Presented in conjunction with the exhibit 1980s Anti-Imperialist Student Activism at UMass.

Effective struggles for liberation and justice require grounded strategies and creative tactics, context-specific power analysis, and diverse methods for shifting power to the people. The Plug In event is an opportunity for students, faculty, staff, and community members to think about the university as a site where social struggle plays out.

This event will feature local and campus groups that are organizing for immigrant justice, worker power, reproductive justice, and housing justice, and for an end to student debt, carceral violence, and university complicity with the weapons and fossil fuel industries. Participants will hear from organizers and attend two short participatory workshops.

The Plug In is an annual event hosted by the UMass Alliance for Community Transformation (UACT), a program of the Department of Anthropology that prepares students to engage in social change work wisely and sustainably, across many lines of difference.

Part of the 2024–25 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series, "What Are Universities For? Struggles for the Soul of Higher Education."