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For any questions or further information, please reach out to Ronnette A. Cox (Ronnie) at rcox@populardemocracy.org.

For participants who have signed up to Marshall the Saturday action.

We Still Here:

Casts from the film will be in attendance and leading workshop with Q&A: “We Still Here” introduces the incredible youth of Comerío, Puerto Rico navigating the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, a disaster that brought an unprecedented level of devastation. In the lush mountains in the center of Puerto Rico, 24-year-old Mariangelie Ortiz leads a group of young residents who never thought they would become the leaders of their community, nonetheless find themselves traveling to Washington D.C. to protest in the halls of Congress. Follow them in this coming of age story to find their power and begin creating a sustainable future for themselves and their community.

 

Judas and the Black Messiah

Chairman Fred Hampton Jr will lead a screening of excerpts of the Oscar Award winning film, Judas and the Black Messiah; a biopic drama about his father: Fred Hampton who in  his early 20’s was the Chairman of the Chicago Black Panther Party. He’ll also lead a Q&A during workshop sessions at the People's Convention. Chairman Fred Hampton Jr  is the president and chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee and the Black Panther Party Cubs. He is the only child of Fred Hampton, the Black Panther Party leader assassinated by police in Chicago on December 4, 1969, with his fiancée, now known as Akua Njeri.

During the late 1980s, Hampton worked part-time as an auto mechanic while speaking at rallies and working as an organizer for the National People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (NPDUM), an interracial group. He also sold The Burning Spear, the newspaper associated with the affiliated African Socialist Party.

He now serves as president and chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC) and the Black Panther Party Cubs (BPPC), made up of descendants of Black Panthers. He continues to organize to bring people together across racial and class lines. He also is a spoken word artist and poet, and draws from his experiences with police and incarceration.

Language offered: Morning - Spanish

Interpretation Available: Yes

The climate crisis is here and every day our communities suffer more and more from its impacts. This workshop is designed to build off the Climate Defenders Academy and primarily designed for Academy graduates ready to take the next step in their climate justice organizing journey. During the first half of the day, participants will learn key skills needed to build mass climate justice movements in their local communities. During the second half of the day, participants will join our comrades from the Doñas Academy and the CPD/A Economic Justice team in a panel discussion on the intersection between the climate crisis, migration, and worker justice and participate in an art build for the mass mobilization happening this September at the United Nations climate summit in New York City where we will stand in solidarity with the Global South and pressure the United States to declare a Climate Emergency.

Language offered: Español Interpretation Available: Morning session - No La Academia de las Doñas is a women's empowerment program designed to create safe spaces for women. We cultivate women's leadership to build community power. During the first half of the day*, participants will learn the history of the Doñas program and the importance of why organizing in our communities (Spanish only). During the second half of the day, participants will join our partners from the Climate Defenders Academy and CPD's Economic Justice team in a panel discussion on the intersection between the climate crisis, migration and labor justice and participate in an art build for the mass mobilization happening this September at the United Nations climate summit in New York City, where we will stand in solidarity with the Global South and pressure the United States to declare a Climate Emergency (Bilingual-English-Spanish only).

Language offered: Morning - English Interpretation Available: Yes

This workshop will take place over the course of four sessions: 1. Welcome, Grounding & Leadership: Fired Up and Ready to Go! Join our Renters Rising Leadership Team for a “The Rent is too Damn High” encore. Walk with us through the journey of a group of brave tenants from all across the country who took on some of the most powerful corporations in the world and won! 2. History of Housing and Corporate Landlords: How have government policies shaped who gets access to quality, affordable housing? Learn with us about how corporate landlords are preying on our communities, and what we can do to fight back! 3. Theatre of the Oppressed: Sharing and listening to each other's stories is one of the first ways we build solidarity amongst our communities and struggles. In this workshop, we will dive into our personal narratives by using Theatre of the Oppressed, a theater practice founded in the 1950’s by radical Brazilian visionary, Augusto Boyal. 4. Big National Campaign: Join the CPD Housing Team to talk about how we are going to win Green Social Housing as the CPD Big National Campaign across the whole CPD network.

