Schedule for the Encuentro

Agenda

Saturday
9-9:30am

Registration /breakfast
9:30-10am

Opening ceremony and agenda overview
10:15-11:30am

Workshop Block 1:

  • Faith & Spirituality Sin Fronteras: Building a prophetic voice in the Im/migrant Rights Movement By: Emmanuelle Neza Leal
  • La (Nuestra) Palabra: Reclaiming OURstory, a Memory of Struggle By: Braynt Partida
  • Crime, Community Gardens and the Prison Industrial Complex By: Nikita Farr Rodriguez
  • Weaving a Now that Breeds Futures By: Evelyn Marcelina Rangel-Medina
11:45am-1pm

Keynote: Flor Crisostomo (via skype)
1–2:20pm

Lunch 

(During this break, participants are encouraged to visit the vendors and organizations who will be tabling.)
2:00–3:30pm

Keynote: Rosa Clemente
3:45pm–5:00pm

Workshop Block 2:

  • In Search of Autonomy: Teaching Self-Empowerment through Kindness & Community in Education By: Linda L. Rodriguez
  • “Somos InDios y Que?!” Erasing Borders through Climate Justice By: Joaquin Quetzal
  • Mujeres de Maiz- Harvesting Hope and Healing in your Community through the Arts By: Felicia ”Fe” Montes
  • Radical Feminist and Queer Love in the Immigrant Rights Movement By: Dr. Anita Tijerina Revilla
5:15pm

Day-end plenary

  • Closing remarks
  • Debrief
  • Next day overview
8pm-12am   Pachanga at Yayo Tacos
   
Sunday
10-10:30am

Opening ceremony and day overview
10:45am-12pm  

Workshop Block 3:

  • 3rd Space: Queer Arizona in the Climate of Hate By: Victor Lopez Medina
  • Hidden Borders: Recognize your Divided, Distorted, Justified, Closed, Abonded…Borders By: Brenda Gray
12:15-1:35pm

Lunch 

(During this break, participants are encouraged to visit the vendors and organizations who will be tabling.)
1:45-2:45pm

Keynote: Isabel Garcia
3-4:15pm

Workshop Block 4:

  • The Black/Brown Divde: Building Coalitions Toward Racial Justice By: Carrie Sampson
  • What Does Reproductive Justice Have to do with Our Own Liberation? By: Kenia Morales
  • It’s Bigger than SB1070!!! Indigenous and Anarchist Struggle in Arizona for Freedom and Against ALL Borders By: Alex Soto and Drew
4:30-5:30pm

Keynote: Andrea Smith and closing plenary