DGH General Assembly July 3rd-5th, 2026Atlanta/Decatur, Georgia, USA

Theme: Clarity and Conscience: Liberation Medicine in Today’s Global Reality

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For In-person Attendance (Housing included). Breakfast and lunch are included.

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July 3, 2026
6:00 PM- 9:00 PM | Conversations and Pupusas
Location: Near Fernbank Forest

July 4, 2026
Location: Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
Day 1: Setting the Groundwork – Community, Context & Connection
8:30 AM- 9:00 AM | Breakfast, Music, Conversations
9:00 AM | Welcome – Dr. Lanny Smith
● Land acknowledgment, collective grounding with introduction to DGH, Liberation Medicine and Why We Must Make “Good Trouble” fighting fascism, racism, science-denying ignorance and genocide.

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM |
Keynote Address: Immigrant Detention and Mass Incarceration, from the US to El Salvador
• Almicar Valencia, Executive Director, El Refugio, a place of refuge for those detained at
Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA, one of the largest detention centers in the country
operated by CoreCivic.
• Samuel Ramirez, Coordinator of the Movement of Victims of the Regime in El Salvador (MOVIR)

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM | Experiences, Ideas and Inspiration on How Best to Support Silenced
Communities (including immigrants, Trans/non-binary and others)
● Jonathan Peraza Campos, The Escuelitas Program and Association of Raza Educators
● Rafla Malik, MD, Doctors Against Genocide
● Charis Books & Charis Circle “Your Independent Feminist Bookstore” (Invited)
● Freedom University “Georgia has the most discriminatory bans against undocumented students in the country” (Invited)

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM | Lunch: Getting to know each other through food

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM | TPS Alliance / The Next Dream Documentary: a film by Steve Marx, Laura Bean and Vahdat Yeganeh) & Discussion

2:45 PM – 4:15 PM | Report-back from DGH International Partner Communities from Chiapas to the Isthmus of Oaxaca, Mexico to Santa Marta and Estancia, El Salvador:
° Hearing how DGH Accompaniment through financial support and volunteers (on the ground
and remotely) addresses the needs of the communities at a time when their government has
abandoned them;
° Joining CISPES to mobilize our Representatives to challenge the role of the US government
in supporting the agenda of the current regime.
° Discuss the current challenges faced in El Salvador with the new Foreign Agents Law,
imposing a 30% tax on all international donations coming into the country.
Panelists:
• Peter Martinez Nataran (impact of El Salvador’s Foreign Agents Law for NGOs)
• Juan Manual Canales Ruiz (25 years accompanying indigenous compas in Chiapas)
• Jose Ramiro Cortez Argueta (DGH accompaniment with CDH in Morazan, El Salvador)
•Hermenigilda Argueta (Psychological support of women dealing with the trauma of
war and the “State of Exception” in Santa Marta, El Salvador)

4:30 PM – X | Spirit of Mandela: Convergence & Mobilization Against Genocides! National
Mobilization Against Genocides and Celebration of 250+ Years of Resistance by Black,
Brown and Indigenous Peoples.

● Move via public transportation (MARTA) from Decatur Station to West End Park
Station to Malcolm X Park West End Part in Atlanta. (Dinner & Marta on your own.)

July 5, 2026
Location: Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia
Day 2: Building & Defending – Strategy, Skills & Solidarity

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Breakfast, Music, and Conversations
9:00 AM – 9:15 PM | Welcome, announcements – DGH General Assembly Committee

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM |
Keynote Address: Challenging unjust policies of the current Salvadoran Government (firing Primary Care providers, cutting access to basic medications, substituting AI for direct patient care, etc.)
• Dr. Rafael Aguirre, Internist working in the Public Health Care System in El Salvador,
President of SIMETRISS, the union that represents physicians working in that system.
• Local member of NNA (National Nurses Association) to share the crisis that the VA is
experiencing, related to lack of staffing and resources. (Invited)

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM | Cuba Under Siege: Solidarity with Cuba’s Model of People Oriented
Healthcare, Autonomy and International Accompaniment of Communities and Health Systems
Panelists:
● Angelina Crowley, Representative from The Hatuey Project
● Dr. Cedric Edwards, ELAM (Latin American Medical School) first US graduate
● Salvadoran ELAM graduate (invited)

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM | Lunch

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM | Panel: Get Up/ Stand Up/ Stand Up for your (and silenced communities’) Rights! –
Truth to Power, standing up to social injustice including genocide in Palestine, kidnappings by ICE and Union-busting—calls to action, resilience songs, inspiration and other paths toward solidarity.
● Umaymah Mohammad, Palestinian (former) MD-PhD student at Emory University
● Lama Khouri, Palestine Global Health Network
● Professor supporting students against genocide
● Professor supporting Black Lives Matter
● Fired But Fighting (from the CDC— www.firedbutfighting.org (http://www.firedbutfighting.org/) )

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Action Planning Session – DGH community building
● Collective strategy-building for the year ahead
● Vision with Mutual Aid
● Building the DGH Community
● Sister organizations support toward healing communities; against fascism, racism, trans-hating and genocide
● Deepening working groups and commitments
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Open: impact on community – facilitate discussion
● Awards
○ Sand Kemp Scholars
○ Hal and Cherry Clements Community Service Award
○ Liberation Medicine Social Justice Award

● Reflections, appreciations, and final thoughts – DGH GA Committee

Invitation by DGH to physical or virtual resistance-presence in Atlanta 3,4 and 5 July 2026! Relevant to Spirit of 1848 because to gather for health and social justice is a Health & Human Right responsibility. Welcome! Bienvanida y Bienvenido (sera en Ingles y Espanol—will be in Spanish and English!): “What to the racially profiled person is the 4th of July?”