Digital security for activists Are you being surveilled? Yes. Now what are you going to do about it? This training will focus on realistic digital security risks that social movement participants face. We will learn how to: • Navigate these risks. • Adopt protective measures. • Make informed decisions about our online and real-life activities. • Find reliable digital security information. Your trainer is a professor of computer science with a decade of experience providing guidance to activists and movement lawyers. Bring your questions!
2:00 PM- How to PopMob!
When hate groups began holding rallies in PDX, PopMob emerged from a group of locals as a “big tent” approach to anti-fascism. We helped to build big coalitions while encouraging broader community involvement with “everyday anti-fascist” messaging. Best of all, we organized fun, joyful, and adamantly queer counter-protests. With dance parties, inspiring speakers and delicious milkshakes, these events drew massive crowds. Hopelessly outnumbered, far-right groups were forced to fuck off. This model was successful in the urban setting and political climate in which it took place, but far-right groups are still organizing in suburban and rural areas. Moreover, they’re doing so under a political regime which has since normalized violence and hate to even greater extremes. During this discussion we’ll delve into the PDX model, reflecting on what did and didn’t work. We also hope to exchange ideas with other organizers about how this model could be adapted to other parts of Oregon and beyond.
Join a member of the Beehive Collective for an interactive discussion and presentation of their larger-than-life art murals.
They will present a shortened rhyming version of “The Cost of Coal” based off their children’s book. Then delve deep into their opus on corporate colonialism: “MesoAmerica Resiste!”
Mesoamérica Resiste is an epic project that took nine years to complete! This is the third and final installment in the Beehive’s trilogy on globalization in the Americas. The intricate, double-sided image documents resistance to the top-down development plans and mega-infrastructure projects that literally pave the way for resource extraction and free trade. We highlight stories of cross-border grassroots social movements and collective action, especially organizing led by Indigenous peoples.
While focusing on stories from Mexico and Central America, the Bees will weave a much larger narrative about ways people are fighting back against a global economy based on colonialism, land grabs, and exploitation, and building alternative economies, all over the globe. This graphics campaign also celebrates cultural and ecological diversity through a cast of characters that includes hundreds of endemic (and endangered) species of insects, animals, and plants.
1:30 PM- Authentic Relating (AR) Workshop
Authentic Relating (AR) is a practice of deeply honest, emotionally attuned, and consent-based communication that directly challenges the disconnection, exploitation, and dehumanization of capitalism. In a world built on individualism, control, and hierarchy, AR invites us to practice showing up with full presence, vulnerability, and mutual care. It is a tool for cultivating relationships that honor autonomy and collective well-being, creating spaces where we can truly connect and thrive. For anarchists and anti-capitalists, AR is an essential tool for unlearning dominant social patterns. It helps us dismantle internalized hierarchies, reject emotional suppression, and navigate conflict without reinforcing the power dynamics that capitalism thrives on. Through AR, we practice speaking our truth without fear of punishment, listening with genuine curiosity, and building deep, trusting relationships based on shared power, not control. We will do this via fun games and edgy activities.
2:30 PM- Political Prisoner Letter Writing
3:30 PM- Know Your Rights Training
Immigration Know Your Rights: How to Respond and Prepare for Immigration Detentions. In the workshop we’ll cover 1. asserting constitutional rights in the face of ICE, CBP, state and federal police interactions around immigration-related detentions, 2. How to document immigration arrests/harassment if you witness any and how to follow up to beat support community, and 3. Steps to take to prepare for if a detention or deportation happens. Let’s situate our rights and how we practice them in shared liberation and the unequal distribution of oppression.
5.25.25 – Westminster House:
McLean Room Schedule:
3:00 PM- Before it’s Too Late: How to Bargain Transgender Healthcare into your Union Contract
5:00 PM- Kristian Williams talk on Comics Artist Alan Moore, the politics of superheroes, and the role of imagination in the project of universal freedom.
6:00 PM- History and Discussion of the US-Mexico Border
Discussion: History and Ownership in the US:México border including before there was a US or México through the private prisons and now, and how that has impacted human migration and freedom to roam.
Peace Plaza Schedule:
2:00 PM- Gift Economy Gardening
Since 2019 I have operated a local online group that utilizes a gift economy and mutual aid model in the context of food gardening. Members of the group joyfully share seeds, plant starts, pots, tools, soil amendments, and more. This helps to reduce food and plant waste, foster connections between community members, get excess abundance from a place it isn’t needed to a place it will be used, and encourage demonetized community interactions. As we face intensifying capitalist supply chain failures, inflated food prices, and climate change pressure on food production, come learn how you can join in or lead efforts like this in your own community!
5:00 PM- De-escalation training
This is a de-escalation workshop that covers how to handle conflicts primarily in activist settings, which can also be applied to other scenarios. We will cover a lot of information from body language to verbal strategies to how to deal with a mental health crisis. There will be a hands on portion of this workshop to practice if time and space allows
