REMINDER: Register Today for the March 24, 2024 LCIP Conference for Independent Working-Class Politics

Posted on March 15, 2024

Dear comrades and friends,

Many people today are truly fed up with the two-party system. “Genocide Joe” and the “Orange Menace” and all the politicians – federal, state, and local – who have lined up behind their disastrous policies reveal the bankruptcy of both the Democrats and Republicans. When the results either way are genocide, potential world war, authoritarianism, and climate disasters that could wipe us all out, having to choose between these two parties is something no one should have to face.

LCIP is dedicated to a national discussion among working people and all the oppressed about how best to build a viable independent working-class party from the bottom up that addresses our real needs for economic security, peace, housing, healthcare, living-wage jobs, education, safety, civil liberties, voting rights, a just immigration policy, and serious action to mitigate climate change, and that will work for an end to racism and gender oppression.

This is the purpose of the March 24 LCIP National Conference, for which we urge you to register ASAP! (To register, scan the QR code below.)

Getting the word out takes money: hiring tech-staff for online conferences and social media outreach, holding in-person events, printing flyers, helping with travel costs, etc.

Our online conferences are free – we don’t want lack of money to limit who can attend – but if everyone who can afford it donates just $25, that will not only cover this conference’s expenses but give us a good nest egg for future actions.

A regular monthly donation to LCIP will raise even more. Imagine how much we could do if we raised just $25,000 this year? Maybe more? Please donate to our PayPal account at http://www.lcipcommittee.org.

In unity and struggle,

The LCIP Continuations Committee

CONFERENCE AGENDA

• All times listed below are PST (Pacific Standard Time)
• 9:00 a.m. start time and a 3:00 p.m. ending time
• Four 45-minute panels with ample time for discussion.
• Participants will be encouraged to work on matters of
common interest plus building LCIP.

SCHEDULE AND SPEAKERS

9:00-9:15: Welcome, plus logistics, discussion protocols, and agenda, with questions and comments encouraged
(Emcee: Coral Wheeler)
9:16-9:25: Opening speech: Connie White

9:30: First panel – Deepening Capitalist Crisis 2024; Move Forward with Independent Working-Class Political Action!

· 9:30-9:33: Facilitator (Millie Phillips) intros speakers
· Speaker 1: Gary Votour, South Carolina Workers Party
· Speaker 2: Desiree Rojas, President, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), Sacramento chapter
· Speaker 3: Jonathan Martin, Progressive Party Builders
9:55-10:14: Q&A/discussion
10:15-10:19: Break

10:20: Second panel – Black Liberation and the Fight for Independent Black Working-Class Politics

· 10:25-10:28: Facilitator (Nnamdi Lumumba) intros speakers

· Speaker 1: Khalid Raheem, New Afrikan Independence Party

· Speaker 2: Petros Bein, Ujima People’s Progress Party

· Speaker 3: Lisa Knox, Immigrant Rights attorney, activist, and organizer

10:45-11:04: Q&A/discussion

11:05-11:34: Lunch break

11:35: Third panel – End the Gaza Genocide: Voices for Palestinian Self-Determination

· 11:35-11:38: Facilitator (Mark Burrows) intros speakers

· Speaker 1: Representative from Palestinian Youth Movement

· Speaker 2: Mya Shone, LCIP Advisory Committee and Coordinator of the 1988 End All Aid to Apartheid Israel, for a Democratic Secular Palestine appeal

· Speaker 3: Omar Altamimi, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Sacramento chapter

· Speaker 4: Monadel Herzallah, Arab American Trade Union Council; plaintiff in a lawsuit charging Biden and his administration with genocide

· 12:00-12:19: Q&A/discussion

12:20-12:24 Break

12:25: Fourth panel – The War at Home: Arms Budget Soars as U.S. Working-Class Suffers

· 12:25-12:28: Facilitator (David Barkley) intros speakers

· Speaker 1: E.J. Esperanza, Immigrant rights activist and organizer

· Speaker 2: Sandy Eaton, Steering Committee, Labor Fightback Network

· Speaker 3: Millie Phillips, LCIP Continuations Committee

· 12:50-1:09: Q&A/discussion

1:10-1:14: Break

1:15-1:19: Intro to general discussion: guidelines and protocols (Emcee: Nnamdi Lumumba)

1:20-2:12: General discussion

2:13-2:24: Closing speech: Alan Benjamin

2:25:3:00: Thanks, and invitations to further steps (Emcee)