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Movement Defense: A SmashX Conference


Event Details

  • Date: March 14, 2026 11:30 am – 7:00 pm
  • Venue: Barrett's Too
  • Categories: Conference, Talk

A full-day of talks and trainings on topics related to movement defense! State repression is an unavoidable issue for successful movements, how do we support and sustain movements in the face of it? Join organizers, lawyers, and researchers to learn what we can do and to participate in these important conversations. Presenters include Austin Lawyers Guild lawyers that extensive experience supporting people in political cases, anti-surveillance activists that are fighting flock camera surveillance in Austin, surveillance researchers that study the intersection of capitalist surveillance tech and the border, the DFW Support Committee (a support crew for political prisoners in Dallas who are facing one of the highest-stakes legal battles of our current moment), organizers that have extensive experience both facing repression and navigating movements in those moments, and an experienced local jail support crew.

All talks will take place in north loop, at Barrett’s Too (formerly Double Trouble) and Monkeywrench Books.

On Sunday 3/15 there will be a Community Jail Support event and a Town Hall.

 

 

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