NAARPR 2025 Conference Call to Action:

Build the Movement to Defeat Trump's Agenda & Win Community Control of the Police!

Chicago, IL

November 14 - 16, 2025

We issue this call for our fourth National Conference since our refounding in 2019. The National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression (NAARPR) was founded as a blacksled, mass defense organization dedicated to defending the people’s movements. Today, we see the need to build an even stronger unity against the racist and reactionary agenda of Donald Trump and everything he represents. We call on all branches of NAARPR, our affiliate organizations and all sections of the people’s movement to join us in Chicago, Illinois at the Chicago Teachers Union Hall on November 14th-16th for our fourth National Conference.

Every day, we see the attacks launched by the Trump administration on basic democratic rights. From the administration targeting immigrants, federal workers, continued assaults on indigenous rights, healthcare and welfare funding, diversity, inclusion and equity programs, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights along with continuing the genocide abroad in Palestine, we see a deliberate attempt to disarm our movements for human dignity and rollback gains so many have fought for. We see the rise of white supremacist vigilantism and an ever-increasing police and prison state that seeks to curtail our efforts.

However, as NAARPR, we have been on the front lines through it all, demanding community control of the police, uniting with families to win justice along with fighting to free political prisoners and the unjustly incarcerated. We have stood with our immigrant comrades to fight back against the unlawful and illegal deportations from ICE along with continuing to stand with the movement to stop the genocide in Gaza. We have and shall continue to fight back against the police and prison state. We have grown to well over thirty branches and affiliate organizations across the U.S., with new branches forming daily.

We organize on the basis of the slogan Unity + Organization + Struggle = Victory, and our movement has had several significant victories in the two years since our last conference. The Tampa 5, activists targeted by the University of South Florida with felony charges for standing up to Ron DeSantis's attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, had those charges dropped as a result of a successful mass defense campaign. Leonard Peltier, the longest serving political prisoner in U.S. history, whose defense campaign the National Alliance has been involved in since the 1970s, was finally brought home by executive pardon this year. In Chicago, over 200 wrongfully convicted people were freed by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office under Kim Foxx due to our movement's continuous organizing efforts, and Kevin Jackson had his sentence reversed by the appellate court, the first of the survivors of crooked sergeant Brian P. Forberg to be freed. These victories remind us that organizing works, and we have the tools to build the movement needed in this moment of heightened repression.

It is obvious Trump represents a clear and present danger to our communities. His movement is rooted in white supremacy and at its core rides the backlash of the Floyd rebellion in 2020, a rebellion that we took a clear part in advancing. There have even been conversations within the administration to pardon killer cop Derek Chauvin. Police killings continue with impunity, while so many of our communities remain under occupation. We understand that through fighting side by side with the families who are victims of police terror, we are able to organize against the cutting edge of racist national oppression, building stronger ties in our communities and advancing the people’s agenda.

It is clear that solidarity and organization remain our biggest weapon to defend our movements and communities and to defeat Trump's agenda.

This conference will be a space to organize, strategize, and mobilize. Together, we will continue to grow, learn from each other and build a movement for black liberation and the liberation of all oppressed peoples. Join us this November.