Meet Kabir

Kabir is an anthropologist and soccer coach in-training. He has been organizing on unceded Coast Salish territories for the past 3 years through various labour unions and coalitions including TSSU, CWJ, and the Vancouver Tenants Union, as well as with independent South Asian organizers in conjunction with larger migrant alliances.

Meet Cameron

Cam Gilbert is a white settler of mixed-European ancestry, born and raised in Deep Cove, North Vancouver on the unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh Peoples. He is a member-organizer with the Vancouver Tenants Union, primarily in his neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant. He has been a member of the VTU since 2022. He is also a PhD Candidate in the UBC philosophy department. At UBC, Cam organizes with the teaching assistant and academic assistant union on UBC campus (CUPE 2278), Graduate Students for Palestine, and the newly formed UBC-VTU chapter.

Day 2 Workshop: Building Power HERE! (July 22)

In this session, tenant and labour organizers will share experiences building fights from the ground up. We will go over how to get in touch with your neighbours and find common ground, organize a building, and use our collective power to escalate and build—not only campaigns, but long-term organizing relationships which go beyond single-issue mobilizing.

Meet Kanksha

Kanksha is a labour organizer at Students, Staff and Faculty for Democratic University (SDU+), an independent, grassroots organization at SFU that brings together workers and students to struggle against the administration with the goal of democratic control over our conditions of work and study.

Meet Dina

Dina is an undergraduate student at SFU studying biomedical physiology. She first got involved in organizing through the Palestine movement at SFU in early 2024. She is a passionate anti-Zionist Jew organizing with IJV SFU. As a student living on residence, Dina strongly believes in organizing students for better living conditions and standing in solidarity with dining workers.

Day 2 Workshop: The Mass Line & SICA (July 22)

In this session, folks will explore the theory of The Mass Line: a form of political leadership that aims to expand and consolidate our movements for liberation through mass campaigns and mobilizations that reflect the subjective readiness and the objective interests of the masses.

Folks will also learn about how to concretely determine the mass line through Social Investigation and Class Analysis (SICA).

Meet Tiara

Tiara is a Black American & Indigenous (non-enrolled Choctaw & Cherokee descendant) queer woman born and raised in Memphis, TN. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Exercise and Wellness (Arizona State University), a Master’s degree in Kinesiology (Western Illinois University), and a Master’s degree in Psychology (SFU). She is currently completing her doctorate in Social Psychology at SFU (August 2025) and is a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar.

Tiara is also a TEDxSpeaker who has worked in many community settings as an organizer and accomplice, including: speaking and coordinating anti-Black racism events, supporting anti-pipeline movements, presenting on community care using mindfulness and collective care practices, and being present on many advisory committees that support systemically and intentionally marginalized groups (i.e., PoGM, 2SLQBQQIA+, Disabled communities, and many more).

Day 3 Workshop: Cultivating Collective Care and Accountability during Organizing (July 23)

Using the Equitable Mindfulness Framework for awareness of self and others

We often forget the benefits of supporting our comrades behind the scenes of our movements and revolutions. This session is about building a culture of care. By centering our self-awareness and awareness of others and focusing on increasing our compassion for the movement collective, we can pause and respond in a more grounded way to stressful events and conflict. We’ll discuss and activate the Equitable Mindfulness framework to create the conditions for a culture grounded in respect, accountability, and collaboration.

This session will be highly experiential, as the best way to engage in mindful action is by practicing! Bring your notebook, your curiosity, and your willingness to set outside the norm.

Meet Hannah

Hannah is the Director of Research and Education at the Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group (SFPIRG). She thrives on community work and THE various ways in which she can support and care for students and community members.

Having been a teacher for over ten years, Hannah loves to organize events and facilitate workshops for students in order to help them find calmness in a chaotic world and resist the systems that actively oppress our bodies.

Meet NoName

NoName is a student organizer on the stolen Coast Salish lands of so-called “Vancouver”.

They organize for Palestinian liberation while providing political education on the working class.

