We believe that political and civic Illiteracy is PUBLIC ENEMY NO.1! Therefore, the Forum is designed to see through the sandstorm that authoritarianism is unleashing, and to point toward alternative pathways offered by critical pedagogy, insurrectional democracy, and international solidarity. The privilege as well as burden of all us who deem ourselves bound by allegiances and loyalties which are broader and deeper than nationalism and which go beyond the nation’s self-defined goals, interest, and positions. We speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of fascism and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers.​