The Power of Transformative Organising!

FOLKESTONE WATCH PARTY FOR ARM NATIONAL EVENT

Join us on the 11th July 2026 for a community gathering and livestream of ARM's National Event - The Power of Transformative Organising!

🗓️ 11th July 2026
⏰ 6-9pm
🏠 The Old Post Office, 48 Tontine Street 

We will be hearing from different speakers and connecting with each other to explore organising tools, principles and experiences from our local area.

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 free, but please book your place soon to help us with organising

Food and drink will be provided, please let us know about any allergies.

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.

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

ACCESSIBILITY & COVID PRACAUTIONS:

There is step free access via a ramp

There is one wheelchair accessible toilet

There will be activities for children, let us know if you are bringing kids

Masks and hand sanitiser will be available (we will be gathering attendees needs about masking before the event)

If you have cold / flu like symptoms, please stay home and rest - you will be able to join the livestream remotely

Please e-mail Folkestone_ARM@proton.me if you have any specific access requests.