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Program Schedule for 2016 WWP National Conference
Why We Must Keep Fighting
for a Socialist Future
SHABAZZ CENTER 3940 Broadway@ W 165 St. NYC
Take 1, A or C subway to 168 St.
Friday, Nov. 11
5 pm Registration at Shabazz Center
6 pm -9 pm Evening of Solidarity & Resistance
Saturday, Nov. 12
8:30 am -9 am Registration, coffee and bagels, canteen
9:30 am -9:40 am Conference opening
Welcome: Dhruv Pathak
9:40 am -9:50 am Small group table introductions:
LT Tran will give instructions
9:50 am -11:25 am First plenary:
In the Aftermath of the U.S. Elections,
What are the Tasks for Revolutionaries?
Chair: Summer Smith
Speakers:
Monica Moorehead, Larry Holmes, Scott Williams,
John Parker, Sharon Black, Teresa Gutierrez
11:25 am -11:45 am Small group table discussions
11:45 am -1 pm Floor discussion
Facilitators: Elena Gilbert & John Parker
1 pm -3 pm Lunch Break & Break-out groups
1 pm -2 pm Break-out groups:
- Building Labor Solidarity (main hall);
- Workers World Newspaper & Website: Independent and Revolutionary Working Class News Sources (lobby):
- Archiving and Studying Our Revolutionary History (lobby)
2 pm -3 pm Youth Break-Out (main hall)
3 pm -3:25 pm
Solidarity messages & Cultural Presentations
Chairs: Andy Katz & Cheryl LaBash
3:25 pm – 4:40 pm Second Plenary:
A Better World’s in Birth: Building the International Working-Class Fightback
Chair: Danielle Boachie
Speakers: Minnie Bruce Pratt, Joe Mshahwar,
Berta Joubert-Ceci, Taryn Fivek; Imani Henry;
Video of Leslie Feinberg; Video of Malcolm X
4:40 pm -5 pm Break and Music
5 pm -5:15 pm Solidarity Messages
Chairs: Andy Katz & Cheryl LaBash
5:15 pm -6 pm Third Plenary:
The Living Struggle: Revolutionary Practice
Based in Revolutionary Theory
Chair: Jess Jude
Speakers: LeiLani Dowell, Peter Gilbert, Lamont Lilly
6 pm -7:30 pm Dinner outside the Hall
7:30 pm -10 pm Evening of Solidarity & Resistance
Speakers and Performances: including
Pam Africa from MOVE Organization, International
Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Sunday, Nov. 13
9:30 am -10:30 am Registration, coffee and bagels, canteen
10:30 am -11:15 am Chair: Garrett Dicembre
Music, slide show, video,
International Solidarity messages
Report from BAYAN: Gary Labao
11:15 am -12:15 pm Fourth Plenary:
Seize the Time! The Role of a
Revolutionary Party & its Relevance Today
Chair: Garrett Dicembre
Speakers: LT Tran, Andy Katz,
Abayomi Azikiwe, Rebecka Jackson
12:15 pm -12:45 pm Small Groups:
Crafting Messages & Resolutions of Solidarity
12:45 pm -1 pm Break
1 pm -2 pm Closing Plenary
Chair: Teresa Gutierrez
Summation: Larry Holmes
Singing of Internationale
Assata Chant
Adjournment
Conference plenaries will be live streamed
on Workers World Party Facebook.
Facebook.com/Workers World Party
*Solidarity messages throughout program.
Program subject to change
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