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Conference of Resistance to Deportations – May 3, 2025
SPEAKERS AND PANELS

I. 9 00am – 9 15am: Opening/Welcom
a. MC: Cindy Domingo, National/Local Standing for Democracy Committee and LELO
b. Silvia Fabela, National Executive Director, Standing for Democracy

II. 9:20 to 9:40 am: Keynote Speaker: Rosalinda Guillen, Executive Director, Community to Community

Transition (10 minutes)

III. 9:50 – 10:45 am PANEL ON IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
Topics to address: What is the main threat to our immigrant communities and how are immigrant rights organizations reacting to these threats? How can our allies organize to support our efforts? What messaging and narratives best serve our purposes?

PANELISTS:
Moderator: Malou Chavez, Executive Dir, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
a. Mohamed Egal, Mayor, Sea-Tac City Council
b. Brenda Rodriguez Lopez, Executive Director, Washington Immigrant State Network
c. Jorge Baron, King County Councilmember, District 4

d. Imraan Siddiqu, Executive Director, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
e. Sina Sam, Board Member, Khmer Anti-Deportation Advocacy Group
Transition (10 minutes)

IV. 10:55 am to 11:50 am PANEL on ALLIES SUPPORT

Topics: How can the community and its organizations contribute to the resistance to mass deportations, in terms of support for the immigrant rights communities as well as direct actions against the new Administration; what are the prospects for a labor and community wide direct action

Moderator: Vania Adasme, Co-Director, Casa Latina
a. April Sims, President, Washington State Labor Council
b. Dina Burstein, Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice
c. Dr. Concie Pedroza, Superintendent with Tukwila School District
d. Alexis Mercedes Rinck, Councilmember at Large, City of Seattle
e. Pastor Jan Bolerjack, Riverton Park United Methodist Church
Transition (10 minutes)
V. 12:00pm – 12:45 pm SPEAKER(S) and Q/A
Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown (Invited)
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal by Video
Teresa Mosqueda, King County Council, District 8

MC: Karen Strickland, President, American Federation of Teachers (AFT)-WA and Standing for Democracy, National and Local

Lunch – 12:45 pm to 1:30 pm

VI. 1:30 – 2:20 PM – BREAK OUT SESSIONS – Sarah Laslett. Standing for Democracy, Local

• Faith Based Organizing
• Work Place Organizing
• School Based Organizing
• Voter Organizing
• Standing for Democracy Anti-fascism Curriculum
Transition (10 minutes)
2:30 pm to 2:45 pm Report back from workshops (3 minutes each)

VII. 2:50 pm – 3:50 pm AFFIRMATIVE LITIGATION

A Panel/Round Table of civil rights, civil liberties, trial attorneys
and elected officials, to address what are the affirmative litigation strategies (FOIA, FTCA, role of federal courts to block executive orders

Moderator: Mike Withey, Standing for Democracy
a. Jennie Pasquarella, Clemency Project
b. Mo Hamoudi, Stritmatter Kessler Law Firm
c. Khaled Alrabe, Sr. Staff Attorney, National Immigration Project, National Lawyers Guild

Transition ( 5 minutes)

VIII. 3:55 pm to 4:45 Rapid Response Training
NWIRP and WIASN to organize a presentation for community members and attorneys to defend against ICE Raids, Mass Detentions, Handling Removal/Deportations/Immigration Hearings.

IX. Summation and next steps