Language offered: English Interpretation Available: Yes Join the Guardians of Democracy! In this training participants will learn how to step into their leadership and be the political change we need to make democracy truly work for our communities. This training will ground us in our shared history and the heroes of our past who fought to expand the right to vote and build a more inclusive democracy. It will also equip you with the tools and skills to be a civic leader and voter ambassador in your own neighborhood, including how to organize and mobilize your friends, family, and neighbors to vote. This is a “learning by doing” training where you will learn new techniques and put them to use right away to organize and mobilize your community and show those billionaires and lobbyists that their money is no match for people power! This training requires registration in advance and is open to leaders from affiliates participating in CPD/A’s Political Organizing Cohort (Action NC, ACCE, Detroit Action, Florida Rising, LUCHA, Make the Road NV, Make the Road NY, Make the Road PA, New Georgia Project, OnePA, and Step Up Louisiana)

Language offered: Spanish

Interpretation Available: No

Dominant narratives of climate change primarily focus on the science, global emissions and large-scale impacts, but what is lost are all the ways people are currently hurting and will face greater harm if we fail to address the climate crisis. To ensure that solutions for the climate crisis are centered on the experiences of those most impacted, we need to shape the narrative and uplift their voices. Stories are tools to help members identify themselves with the movement and grow our base, and more importantly, powerful stories compel people to take action and give people a vision for a better world. Everyone has a story to share, and this workshop will support participants in sharing their stories in a way that is compelling, powerful and transformative.

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: No

How would you feel if your child did not have access to all the same classes and support resources as their classmates; and as parent you did not know your child’s progress, couldn’t have meetings with your child’s teacher, and could not raise your voice for change because no one spoke your native language and did not provide resources of interpretation and translation? ESL students and families rights are being violated because schools in the US are not set up to work with non-English speaking families. Schools lack interpretation and translation for parents to be involved and ESL students do not have the same access to resources, activities, and classes as their classmates. So what is the Solution? A Parent Bill of Rights for English Language Learners. Joins Make the Road Connecticut to learn and discuss how to pass a Parent Bill of Rights for English Language Learners through coalition building, running a state level campaign, and community members leading the movement.

Language offered: English Interpretation Available: Yes There's a powerful electoral organizing movement building in Georgia that's shaping the way organizing is happening in the south. In this training we'll explore the best practices and strategies being used to build this movement. And how these lessons can be applied in other contexts to win and build power. Participants will leave with a clear plan for how to organize and enhance civic participation in a way that creates excitement with young voters, rural voters of color and Black communities and lays the foundation for long term issue base building. Come here what the SOUF has to say!

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: Yes

There is a vibrant, national surge in labor movement organizing and other economic justice demands. What are threats and opportunities in our local and national landscape, especially as the 2024 elections loom on the horizon? This workshop will take a look at some of the key economic justice issues on the landscape that are ripe for transformational organizing, as well as some of the threats that we can respond to and turn into intersectional opportunities. The focus will include the experiences and lessons of CPD affiliate-led campaigns.

Language offered: English Interpretation Available: Yes The Digital Age™ is officially here to stay but disinformation is not just living in conspiratory Facebook Posts or WhatsApp threads from our tíos or family group chats. As tools become more accessible for everyday folks, the speed in which we communicate with each other and build narrative accelerates. How to make sure what we’re seeing on TikTok or Instagram is accurate? Where can we find information to hold electeds accountable or identify their special interests? How do we communicate our findings to bring our communities back into the center of our work? Let’s work on it together!

Language offered: Spanish Interpretation Available: No From record hurricanes to deadly wildfires, from dangerous polar vortexes to brutal heat waves, the climate crisis is upon us. Our communities have already experienced devastation in California wildfires, Central American droughts, widespread tornadoes, hurricanes, deadly winter storms, and too much more—and if we don’t organize at a historic level and fast, the consequences for our communities will be catastrophic. In this workshop, learn about the climate crisis and how we are organizing to both avert a catastrophic future and advance a transformative society. We will also discuss the opportunity to declare a climate emergency and doors that will open if we are successful. This workshop is primarily designed for members who are new to and interested in engaging in organizing to address the climate crisis.

