You can register online for the People's Congress until Friday at Noon. Also, come out Friday night at St. Stephen Church for a Party and Social before the People's Congress of Resistance. More information about the program will be coming out soon.
Day 1: Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017
8:00am: Doors open for Registration, Coffee and Muffins
Opening and Statement of Principles
9:00-9:30am
- Conveners’ statements
- Values to ground our movement
Strategy
From Resistance to Revolution
Plenary, 9:30-10:30am
- The People’s Congress vs. the Millionaires’ Congress
- Forming a revolutionary pole
- The role of the Manifesto
Tactics
Each one, teach one: Resistance Tactics
Workshop Session 1, 10:45am-12:15pm
1. Community organizations and revolutionary politics
2. Developing independent media
3. Defending each other: No to deportations!
4. Building community centers of struggle
5. Rural/small-town organizing
Lunch
12:15-1:15pm
Each one, teach one: Resistance Tactics
Workshop Session 2, 1:15-2:45pm
1. Community organizations and revolutionary politics
2. Developing independent media
3. Defending each other: No to deportations!
4. Freeing political prisoners, ending mass incarceration
5. Serving the people and mutual aid
Solidarity at home and abroad
People’s Congress domestic policy: A society for the many
Plenary and discussion, 3:00-5:00pm
- Standing together against police violence
- The political prisoners: Free ‘em all
- Environmental justice: a struggle for survival
- Reproductive justice in the Deep South
- Organizing for queer and trans liberation
People’s Congress foreign policy: Internationalism, not imperialism
Plenary and discussion, 5:00-7:00pm
- Neo-colonialism and the war drive
- Opposing the new Cold War
- War threats on Korea
- The bombing of Yemen
- End the blockade against Cuba
- Hands off Venezuela
- Puerto Rico's independence
- In defense of BDS
Day 2: Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017
9:00am: Doors open for Registration, Coffee and Muffins
Introduction of resolutions and process
9:30-10:00am
Areas of work (workshops)
10:15-11:45am
1. Popular education: how to spread the Manifesto
2. No war on Korea: the need for a new antiwar movement
3. Building an independent health care movement
4. The fight for housing as a right, and against racist displacement
Lunch: 12:00-1:00pm
Action-oriented resolutions
1:00-2:00pm
Organizational resolution
2:00-3:00pm
Closing remarks
3:00-4:00pm
March to the White House
4:30-6:00pm
Schedule is subject to change.
You can register online for the People's Congress until Friday at Noon. Also, come out Friday night at St. Stephen Church for a Party and Social before the People's Congress of Resistance. More information about the program will be coming out soon.