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

Party/Event

(8:00 PM – on, Location available to registrants)