In the News June 8
Crisis-Ridden Ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California
Ninth People’s Summit For Democracy
Also Gets Underway
The People’s Summit for Democracy will be held on June 8-10 at the Los Angeles California Trade Technical College. This is the Ninth People’s Summit held to counter the Summit of the Americas since the People’s Summit was first held in 2005 in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Convoked by trade unionists, activists, grassroots organizations and progressive people of the Americas, the People’s Summit will host three days of art, music, speakers, debates, workshops, panel discussions and performances which, organizers say “uplift the voices of the people and imagine a new world; one that puts people’s democracy first. Join our movement and join our call for a People’s Summit to discuss the real crises facing our communities within the region.”
The following program is announced
Wednesday June 8
– Panel: Democracy for Who? The consequences of U.S. interventions in the Americas
– Sectoral Exchange: Labour
– Panel: Solidarity Beyond Borders: Building a People’s Internationalism
– Panel: Let Cuba Live! Young Voices Against the Blockade
– Sectoral Exchange: Police and Prison Abolition
– Panel: People Over Profit: Health as a Human Right Across the World
– Workshop: Youth Organizing Strategies
– Workshop: Justice for the TPS [Temporary Protected Status] Community
– Plenary: The Struggle for Democracy
– Concert
Thursday June 9
– Panel: Ending Patriarchy: Gender Violence and the Struggle for Liberation
– Sector Exchange: Labour
– Workshop: Rapid Response: Fighting for the Right to Stay in our Homes and Defeating Landlord Violence
– Panel: Surviving Together: Food Security, Climate Justice and the Future of Our Planet
– Sectoral Exchange: Police and Prison Abolition
– Workshop: Lessons from Below: Organizing with Unhoused Communities in LA
– Panel: Envisioning our Future: The Role of Cultural Resistance in Social Movements
– Workshop: Movement for the Movement with CONTRA-TIEMPO
– Panel: Pan-Africanism in Today’s World
– Panel: A People’s Economy: Resisting Debt, Sanctions and Resource Theft
– Plenary: The Struggle for Sovereignty
– Concert
Friday June 10
– Panel: Workers Run the World: Transnational Organizing for Labour Justice
– Panel: A Conversation with Venezuelan Feminists: Deepening a Revolution While Under Sanctions
-Workshop: No War, No Warming – Building a Feminist Economy
– Panel: Whose Streets? Fighting Against White Supremacy, State Violence and Militarization
– Plenary: Our People Speak!
– Mobilization
– Concert
(People’s Summit 2022.org)
TML Daily, posted June 8, 2022.
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