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PROPOSED
AGENDA:
The conference
will be open and democratic. All decisions at the conference will be made on
the basis of free and open discussion and democratic majority vote.
Friday, June 1, 2001
9:00 REGISTRATION
9:30-11:30 PLENARY SESSION:
Fighting for our futures: Organizing high school students to
fight for affirmative action, integration in K-12 education,
and full social equality
12:00 RALLY AND MARCH
(Tentative speakers list includes Reverend Jesse Jackson)
1:00-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-5:00 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT LEADERSHIP MEETING
5:00-6:30 DINNER
6:30-7:30 REGISTRATION
7:30- PLENARY SESSION:
Placing segregation and inequality on trial: The U of M Law
School student defendants' case for affirmative action
Saturday,
June 2, 2001
9:00-10:00
REGISTRATION
10:00-12:00 PLENARY AND DISCUSSION:
Building the new national civil rights movement
Speaker topics will include:
1) An overview of where we stand now in the defense of
affirmative action;
2) Inequality in K-12 education in America: why we must
integrate our schools;
3) The role of unions in building the new civil rights
movement;
4) Why high school, university and other youth leaders must
step forward now;
5) A plan of action to build the new civil rights movement;
6) Relations with the women's movement
12:00-1:00 LUNCH
1:00-2:30 PLENARY SESSION:
Reports on how to defeat the attacks on affirmative action
from key states
1) The state of the political struggle and the development
of the new civil rights movement in California:
How to overturn Proposition 209
2) The state of the political struggle and the development
of the new civil rights movement in Florida:
How to overturn Jeb Bush's "One Florida Initiative"
3) The state of the political struggle and the development
of the new civil rights movement in Michigan:
Winning the University of Michigan affirmative action cases
4) The state of the political struggle and the development
of the new civil rights movement in other parts of the
nation
2:30-3:00 BREAK
3:00-4:30 WORKSHOPS:
Groups and individuals are encouraged to add additional
workshops.
1) Asian Americans and affirmative action: mobilizing to
defeat the rising tide of anti-Asian racism
2) Linking the struggles for women's rights, lesbian/gay
rights and youth rights to the movement for affirmative
action and integration
3) Defending and extending school integration programs; the
struggle against racism in America's high schools
4:30-6:00 WORKSHOPS:
1) Linking the struggle for affirmative action to the
environmental and anti-capitalist, anti-globalization
struggle
2) Reparations and the struggle for affirmative action,
integration, and equality-defining the aims of our movement
3) The April 2001 uprising in Cincinnati: Putting racism and
police brutality back at the center of the American
political agenda
6:00-7:30 DINNER
7:30- POETRY SLAM & INFORMAL GET-TOGETHER
Sunday,
June 3, 2001
9:30-12:00
PLENARY SESSION:
Workshop reports; discussion and vote on resolutions
including on a program and strategy for building the new
civil rights movement
12:00-1:00 LUNCH
1:00-3:00 CONTINUATION OF MORNING PLENARY SESSION
3:00-5:00 ORGANIZING SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING
5:00-6:00 CLOSING REMARKS
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