FULL AGENDA for Resistance 2010: the world can't wait!

The World Can't Wait!
Resistance National Conference 2010
Thirroul Community Centre (Wollongong NSW)
April 24-26, 2010

Saturday, April 24

9am Welcome to Country - Richard Davis.

9:15-11am Imperialism, Global Capital and Latin America in Revolt. Plenary session with Ammar Ali Jan, youth secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan, Ben Peterson and Mel Barnes. Includes greeting from Azdruval Figueroa from the Embassy of Venezuela in Australia and Mark Bloxsome, an Aboriginal man from the Yuin nation of the NSW South Coast.

11:15am-1pm Concurrent workshops:

* War, what is it good for? Stopping war in 2010: Pip Hinman and Duncan Roden.

* Climate debt and climate justice: Simon Butler and Martina Popovich.

* Building unions among young people: Rob Long from the Teachers Federation and Dick Nichols.

2-3:45pm Concurrent workshops:

* Raising the red flag: Solidarity with Third World revolutions: Lisa Macdonald and Ash Pemberton.

* The role of racism in Australian politics: Chris Peterson.

* Whose economy?- Class in Australia: Graham Larcombe, Marxist economist and community democracy campaigner.

* Towards food sovereignty and sustainable agriculture: Nick Soudakoff, member of the Socialist Alliance who worked as an organic farmer for five years and Trent Brown, member of Wollongong Friends of the Earth and PHD candidate studying agricultural struggles in India.

4pm-6pm Fist in the air in the land of hypocrisy: Fighting Rudd and Abbott's Australia. Plenary session with Tim Dobson, Jay Fletcher and Simon Cunich.

6:30pm Love & Revolution: solidarity dinner with Nick Southall, long-time community activist, and norrie mAy-welby who became the first person to hold a "sex non-specified" birth certificate, but was recently forced to complain to the Australian Human Rights Commission after NSW Births Deaths and Marriages cancelled it.

Sunday, April 25

9- 11am Climate change: The decade to win a safe planet. Plenary session with Matthew Wright from Beyond Zero Emissions, Lauren Carroll Harris and Ewan Saunders.

11:15am-1pm Concurrent workshops:

* LGBTI & women's rights campaigning - Farida Iqbal from Equal Love in Canberra, Conor Mongomery, queer rights activist and trans man fighting to have his gender recognised on his birth certificate and Naomi Rogers-Falk.

* Beyond Zero Emissions stationary Energy Plan: Matthew Wright from Beyond Zero Emissions.

* Making Capitalism History: lessons from Latin America on grassroots democracy: Stuart Munckton.

1-2pm (during lunch) Branch building: projects and priorities: Ben Peterson and Mitch Cherry.

2-3:45pm Concurrent workshops:

* Aboriginal rights: Richard Downs, spokesperson for the Alyawarr people who walked off their land against the Northern Territory Intervention and Pete Robson.

* Refugee rights: Saradha Nathan, refugee rights activist who was arrested in Indonesia for visiting Tamil refugees in Merak and Aaron Roden.

* Just transition: public ownership & workers control: Graham Brown, retured coal miner and climate change campaigner and Adam Leeman.

*Wrong way, go back: imperialism in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Ammar Ali Jan, youth secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan.

4-6pm Resistance: the world can't wait! Plenary session with Jess Moore, Patrick Harrison and Chris Jenkins.

6.30pm Art & Music as a Weapon: solidarity dinner featuring Resistance's "alternative hottest 100 of all time: songs by female artists", and acoustic performance by Foster's Reign.

Monday, April 26

9-11am Aboriginal resistance today: supporting the fight for justice. Plenary session with Richard Downs, spokesperson for the Alyawarr people who walked off their land against the Northern Territory Intervention, Ian Bray from the Maritime Union of Australia, and Dom Hale.

11:15am-1pm Concurrent workshops:

* Climate change: Simon Cunich.

* National self-determination struggles: Palestine & Tamil Eelam: Seran Sribalan,Tamil youth activist and Isaac Shuisha, Israeli citizen and Palestine solidarity activist.

* Sexism & queerphobia: the struggle for liberation - Ruth Ratcliffe and AJ Corradini.

1-2pm (during lunch) Branch building: week to week: Chris Williams.

2-2:45pm I don't wanna be a second class citizen: Sex, sexuality & gender. Plenary session with Rach Evans from Community Action Against Homophobia and the Socialist Alliance and Paola Harvey.

2:45-3:45pm Report-backs and proposals from "War, what is it good for? Stopping war in 2010", "Refugee rights", "Raising the red flag: Solidarity with Third World revolutions" campaign workshops. Plenary session with Jay Fletcher, Ash Pemberton and Duncan Roden.

3:45-5pm Report-backs and proposals from the climate change campaign workshop. Plenary session with Zane Alcorn.

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