UNTIL LIBERATION: Austin Organizing Conference for Palestine 2025

PROGRAM

12:00 PM | REGISTRATION & VENDOR FAIR
  • Check-in at Main Hall
  • Children’s programming check-in
1:00 PM | PLENARY: OPENING REMARKS
  • RM Medo El Halimy | Organizing, Accumulation, and Building Power
1:30 PM | WORKSHOP SESSION BLOCK 1

RM Medo El Halimy | DEEP DIVE: Strategy & Tactics

RM Leqaa Kordia | DOCUMENTING THE MOVEMENT: Community Oral History Projects

RM Hussam Abu Safiya | FROM SELMA TO GAZA: Black-Palestinian Solidarity Across Struggles

RM Muhammed Ali Abou-Emara | SAFETY & DEESCALATION TRAINING

2:15 PM | BREAK
  • Potluck
  • Yoga for Palestine on the Lawn
  • Dhuhr Prayers
2:45 PM | WORKSHOP SESSION BLOCK 2

RM Medo El Halimy | CAPITAL FACTORY: Genocide Enablers in Our Backyard

RM Leqaa Kordia | TAKING BACK THE NARRATIVE: Op-ed Writing

RM Shukri Abubaker | PALESTINE CURRICULUM PROJECT

RM Hussam Abu Safiya | MAPPING ZIONISM IN AUSTIN

RM Muhammed Ali Abou-Emara | SAFETY & DEESCALATION TRAINING (CONT.)

3:30 PM | PASSING PERIOD
3:45 PM | WORKSHOP SESSION BLOCK 3

RM Medo El Halimy | POLITICAL OUTREACH 101: Leading Meaningful Conversations about Palestine

RM Hussam Abu Safiya | FIT FOR PALESTINE

RM Shukri Abubaker | DOCUMENTATION AS WITNESS: Falasteen Street Museum & Bringing the Gaza Remains Museum to Austin

RM Ghassan Elashi | STRATEGIES FOR IMPACTFUL BOYCOTT

4:30 PM | PLENARY: Lessons from Our Community and the Path Forward
  • RM Medo El Halimy | Lessons from Our Community and the Path Forward
5:00 PM | FINAL OPEN PERIOD
  • Vendor Fair Last Call
  • ‘Asr
  • Childcare pickup

Childcare Program will run from 12 pm to 5 pm. Please check this post for the children’s program schedule (and the at-a-glance final program!). Make sure you have registered for the conference and filled out a separate childcare registration for your child.

Displays and pop-up museums from Falasteen Street Museum and Doctors Against Genocide will be in RM Raunaq Alam.

A quiet room is available for anyone needing it (RM Marwan Sultan), and a prayer room (RM Adnan Al Bursh) is also available.

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