Preparing for the Rebirth of the Global Struggle for Socialism

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SAT. MAY 13

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FIRST PLENARY / Opening Panel

Welcoming: Dianne Mathiowetz, Atlanta IAC coordinator; GM worker for 30 years listen

SPEAKERS:

• Berta Joubert-Ceci, Workers World contributing editor; National Committee member from Philadelphia listen | watch
• LeiLani Dowell, Workers World managing editor; leader of Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) youth group listen | watch
• Fred Goldstein, Workers World contributing editor; WWP Secretariat
  listen | watch part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4
• Larry Holmes, WWP Secretariat; Troops Out Now Coalition leader
  listen | watch part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4

Second Panel: Forging Class Solidarity; Unity with the Oppressed;
Overcoming Fragmentation in the Movement

Chair: Monica Moorehead, WW newspaper Managing Editor and Secretariat member listen | watch part 1 | part 2

SPEAKERS:

• Professor Tony Van Der Meer, co-chair, Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee listen
• Larry Hales, FIST, community organizer, Denver listen
• Brenda Stokely, leader, Million Worker March Movement; NY Solidarity Coalition with Katrina/Rita Survivors listen
• Saladin Muhammad, chair, Black Workers for Justice; Black Workers League, Raleigh listen
• Phebe Eckfeldt, Women’s Fightback Network, and Committee to Defend the Somerville 5, Boston listen

SECOND PLENARY: The Workers’ Struggles Have No Borders

First Panel: The Significance of the Immigrant Rights’ Movement
Chair: Teresa Gutierrez, Workers World Party Secretariat member; co-director, IAC; organizer, NY Free the (Cuban) Five Committee listen

SPEAKERS:

• Carlos Canales, Workplace Project, Long Island listen
• Berna Ellorin, Bayan USA; Migrante International listen
• Chris Silvera, chair, Teamsters National Black Caucus listen
• Alejandro Ahumada, Inland Empire Association of the decendants of Joaquin Murieta, Los Angeles listen
• John Parker, West Coast Coordinator, International Action Center, May 1 organizer listen
• Sharon Black, trade unionist listen
• David Hoskins, FIST, Washington, D.C. listen
  

Second Panel: Changing Character and Conditions of the Working Class

Chair: Minnie Bruce Pratt, lesbian author/poe; Workers World contributing listen

SPEAKERS:

• Ruth Vela, FIST, immigrant rights organizer, San Diego listen
• Steve Gillis, vice president USWA Local 8751, Boston, introduces:
  Frantz Mendes, president, USWA Local 8751, Boston listen
• Leslie Feinberg, transgender author, lesbian activist, Workers World managing editor listen
• Martha Grevatt, UAW member; organizer of Pride At Work, AFL-CIO listen
• Peter Gilbert, FIST, Raleigh listen

THIRD PLENARY SESSION

Fighting Imperialism & Building Revolutionary Internationalism

Chair: Cheryl LaBash, a long-time Detroit city worker; organizer for May 20 "Hands off Cuba and Venezuela" demonstration; WW newspaper writer listen

SPEAKERS:

• Nellie Bailey, Harlem Tenants Council; Troops Out Now Coalition leader listen
• Sara Flounders, WWP Secretariat; co-director International Action Center listen
• Ardeshir Ommani, American-Iranian Friendship Committee listen
• Joyce Chediac, Lebanese-American activist listen
• John Choe, Korea Truth Commission listen
• Ignacio Meneses, National Network on Cuba; U.S. Cuba Labor Exchange listen
• Vannia Lara, Dominican organizer listen
• Arturo J. Peréz-Saad, Arab-Puerto Rican organizer, IAC download
  

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SUN., MAY 14

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FOURTH PLENARY
Building a Revolutionary Party

Chair: Rachel Nasca, Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee; Women’s Fightback Network listen

SPEAKER

• Bryan G. Pfeifer, Workers World contributing editor, Boston listen
  

SPECIAL REMARKS:

• Casandra Clark Mazariego, Urban Essence Dance Performance Collaborative; Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee listen

SPEAKERS:

• Deirdre Griswold, WWP Secretariat; Workers World editor listen
• Richard Kosali, WW leader, New York City listen
• Susan Farquhar, Detroit Action Network for Reproductive Rights listen
• Yolanda Carrington, FIST, Raleigh listen
• John Catalinotto, Workers World managing editor listen
  

CLOSING REMARKS

• Larry Holmes listen