10AM – 10:20 AM: Arrival and Tabling

10:20AM – 10:35 AM: Introductions

10:35AM – 11:15 AM: Panel 1 – The Genocide in Palestine

11:15AM – 11:45 AM: Social Break

11:45 AM – 12:30 PM: Cultural Performance

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM: Lunch/ Social Break

1:30 PM – 1:45 PM: Cultural Performance 

1:45 PM – 2:30 PM: Breakout Sessions

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM: Social Break

2:45 PM – 3:30 PM: Panel 2 – Intersection and Connections between Wars and Crises 

3:30 PM – 4 PM: Cultural Performance and Closing

Panel 1: The Genocide in Gaza
Featuring speakers from Students for Justice in Palestine Chicago, U.S. Palestinian Community Network, and Dissenters
With our Summit theme of “Solidarity and Sustainability Toward a Peaceful Future,” we want to ensure that we’re discussing the urgent need to fight violence across the globe. With that, this panel will address the ongoing genocide in Gaza and campaigns to resist, divest, and build to protect human life and human rights. We encourage your questions during Q+A time at the end of the panel.

Panel 2:  Intersections and Connections between Wars and Crises
Featuring speakers from Anakbayan Chicago, American Friends Service Committee, and Jewish Voice for Peace
The panelists will discuss a range of connections between wars and crises, their numerous effects locally and regionally, and how we can resist and build alternatives to these systems of militarism and climate harm. We will also have Q+A time at the end of this panel.

Session 1: The Climate Crisis and Colonialism
Hosted by the Chicago Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
How is the fight for climate justice linked to colonization and the struggle for land and liberation in the Philippines? How can our movements more effectively fight for a sustainable future, when corporations continue to co-opt and greenwash the movement? This workshop aims to answer these questions and more, as we learn about the root causes of the climate crisis, and the need for international solidarity and a mass movement for climate justice.

Session 2: Getting to the Roots of the Immigrant Crisis – U.S. Economic Warfare on the Global South
Hosted by Students for a Democratic Society at UIC
SDS is a multi-issue, nationwide, grassroots progressive student organization founded on the model that ended the Vietnam War. At UIC, SDS campaigns against US aid to Israel, supports the SJP campaign to divest from apartheid Israel, and organizes to defend diversity programs to demand increased Black enrollment. On campus, they have worked closely with Mexican Students of Aztlan and the Latine Student Coalition to oppose the racist and xenophobic fear-mongering campaign against immigrants to connect the current immigrant crisis with the US policy of economic warfare against the global south. 

Session 3: Collective Liberation Today & The Collapse of Empire
Hosted by Party for Socialism and Liberation Chicago
Presenters: Nino Brown is an organizer with the Party for Socialism & Liberation and an anti-war activist with the ANSWER coalition. He is the editor of the book ‘Revolutionary Education: Theory & Practice for Socialist Organizers’, and minister of Information for healthy hood – Chicago.  Thaer alKiswani is a young Palestinian Loyola alum and former SJP Loyola President. Currently he serves as Executive at Amal Music Group and founder of recently formed al-Hub-Chicago. This breakout session will include a youth panel and group discussion.

Adam Gottlieb
Adam Gottlieb is a musician, poet, teaching-artist and cultural worker from Chicago. In 2023 they were one of the nominees for the inaugural Poet Laureate of Chicago. They are the leader of the Fusion band Adam Gottlieb and OneLove, whose 2020 album “All of You” was nominated for “Best Local Album” in the Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago awards. In 2022 they performed live at South by Southwest at the AEMMP Records Showcase, “A Lil Taste of the Chi III.” Adam serves as a cantor for Tzedek Chicago, an international Jewish congregation based on core values of justice, equity and solidarity. They are the founder of the musical project Songs for Ceasefire. They have organized with a wide range of grassroots groups around issues such as housing justice, anti-gentrification, Indigenous sovereignty, education, and police/prison abolition. They write on occasion for People’s Tribune.

Lati D
Lati D is a National Award Winning Poet, born and raised on the West Side of Chicago. Mother of two incredible sons. She has always been in tune with the rhythm of words and has written and published 5 books which are all available on Amazon for purchase. Lati was recently featured in the intro of a movie entitled “What A Difference A Dad Makes” available for purchase on Amazon Prime. She is a member of P.O.E.T collective and Deadly Pens Poetry Collectives. Her love for poetry runs deeper then ink soaked sheets, it is her connection to the realm of her ancestors and her communication with GOD.

AfroDescent
AfroDescent is the first and ONLY African dance team at Loyola University that expresses through the movement of African ancestors and a variety of styles that have transcended from the African diaspora. As a diverse team, they seek to highlight the joyous and artistic expression of African Dance and showcase them to the Loyola community.

Orion Meadows
Orion Meadows is a Slam/Spoken Word Performance Artist, activist, author and public speaker. Much of his activism is expressed through his art. Orion is a member of organizations such as NAEFI (National Alliance for the Empowerment of the Formerly Incarcerated) and PNAP (Prisoners Neighborhood Arts & Education Project)while attending Northeastern Illinois University. He is an advocate for the implementation of the creative arts and academic programs in the Department of Corrections and has served as a participant in Queen Mother Helen Sinclair’s Jessie Ma Houston prison outreach ministry which is a branch of the Rainbow Push Coalition. Among his other accomplishments, he has attained ordination in West African and African American religious and cultural studies from the Temple of Ole which is also known as Ruyah Ole, and is the founder of SAHU CREATIVE. His 3 publications are entitled Inside The Box, Birthmark and The Rose That Grew Through The Barbwire. Orion is very passionate about his craft, urban aesthetics and culture and using Hip-hop arts as a vessel to raise awareness in the community. His social media outlets are Facebook under his name Orion Meadows and his account on Instagram is listed as omeadows.

Spence Warren
“I am an artist. I make motion pictures, I make puppets, and I make music. I serve as President of the Board of Directors for a radical, non-profit multimedia production company called Soft Cage Films. I’m a freelance, commercial Art Director/Prop Master, I run a weekly event at Hairpin Arts Center called Acoustic Cyphers and in the past, I’ve written about local theater for an online, entertainment magazine called Picture thisPost. My aim is to create entertaining, imaginative works that provide an intellectually satisfying experience. My hope is to inspire.”

Venue Access

Flanner Hall and the Quinlan Life Sciences building, where our Summit is being hosted, has wheelchair accessible entrances and bathrooms. A ramp is located on the east entrance of the building (W Sheridan Rd and N Kenmore Ave) with automatic doors and a street level entrance is located on the north entrance of the building with automatic doors. 

Transportation & Parking

Loyola’s campus is located off the Loyola Red Line stop as well as off the 151 Sheridan bus, 36 Broadway bus, and 147 DuSable Outer Lake Shore Express bus. 

On campus parking is available for $8 per entry. The parking structure is located at 1100 W Sheridan Rd and is a 2 minute walk from the Quinlan Life Sciences building. 

Covid Safety

Masks and hand sanitizer will be available upon entrance. Wearing a mask is strongly recommended!