The Power of Transformative Organising

ARM NATIONAL EVENT

Join us on the 11th July 2026 for our ARM National Event - The Power of Transformative Organising!

🗓️ 11th July 2026
⏰ 6pm Doors for a 6.30pm start
🏠 RichMix, Bethnal Green

We will be hearing from different speakers and most importantly learn from each other in workshops to explore organising tools and principles.

This moment requires more than occasional mobilisations - we must learn to organise effectively in our communities, workplaces and schools.

What does Relief, Repair and Restructure look like in practice?

Tickets are on a sliding scale to help us cover costs.

If paying the low-cost ticket is a barrier, please email us at info@antiracistmovement.org!

SPEAKERS:

Yassmin Abdel-Magied (she/her) - Moderator and Host

Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese diaspora writer, broadcaster and award-winning social advocate. The author of several books, including the essay collection Talking About a Revolution (2022), and Abdel-Magied's debut literary novel At Sea, published in May 2026. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The Guardian, New Lines, and The New Arab, where she writes on issues including the Sudanese revolution and the current war against civilians.

Founding Youth Without Borders at 16, Abdel-Magied is now an award-winning speaker and globally sought-after advisor on social justice and leadership, delivering keynotes and workshops in 25 countries. Her TED talk has over 2.8 million views and is recognised as one of TED’s top 10 ideas. She created the website eyesonsudan.net and supports sudandigitalarchive.com, a free, open-source digital archive for Sudanese collective memory.

Eiri Ohtani (she/her) – Panelist

Eiri Ohtani is Director at Right to Remain, a national migration justice organisation. Eiri has over twenty five years experience in the refugee and migration sector, covering a wide-range of roles at the national, European and international levels, with a focus on immigration detention. She ditched her fancy consultancy work after the COVID lockdowns, seeing that organising and mutual aid are the only way we might be able to survive future disasters. She was born in Japan, spent teenage years in Germany and has been stuck in the UK since 1990.

END DEPORTATIONS BELFAST – Panelist

End Deportations Belfast are a Belfast-based anti-racist campaign group formed in 2019. They oppose violent border regimes, detention and deportation. Some of their recent campaigns have been on the detention of pregnant women in Larne House immigration detention centre; racial profiling and discriminatory ID-checking by Irish police on Belfast to Dublin public transport; paramilitary use of child criminal exploitation (CCE) to carry out racist pogroms; and the outsized role of the PSNI in executing the 'hostile environment' in the North of Ireland / Northern Ireland.

Jess Mally (they/them) – Panellist

Jess Mally (they/them) is an anti-racism practitioner, consultant, organiser, keynote speaker, and Strengthscope®-accredited coach. They are the National Organiser at the Anti-Racist Movement, co-founder of the AWETHU School of Organising and host of the Third Way Podcast, Jess draws on their experience as an organiser, writer, and thinker to help individuals, teams, and organisations build cultures of equity, accountability, and care. Their work spans facilitation, coaching, and consultancy — grounded in original frameworks on cultural transformation, anti-racism, and Healthy Humans for Social Change.

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Once you got your ticket, you’ll receive a sign-up form for breakout sessions a few days before the event. Below a list of the sessions we’ll be offering on the night (if you’re watching from home, you’ll also be able to join breakouts via a low tech zoom link).

Transnational Solidarity and Why it Matters to Local Anti-Racist Organising
In this breakout Raheel (he/him), Director at Maslaha is going to facilitate a space where we explore the interconnectedness of struggles and why any local resistance to fascism and building better worlds has to consider the wider global context we are a part of.

Bystander Intervention – A Practical Guide
From Belfast to Glasgow, the midlands and London we’ve seen an increase in racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic and transphobic violence in the streets. Most of us want to intervene when we see things like this play out, but many of us struggle to know how. In this session we will together talk through how to begin the journey of becoming active bystanders who know how to intervene.

Beyond Community Mapping - How to Outreach and Build Mutual Aid Networks
In this session Kojo (he/him), National Organiser at BLM UK and ARM Core team member, will take local organisers and those new-ish to community organising, through some practical steps on how to build strong coalitions and networks with other organisations and communities. This is an ‘organising 101’ if you will!

Organising in Multi-Racial Spaces
Fauzia (they/them) will facilitate a space for discussion, exploring collectively how we can create and hold multi-racial organising spaces that recognise different positionalities and power dynamics, dive into practices that might reduce / mitigate harm and how we engage with one another when harm does occur.

LIVE STREAM HUBS

Leeds

If you’re in or around the Leeds area join the burgeoning ARM Group in Leeds for a watch party and discussion about what anti-racist organising can look like in Leeds going forward! Sign up here

Folkestone

Our Folkestone group has been meeting for a while and are excited to welcome new and interested people in! Join them for the watch party and discussion if you’re in Folkestone or the surrounding area!
Sign up here

Nottingham

A group of folks is meeting in Nottingham to watch the live stream! There’s no ARM group just yet but lots of exciting organising happening already - join them on the 11th to meet some people and find out how you can get involved locally!

Sign up here

AFTER-EVENT MUSIC AND CONNECTION

Because we believe that the revolution will have music and dancing we’re so excited to be joined by our friend Joe Cotch who will be laying down some tunes from 9-10pm while we continue to connect, get to know each other and make shake a leg or two!

Joe is a music curator, researcher, A&R, DJ and producer. Starting his journey as club promoter and DJ in Granada, Spain in his late teens, Joe moved back to his birthplace of London, ultimately playing a key role at Peckham-based record shop / night club / community hub Rye Wax. Alongside that, he co-founded and A&R’d the Cotch International record label and event series, which has been a key part of London nightlife for over 10 years, showcasing and platforming emerging talent from all corners of the globe.

A dedicated digger and student of global soundsystem culture, his polyrhythm-heavy sets stretch across all BPMs, joining the dots between interconnected global subcultures, united by a sense of urgency and visceral club beats, and served up through a distinctly LDN 'pirate radio' lens. This outlook is displayed on his monthly NTS Radio show 'Platos Combinados', which has included guests as varied as Nick Leon, DJ Lag and Simo Cell, to Moonchild Sanelly, Novelist and Rennan Da Penha. Alongside this, he has continued his A&R work, co-curating the 'Amapiano Now' compilation for NTS Records, and curating South African artists for the recent 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Soundtrack', amongst many other projects.

If you would like to host a virtual gathering in your area, email info@antiracistmovement.org.

We are here to stay, we are here fight and we are here to build something better.

For anyone outside of London or not able to come for any reason, you ‘ll be able to watch the live stream here:
youtube.com/live/ff2Wh4TWxlc

CHILDREN:

Children are welcome at our meetings! While we don’t have childcare provided this time, some of the folks from the Nanny Solidarity Network will be around to support parents and carers and have a little corner with things for kids set up!

ACCESSIBILITY:

Step-free access via a ramp at the main entrance and lifts inside.
Accessible toilets

Please stay home if you exhibit any cold or flu symptoms - we keep each other safe! 
You can watch the live stream here: 
youtube.com/live/ff2Wh4TWxlc

We're using The Stage, full access details here: richmix.org.uk/visit-us/accessibility/