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 journalist 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

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.

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.

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

Sara Saleh is a writer, race critical human rights lawyer, and daughter of Palestinian, Lebanese, and Egyptian migrant-settlers based on Darug country

Lisa is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Guam and convener of the Guahan Coalition for Peace and Justice. She is an Indigenous CHamoru campaigning against human rights violations against her people and homeland, which is a military colony of the US

Ahmed is a Palestinian from Gaza, co-founder of Palestine Justice Movement Sydney and creator of the Red Inverted Triangle podcast. He will speak on Palestine: strategies for liberation.

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.