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: Yes

Abolition is a long-term project and a practice around creating the conditions that would allow for the dismantling of prisons, policing, surveillance, and all other forms of punishment and harm. It’s a project focused on building a world in which we can all thrive and it demands that we “change everything”—but what does that really mean and look like? This session will concretely explore both the positive vision of abolition as well as the oppressive systems we seek to dismantle through “abolition.” Participants can expect a theoretical exploration of the concept as well as its examples of its practical use in real-world organizing. Abolition is for everyone, and so is this workshop. We welcome people working on all different issue areas, not just the criminal legal system. Abolition is a political framework that can aid all of our work to dismantle racial capitalism and we encourage everyone to join!

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: Yes

Puttin our People in Power provides attendees with a past and present overview of powerful Black and Brown school board electoral organizing and its importance in fighting for education justice. Pulling from The School Board Elections Toolkit: How young people can build power through school board elections, this workshop strengthens organizers’ participation in school board elections with resources for electoral engagement and uplifting the issues that matter the most to them. Organizers will leave the workshop readily equipped to deploy different tactics and organizing tools when engaging in local elections that will advance their campaign, base-building, and narrative power. Ya’ll tryna win or na?

Judas and the Black Messiah

Chairman Fred Hampton Jr will lead a screening of excerpts of the Oscar Award winning film, Judas and the Black Messiah; a biopic drama about his father: Fred Hampton who in  his early 20’s was the Chairman of the Chicago Black Panther Party. He’ll also lead a Q&A during workshop sessions at the People's Convention. Chairman Fred Hampton Jr  is the president and chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee and the Black Panther Party Cubs. He is the only child of Fred Hampton, the Black Panther Party leader assassinated by police in Chicago on December 4, 1969, with his fiancée, now known as Akua Njeri.

During the late 1980s, Hampton worked part-time as an auto mechanic while speaking at rallies and working as an organizer for the National People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (NPDUM), an interracial group. He also sold The Burning Spear, the newspaper associated with the affiliated African Socialist Party.

He now serves as president and chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC) and the Black Panther Party Cubs (BPPC), made up of descendants of Black Panthers. He continues to organize to bring people together across racial and class lines. He also is a spoken word artist and poet, and draws from his experiences with police and incarceration.

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: YES

For far too long, our world has been held captive by a values system that creates divide and inaccessibility to power in our communities. It's time to break this ideology down. It's time to stand up and ground ourselves in the values that we want to see in our world. This workshop is for those who are dedicated to social justice and want to deepen their understanding of power. We're here to challenge ourselves to expand beyond our current limits, enhance our personal leadership skills, and work collectively to drive change in our state and our country. We refuse to stay idle any longer. Join us as we pave the way to a new and better future.

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: No

Dominant narratives of climate change primarily focus on the science, global emissions and large-scale impacts, but what is lost are all the ways people are currently hurting and will face greater harm if we fail to address the climate crisis. To ensure that solutions for the climate crisis are centered on the experiences of those most impacted, we need to shape the narrative and uplift their voices. Stories are tools to help members identify themselves with the movement and grow our base, and more importantly, powerful stories compel people to take action and give people a vision for a better world. Everyone has a story to share, and this workshop will support participants in sharing their stories in a way that is compelling, powerful and transformative.

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: Yes 

Recent developments in AI have the potential to change how we live, work, and organize. Join us for a panel discussion on why AI is relevant to our movement and how it will impact our organizing now and in the future. This panel is hosted by CPD Director of Technology Rabia Syed and will feature Mike Boland of the Working Families Party, Soribel Feliz of Responsible AI = Inclusive AI, and Taren Stinebrickner-Kaufman of the AI Impact Lab.

Language offered: Spanish Interpretation Available: No How would you feel if your child did not have access to all the same classes and support resources as their classmates; and as parent you did not know your child’s progress, couldn’t have meetings with your child’s teacher, and could not raise your voice for change because no one spoke your native language and did not provide resources of interpretation and translation? ESL students and families rights are being violated because schools in the US are not set up to work with non-English speaking families. Schools lack interpretation and translation for parents to be involved and ESL students do not have the same access to resources, activities, and classes as their classmates. So what is the Solution? A Parent Bill of Rights for English Language Learners. Joins Make the Road Connecticut to learn and discuss how to pass a Parent Bill of Rights for English Language Learners through coalition building, running a state level campaign, and community members leading the movement.

