City in Resistance, an iteration of the Borough Based Liberation Project of 2024, will launch on April 17, 2026 at 127 Walker Street in Chinatown, New York, opening a week-long space for gathering, exchange, and organizing during Earth Week and an alternate home for indigenous organizing parallel to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Spearheaded by Chinatown Art Brigade, Alicia Grullón, Quito Ziegler from Dandelions NYC, Mon M., and the W.O.W Project, this convening brings together land defenders, artists, organizers, and movement workers from Indigenous territories and New York City communities. At a moment of overlapping political, ecological, and social crises, City in Resistance centers connections across movements, recognizing that struggles for land, housing, sovereignty, justice and collective survival are deeply interconnected.
City in Resistance will operate as a shared organizing space in Chinatown, which has always been a site of resistance. This space sits adjacent to the proposed site of one of four new jails in the city. Our gatherings ask what futures we could build rather than caging people. The central days of the week will focus on visiting indigenous land defenders and cross-movement exchange, while other days will hold more locally-grounded gatherings with communities and organizers based in New York City. The intention is to create a place where people can meet beyond the constraints of formal conferences, build relationships, share strategies, and explore what coordinated action might look like across borders.
We continue to nurture the seeds of collaboration planted during the Borough Based Liberation Project installation that took place at 127 Walker in the fall of 2024. Like then, as now, movements, organizers, and artists convened to reckon with anti-war and anti-genocide solidarity, to study together, and to learn about ongoing struggles within the city together.
Throughout the week, participants can expect circles, conversations, co-working sessions, workshops, strategy sessions, and informal gatherings that make space for both reflection and planning. Participants will share how they are experiencing the current political moment in their territories and communities, while collectively exploring pathways for solidarity and action.
City in Resistance is grounded in a simple premise: when movements meet each other directly—across geographies, languages, and struggles—they build the conditions for stronger, more coordinated resistance. This week in Chinatown offers a place for those connections to take root.
ACCESS:
127 Walker Street is a storefront and community center that fosters ideas for community wellbeing. In this spirit, the city in resistance hopes to nurture the space in a way that is accessible for all who wish to enter.
With this, we recognize that the COVID pandemic is ongoing, so first and foremost, we will be requiring and providing masks during our gatherings. We also recommend that if you’re feeling sick on any given day, you stay home and focus on caring for yourself :) The space’s ground floor is wheelchair accessible as is the Canal St station via the 6 train. There is additionally a bathroom onsite on this floor that is ADA accessible. Throughout the week we’ll absolutely have seating available. Please just ask for what you need as it arises because we want to prioritize folks’ comfortability!
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