Registration for this event will open in May.
Inspired by Kinfolk Tech’s monument to Philadelphia's No Arena Movement—when communities in Chinatown, Black North Philadelphia, and across the city organized in solidarity to defeat a proposed 76ers arena that would have displaced thousands—this session examines how collective power emerges when communities refuse to be pitted against each other. The fight wasn't just about stopping one development; it was about Asian, Black, Latinx, and working-class white Philadelphians recognizing that gentrification, displacement, and corporate extraction are interlocking systems of oppression that require interlocking resistance.
We explore how movements archive solidarity in action, how coalitions preserve the memory of standing together across difference, and how communities document their victories to teach future generations that another world is possible when we organize as one. Through conversations with organizers, oral historians, and cultural workers from cross-racial justice movements, we ask: how do we remember coalition-building as intentional practice, not accident? How do archives capture the hard work of solidarity—the translation, the trust-building, the showing up across lines of race, language, and neighborhood? How does preserving these stories equip us to resist the divide-and-conquer tactics that capital always deploys? This session treats the archive as a site of solidarity itself: when we remember together, we build power together. No one is free until we're all free—and the archive must reflect that truth.
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