Language offered: English Interpretation Available: Yes There's a powerful electoral organizing movement building in Georgia that's shaping the way organizing is happening in the south. In this training we'll explore the best practices and strategies being used to build this movement. And how these lessons can be applied in other contexts to win and build power. Participants will leave with a clear plan for how to organize and enhance civic participation in a way that creates excitement with young voters, rural voters of color and Black communities and lays the foundation for long term issue base building. Come here what the SOUF has to say!

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: Yes

How are we making sure we are building a base of workers and community members, as we campaign around meaningful and transformative demands? This workshop will explore successful economic justice organizing, not just to win an important campaign goal, but to build a stronger and more sustainable grassroots base through the work. The focus will include the experiences and lessons of CPD affiliate-led campaigns

Language offered:

English Interpretation Available: Yes

In New Orleans, folks like to party. At Step Up Louisiana, members have coined the phrase ‘Party with a Purpose’, and put into practice principles for building power for the long haul, while having a good time doing so. The purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate how to build people's power through building genuine relationships, develop effective leaders, recruit dues paying members and retain current members. This will be an interactive workshop where ideas and participation are welcome. Members can expect to walk away understanding how to develop leadership through committee work, how to cultivate new and foster existing relationships, how to organize new members and grow base, and overcome challenges. Come ready to Party with a Purpose with us!

Language offered: English Interpretation Available: No From record hurricanes to deadly wildfires, from dangerous polar vortexes to brutal heat waves, the climate crisis is upon us. Our communities have already experienced devastation in California wildfires, Central American droughts, widespread tornadoes, hurricanes, deadly winter storms, and too much more—and if we don’t organize at a historic level and fast, the consequences for our communities will be catastrophic. In this workshop, learn about the climate crisis and how we are organizing to both avert a catastrophic future and advance a transformative society. We will also discuss the opportunity to declare a climate emergency and doors that will open if we are successful. This workshop is primarily designed for members who are new to and interested in engaging in organizing to address the climate crisis.

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: Yes

Abolition is a long-term project and a practice around creating the conditions that would allow for the dismantling of prisons, policing, surveillance, and all other forms of punishment and harm. It’s a project focused on building a world in which we can all thrive and it demands that we “change everything”—but what does that really mean and look like? This session will concretely explore both the positive vision of abolition as well as the oppressive systems we seek to dismantle through “abolition.” Participants can expect a theoretical exploration of the concept as well as its examples of its practical use in real-world organizing. Abolition is for everyone, and so is this workshop. We welcome people working on all different issue areas, not just the criminal legal system. Abolition is a political framework that can aid all of our work to dismantle racial capitalism and we encourage everyone to join!

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: Yes

This youth-centered workshop centers the lived movement history of young people in this work by highlighting youth’s influential role in movement spaces. We will discuss the importance of centering youth as a priority in this work and highlight the impactful role youth have played in movement spaces. By exploring the successes of past youth movement spaces, we’ll talk through how they can inform existing spaces. Participants will leave equipped with knowledge of youths historical role in movement spaces and will feel empowered to take up more space in their organizations.

We Still Here

Casts from the film will be in attendance and leading workshop with Q&A: “We Still Here” introduces the incredible youth of Comerío, Puerto Rico navigating the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, a disaster that brought an unprecedented level of devastation. In the lush mountains in the center of Puerto Rico, 24-year-old Mariangelie Ortiz leads a group of young residents who never thought they would become the leaders of their community, nonetheless find themselves traveling to Washington D.C. to protest in the halls of Congress. Follow them in this coming of age story to find their power and begin creating a sustainable future for themselves and their community.

Language offered: Afternoon - English & Spanish

Interpretation Available: Yes

During the second half of the day, Climate Defenders will join comrades from the Doñas Academy and the CPD Economic Justice team in a panel discussion on the intersection between the climate crisis, migration, and worker justice and participate in an art build for the mass mobilization happening this September at the United Nations climate summit in New York City where we will stand in solidarity with the Global South and pressure the United States to declare a Climate Emergency. We will also have a community convivio where we will share cultural food and music and build relationships with each other.

