Agenda Highlights

Friday, Oct. 3

9:00am Welcome: Nancy Reiko Kato

9:30am Keynote: Nellie Wong,
prominent Bay Area poet and unionist
Women & revolution – alive & inseparable!

10:30am Policy resolution: Laura Mannen
For a U.S. feminist movement
independent of the twin parties of war & reaction

3:00pm Panel: Standing our ground on labor's front lines

7:30pm Keynote: Lynne Stewart,
embattled human rights attorney
Radical dissent: The righteous response
to an unjust system

Saturday, Oct. 4

9:00am International speakers: Magnificent warriors:
Female leadership in the global freedom struggle

11:30am Policy resolution: Christina López
Estamos en la lucha:
Immigrant women light the fires of resistance

3:30pm Workshops:
• ABC's of Marxist Feminism
• End the war on women – in Iraq, Afghanistan & the U.S.
• Federally funded childcare NOW
• On the barricade for abortion rights
• Radical campus organizing
• Young, queer and radical: What are we fighting for?
• Women in the Chinese Revolution

7:30pm Entertainment

Sunday, Oct. 5

9:00am Panel: The galvanizing impact of multiracial organizing
in a society divided by racism

1:00pm Workshops:
• Challenging the Minutemen & other neo-fascists
• Radical youth and rebel elder: connecting the generations
• RX for a toxic healthcare system
• Why socialist feminism is important to the international Left
• Confident public speaking
• How to start a Radical Women chapter
• Know your rights as a workers and/or unionist

2:30pm Workshops:
• Alternative feminist radio
• Confronting movement sexism
• Poetry & Rebellion
• Race, Gender and Affirmative Action

Second session – skills
• Effective flyers and banners
• How to do successful media work
• Put your ideas across in writing

7:00pm Banquet (registration for the banquet has closed)

Monday, Oct. 6

10:00am National Organizer's report: Anne Slater

5:00pm Adjourn