[SOLIDARITY] Arise and Resist With Hope and Resolve

XR Boston will be co-sponsoring this event! It will last from 9:30 am through 5 pm. General Admission tickets cost $35. (Discount for students and financial hardship) To register for the event, fill out this form: https://secure.everyaction.com/JAyJY6Y5Sk2S6cQEXHUeOQ2

From organizers at Mass Peace Action: The purpose of this conference is to bring together a mass movement and situate ourselves in our political reality of repression in the US and genocide in Gaza and creeping annexation in the West Bank. We must work in alliance to build a society based on solidarity, peace and justice. Our work, based here in Massachusetts, will be shaped by national and international developments. We are holding this conference before the inauguration so we can prepare for the crises we will face after January 20.

The goal is to take meaningful steps toward creating a vigorous alliance of coalitions, organizations, unions, houses of worship and other groups and individuals who pursue peace, protection of the earth, the wellbeing of working families, rights to bodily autonomy and reproductive justice, economic justice, and those resisting 400 years of genocide, racism and other oppressions.

During the hard times ahead, we must defend ourselves, protect vulnerable groups, and expand our organizing efforts into broader constituencies. We must activate people who are disengaged and discouraged. We must come together to develop the capacity to shape the flexible strategies needed to survive and succeed during this period.

We face a moment and challenges that are unprecedented in U.S. history. Even before his inauguration Donald Trump is consolidating dictatorial power. His first priorities include the mass deportation of up to 11 million immigrants which will require police state methods and concentration camps.

He encouraged Netanyahu to “finish the job” of genocide in Gaza. The Middle East will remain in dangerous turmoil. The escalating Ukraine war threatens to turn nuclear. Rather than achieve common security with China, we face the possibility of war with Beijing. And the endless wars grind on.

The commitment to a fossil fuel future presents the climate movement with its greatest challenges yet to reverse the increasingly deadly attacks on the earth and life on it. To ensure compliance, Trump plans to imprison political enemies and purge the military of those loyal to the Constitution.

To make wealthy oligarchs richer, the plan is to slash funding for health care, public education, housing and more. With the promised assault on the media and our universities, it will be even more difficult to distinguish truth from fiction.

On January 19, we will hear from national and local speakers, go deep into issues in breakouts, brainstorm solutions, and peruse literature tables.

The conference will be in person only at Roxbury Community College. Sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action, Boston Democratic Socialists of America, American Friends Service Committee, Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine, CD8 for Palestine, and Northshore for Palestine.