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Black Radical Congress 10th
Anniversary Conference
Workshop
Session I: 2:00-3:30 pm
African Americans, Immigration and Race
Presenter: Eric K.
Ward, Center for New Community
Description: Session
will discuss the impact of anti-immigrant public policy on the
Black community, reveal the white nationalist social movement
hiding within the current immigration debate and provide a
comprehensive view of those efforts by key African Americans on
this pathway.
AFRICOM
Presenters: Rev. Lennox
Yearwood; Amira Woods; and Gerald LeMelle
Description: Members of
the Hip Hop Caucus will facilitate a political education panel
and discussion on U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), and will
include a discussion on effective formation and strategic
strategies focused on forming and affecting policy.
Black People and the Iraq War/Occupation
Presenters: Frank
Ackles, Jr., St. Patrick’s Center; Michael T. McPhearson,
Veterans for Peace;
Margaret Stevens, Service Women’s Action Network
Description:
Black war veterans talk about life after
war--facing discrimination, lack of accessible resources, etc.,
how communities can better support them -- and examine the Black
communities’ response to the Iraq invasion. Participants will
also explore how African-Americans can lift up their voices in a
louder, more unified way against the war.
In Search of a Black Gay Agenda
Presenter: Erise
Williams. St; Louis Black Pride; Muriel “Blue” Jones, LGBT
Community Center
Description: This
workshop will explore issues that Black gay men and lesbians
hope to incorporate into a holistic agenda that is a part of the
greater Black agenda; such issues as fighting homelessness,
boosting mental health resources and dismantling the social
structures that place many young black men on the fast track to
prison.
Radicalizing the Hip Hop Political Movement
Presenters: Jay Woodson and Troy
Nkrumah, National Hip Hop Political Convention
Description: The
radicalization of the Hip Hop political movement -the effort to
become independent of the mainstream political parties and to
emphasize grassroots organizing, political education and direct
action- will be the subject of our session at the BRC this year.
Workshop Session II – 4:00-5:30 pm
Black Liberation and Student Organizing
Presenters: Hank
Williams, City University of New York (CUNY); Willanda Rhodes,
University of MO-St. Louis (UMSL)
Description: Using
organizing experiences from the CUNY and UMSL, this
discussion will talk about the centrality of the Black
liberation movement to student and youth struggles; the need to
maintain and expand on the gains won during a period of budget
and social services cuts, prison expansion, etc. through
organized efforts.
Black Workers at a
Time of War, Elections and Economic Crisis
Presenters: Ajamu
Dillahunt, Black Workers for Justice; Ken Riley, International
Longshoreman Association-Local 1422
Description: Through
dialogue, presentation and video, participants will access the
status of the Black workers in this historical moment. We will
examine resistance to the war, labor organizing in the South and
how Black workers might intervene in the presidential campaign.
Support work for various labor struggles will be considered.
Gettin' the Vote Out:
The Radical Approach
Presenters: Diane
Lackey and Ken Heard, Greater Philly BRC
Description: This
session will discuss
methods of Voter Education which have worked
major cities, how to apply "force multiply" methods as opposed
to "leveraging" organizations to assist, voters Strata's to be
found in the cities where BRC is located, the new photo
identification laws and impacts on the African American voting
population, and What Must Be Done - On-ground Political Field
Strategy and Tactics.
Police Violence in Our Communities: Resistance
and Reform
Presenters: Jamala
Rogers, Organization for Black Struggle; Matt Nelson, Milwaukee
Police Accountability Coalition; and Jessica Watson-Crosby, NY
BRC
Description: The
purpose of this workshop is to look at different organizing
models that can have a direct impact on police terrorism,
empower the community and establish measurable benchmarks for
future assessment.
US Social Forum - A Movement Building Process
Presenters: Alice
Lovelace, US Social Forum; Jerome Scott, Project South
Description:
Key topics for the workshop will be sharing the
history of the social forum global processes, USSF goals, the
organizing model, and the need for the movement to fund itself
and the impact of the social forum on social movements in the US
and internationally.
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