What will it take to turn massive protests into tangible change?

Public Analysis Session of the Alianza Americas’ 2020 National Leadership Assembly: Power and Solidarity for Transformation, that took place on October 30, 2020.

 

For over 10 years, there have been several episodes of social protests against economic, social and political oppressive conditions around the world: the Arab Spring, Greece, Honduras, Nicaragua, Chile and recently in the United States, among others. The challenge is how to translate these protests to substantive changes. In this critical session, panelists took a deeper dive into this question.

Panelists

Nadine Naber

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Juan Pablo Luna

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Axela Romero

Bill Fletcher Jr

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Find below some highlights of our panel discussion

Find below the complete video of the conversation

You can also read our blog-post on this topic

 

 

 

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Nadine Naber Professor in the Gender and Women's Studies Program and the Global Asian Studies Program and holds an affiliation with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Chicago
Nadine Naber received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is a Professor in the Gender and Women's Studies Program and the Global Asian Studies Program and holds an affiliation with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Chicago. At UIC, she is the co-principal investigator of the Diaspora Cluster. She is a member of the executive committee of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy and the steering committee of the Social Justice Initiative. Nadine’s research interests lie at the intersections of transnational feminisms; women of color and queer of color theory; de-colonizing feminisms; empire studies; critical race studies; and Middle East Studies; and Arab American Studies.
Juan Pablo Luna Faculty Member at the Political Science Institute and a professor at the Government School, both at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Axela Romero Master in Public Policies and Lawyer, consultant on cross-cutting gender perspective.
Axela Romero Cárdenas, feminist and gender equality specialist. She is a popular educator, coordinator, consultant, evaluator and advisor to governmental and non-governmental institutions and citizens’ networks. She has a Masters’ Degree in Public Policies and a JD Degree. She has worked in various organizations and networks, as a coordinator and leading advocacy efforts in sexual and reproductive health. Currently, Axela is the Development Coordinator of Scalibrinians, Mission with Migrants and Refugees.
Bill Fletcher Jr Bill Fletcher Jr has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college, he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staff person in the national AFL-CIO. Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of “The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941”; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of “Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice“; and the author of “‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ – And Twenty other myths about unions.” Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio and the Web.