Day 1 Workshop: Becoming Scientists (July 21)

In this session, we’ll learn how to carry out a scientific investigation of society for ourselves.

We’ll start by outlining the process of a social scientist’s study. Then, we’ll look at how to ground our study in concrete material conditions and the struggle between the social classes.

Finally, we’ll review state-of-the-art attempts made by academics to mystify society and undermine scientific investigation and analysis. Expect a murder mystery activity!

Meet Noëll

Noëll works as the Director of Engagement at the Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group and, in her role, seeks to strengthen the community of organizations on SFU’s campus fighting for social and economic justice.

Meet Lawrence

NoName is a student organizer on the stolen Coast Salish lands of so-called “Vancouver”.

They organize for Palestinian liberation while providing political education on the working class.

Day 1 Workshop: Becoming Scientists (July 21)

In this session, we’ll learn how to carry out a scientific investigation of society for ourselves.

We’ll start by outlining the process of a social scientist’s study. Then, we’ll look at how to ground our study in concrete material conditions and the struggle between the social classes.

Finally, we’ll review state-of-the-art attempts made by academics to mystify society and undermine scientific investigation and analysis. Expect a murder mystery activity!

Meet Parsa

Parsa is a research assistant at the SFU Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies.

Day 5 Workshop: Palestine at SFU and Beyond (July 25)

The local scene since 2021

This workshop aims to map the local organizing scene for Palestinian liberation through:

1. understanding movements and organizations in solidarity or opposition to Palestinian liberation and their specific campaigns and goals; and
2. understanding these actors historically and in their political-geographic context.

By collectively putting together what we know about the local scene, we can act with more clarity and precision.

Meet Chanelle

Chanelle organizes with Anakbayan BC, a comprehensive Filipino youth organization that fights for National Democracy in the Philippines. The National Democratic movement is the largest united anti-imperialist socialist movement in the Philippines, having existed for over half a century with thousands of people organizing and fighting every day for freedom from imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat capitalism.

For decades, the National Democratic movement has been agitating, organizing, and mobilizing the Filipino people for their rights, as well as cultivating a revolutionary Filipino culture that is mass-oriented, scientific, and liberatory.

She brings to us the lessons that this movement has learned in hopes that we may cultivate this revolutionary spirit in so-called “Canada”! “Onward, my friends, tomorrow is ours to make!” – Chanelle

Day 3 Workshop: Propaganda for the Masses (July 24)

How to do cultural work in service of the People’s Revolution

How do we raise the consciousness of the masses? How do we get the people to see themselves in the international workers’ struggle? What is the role of propaganda work and why is it important for developing a culture for mass struggle and resistance? In the words of Toni Cade Bombara, “As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people, my job is to make revolution irresistible.”

As the new world struggles to be born, we, as organizers, must take up the task of being cultural workers. The apple of revolutionary culture does not just fall from nowhere; we plant the seeds for it. It is more imperative than ever to combat reactionary ideologies, expose the enemies of the revolution, oppose their anti-people schemes, analyze and illuminate the struggle of the masses, and put forth our revolutionary goals.

Join us at our workshop as we explore and discuss these questions, understand and grasp our tasks, and remain principled and steadfast.

Meet Serena

Serena is a Punjabi, disabled, queer settler and the Director of Development at Embark Sustainability. They came into organizing through disability justice and the community they built as a co-founder of the Simon Fraser University Disability and Neurodiversity Alliance (DNA).

Grounded in the principles of disability justice, Serena’s work has grown to include cross-movement organizing and advocacy for equity-seeking communities in a range of contexts.

Day 5 Workshop: Get off the Sidelines (July 25)

Where to start as an organizer

In this session, folks will learn how to navigate the inertia of inaction. We’ll talk about the barriers to getting started with organizing and create solutions together according to our capacities.

We will go over creating a strong foundation for the fight you’re preparing for, finding accomplices to join the movement, and how to apply the lessons you learn along the way.