Speakers

Victor is a socialist and immigrant rights activist located in Los Angeles and with 20 years' experience in movement organising. He will speak at sessions Fighting Trump, Fighting ICE: Eye-witness to Repression and Resistance in the US

Mililma is a Dangglaba Kulumbringin Tiwi organiser and writer who is leading and supporting grassroots action for the liberation of her people and Country in the Northern Territory. Milima will speak at the session Cease Fire: NT and the racist police

Anne is a socialist academic and author of ‘Revolution is the Choice of the People Crisis and Revolt in the Middle East and North Africa', as well as an editor of Middle East Solidarity magazine. Anne will join us via zoom from the UK

Celebrated historian Ann Curthoys participated in the 1965 Australian Freedom Ride, established the Women’s Studies Program at the ANU, and there became the Manning Clark Chair of History. Her new book is The Last Tour: Paul and Eslanda Robeson's Visit to Australia and New Zealand

Solidarity member and award winning author Geraldine Fela will discuss From AIDS to Puberty Blockers: The Battle for LGBTI+ rights in the healthcare system. Geraldine's book Critical Care dives into the role that unionised nurses played in advocating for their patients during the 1980s Aids crisis in Australia, and holds many important lessons for today.

Aunty Rhonda is a Gadigal, Dharug and Yuin Aboriginal Elder, artist, poet and community leader. She will speak on Union power for Black rights: the Aboriginal Waterfront Committee in the 1960s. Her family has a long association with the union movement and struggles for Aboriginal rights and social justice and she is completing a PhD documenting this history.

Dr Stephen Gapps is a historian with research interests in early colonial Sydney and the Frontier Wars. He is author of The Sydney Wars and Gudyarra: The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance. He will speak on the Frontier Wars and his new book Uprising—War in the Colony of NSW 1838-1844.

Rock is the co-ordinator of external affairs of the USTKE (Union of Kanak and Exploited Workers) from Kanaky-New Caledonia and will speak about workers, unions and the struggle against French colonialism in a session on Imperialism and resistance in the Pacific.

Veronica is an Indonesian human rights lawyer and West Papua advocate. She will be speaking on a panel on Imperialism and resistance in the Pacific.

Karina is a Yankunytjatjara woman and a second-generation survivor of British nuclear tests at Emu Fields. She will speak about her family and community’s role in the anti-nuclear movement.