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Documentation Folder

Please add notes and photos here throughout the weekend. Please DO NOT take notes in a doc that is not in this folder!!!

DOCUMENTATION FOLDER

Maps

• Main Venues
• Tivoli Student Union Directory

Summit Schedule At-A-Glance

Thursday, October 15

• Opening Plenary: Resist & Build Summit 2026 Kick-Off 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Friday, October 16

• 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM - Morning Plenary: Welcome and Panel
• 11:15 AM - 12:45 PM - Mid-day Plenary: World Cafe
• 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Concurrent Workshops, Block A
• 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM - Concurrent Workshops, Block B

Saturday, October 17

• 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM - Tours
• 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Concurrent Workshops, Block C
• 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM - Concurrent Workshops, Block D

Sunday, October 18

• 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM - Open Space
• 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM - Plenary, Strategy Sessions
• 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM - Closing Plenary and Next Steps

Venues

Main Venue: Tivoli Turnhalle, 900 Auraria Pkwy, Denver, Colorado

Much of the Summit will take place in the Tivoli Turnhalle at the Auraria Campus on the second floor. The Tivoli Student Union is at the Auraria Campus in downtown Denver, located on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Nations. The Auraria campus is home to three institutions: the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver), Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver), and the Community College of Denver (CCD).

Getting there:
Public transit options are available for those nearby and can be found here.

Parking:
There are lots of parking garage options and details about parking on the online map here.

To register your vehicle for parking, click here: Register for Parking

Please use the coupon code 3165266 to register. The code is valid at any parking lot or garage on campus, but is not valid at parking meter locations. Once registered, your license plate will be used to grant access and validate your parking at the location. There is no need to print anything or display a permit on the dashboard. You do not need to interact with the pay stations or the ParkMobile mobile payment application.

Workshops:
Concurrent workshops will be held in one of several locations (see list below) at the Tivoli Student Union building. See the map of the Tivoli Student Union here.

• Adirondacks (No. 440)
• Zenith (No. 640)
• LoRaine Good (No. 444)
• Baerresen Ballroom (320A-C)
• Classrooms

Kick-Off Venue: Colorado People's Center, 730 21st St Denver, Colorado

The Colorado People's Center is a volunteer-run shared resource space where people can gather, organize, learn from one another, and build relationships. The Colorado People’s Center is located at 730 21st St. in Denver. This venue is located on the land of the hinono’eino’ biito’owu’ (Arapaho), Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), and the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ and Tsétsėhéstȧhese/Tsitsistas/Só’taeo’o (Cheyenne) Nations.

Getting there: The Colorado People’s Center is about a 30-minute walk from the main venue and a 10-minute walk from the 18th St / Stout Station stop.

Where to Stay

Recommended Hotels

There will be a discount code provided for those who wish to book their stays at the Sonesta Denver Downtown hotel, once they have completed registration for the summit. The Sonesta is located at 1450 Glenarm Place and can be reached at (303)-573-1450 for any questions. There are other options available in the downtown area but participants must make their own arrangements.

Health and Accessibility

Our COVID Safety Guidelines:

• masks indoors strongly encouraged
• mask while traveling required
• vaccinations expected; please do not attend if you are unvaccinated

Who’s Organizing the Summit?

The national Summit Planning Circle includes representatives from the US Solidarity Economy Network, Build & Fight, Art.coop, People’s Network for Land and Liberation, Next System Studies, and The Democracy Collaborative.

Strategic Objectives

Movement Priorities and Goals

In the current context, our priorities are to:

• Strengthen networks and trust across the solidarity economy and systems change movements, particularly centering leadership from Southern, Black, Indigenous, and marginalized communities globally.
• Enrich and expand our movements, making them irresistible by fostering broad alignment around systemic change. Build alliances that overcome fragmentation, moving together on common ground to scale movements toward transformative change.
• Deepen our collective vision and strategies for liberation from the interlocking systems of oppression, extraction, and domination. This includes cultivating shared strategies to address capitalist exploitation, colonialism, ecological harm, and inequality, with the ultimate goal of achieving systemic transformation.
• Draw from the visionary traditions of BIPOC and other oppressed and exploited peoples to fight for freedom, create community-driven solutions, and reconnect with the land and nonhuman kin, which offer essential inspiration for building the regenerative, just futures we seek.
• Foster a joyful, regenerative culture that embodies the values of justice, interdependence, and ecological restoration, emphasizing care, mutual aid, and collective healing. Draw insights from feminisms, disability justice, and solidarity frameworks to prioritize ongoing individual and collective well-being.

Collaborative Planning Approach

A joint effort between the local host circle, national Backbone Circle, and Summit Planning Circle focusing on key collaboration areas:

• Venue selection and logistics
• Local outreach and attendee engagement
• Program development
• Volunteer and vendor coordination