Wednesday, June 8
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Wednesday, 6/8 | 11:30AM - 1:00PM
Main Hall
Featured Speakers: Alina Duarte, Fidelina Mena Corrales, Gail Walker, Xochitl Sanchez, Cristina Escobar Dominguez.
This session will dive into some of the examples of the ways in which the Organization of American States (OAS), acts on behalf of the interests of the rich, facilitating U.S. interventions across Latin America and the Caribbean, and consequently impacting democratic processes and people’s movements across the Americas.
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Wednesday 6/8 | 1:00PM-2:30PM
Classroom 3
The People's Summit for Democracy is creating a space for reflection, dialogue, exchange, debate and discussions on what is the current state of these sectors of work, what are some of the challenges and opportunities in the current moment, what does these times demand from our organizing, and what are some useful community strategies that we can learn and build from.
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Wednesday, 6/8 | 1:30PM - 3:00PM
Main Hall
Featured Speakers: Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, David Adler, Angelica Salas, Leonardo Luna, Izett Samá Hernández, Rev. Karlene Griffiths Sekou.
Join organizers from the front lines of different struggles to share perspectives on how they develop solidarity across differences, building unity, strength, and resistance in the face of U.S. imperialist violence and oppression.
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Wednesday, 6/8 | 2:00PM - 3:30PM
Classroom 1&2
Featured Speakers: Ashley Elias, Danaka Katovich, Deja Gaston
The blockade imposed by the U.S. on Cuba intentionally strangles the Cuban people’s ability to obtain goods, materials, equipment necessary for life and well-being. It also deprives people living in the U.S. of all of the medical, economic, cultural, and intellectual benefits that Cuba can offer, particularly for young people embedded in the struggle for a society based on care and solidarity, not profit and exploitation.
Join this panel to hear the perspectives of young leaders of social movements in the the US on what we can learn from the Cuban project and their strategies and proposals for building solidarity and ending the blockade.
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Wednesday, 6/8 | 3:00PM-4:30PM
Classroom 3
The People's Summit for Democracy is creating a space for reflection, dialogue, exchange, debate and discussions on what is the current state of these sectors of work, what are some of the challenges and opportunities in the current moment, what does these times demand from our organizing, and what are some useful community strategies that we can learn and build from. -
Wednesday, 6/8 | 3:30PM - 5:00PM
Main Hall
Featured Speakers: Dr. Ana Malinow, Dr. Bita Amani, Bill McKibben, Carlos Marroquin, Tynetta Hill-Muhammad, Dr. Tania Crombet Ramos.
The Covid-19 pandemic has claimed almost a million lives in the United States, and made clear that the richest country in the world continues to value economic profit over the well-being of humanity. This session will uplift examples of social solidarity and struggles that fight against the privatization of healthcare and for a world in which health is prioritized for all.
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Wednesday 6/8 | 4:00PM-5:00PM
Classroom 1&2
This workshop is a space for youth to collectively share and exchange organizing strategies and best practices with each other. Youth-led orgs will discuss their approaches to organizing and specific campaigns they are working on. The workshop will include social media advocacy, and virtually connecting to sustain solidarity across organizations and locations moving forward. This workshop hopes to uplift youth voices and recognize youth organizing for its unique complexities and power. -
Wednesday 6/8 | 4:00PM-5:00PM
Multipurpose Room
This workshop will discuss the struggle of the National Alliance for TPS, starting with a brief explanation about the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program and which countries are current beneficiaries. We’ll explore the history of the struggle for TPS including during the Trump presidency and the work now to pressure Congress and the White House to achieve permanent residency for TPS beneficiaries and their families. -
Wednesday, 6/8 | 6:00PM - 8:00PM
Main Hall
Featured Speakers: Dr. Melina Abdullah, Pablo Alvarado, phillip agnew, Citlalli Hernandez.
In the U.S., voting rights are under attack. Across the Americas, the U.S. uses its force to undermine efforts of Latin American and Caribbean people to build democracy from below. How, then, can the U.S. claim to be the defender of democracy across the world?
Join us to hear the perspectives of those who represent people’s movements in the fight for a democracy–one that truly works in the interests of the majority, the workers, and the poor, rather than catering only to the rich and the elite.
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Wednesday, 6/8 | 8:00PM - 10:00PM
Mainstage
Featuring: DJ Sizzle, DJ Habibeats, Los Jornaleros del Norte, QUITAPENAS
LOS JORNALEROS DEL NORTE began singing 15 years ago about and for the worker and immigrant community in the United States. It was an immigration raid at a corner of day laborers in the City of Industry, California, which was the impetus for the creation of music and poetry of resistance for them. On that day, a day laborer and musician, Omar Sierra, wrote “El Corrido de Industry” which recounted the events of the raid. This inspired others to share their stories through song and with the help of Pablo Alvarado, founding member and Director of NDLON (National Day Labor Organizing Network), day laborers began to write, sing, and share their struggles and hopes through music and poetry. Since then, they’ve become the soundtrack for the day laborer and immigrant community’s struggle for visibility, inclusion, and equality. Their songs are a historical document of the experiences of the migrant worker community in the United States.
