This plenary focuseD on gender and sexual oppression, which have adversely affected our communities throughout history.  In the face of institutional and domestic violence, including growing political repression and poverty, women and gay, lesbian, bisexual, two-spirit, and transgender people have resisted - defending our rights, our dignity and our safety - and in the process, have created new models of organization and of justice. 

But the question still remains: How do we challenge gender and sexual oppression in all its expressions so that our communities and our movements can come together to fight for and win economic, racial, and gender and sexual justice, and human liberation?

PLENARY DIALOGUES mp3 Real Audio  Andrea Smith, anti-violence & Native American activist & scholar Co-founder, INCITE!  Women of Color Against Violence Mia Mingus, lesbian woman of color and disabilities activist,  Georgians for Choice Loretta J. Ross, SisterSong, Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective Betita Martinez, author, De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

This plenary focused on the "War on Terror" by the US government in its increased use of military might and US domination, both globally and for "security" at home with the vast expansion of prisons, detention centers and border walls, and police and "security" actions that are part of steady erosion of civil and human rights.  As the U.S. government threatens to invade, bomb and sanction more countries, and as more and more people in the United States are thrown into prison or subjected to state violence, we have to answer the question of what it will take to stop the U.S. government's war on the peoples of the world.

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Eli Painted Crow, a new network of women Iraqi Veterans
Kai Barrows, Critical Resistance
Yifat Susskind, MADRE
Judith LeBlanc, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ)