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Schedule of Workshops and Plenary Sessions

Special Events

Please join us Thursday, April 26 at 6:30 PM for a Book Party featuring brief readings by David Bacon, Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Deepa Kumar and Tom Zaniello.

All are invited to a special performance Friday, April 27 from 7 - 10 PM. Melody Cooper will present an original theater piece, "Truth Be Told" about journalists risking their lives around the world, particularly Iraq and the Sudan. Followed by a concert by Los Pleneros de la 21, New York City’s preeminent ambassadors of Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba & Plena music and dance.


Full Schedule

Thursday, April 28, 6:30 - 9 p.m.

Reception and book signings by Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Deepa Kumar, David Bacon, Tom Zaniello

Friday, April 27
8 a.m. Registration

8:45 a.m. Welcoming Remarks

9 a.m. Opening Plenary: Message, Values and Vision for a New Workers' Movement


11 a.m. Workshop Session I

12:30 - Lunch on your own

1:30 p.m. Workshop Session II

3:30 - 5:15 Plenary: Media and the Working Class

7:00 p.m. Original dramatic performance by Melody Cooper, followed by a concert by Los Pleneros de la 21

Saturday, April 28
9 a.m. Plenary: The Media of the International Workers’ Movement

11 a.m. Workshop Session I

12:30 - Lunch on your own

1:30 p.m. Workshop Session II

3:30 - 5:15 p.m. Closing Plenary


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