Language offered: Español

Interpretation Available: Afternoon session - Yes

During the second half of the day, Climate Defenders will join comrades from the Doñas Academy and the CPD Economic Justice team in a panel discussion on the intersection between the climate crisis, migration, and worker justice and participate in an art build for the mass mobilization happening this September at the United Nations climate summit in New York City where we will stand in solidarity with the Global South and pressure the United States to declare a Climate Emergency. We will also have a community convivio where we will share cultural food and music and build relationships with each other.

Language offered: Afternoon - English & Spanish

Interpretation Available: Yes

This workshop will take place over the course of four sessions: 1. Welcome, Grounding & Leadership: Fired Up and Ready to Go! Join our Renters Rising Leadership Team for a “The Rent is too Damn High” encore. Walk with us through the journey of a group of brave tenants from all across the country who took on some of the most powerful corporations in the world and won! 2. History of Housing and Corporate Landlords: How have government policies shaped who gets access to quality, affordable housing? Learn with us about how corporate landlords are preying on our communities, and what we can do to fight back! 3. Theatre of the Oppressed: Sharing and listening to each other's stories is one of the first ways we build solidarity amongst our communities and struggles. In this workshop, we will dive into our personal narratives by using Theatre of the Oppressed, a theater practice founded in the 1950’s by radical Brazilian visionary, Augusto Boyal. 4. Big National Campaign: Join the CPD Housing Team to talk about how we are going to win Green Social Housing as the CPD Big National Campaign across the whole CPD network.

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: Yes

Join the Guardians of Democracy! In this training participants will learn how to step into their leadership and be the political change we need to make democracy truly work for our communities. This training will ground us in our shared history and the heroes of our past who fought to expand the right to vote and build a more inclusive democracy. It will also equip you with the tools and skills to be a civic leader and voter ambassador in your own neighborhood, including how to organize and mobilize your friends, family, and neighbors to vote. This is a “learning by doing” training where you will learn new techniques and put them to use right away to organize and mobilize your community and show those billionaires and lobbyists that their money is no match for people power! This training requires registration in advance and is open to leaders from affiliates participating in CPD/A’s Political Organizing Cohort (Action NC, ACCE, Detroit Action, Florida Rising, LUCHA, Make the Road NV, Make the Road NY, Make the Road PA, New Georgia Project, OnePA, and Step Up Louisiana)

Language offered: Spanish

Interpretation Available: No

Dominant narratives of climate change primarily focus on the science, global emissions and large-scale impacts, but what is lost are all the ways people are currently hurting and will face greater harm if we fail to address the climate crisis. To ensure that solutions for the climate crisis are centered on the experiences of those most impacted, we need to shape the narrative and uplift their voices. Stories are tools to help members identify themselves with the movement and grow our base, and more importantly, powerful stories compel people to take action and give people a vision for a better world. Everyone has a story to share, and this workshop will support participants in sharing their stories in a way that is compelling, powerful and transformative.

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: Yes

Represent yourself, your organization and the issues you care about! Learn to discuss relevant topics in the media in an engaging and effective way. Gain practical knowledge to create and stick to your narrative, avoid media traps and push your goals forward.

With Special Guests: Kirami Bah, Senior Associate at New Heights Communications and Winsome Pendergrass, Spokesperson, Housing Justice For All, New York Communities for Change

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: Yes

Class privilege is rarely talked about or examined in activist spaces, which means that social justice organizing can inadvertently replicate classism and can exclude poor and working class leaders. This workshop will provide concrete tools for people to recognize and counter class privilege to build cross-class solidarity. This 101 training is open to people of all ages and class backgrounds, and is geared toward both people of color with class privilege and white people with class privilege in the top 25% of the US economy.

Language offered: Spanish

Interpretation Available: Yes

Come learn about the history of Puerto Rico and how people are fighting against the worst effects of colonialism and how you can take action to defend the people on the archipelago.

