Walls Cannot Keep Us from Flying is dedicated to youth skate culture, illustrating the importance of solidarity and liberation through skateboarding. 

In designing skateboard blank decks attendees are liberated to explore their own creativity; in collaborating with CoZi Las Vegas and UNLV’s A4 Zine Club to create skate-focused zines, attendees build solidarity. 

The panel discussion provides opportunity to explore Apache youth and other Youth of Color skate culture through engagement with critical questions like:

• What draws Indigenous, Asian-Indigenous, and other Youth of Color to skate culture?

• What do young people learn from skateboarding that they do not learn in school?

• What can educators and policy makers learn from youth skaters to improve student affirmation and engagement in education?

Mystery of Now discusses the creation of Apache Skateboards to increase Apache youth access goods and services, and create new ways of protecting Apache culture from ongoing efforts to eradicate Indigenous lifeways through dispossession and miseducation. 

Fifth Sun Project, a local Woman of Color-led community-embedded, grassroots cultural collective will share information about their work raising funding to provide mutual aid and build solidarity in working for Indigenous justice and global liberation.

Mojada, Inc., will share how, through local community, they are working to reshape the landscape of organizing and direct action through a mix of events, workshops, art, collaborations and civic initiatives, and to redefine outreach with grassroots organizing, mutual aid networks, and accessible Political 101s.