Stories and storytelling have been a distinctive and compelling feature of the Zapatista movement since its appearance in 1994. The impulse behind a recent translation of Zapatista stories by an activist translators’ collective will frame the presentation. A brief conceptual summary of the history of the movement will follow, with an emphasis on the 30th anniversary celebration in December and January, and the spate of communiqués that preceded it, announcing a new turn in the Zapatista struggle. Stories for Dreaming…

New Hampshire history is full of people who stepped out of line to challenge patriarchy, violence, racism, capitalism, and other forms of injustice. In many cases they took substantial risks, often suffering imprisonment, assault, even death. Sometimes they met success, other times they lit sparks that led to change over years or decades. Arnie Alpert, creator of nhradicalhistory.org, will introduce us to some of them and tell the story of efforts to place an official marker at the Concord birthplace…

An interactive workshop investigating the impacts of oppression and inequities in the Congo, Gaza, the US, Mali, and elsewhere, along the lines of health, wealth, climate, social media, ethnic conflict, and resilience. We will examine how artists, organizers, women, community and Faith leaders, and youth are responding to these issues. We will tease out concrete steps World Fellowship leadership and members can take. tyty

Kit & Christoph Schmauch share stories of earlier WFC generations, including three generations of World Fellowship leadership from Charles & Eugenia Weller, Willard & Ola Uphaus, and themselves, to others who have made huge contributions to build, grow and sustain WFC. Each life story and legacy will be framed against the backdrop of their unique moments in U.S. and world history. 

Tanya Snyder spent the last three years organizing and then leading a brand-new union at Politico, which everyone said couldn’t be done. After nine months of underground organizing and 20 months of contract bargaining, Politico now has its first-ever collective bargaining agreement. It addresses pay inequity, protects journalists against the threats posed by artificial intelligence and ensures that workers aren’t unfairly targeted by managers. She’ll tell the inside story of how it all happened and invite others to share their…

Michael Evans of the National Security Archive discusses how he used the Freedom of Information Act to document Chiquita's role in Colombia's civil war and talks about his experience serving as a witness in the U.S. civil trial against Chiquita and several of its former executives for funding a Colombian terrorist group. Michael Evans, Editorial Director, Senior Analyst, National Security Archive

Melissa Blue Sky, a Senior Attorney with the Center on International Environmental Law (CIEL), reports on progress toward an international treaty on plastics pollution against the specter of projected tripling rates of plastic waste entering the aquatic ecosystems by 2040. Will we meet the target of a binding agreement by end of 2024?

This fall, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial and economic justice, will be knocking doors and running phonebanks to speak with voters in majority-white counties in key battleground states. Join us to learn how you can participate from wherever you live! SURJ and movement partners have identified Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona as strategic states in which white voters could go either way or stay home,…