK of Sao Paulo; and Joy James, Abolition Collective/ Williams 10:45am-12:45pm – SESSION II Radical Fronterizas: Pláticas of Surviving and Resisting the Borderlands State Violence Beyond Borders: U.S., Israel, and (location: DIW Conference Room 1) Tactics of Control Cynthia Bejarano, Judith Flores Carmona, and Manal (location: DIW Second Start) Hamzeh Jewish Voice for Peace – Twin Cities and Palestinian Youth Movement Mino bimaadiziwin under the border: A spatial analysis of Indigenous time and movement between Speaking Our Truths, Mapping Our Stories: the US and Canada Cartography and Decolonial Activism (location: DIW Boardroom) (location: DIW Boardroom) Elsa Hoover, Algonquin Anishinaabe artist-architect/ Annita Lucchesi, Southern Cheyenne scholar and writer PhD student in Critical Cultural, Social, & Political Thought at the University of Lethbridge Gender and Sexuality Panel (location: DIW Second Start) Abolitionist Strategy and Vision • LGBTQ Migrant Returnees Creating Survival (location: DIW Conference Room 1) Strategies in Mexico, Sandibel Borges, Assistant Critical Resistance – Oakland Chapter Professor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Ain’t No Justice…It’s Just Us: Transformative Justice & Community Accountability 101 Health Panel (location: DIW Dakota Lodge) (location: DIW Dakota Lodge) Lena Palacios, Abolition Collective member and • Imperial Medicine: A Settler Colonialist Critique Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality of the US Health Care System, Anthony Jimenez Studies, University of Minnesota Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology University of Minnesota • The Clinic as Border Checkpoint: The Institutional Demilitarize! An Asian American Proposal for Intersections of Health and Immigration Decolonization Enforcement in Arizona, Erin Hoekstra, Abolition (location: Midtown Global Market - Community Room) Collective/University of Minnesota Juliana Hu Pegues, Anh-Thu Pham, Eunha Wood, RadAzns Collective 3:20pm-3:40pm – BREAK 12:45pm-2:05pm – LUNCH 3:40pm-4:55pm – SESSION IV 2:05pm-3:20pm SESSION III Dream Justice – Keeping A Radical Imagination Under Trump Abolition and the Carceral State (location: DIW Boardroom) (location: DIW Conference Room 1) Keno Evol – Black Table Arts • “Mass Incarceration” as Misnomer, Dylan Rodríguez, Abolition Collective, University of California Humanitarian Intervention in the Borderlands Riverside and Critical Resistance (location: DIW Second Start) • “we are going further, past reform, to wonder”: • Abolitionist Care in the Militarized Borderlands, Notes on an Abolitionist Reentry Praxis, Renée M. China Medel, Ph.D., University of North Carolina- Byrd, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Chapel Hill Humboldt State University • Demilitarizing the Imagination: No More Deaths, • Lessons of Border Imperialism and Penal Abolition: Reporting Human Rights Abuses and Shifting the Democracy, the Rule of Law, and Other Utopias, Conversation along the US-Mexico Border, John Michael J. Coyle, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Washington, freelance journalist Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, • Border as Crisis: Sovereignty