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SocialistSummerRetreatProgram

June 24th, 2008 by david

WORKING SOCIALIST SUMMER RETREAT SCHEDULE

(This program is subject to and probably will change. Please feel free to contact us with any feedback or questions at yds@dsausa.org. Space will be provided for caucuses, but attendance is not mandatory. Any group can choose to use it or not)

FRIDAY August 8th

5 PM to 7 PM

Check-in and Dinner

7 to 8:30 PM

Made in L.A. (documentary film showing and discussion)

8:30 PM to bedtime

Organized Fun (board Games, movies, cards, guitar, etc.)/Working-class Caucus

SATURDAY August 9th

9 to 10 AM

Breakfast - People of Color Caucus

10 to 11:30 AM

Plenary: What is Democratic Socialism? (with break-out small group discussions)

11:30 AM to 11:45 AM

Break

11:45 AM to 1 PM

Workshops

a) Our Neighbor’s Socialism: What the Democratic Anti-Capitalist Movements in Latin American Means for the US Left

b) YDS & the Labor Movement Today

c) Green Socialism

1 to 2:30 PM

Lunch and Soccer Game/Women’s caucus

2:30 to 3:45 PM

Workshops

a) Immigration and Capitalism

b) Kabul, Baghdad, and now Tehran? US Military Actions and the Left Response

c) Education is a Right

3:45 to 4:00 PM

Break

4 to 6:15 PM

Understanding Oppression and Privilege Bloc

An interactive workshop with Javier Cardona.

6:15 to 6:30 PM

Break

6:15 to 7:15 PM

Dinner/Student’s Caucus

7:15 to 8:45 PM

Plenary: “YDS and Realities of the Hope”: The Obama v. McCain presidential campaign and building towards and after Election Day

8:45 PM PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SUNDAY August 10th

9 to 10 AM

Breakfast - Queer Caucus

10 to 11:30 AM

Workshops

a) Building a YDS chapter

b) The Housing Crisis

c) Understanding the Capitalist System

11:30 to 11:45 AM

Break

11:45 AM to 1 PM

Constitutional Amendments, Activist Agenda, and Election of Coordinating Committee

1 PM to 2 PM

Working lunch if prior discussion not finished

2 PM onward

Continue discussion if necessary, if not free time

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