BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18818959 SEQUENCE:18963730 CREATED:20181110T061900Z DESCRIPTION:UPDATE 11/16: \n\nPEOPLE GET READY CANCELLED!\n\nWe are disappointed to relay that dangerous air quality has compelled us to cancel People Get Ready 2 for tomorrow. The conference planning group will meet soon to discuss next steps for trying to either reschedule or figure out some other ways to provide a space for thoughtful engagement with our political moment we hoped the conference would provide. Please stay tuned for updates from the planning group about next steps.\n\nThanks to all of you who helped in the planning and outreach for the conference.\n\n\n\nPEOPLE GET READY IS NEXT WEEK! PRE-REGISTER NOW!\nThe People Get Ready II planning committee has been hard at work to make November 17 a powerful gathering for learning and discussion. This one day conference is aimed at assessing the post-midterm terrain and charting a path forward to building powerful movements and the radical left. People Get Ready II will include two powerful keynotes, nine discussion sessions, and a workshop featuring dozens of visionary organizers from the Bay and beyond.\nAt last year’s conference, our comrade Linda Burnham urged us to take up the often-difficult task of balancing our revolutionary imagination with the brutal realities we face.  Amid war, right-wing terror, racist state policy, environmental devastation, and capitalist barbarism, it seems that the fate of our peoples and the planet requires the utmost from our imaginations and our energies on the ground.  And times aren’t without hope. A growing tide of people all over the world are mobilizing, strategizing, and building the liberatory politics and movements necessary for us to live in humane and sustainable societies.\nOur goal is to create a space where people in struggle can converge to understand where we are, what we’re up against, how to fight back, build strength, and shift power—now and into the future.  Join us for People Get Ready II.\nDetails are still being worked out but we are proud to share what we’ve got so far!\nPeople Get Ready II will feature the following sessions:\n\nTaking Stock: Analyzing the Political Terrain after the Midterms\nHard Work: New Battles, New Organizing in the Workplace and Beyond \nSpanning the Globe: Internationalist Solidarity vs. US Militarism\nLand: The Basis of Freedom, Justice and Equality\nWho’s Got the Power?: A Workshop on Assessing the Balance of Forces \nTowards 2020: People Power at the Ballot Box and in the Streets\nNo Pasarán!: Strategies to Defeat Fascism and the Authoritarian Right\nAgainst Displacement: Freedom to Stay, Freedom to Move, Freedom to Return \nDeep and Wide: Building Alliances with Teeth\nFighting to Win: Cultivating a Successful Left Strategy\n\nSpeakers will include:\nAimee Allison (She the People)\nBrace Belden (DSA)\nCalvin Cheung-Miaw (Left Inside/Outside Project)\nCathi Tactaquin (National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights)\nClare Bayard (Catalyst Project)\nClaude Marks (Freedom Archives)\nDonté Clark\nEllen Choy (Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans)\nElsadig Elsheik (Haas Institute)\nFrancesca Fiorentini\nIsaac Ontiveros (Center for Political Education)\nKimi Lee (Bay Rising)\nKung Feng (Jobs with Justice—San Francisco)\nLara Kiswani (Arab Resource & Organizing Center)\nLeila Sayed-Taha (Arab Resource & Organizing Center)\nLinda Evans (co-founder and former staff, All of Us or None)\nMaria Poblet (LeftRoots)\nMax Elbaum (Organizing Upgrade)\nN’Tanya Lee (LeftRoots)\nRebecca Gordon\nRoxanne Dunbar Ortiz\nSaba Waheed (UCLA Labor Center)\nSara Kershnar (International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network)\nTony Samara (Urban Habitat/Right to the City)\nTur-Ha Ak (Community Defense Corps)\nVanessa Moses (Causa Justa :: Just Cause)\nWalter Turner (Africa Today)\nAs we put the finishing touches on our program, we will share news about more of our exciting guests!\n \nWe are excited to have People Get Ready II endorsed by the following organizations:\nAlliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA), Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), Ambedkar King Study Circle, Asians 4 Black Lives, Bay Resistance, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Causa Justa :: Just Cause, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, Dignidad Rebelde, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy(EBASE), Freedom Archives, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, GABRIELA–SF, Generative Somatics, Haiti Action Committee, Hella Organized Bay Area Koreans (HOBAK), International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Jobs with Justice San Francisco, Labor and Community Studies–City College of San Francisco, LeftRoots, Movement Generation, National Lawyers Guild–SF, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Organizing Upgrade, Palestinian Youth Movement, PODER, Race and Resistance Studies—SFSU, Teachers for Social Justice, Underground Scholars Initiative, Viet Unity.\nTo pre-register or sign up to volunteer at the conference, click here.\nHelp us spread the word!\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/09/18818959.php SUMMARY:CANCELLED: People Get Ready II: Charting a path forward to building powerful movements and the radical left LOCATION:Dwinelle Hall\nUC Berkeley\n(center of campus past the end of Telegraph Ave) URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/09/18818959.php DTSTART:20181117T200000Z DTEND:20181118T020000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR