Documenting radical social movements of the past is a way to strengthen future ones. Join a panel of author-activists to explore the challenges of doing this work with integrity and strategy. We’ll cover issues such as trust-building, security, and holding multiple truths and perspectives. Ideal for anyone thinking of researching movements and organizations of the past for their own projects. 

Panelists: 

Donna Murch, author, Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, and Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives

Michael Staudenmaier, author, Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986 and We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action

Christina Heatherton, author, Arise!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution and Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter.

Lynn Lewis, Picture the Homeless Oral History Project.

Moderated by: James Tracy, author Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power and No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons For Today’s Movements.

James Tracy (he/him) is Chair of the Labor and Community Studies Department of City College of San Francisco. He’s co-author of No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements, author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco’s Housing Wars, and editor of Avanti-Popolo: Italian-Americans Sail Beyond Columbus. James is an organizer who’s worked with the San Francisco Community Land Trust and Jobs With Justice, co-founder of the Howard Zinn Book Fair, and a host of the Books to the Barricades podcast.