Language offered: English Interpretation Available: No A good gathering can be the difference between people staying or leaving your organizations. And, in a time when loneliness and alienation is rising, after (during?) a global pandemic, we need to focus on how we bring people together. In this workshop we will explore and learn about how to create gatherings that build the connections we need to make strong organizations. Join us!

Language offered: English Interpretation Available: Yes Join this panel to learn from the real life examples of activists and organizers involved in ward politics. Participants will have a larger discussion about making their local Democratic party structure more transparent and accountable to grassroots organizing both at the local and national level so as to increase voter turnout and enthusiasm in upcoming elections!

Language offered: English Interpretation Available: Yes This training is tailored for youth organizing to build a foundation for organizers and their members to fully understand why we organize. We will be building together through a Popular Education lens and to better understand how to bring folks into this work.Participants will leave with a better understanding of these 3 main concepts: 1. The core elements of successful base building, 2. Develop and build a better understanding of what a Root Cause analysis is. 3. The Three Faces of Power framework to ground issue campaign organizing in their values and vision.

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: Yes

What does “safety” mean to you and your community? The answer those in power provide for us is tied up in forceful systems of mass incarceration, violent policing, and punishment. This workshop will question what it means to fight for and build a world where true safety, accountability, and healing are created and sustained by our own people; we’ll talk about how “WE keep us safe.” Participants will learn what the “invest” of the divest-invest demand can look like in the real world through exploring successful organizing examples and models.

Language offered: English Interpretation Available: No The TGNCIQ Solidarity Workshop is a space for collective learning through knowledge sharing and awareness raising about sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. We will explore terminology to create shared definitions and work in small groups to understand historical and current community struggles. Finally, we will briefly engage in a conversation about practices that can be incorporated into our daily lives to support bold spaces in our personal lives and work spaces for the TGNCIQ community.

Language offered: English Interpretation Available: Yes Is economic liberation for people of color possible within a generation? Join the Liberation in a Generation team for an interactive and generative experience with stories and objects that signal a new economy where all people of color thrive. Come meet us, explore possibilities to dismantle our oppression economy and build a liberation economy. Leave with an experience to support your work and inspiration to share with your communities.

40 Years a Prisoner

Mike Africa Jr will screen excerpts from award winning film, 40 Years a prisoner; and will lead a Q&A workshop about his quest to free his parents from prison, and his experiences in the MOVE organization in Philadelphia. 

Mike Africa Jr was born in a jail cell. His parents were sentenced to 200 years in prison for a crime they did not commit. He grew up in the hood in West Philly. He lived through the crack epidemic that took many of his  friends to prison and early graves. At age 6 the police dropped a bomb on his family.He saw the smoke and fire that killed 11 of his people. At age 13 he started working to free his parents from prison.

In 1978, the escalating conflict between Philadelphia leadership and the Black liberation group MOVE led to one of the most controversial police shootouts in American history. This timely documentary chronicles the tireless fight by Mike Africa Jr., despite countless setbacks, to ensure the release of his parents and other MOVE members after more than 40 years in prison.

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: YES

For far too long, our world has been held captive by a values system that creates divide and inaccessibility to power in our communities. It's time to break this ideology down. It's time to stand up and ground ourselves in the values that we want to see in our world. This workshop is for those who are dedicated to social justice and want to deepen their understanding of power. We're here to challenge ourselves to expand beyond our current limits, enhance our personal leadership skills, and work collectively to drive change in our state and our country. We refuse to stay idle any longer. Join us as we pave the way to a new and better future.

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: No

Dominant narratives of climate change primarily focus on the science, global emissions and large-scale impacts, but what is lost are all the ways people are currently hurting and will face greater harm if we fail to address the climate crisis. To ensure that solutions for the climate crisis are centered on the experiences of those most impacted, we need to shape the narrative and uplift their voices. Stories are tools to help members identify themselves with the movement and grow our base, and more importantly, powerful stories compel people to take action and give people a vision for a better world. Everyone has a story to share, and this workshop will support participants in sharing their stories in a way that is compelling, powerful and transformative.

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: Yes

Represent yourself, your organization and the issues you care about! Learn to discuss relevant topics in the media in an engaging and effective way. Gain practical knowledge to create and stick to your narrative, avoid media traps and push your goals forward.

