8:30-9:45 AM Registration and Coffee

9:45-10:15 AM Introduction and Icebreaker

10:30-12:30 PM Plenary I: Reform and Revolution

• Nick Davenport
• Susan Dirr
• Dianne Feeley

12:30-1:30 PM Lunch

1:45-3:30 PM Workshop Block 1

1. Ecosocialist Politics and Struggle

• Paul Prescod
• Steve Bloom
• Corey Mattson

2. Latin America: Workers’ Power and National Liberation

• Dan La Botz
• Joaquin Bustelo
• David Grosser
• Josefina Chavez, Mexico PRT

3:45-5:30 PM Workshop Block 2

1. Broad Left Parties in Europe

• Joanna Misnik
• Peter Solenberger

2. Non-Majority Organizing

• Tom Smith
• Representative from UE
• Representative from Fight for 15

5:45-6:45 PM Dinner

7:00 PM Walking tour of the neighborhood and a movie

8:30-9:30 AM Coffee

9:15-11:00 AM Workshop Block 3

1. Neoliberalism & Resistance in K-12

• Bill Balderston
• Nina Chacker
• Rolando Vasquez, CTU

2. Immigrant Rights Beyond Reform

• Cruz Bonlarron Martinez
• Isaac Steiner

11:15-1:00 AM Workshop Block 4

1. Community Organizing and Working-Class Power

• Matthew Luskin, organizer for Chicago Teachers Union
• Toussaint Losier, Chicago Anti-Eviction Committee
• Joe McGuire, Detroit Eviction Defense
• Rocket

2. Neoliberalism & Resistance in the University

• Kevin Young
• Mark Paschal, Viewpoint Magazine
• Martin Macias, USAS

Readings:

• 
  Against Humanities: The Self-Consciousness of the Corporate University by Mark Paschal
• Inside the Corporate University by Purnima Bose

3. Gender and Class

• Kaitlin Malick
• Vanesa Contreras

Readings:

• Puerto Rico: Feminism and Feminist Studies by Alice Colón Warren

1:00-2:00 PM Lunch

2:15-4:00 PM Workshop Block 5

1. Socialists in Unions

• Wendy Thompson, retired UAW local president
• Jackson Potter, Chicago Teachers Union
• Eric Garcia, Advance the Struggle

Readings:

• • Jerry Tucker, 1938-2012

 

• 
  Strike for America: The CTU and the Democrats
• The Problematic of the Union in the U.S. – What is to be Done? (Part 2)
• Occupy, ILWU, EGT and the Coming Class Battles

 

2. Challenging Sexual Violence in Our Organizations

• Claudia Garcia-Rojas
• Ann Russo

Readings:

• About Sexualized Violence
• Consent
• Interpersonal Violence: Some Basics Everyone Should Know
• taking risks: implementing
  grassroots community accountability strategies

4:00-5:45 PM Movie

6:00-7:00 PM Dinner

7:15-9:15PM Plenary II: Capitalism & Education

• Michael Principe
• Shannon Ikebe
• Debby Pope
• Xavier LaFrance

Readings:

• Throwing away the ladder: the universities in the crisis by George Caffentzis
• Education and the Structural Crisis of Capital by John Bellamy Foster
• Our University? by Mark Paschal
• A Framework for Student Debt by Mark Paschal

8:30-9:30 AM Coffee

10:30-12:30 AM Plenary III: Socialists in the U.S. Working Class

• Jane Slaughter
• Nate Franco
• Barry Eidlin

11:30-12:00 PM Closing & Evaluation

12:30-1:30 PM Lunch