9:00 AM-9:30 AM Registration

9:30-10:00 AM Introduction

10:00 AM-Noon Opening Plenary: Crisis, Austerity, and Resistance

Noon-1:45 PM Lunch/People of Color Caucus

1:45-3:30 PM Workshop Block 1

1. A Marxist View of the Crisis
2. Contemporary Developments on the Black Left

3:45-5:30 Activities

1. Film Screening/Discussion: The Crisis of Civilization
2. “Writing Political Articles” Workshop with Dan La Botz
3. Charlie Post on his new book, The American Road to Capitalism

5:30-7:15 PM Dinner

7:15-9:00 PM Workshop Block 2

1. How Were Mass Socialist Parties Built? The Rise of the Second and Third Internationals
2. SNCC: From Civil Rights to Black Liberation
3. Marxism and Ecology

9:00 AM-11:30 AM Plenary: Ecosocialist Visions

11:30 AM-1:30 PM Lunch/Queer Caucus

1:30-3:15 PM Workshop Block 3

1. Occupy and Labor
2. Austerity, Immigration, and Latino Communities
3. The School to Prison Pipeline

3:30-5:15 PM Workshop Block 4

1. How Austerity Affects Oppressed Groups
2. Student Struggles in Quebec
3. Chicago Teachers Struggle

5:15-6:30 PM Special Meetings

6:30 PM Dinner

9:15-11:00 AM Workshop Block 5

1. Austerity and Resistance in Europe
2. The Persisting Relevance of the Russian Revoluton: Myths, Realities, and Legacies

11:00 AM-11:45 AM Lunch Break

11:45 AM-1:45 PM Plenary: Occupy, Resistance, and the Left

1:45 PM-2:15 PM Evaluation/Closing