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Take Back Our Cities
A Dialogue for Revolutionaries
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Saturday, November 18
Sponsored by the League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Sponsored by Hip Hop Congress
Suggested Readings:
“Fighting for Human Needs in the 2024 Elections” https://rally-theleague.org/fighting-for-human-needs-in-the-2024-elections/
“The Movement and the Mayor” https://hammerandhope.org/article/brandon-johnson-chicago-teachers-union
Sponsor Featured Speakers and Moderators:
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Ethel Long Scott
for nearly 50 years, she has been a grassroots community organizer, social issues advocate, political campaign strategist, and non-profit Director primarily in the City of Oakland, California. She has worked with labor, the housing insecure, Moms4Housing, the Oakland Renters Strike, and people fighting as essential workers in health justice for poor and disabled people. She is on a mission to increase social and economic justice and economic security and works tirelessly to create opportunities for constructive social change where none seem to exist. She maintains a keen understanding of current public policy, media, and politics, and works cooperatively and effectively with all kinds of people across racial and class lines.
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Arlene Hipp is a resident of Oakland by way of Brooklyn, N.Y. She is a member of Laney College Poor Peoples Campaign and Client Member and Secretary of Bay Area Legal Aid. She is an advisory board member of BARHII (Bay Area Regional Health Initiative Inc.), a member of the East Bay Gray Panthers of Berkeley, and a member of EBHO (East Bay Housing Organization) Regional Policy Committee. She lives at the intersection of housing, health, economic, environmental justice, and civil rights issues, and this continues to motivate her to share information and educate her communities. She advocates for changes to all systems, policies, and laws that continue to cause harm.
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Tim Noonan is a leader of 19th Ward Mutual Aid in Chicago, Illinois. Originally founded by families to help each other during the pandemic, 19th Ward Mutual Aid has been instrumental in the response to the crisis of asylum seekers shipped to Chicago by Texas Governor Abbott. Mutual Aid, which also calls itself Neighbors Helping Neighbors, has also been on the front line addressing Chicago’s homelessness issue that is affecting all kinds of people regardless of color or immigration status. Tim Noonan was an unsuccessful candidate for 19th Ward Alderman in 2023.
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Jasiri X is the co-founder and CEO of 1Hood Media Academy in Pittsburgh PA, a collective of socially conscious artists and activists who utilize diverse skills and resources to increase awareness about and eliminate injustice affecting people around the world. It organizes artistic, educational, cultural, and performance-based forums, provides workshops and curriculum consultation, and provides consultation to artists seeking to establish fruitful independent careers and organizations that seek to establish a culture of equity, art, and activism. 1Hood is made up of creatives who work in, for, and with Black communities to challenge injustice, raise awareness, and unify humanity.
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Eric Sunderland is the former Region 3 Director of the California Democratic Party, former delegate to the Sacramento Central Labor Council, and current member of the Democratic Party of Sacramento County Central Committee. He serves as a director of Organize Sacramento. He was a local leader and Democratic National Convention delegate for Bernie Sanders for President in both 2016 and 2020, and now is campaigning for Flo Cofer for Mayor of Sacramento.
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Liz Gonzalez is from East San José and the daughter of immigrant parents. She began organizing in high school around issues of racial justice in education with Californians for Justice. She is a co-founder of Silicon Valley Debug – a nationally recognized organizing and media collective – working as a media editor and organizing around worker’s rights, immigration issues, against police violence and housing justice issues. She was a leader of Silicon Valley Renters Rights Coalition 2015-19, and the Incorporator and Board President of South Bay Community Land Trust.
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