With Special Guests: Kirami Bah, Senior Associate at New Heights Communications and Winsome Pendergrass, Spokesperson, Housing Justice For All, New York Communities for Change

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: Yes

Class privilege is rarely talked about or examined in activist spaces, which means that social justice organizing can inadvertently replicate classism and can exclude poor and working class leaders. This workshop will provide concrete tools for people to recognize and counter class privilege to build cross-class solidarity. This 101 training is open to people of all ages and class backgrounds, and is geared toward both people of color with class privilege and white people with class privilege in the top 25% of the US economy.

Language offered: Spanish

Interpretation Available: Yes

Come learn about the history of Puerto Rico and how people are fighting against the worst effects of colonialism and how you can take action to defend the people on the archipelago.

Language offered: Spanish Interpretation Available: No A good gathering can be the difference between people staying or leaving your organizations. And, in a time when loneliness and alienation is rising, after (during?) a global pandemic, we need to focus on how we bring people together. In this workshop we will explore and learn about how to create gatherings that build the connections we need to make strong organizations. Join us!

Language offered: English Interpretation Available: Yes Join this panel to gain a deeper understanding of the political, social and economic history of Philadelphia and possible lessons learned from the organizers, activists and everyday people who made it.

Language offered: English Interpretation Available: Yes This training is tailored for youth organizing to build a foundation for organizers and their members to fully understand why we organize. We will be building together through a Popular Education lens and to better understand how to bring folks into this work.Participants will leave with a better understanding of these 3 main concepts: 1. The core elements of successful base building, 2. Develop and build a better understanding of what a Root Cause analysis is. 3. The Three Faces of Power framework to ground issue campaign organizing in their values and vision.

Language offered: English

Interpretation Available: Yes

Philly is a part of a nationwide movement to dismantle the oppressive institutions that make up the criminal legal system and invest in life-affirming programs that allow our communities to thrive. During this workshop, there will be a panel talk with those most impacted by the criminal legal system and the dedicated organizers and elected officials fighting for a more just and safe Philadelphia and nationwide. We’ll hear first hand stories about real-life human impact the criminal legal system has had on panelists (and everyone in the criminal legal system), ways impacted people and other organizers are working to abolish the system, what types of solutions to harm exist outside of the criminal legal system, and different ways to get involved in work to dismantle institutions like policing and incarceration.

Language offered: Spanish Interpretation Available: No The TGNCIQ Solidarity Workshop is a space for collective learning through knowledge sharing and awareness raising about sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. We will explore terminology to create shared definitions and work in small groups to understand historical and current community struggles. Finally, we will briefly engage in a conversation about practices that can be incorporated into our daily lives to support bold spaces in our personal lives and work spaces for the TGNCIQ community.

Language offered: English Interpretation Available: Yes Is economic liberation for people of color possible within a generation? Join the Liberation in a Generation team for an interactive and generative experience with stories and objects that signal a new economy where all people of color thrive. Come meet us, explore possibilities to dismantle our oppression economy and build a liberation economy. Leave with an experience to support your work and inspiration to share with your communities.

The Mike Brown Rebellion: 

Directed by Rebel Diaz and Sense Hernandez , this 6 part documentary comes from the Rebel Diaz led TV show Ñ Dont Stop for Telesur English. One of the 1st revolutionary media teams on the ground, Rebel Diaz takes us where no media teams were willing to go- to the frontlines and to talk to the people in the streets. See how a community stood up to a military occupation- after the uprising to protest the murder of 18 yr old Mike Brown at the hands of Police Officer Darren Wilson. The story covers the beginnings of the rebellion and the most current events from Ferguson October narrated by the young people in the front lines. Special interviews with activists at the epicenter and will be moderated by director G1 of Rebel Diaz and Ferguson, Saint Louis’ own, Tef Poe. Tef Poe is not only a renowned artist, he was there at the birth of an uprising, which shifted the conversation of race in the US, and birthed Black Lives Matter among many other peoples organizations, and movements after. This incident and uprising has inspired a generation, and forced the US to look closely at race and policing, once again.

Feel free to do some site-seeing during this time!

This plenary contains C4 content!