Hilary Moore and Vincent Bababoutilabo join our As We Re/Gather project in conversation from Germany, sharing reflections on anti-racist organizing in Germany, lessons in organizing amid the pandemic, and global connections in our work coming out of the events of 2020 and beyond. 

Hilary Moore is author of Burning Earth, Changing Europe: How the Racist Right Exploits the Climate Crisis–And What We Can Do About It (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2020). She co-authored No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements (City Lights/Open Media, 2020) and Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate Crisis (PM Press, 2011). Her work has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Public Eye, Waging Nonviolence, and Teen Vogue.

Vincent Bababoutilabo is a musician, author and activist at the intersection of art and politics. In recent years, his artistic and political projects have focused on migration, refuge, decolonization, exploitation and resistance, as well as the search for positive visions for a just society in which we can all be different without fear.