What the Hell Should We Be Doing About Rising Fascism?
This panel will focus on the current rise of fascist leaders, rhetoric and movements in the U.S., looking at contemporary expressions of fascism and how individuals, communities, organizations and networks can respond and resist. Especially in the context of the 2024 elections, the anti-fascist actions of millions of ordinary people will determine whether our baseline democratic norms and institutions will survive. Hosted by Linda Burnham, women’s rights and racial justice activist since the 1960s, co-editor of: Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections, author of Project2050, and co-creator of the online curriculum, Fascism101. With: Anat Shenker-Osorio, host of the Words to Win By podcast and Principal of ASO Communications; Emily Lee, Executive Director of Seed the Vote; Tarso Luís Ramos, Executive Director at Political Research Associates, who has been researching and challenging the US right for more than 25 years.
Goldman Theater, Brower Center
March 30th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Panelists
Linda Burnham
Activist, Writer and Strategist
Linda Burnham has been an activist, writer and strategist focused on women’s rights and racial justice since the 1960s. She is a co-editor and contributor to the 2022 book Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections and is the author of Project2050, an inquiry into long-term strategic thinking on the left. She recently worked with a team to produce the online curriculum, Fascism101.
Emily Ja-Ming Lee
Co-Founder
Seed the Vote
Emily Ja-Ming Lee, a leader in electoral organizing with particular expertise in multiracial alliance-building, community-labor partnerships, volunteer engagement, multilingual field operations and ethnic media, is a co-founder of both Bay Resistance and Seed the Vote and is currently the Director of Seed the Vote, which mobilizes thousands of volunteers and activists across the country to support grassroots efforts in critical states that decide the outcome of federal elections.
Tarso Luís Ramos
Executive Director
Political Research Associates
Tarso Luís Ramos has been researching and challenging the U.S. Right Wing for 25+ years. At Political Research Associates (PRA), Tarso has launched major initiatives on antisemitism, misogyny, authoritarianism, White nationalism, and other threats to democracy. Ramos’ work has been featured in The Guardian, The New York Times, and Time Magazine, among other outlets. Before joining PRA in 2006, Ramos served as founding Director of Western States Center’s racial justice program where he exposed and challenged corporate anti-environmental campaigns as Director of the Wise Use Public Exposure Project. Ramos recently served as an activist in residence at the Barnard Center for the Study of Women.
Anat Shenker-Osorio