QUITAPENAS is a tropical Afro-Latin combo born under the warm California sun. With a generous nod to the aesthetics of the 60s, 70s and 80s, a QUITAPENAS performance is an invitation to harness the energies of the Latin American and African liberation movements: Angola, Peru, Colombia, Brazil and beyond. The name means “to remove worries.” Everybody has a “pena” and the mission of QUITAPENAS is simple: to make you dance and leave you without a worry.
Thursday, June 9
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Thursday, 6/9 | 11:30AM-1:00 PM
Main Hall
Featured Speakers: Ofelia Fernandez, Karina Garcia, Li Ann Sanchez, Cindy Wiesner, Jenice Fountain, Gretel Marante Roset.
Violence against women and the LGBTQ+ community pervades our societies at all levels, from the home to the state. Join activists and organizers to share perspectives on the struggle against patriarchy and gender-based violence in all of its forms in today’s world.
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Thursday, 6/9 | 12:00PM-1:30PM
Classroom 3
The People's Summit for Democracy is creating a space for reflection, dialogue, exchange, debate and discussions on what is the current state of these sectors of work, what are some of the challenges and opportunities in the current moment, what does these times demand from our organizing, and what are some useful community strategies that we can learn and build from.
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Thursday, 6/9 | 12:30PM-1:30PM
Classroom 1&2
In the middle of a global health crisis landlords violently attempted to forcefully evict tenants and displace them onto the street. In response, many locals of LATU formed rapid response committees to get tenants back into their homes, make public these aggressions on working class tenants, and organize neighbors to defend their communities. These committees faced significant challenges but also had many victories. This workshop will bring together LATU members with the public to discuss how these committees were victorious and how our locals continue to defend our communities.
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Thursday, 6/9 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Main Hall
Featured Speakers: Kawenaʻulaokalā Kapahua, Rosmeri Witcel, Big Wind, Toya Manchineri, Andres Gonzalez, Dr. Fernando Rafael Funes Monzote.
Even though more than enough food is produced, 1 in 8 people across the world suffer from severe hunger. This statistic will only continue to grow as climate change drives the destruction of our planet. This session will feature the voices of leaders in the struggle for environmental justice, food sovereignty, and a future for all.
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Thursday, 6/9 | 2:00PM-3:30PM
Classroom 3
The People's Summit for Democracy is creating a space for reflection, dialogue, exchange, debate and discussions on what is the current state of these sectors of work, what are some of the challenges and opportunities in the current moment, what does these times demand from our organizing, and what are some useful community strategies that we can learn and build from.
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Thursday 6/9 | 2:30PM-3:30PM
Multipurpose Room
What does the struggle for autonomous community control of housing and services look like in Los Angeles, where 5 unhoused people die every day? Learn from unhoused leaders and community organizers on the fight back against criminalization of poverty and the fight for community control of our housing. We will discuss the history of criminalization of unhoused people living in Los Angeles in order to understand what is needed at this moment in our struggle for housing justice and liberation.
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Thursday, 6/9 | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Main Hall
Featured Speakers: Roberto Lovato, Natalia Linares, Gina Belafonte, Ernesto Yerena, Ana Maria Alvarez, Raul Amorim, Israel Rojas.
This session explores the role of culture in building and amplifying people’s resistance and social movements, as well as in shaping the radical imagination of our present-future. Speakers will share their experiences in creating projects that resist the capitalist logic of cultural and artistic production and that rally a people-centered future.
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Thursday, 6/9 | 4:15-5:15 PM
Art & Culture Tent
CONTRA-TIEMPO will guide participants in social dance practices rooted in the African and Afro-Latine Diaspora. These ancestral movement practices were designed and passed down to build resilience, affirm joy, instill hope and strengthen social and political resistance.
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Thursday, 6/9 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Main Hall
Featured Speakers: Kambale Musavuli, Hermela Aregawi, James Early, Channing Martinez, Jemima Pierre.
This panel will explore Pan Africanism and its anti-colonial and anti-imperialist vision for liberation. In the context of a deepening global economic crisis and the increasing US imperialist offensive against the Global South, how do we understand Pan Africanism as part of the internationalist liberation project?
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Thursday, 6/9 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Classroom 1&2
Featured Speakers: Mercedes Lopez Peña, Manuel Bertoldi, Hannah Appel, Abby Martin, Daniel Abner Rodríguez, Manu Karuka (Moderator).
This session will explore the ways that the United States and its allies impose their interests on other sovereign nations through unilateral sanctions, coerced debt, and privatization, exploiting working people through wage suppression and predatory lending. Speakers will exchange perspectives on resisting economic inequality and building a new economic system in the interests of all people.
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Thursday, 6/9 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Main Hall
Featured Speakers: Bertha Zúniga Cáceres, Medea Benjamin, Vijay Prashad, Oscar Lopez Rivera, Nana Gyamfi, Tina Orduno Calderon.
While the U.S. Government seeks to shape the world for its own financial and political benefit, the oppressed and struggling people inside and outside its own borders know that they have the right to determine their own societies and their own futures.
