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Community Lessons for Fighting Fascism: In Honor of Amisha Patel
Friday September 4, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Erie
Organizers and storytellers from across Chicago’s movements speak to what our people will need to carry into the fights against fascism: deep relationships, courage to act amidst uncertainty, self-reflection and healing, and a long-arc strategy to move us past the short-term pain. This session is held to honor the legacy of our sister and comrade, Amisha Patel.

Attendees will receive a free zine (by Tanuja Jagernauth) distilling the highlights of the last piece Amisha Patel wrote, sharing wisdom and resources for facing down fascism together.
Speakers
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Maya Schenwar

Maya Schenwar is director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism. She is also Truthout’s board president. She is the co-editor of We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition; co-author of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reform... Read More →
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Juliet DeJesus Alejandre

Juliet De Jesus Alejandre is executive director of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association.
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Tanuja Jagernauth

Tanuja Devi Jagernauth is an Indo-Caribbean prison-industrial-complex abolitionist, writer, theater maker, conflict tender, and yoga educator who believes in the necessity of creation during times of destruction. Tanuja's writing is inspired by healing justice, caste abolition, and... Read More →
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Katelyn Johnson

Katelyn Johnson is executive director of the Chicago Racial Justice Pooled Fund. Previously, she was executive director of the Blackroots Alliance.
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Rocío García

Rocío García is currently the Senior Organizing Director at Grassroots Collaborative, a coalition of community and labor groups across Chicago and Peoria. She leads the People’s Unity Platform–created to bring together the people’s agenda ahead of the 2024 municipal... Read More →
Sponsors
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Friday September 4, 2026 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Erie
  Fighting the Right

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