Friday, July 4th
Starting at 19:30
Immigrant Women and Femininities: Daily Struggles Against Institutional Racism and Patriarchy
Participants:
- Liliana Saliaj, immigrant, activist
- Loretta Macauley, United African Women Organization
- Nini Lomsadze, Georgian Community / Greek Forum of Migrants
- Hana Ganji, member of the refugee women organization Hidden Goddess
- Ovileya Myrah, trans rights activist
Intervention:
- Students from the educational group Ta Piso Thrania
The Response of Movements to the Arms Race and War Economy
Participants:
- Rima Hassan, participant in the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, MEP for La France Insoumise (LFI)
- Filippa Chatzistavrou, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Politics – NKUA
- Antonis Ntavanelos, newspaper Ergatiki Aristera
- Intervention: Diktio Spartacos
Moderator:
- Antonis Faras, Antiracist Festival
The Role of Refugees and the Jewish Community in the Formation of the Left
- Kostis Karpozilos, historian, author of Greek Communism: An International History (1912–1974) (Antipodes Publications)
Moderator:
- Migration, (Im)Mobility, and Resistance Stories Circle
Self-Organized Discussions
Book Presentation: Fascism and Big Business by Daniel Guérin
A discussion on fascism as a political tool under capitalism.
Co-organized by: Antifascist Coordination of Athens and Piraeus & Syneditions Publications
Folk Tales from the Soils of Gaza
Duration: 60’ | Narrated by Dimitris Prousalis
Starting at 21:00
Film Screening: 48 | Resistance to the Great Colonization
Duration: 80’ | Directed by Group 218 | 2022 | West Bank
Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.
Saturday, July 5th
Starting at 19:30
From the “Evros Crisis” to the Pylos Shipwreck: Moral Panic Over Migration
Participants:
- Niki Georgiou, lawyer, coordinator at Equal Rights Beyond Borders
- Salman Muhammad, son of a victim killed in Evros
- Dimitris Angelidis, journalist, Efimerida ton Syntakton
- Member of the Open Assembly Against Pushbacks and Border Violence
Interventions:
- Thanasis Kourkoulas, Sunday School for Migrants
- Petros Konstantinou, KEERFA
Moderator:
- Giannis Arsakian, Antiracist Festival
Tempi: The Fight Against Cover-Ups and Privatizations
Participants:
- Maria Kyritsi, survivor
- Viktor Radu, Marks 21, student, Serbia
- Ervin Kondakciu, PhD candidate in Philosophy – Universities of Groningen and Hamburg
- Intervention: Antonis Antoniou, survivor and severely injured in the Tempe train disaster
Moderator:
- Sofia Theotoka, Law student
Palestine: Solidarity to Defeat Genocide
Participants:
- Zeina Jallad, Palestinian lawyer
- Thiago Ávila, Freedom Flotilla Coalition
- Samar Tlili, Sumud Convoy & BDS-Africa Coordinator
- Paris Laftsis, coordinator of the Greek delegation for March to Gaza
- Intervention by Ahmad Hassan, Palestinian Community of Greece
- Intervention by BDS-Greece
Moderator:
- Sofia Dermetzoglou, Antiracist Festival
Against Racism and Transphobia: Struggles for Intersectionality and Freedom
Participants:
- Olivia Cambell, Trans Legal Clinic, Stonewall Housing, UK
- Anna Kouroupou, director of Red Umbrella Athens, co-founder of Transgender Greece
- Ivi Kaiserlí, trans woman, sex worker, member of Transgender Support Union
- Christina-Antoinetta Neofotistou, visual artist, activist (Lesbian Group of Athens, Queertrans)
Interventions:
- Feminist and LGBTQI+ group Kiourí@
- Feminist and LGBTQI+ collectives
Moderator:
- Katerina Sergidou, Gender & Feminism Researcher, March 8 Assembly
1922–2025: Displacement, Settlement, State Policy
- Eleni Kyramargiou, historian, author of Drapetsona 1922–1967: A World at the Edge of the World (National Research Foundation)
- Olga Lafazani, social geographer, co-editor of Border Resistances: A Critical Approach to Migration (Antipodes Publications)
Moderator:
- Migration, (Im)Mobility, and Resistance Stories Circle
Starting at 21:00
Film Screening: Heroic Colleague Builders
Duration: 57’ | Collective Memory Group | Directed by Giannis Xydas | 2024 | Greece
Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.
Sunday, July 6th
Starting at 19:30
Exclusion from Citizenship: Challenges and Resistance of the 1st Generation Migrants
Participants:
- Konstantinos Farmakidis-Markou, lawyer
- Artur Qelemeni, Albanian Migrants and Solidarians Initiative
- Antla Sasati, Greek Migrants Forum
- Tsigereda T. Sion, plaintiff against the unconstitutional rejection of naturalization
Moderator:
- Anna Nini, journalist
Experiences of Women in the Black Liberation Movement in the U.S.
Participants:
- Sacajawea “Saki” Hall – Cooperation Jackson, USA
- Edget Betru – Peoples’ Network for Land and Liberation, USA
Moderator:
- Ioanna Lila, Antiracist festival
The Socio-Political Journey of Roma Over Time
Participants:
- Adele Sutre, geographer
- Petros Filippidis, sociologist
- Eleni Tselekou, Council of Europe
Moderator:
- Initiative “Standing with the Roma”
Athens’ Refugee Neighborhoods and the National Liberation Front (EAM)
- Menelaos Charalambidis, historian, author of The Experience of Occupation and Resistance in Athens (Alexandria Publications)
Moderator: Migration, (Im)Mobility, and Resistance Stories Circle
Self-Organized Discussions:
The Right to Housing and Movement Practices That Secure It
Organized by: United Initiative Against Auctions
The DNA of Censorship: Exposing the Construction of Pseudo-Consent in the Convenient Field of Disability
Organized by: Aphanton Restart
Assembly of Collectives from the “Festival for Public Water and Public Goods”
