First Nations leader Megan Krakouer and Indian communist Clifton D鈥橰ozario have been聽confirmed to speak at聽the聽聽conference聽in聽Boorloo/Perth聽over June 28鈥30.
They will be joined by Irish ecosocialist Jess Spear, Naarm/Melbourne-based Palestinian Nasser Mashni and Zack Schofield from Rising Tide.
Krakouer, a Menang woman of the Noongar Nation, is a director of the National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery Project and the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council.
She has been central to recent Invasion Day protests as well as First Nations Deaths in Custody Committees, through which she has helped expose the cruel treatment of children at the Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre.
Krakouer also played a leading role in organising nation-wide protests following the racist murder of Noongar boy Cassius Turvey in 2022.
She was awarded City of Perth Community Citizen of the Year in 2023 for her activism.
Krakouer will speak on the panel 鈥溾.
D鈥橰ozario, a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation will speak in person on the panel 鈥溾. He will address the fight to save India鈥檚 democracy from President Narendra Modi鈥 autocratic right-wing Hindi chauvinism.
A labour lawyer, D鈥橰ozario has extensive experience representing workers, often against fierce repression, including the campaign to unionise Dalit sanitation workers in Karnataka state.
Ecosocialist activist Jess Spear, an organiser for People Before Profit,聽based in Dublin, Ireland is also confirmed to speak. Originally from the United States, where she worked as a climate scientist for the US Geological Survey, Spear moved to Ireland and co-founded the revolutionary Marxist group RISE (Revolutionary, Internationalist, Socialist and Environmentalist). She was chief editor of Rupture magazine.
Spear is a leading activist in the Global Ecosocialist Network and will address the panel 鈥溾.
Mashni has confirmed to speak alongside Palestinian revolutionary Leila Khaled on the opening panel 鈥溾
Mashni is President of the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) and聽a long-term fighter for justice and the self-determination for the Palestinian people.
Schofield, an organiser with climate defence movement Rising Tide, has also been confirmed. A strong advocate of collective action and union power, he will focus is on building the movement鈥檚 dynamics to take on the fossil fuel industry, while attempting to bridge the gap between environmentalists and organised labour.
Schofield will speak alongside other activists from Disrupt Burrup Hub and the Socialist Alliance in the workshop 鈥溾.
聽is being organised by 一品探花, and .
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