8:30 am

Registration and breakfast

$100 for 3 days includes meals or pay $20/day and purchase meals separately.

Meet and greet with activists around the country and enjoy a healthy continental breakfast in the Uhuru House Community Center, home to Uhuru News, Uhuru Radio and economic development projects like the community commercial kitchen and recording studio that are being built.

9:30 am

Conference opening

Kick off the conference with a performance by musician, Princess Bella.

9:45 am

The rise and fall of the white nation: African liberation and the future for humanity
APSC Chairwoman Penny Hess

11:15 am

Keynote: Imperialism in crisis, African liberation on the rise
Chairman Omali Yeshitela

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

Material solidarity with the worldwide party of African liberation;
building the socialist economy and the power to govern
Ona Zené Yeshitela, Deputy Chair of the African People's Socialist Party USA
Kitty Reilly leader of APSC’s Office of Reparations and Economic Development, and

At the core of solidarity is active reparations to African people. Participate in giving back and contributing to a growing and vibrant African liberation movement that is changing the world.

4:20 pm

The African People’s Socialist Party: 40 years of revolutionary leadership, struggle and victories
Diop Olugbala, President of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM)

Diop Olugbala will present a history of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP). For 40 years, the organization has kept the black movement alive through dynamic campaigns for community control of housing, successfully freeing political prisoners, pushing back oppressive policies like Weed and Seed and struggling for economic transformation.

Diop Olugbala is a member of the APSP National Central Committee and President of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM).

A dynamic and courageous Party organizer, Olugbala ran for mayor of Philadelphia earlier this year, with a dynamic campaign that won 4% of the vote and successfully put the agenda of the black working class on the table.

6:30 pm

Dinner and solidarity culture

Enjoy a delicious dinner with fellow conference participants.

8:30 am

Breakfast

9:00 am

Reconvene conference

9:15 am

Workshop: African resistance, the State, counterinsurgency and why we need organization
Diop Olugbala, InPDUM; Jesse Nevel, African People's Solidarity Committee; Penny Hess, African People's Solidarity Committee

Including Q&A / open mic

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Workshop: 2012 – Revolutionary transformation, not reform!

2:30 pm

Workshop: One party, many fronts

Hear from leaders of the African Socialist International (ASI), the International People's Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM), the All African People's Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP), the African People's Education and Defense Fund (APEDF), The African People's Socialist Party Department of Agitation and Propaganda, and the African People's Solidarity Committee (APSC).

4:00 pm

Dinner

6:00 pm

Community forum: The occupation began in 1492 and so did the resistance – solidarity with African and oppressed peoples

Speakers: Chairman Omali Yeshitela, Diop Olugbala, Penny Hess

8:30 am 

Breakfast

9:00 am

Reconvene conference

9:15 am 

African People's Socialist Party guide to revolutionary organization

Highlights from the Party's organizational manual.

10:00 am 

Reparations to the African nation

11:30 am

How we build and sustain the Uhuru Solidarity Movement

12:30 pm

Winning the war of ideas: supporting independent media of the African revolution

2:00 pm

Lunch