Fighting Back: Conference Schedule
All sessions at the Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East.
Registration opens at 6:00 PM on Nov. 19 and runs all day on Nov. 20
Registration located on the 7th Fl. on Friday and on Saturday.
Invited speakers include:David McNally (New Socialist Group, Canada)Gilbert Achcar (Fourth International, Britain; Author of Arabs and the Holocaust) Paul Street (Author of Empire's New Clothes) Adriana Mulero (Unión de Juventudes Socialistas-Movimiento Socialista de Trabajadores, Puerto Rico, leading activist in 2010 UPR Strike) Blanca Misse (Student Worker Action Team, University of California-Berkeley) Bill Zoda (Philadelphia Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals) Steve Downs (Transport Workers Union Local 100) Adaner Usmani (Labour Party Pakistan) *Organizational affiliations listed for identification purposes only |
FRIDAY, NOV. 19
Opening Session
(7:00 PM – 8:30 PM)Two Years In: Socialist Activists and the Crisis
David McNally and Gilbert Achcar
Room 713
SATURDAY, NOV. 20
Morning Session
(10:00 AM - NOON)Obama's America: Resistance at Home and Abroad
Paul Street, Adaner Usmani and more.
Room 207
Lunch
(NOON – 1:00 PM)Workshops: Session I
(1:00 PM – 3:00 PM)Labor Movement, Room 207
What's Behind the Rise of the Right? Room 411
Coffee Break
(3:00 PM – 3:15 PM)Workshops: Session II
(3:15 PM – 5:15PM)Defending Higher Education, Room 207
Public Sector Fightback, Room 411
Coffee Break
(5:15 PM – 5:30 PM)Evening Session
(5:30 PM – 7:00 PM)Rebuilding Our Movements, Renewing the Left
Steve Downs, Adriana Mulero, Bill Zoda and more.
Room 207