Join us to listen to the voices of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx leaders on the struggle against US domination and exploitation in this moment of intense political, economic, and social crisis.
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Thursday, 6/9 | 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Main Stage
Featuring: The Candy Rain, K Solar, Linqua Franqa
The Candy Rain (Segundo Casalis) is a rap DJ based in Los Angeles. Traveling between the Bay Area and Los Angeles, The Candy Rain is the host of undisputed best rap party in the world, “Candy Rain,” and resident DJ of R&B party 143 Worldwide.
K.Solar is a hip-hop artist brought to you courtesy of the sun, moon, and stars. When on the mic his raps pour out as a stream of consciousness ranging from the far-out universe to crucial relationships in his life. He relentlessly pursues his passion as a rapper, emcee, and beat maker offering unique hip-hop with an eclectic blend of his surroundings and influences of jazz, funk, and soul. Seeing his music as a universal compound–his sound, style, and presence are shaped by the historic community of Leimert Park, Los Angeles and the rich streets of Brooklyn, New York City.
Linqua Franqa, aka Mariah Parker, they/them, is a cultural organizer and local elected official rooted in Athens, Georgia. Their Hip Hop and political advocacy center worker empowerment and disruption of the prison industrial complex. Parker has garnered the attention of CNN, The New York Times, Teen Vogue, National Public Radio, Al Jazeera, The Nation, Afropunk,The Bitter Southerner, Performer Magazine and others for their outspoken commitment to collective liberation. Parker holds PhD in Language and Literacy from the University of Georgia; released in February, their second album, Bellringer, also served as their PhD dissertation.
Friday, June 10
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Friday, 6/10 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Main Hall
Featured Speakers: Mercedes Perez, Dr. Cornel West, Daniel Pascual, Felipe Caceres, Hugo Soto Martinez, Misael Rodríguez Llanes, Jollene Levid.
When workers unite, our power is unstoppable. This session will feature leaders of labor struggles across the Americas, and share their perspectives on building worker power whose solidarity extends across borders.
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Friday, 6/10 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Classroom 1 & 2
Mónica M., Anggie H. and Yolimar M. are active protagonists in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution, having worked for years in the struggles for educational, cultural, Indigenous, Black and women's rights. Join them for their testimony of how U.S. sanctions disproportionately affect Venezuelan women and children. They will also discuss how organized communities are fighting back against the economic war.
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12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Multipurpose Room
The U.S. military is the single largest consumer of fossil fuels in the world, enforces occupation of Indigenous sovereign lands, and upholds violent resource extraction across the world. Addressing climate change requires ending this US military-industrial complex and all its consequences on our communities. and presence. We will hear testimonies from communities in resistance, and ultimately call on world leaders to take action to stop funding unending wars, uphold self-determination and sovereignty, and invest in regeneration and a feminist economy.
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Friday, 6/10 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Main Hall
Featured Speakers: Dr. Charisse Burden Stelly, Cristian Delgado, Nekima Levy Armstrong, Rafael González Morales, Kyla Hartsfield.
This session explores ongoing movements against white supremacy, state sponsored violence, and the increasing militarization of police and society at large. Speakers will discuss the connections and interactions between these different forces and what it would mean to prioritize the needs of the people instead of bloated military and police budgets.
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Friday, 6/10 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Main Hall
Featured Speakers: D’Atra Jackson, Jean Roach, Pastor Cue, Sacha Llorenti, Mikaela Nhondo Erskog, Special Messages from Latin American Leaders.
While President Biden and his allies claim to build towards equity and sustainability, we know that those sitting in the White House do not hold the people’s interests at heart. Throughout the pandemic, this administration has consistently prioritized the interests of developers and big business over the needs of the people
Join us to hear speakers from across the Americas as they uplift the voices of marginalized and working people throughout the hemisphere, sharing a vision for the future of the Americas based in cooperation, solidarity, and the right to live in dignity and well being.
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Friday, 6/10 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
March to the Convention Center
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Friday, 6/10 | 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Main Stage
Featuring: DJ Akilin, Jillesque, Combo Chimbita
Described by NPR’s Alt.Latino as an “otherworldly presence,” Combo Chimbita is the creative unity of Carolina Oliveros (vocals, guacharaca), Niño Lento es Fuego (guitar), Prince of Queens (bass, synthesizers) and Dilemastronauta (drums), who together transcend common concepts of time and nationality.
Afro-Caribbean transcendance, bewildering chants, booming drums and psychedelic distortion lay the rhythmic foundation for IRÉ; a testament to the ever expanding scope of Combo Chimbita’s sonic palette and their modes of resistance in realms both spiritual and terrestrial.
“Within the saga of Combo Chimbita,” reflects Niño Lento es Fuego about each of the band’s releases, “El Corredor del Jaguar (2016) finds this eternal being lost outside their realm and returning to Abya Yala (2017) in order to heal and restore peace to the continent. Ahomale (2019) appears as a guiding energy of resistance and now IRÉ (2022) represents those chosen to lead the revolution and materialize the good fortunes foretold in their divinations.” Like the jaguar before them, Combo Chimbita carries on; delicate, resilient and roaring.