Program
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Friday, March 22
Social Event
6:00-9:00 pm CT
Saturday, March 23
Online/In-Person
10:30 am - 10:40 am| Opening
10:40 am - 11:05 am| Welcome and Culture
11:05 am - 11:35 am| African Women Forwarding the African Revolution to Free Us All: The Political Report to the Convention
Yejide Orunmila
11:35 am - 12:20 pm| Unite the International African Working Class: A global dialogue with African working-class women about the challenges and prospects that, through collective efforts, can unite African women in their shared fight for liberation.
Sheila Silva, Emilia Murrain, Layla-Roxanne Hill, Angelica Alberto
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm| Lunch (includes 45-minute breakout session accessed only in person and with online special access ticket)
Breakout 1: Women’s resistance in response to imperialist Wars and Occupation.
Breakout 2: Anti-colonialist strategies to analyze, combat, and overturn interpersonal Gender-Based Violence
1:20 pm - 2:00 pm| When we fight together we win! Colonized Women Unite Against Colonial Oppression! This panel will explore the challenges faced by Filipina, Mexican and Palestinian women examining their resonance with the struggles of African women and the path to liberation.
Pyxie Castillo - Gabriela USA, Adriana Jasso - Union del Barrio, Gadalupe Cardona, Union del Barrio, Moureen Kaki - Eyewitness Palestine
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm| Economic Self-Sufficiency Amid Economic Attacks Against the African Liberation Movement
Koko Lewis, Yejide Orunmila
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm| What Will a Liberated Africa Look Like? Leaders of the African People’s Socialist Party discuss their work and how it advances the African Revolution.
Director Aisha Fields, Secretary General Mwezi Odom, Director Akile Anai, Deputy Chairwoman Ona Zene Yeshitela
3:30 pm - 3:50 pm| Collectivize, Organize, Membership: The value of supporting each other through organization.
Zayi Vwidisa
3:50 pm - 4:05 pm| Preview of International Campaigns
4:05 pm - 4:10 pm| Day 1 Adjourned
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm| St. Louis Black Power Blueprint Tour (in-person only)
Sunday, March 24
Online / In-Person
10:00 am - 10:10 am| Welcome Day 2
10:10 am - 10:25 am| Shop With Us
Live sales of DeColonaise and ANWO merchandise
10:25am - 10:40am| Constitutional Matters
10:40 am - 11:20 am| Campaigns Reports
11:20 am - 11:50 am| The Road to Socialism is Painted Black: Chairman Omali Yeshitela presents the importance of the African working class overturning the colonial mode of production as the catalyst to bring about true socialism
Chairman Omali Yeshitela
11:50 am - 12:20 pm| U.S. Regional Reports: Northern, Western, Midwest
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm| Lunch (includes 45-minute breakout session accessed only in person and with online special access ticket)
Breakout 1: Dual and contending safety and security for African women and community.
Breakout 2: Young women and the revolution, ensuring a seamless future of struggle until we win.
1:20 pm - 1:40 pm| International campaign reviews, launch, vote
1:40 pm - 1:55 pm| Collectivize, Organize, Membership: The value of supporting each other through organization.
Zayi Vwidisa
1:55 pm - 2:10 pm| Economic Self-Sufficiency Amid Economic Attacks Against the African Liberation Movement
Koko Lewis, Yejide Orunmila