This workshop guide is all about recognizing oppressive language and what activists can do to combat it. Practical, easy to understand and well explained retorts to oppressive language are used with a variety of racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, elitist, ageist, ablist comments. Based on role plays, the workshop guide covers:

The components of an effective interruption

Skills to cultivate

The importance of anti-oppression

Various examples

CULTURES OF RESISTANCE: Does each gesture really make a difference? Can music and dance be weapons of peace? In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, director Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict. After several years, travelling over five continents, Iara encountered growing numbers of people who committed their lives to promoting change.

Jon Elmer's talk, "Ghetto Palestine," is based on 10 years of reporting from the West Bank and Gaza. Jon has covered the ghettoization of the West Bank as growing settlements and the construction of the separation wall continually isolate and segregate Palestinian communities.