Schedule

LC Community Panel: Perspectives on Prisons

4:30-6:00pm, Stamm West

Join PAC and four Lewis & Clark College students, alumni, and faculty to discuss their personal experiences and academic work around the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). This combination of lived experience and academic work will offer us valuable information about how the Lewis and Clark community is connecting with our incarcerated neighbors. Featuring speakers from the undergraduate, grad, and Law school campuses. (Masks encouraged and provided. Air purifier will be running. ADA accessible.)

Speakers:

• Adam Gregg, LC ’08 (current LC Law student)
• Riley McGinley, LC ’27
• Cari Zall, faculty of Graduation School of Education and Counseling
• Beau Staun-List, LC ’25, Nutrition INSIDE and Lettuce Grow
• Noelle St. John, Growing Gardens

Moderated by Fellow Moratti LC ’26

Expert Discussion: Benjamin Ficklin

6:30-8:00pm, Council Chamber

Please join us for an interactive conversation with local grassroots organizer Benjamin Ficklin. They are an organizer, poet, and educator with the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice, the Deportation Defense Coalition, International Migrants Alliance, and the Oregon to Palestine Coalition. They are also the President of ILWU Local 5. Their life as a poet informs their organizing; their hope for a better world is continually transformed by poetry. Find more information about Benjamin on our speakers page!

Moderated by Deenie Bulyalert LC ’27

NSU x PAC Native Seed Bomb/Shaker Workshop

11:30am to 1:30pm, Smith Hall

Join Prison Abolition Club and Native Student Union in making seed bombs and native plant seed shakers in this guerilla gardening workshop! Toss one in an empty lot or shake on the edge of a road to help repopulate Portland streets with plants native to the Pacific Northwest. (Masks encouraged and provided. Air purifier will be running. ADA accessible.)

Facilitated by Deenie Bulyalert LC ’27 and Corey Near-Ansari LC ’26

Embracing Disability Justice Roundtable

5:00-6:30pm, Stamm West

More than ever, disability justice is a crucial aspect of the leftist organizing. From providing inclusion to finding ways to get involved as a disabled person, join us for a roundtable to hear from and ask organizers about their experiences incorporating disability in their organizing work. (Masks encouraged and provided. Air purifier will be running. ADA accessible.)

Speakers: 

• Elea Chang, Affect the Verb 
• Brianna Bragg, The Uprise Collective
• Babatunde “Zubbi” Azubuike, Black and Beyond the Binary 
• Benjamin Mann, Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies

Moderated by Elio Curtis LC ’28

Queer Incarcerated Pen-Pal Writing

7:00-9:00pm, Fowler 350

Black and Pink PDX is a Portland prison abolitionist organization that pairs incarcerated LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS+ people with long-term penpals. Join Black and Pink PDX in collaboration with Prison Abolition Club and Queer Student Union to work on mail processing and get paired with an incarcerated penpal from their database. (Masks encouraged and provided. Air purifier will be running. ADA accessible.)

Facilitated by Fellow Moratti LC ’26 and Corey Near-Ansari LC ’26

Zine Making Workshop - Drop In

3:00-5:00pm, Platteau

In the age of rampant censorship on social media, it’s time to go old school. Zines are a self published, physical way to share thoughts, information, and awareness. With a massive culture in Portland there’s no time like the present to get involved. Drop in whenever to learn how to make zines or if you already know, find your people! There will be space to trade zines, gain inspiration and create in community. (Masks encouraged and provided. Air purifier will be running. ADA accessible.)

Facilitated by Elio Curtis LC ’28

PDX Organization Open House

5:00-8:00pm, Stamm

Stop by Stamm to engage with grassroots Portland leftist organizations, drop off donations and support local vendors, sign up for their email lists, learn about upcoming Portland organizing events, and take a swing at the piñopticon! (Masks encouraged and provided. Air purifier will be running. ADA accessible.)

Orgs you will find tabling: ClownBloc, Resist US-Led War, Letters for Palestine, International Women’s Alliance, the American Party of Labor, the Healing Underground, Bayan Oregon, Black and Beyond the Binary, Kalikasan Solidarity, the Cupcake Girls, Portland Clean Air Committee, People Organizing for Philippine Solidarity, the International League for People’s Struggle, and Street Roots.