Throughout the day, the Sherman Heights Community Center was filled with people, as people arrived for the events they wanted to see and some people had to leave early. The space itself is large and beautiful, with lots of sunlight and tile mosaics on the walls. During the panels, such as the indigenous panel, the hall was filled. At other times, the group was split for simultaneous workshops. In the indigenous panel, the presenters said that they have been fighting European Imperialism since the 1400's and that, in a very real way "we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us."

This was more than a series of workshops. The indigenous panel began with a blessing ceremony complete with dancing, music and sage. The border disturbance art space included films, slideshows and a masked performance piece involving poetry and hand painted props. The panel on the Zapatistas and the 6th declaration allowed for a space for people to ask the Frente Zapatista any questions they had about the declaration.

Ashanti Alston's talk was definitely one of the high points. He spoke movingly about the ties between the work of the Black Panthers and the Zapatistas, about his experience joining the Black Panther party and the need to have a creative, non-hierarchical movement, as the Zapatistas say "walking, we ask". He spoke of his belief in anarchism and the need for us to run our own lives and develop our own techniques of struggle. He said that if anyone comes to you telling you they have the way to revolution planned out, you should be suspicious. He ended by saying that our work gives hope to previous genetations and to many political prisoners still in prison for 20 or 30 years, and that we must press ahead and continue to walk and ask because "we have to win this thing...The Empire gotta come down because our dreams have to come up".