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Join us for an event highlighting organizing efforts and solidarity in movement-building, featuring lifelong activist Malik Rahim, and author James R. Tracy, as they discuss their newly released book A Southern Panther: Conversations with Malik Rahim.

Opening remarks by UCI student organizers. 

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Malik Rahim is a lifelong organizer who has been active in the struggles for the rights of political prisoners, housing, environmental justice and international concerns. His home has been named an international site of conscience and he is the recipient of several awards recognizing his work, including The President’s Volunteer Service Award, the Global Exchange Community Builder Award, the inaugural Living Legend award from Southern University, and the Thomas Merton Award, for his commitment to humanity.

He is the cofounder of Common Ground, which conducted grassroots relief campaigns to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.  His unique approach to organizing—updating the politics of intercommunalism, rainbow coalitions, and municipalism—offer vital lessons for today's social movements. His wealth of experience provides valuable lessons for today's organizers fighting against climate disaster and for racial justice. 

James R. Tracy is a Bay Area–based author and organizer. His unique approach to organizing—updating the politics of intercommunalism, rainbow coalitions, and municipalism—offer vital lessons for today's social movements. He is the coauthor of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s–70s New Left Organizing, No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements, and author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco's Housing Wars. Tracy serves on the Coordinating Committee of the Howard Zinn Book Fair and is the Chair of the Labor and Community Studies Department at City College of San Francisco. 

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