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Movement for Black Lives Convening

11:00am EDT

Let Your Motto Be Resistance! Why Folks Are Saying We Will Shoot BackLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 322Darasia Selby-Adebisi: Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) Philly Chapter • Jamal P. Oliver: MXGM NY Chapter • Jonathan Stith: MXGM DC Chapter • Sanyika Bryant: MXGM Oakland Chapter • taliba obuya: MXGM Atlanta Chapter Facilitation 101LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 329Maurice Mitchell • Cyndi Suarez Organizing 101LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 441Nelini Stamp Solidarity is a Verb, Collaboration is a PracticeLIMITED Student Center: Ballroom: Room 2Patrisse Cullors • Elle Hearns

2:30pm EDT

There’s A Method to the Movement: Examining Community Organizing Methods and MethodologiesLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 306BChaka Holley Organizing for Resilience: Supporting survivors and families to move through trauma and lead political change Trinity Cathedral: Room 2Ejeris Dixon Black Trans* Lives Matter!: Solutions Not Punishment CoaltionLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 122 Building a Peoples Security TeamLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 315Che Long Building Black Women’s Leadership: Strategies to strengthen our leadership individually and collectivelyLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 441Charlene Carruthers: Black Youth Project 100 ENCRYPT BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY: surveillance self defense & security culture 101LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 326Gemini Matt Even My Poems Are RevolutionaryLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 123J Mase III Mapping Police ViolenceLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 440Samuel Sinyangwe and Johnetta Elzie Online Tools and Tactics to Supercharge Your CampaignsLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 306AWilliam Winters Queer As Fuck: We Been HereLIMITED Student Center: Ballroom: Room 2Tyrell Cooper • Shan Davis • Ashleigh Shackelford The Black Church: We need you now more than ever!LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 301Mary Hooks: Community Organizer-SONG • Dr. Makungu M. Akinyela: Ordained Elder - AME Church and MXGM Turn Down on Eachother, Turn up on the State: Conflict Resolution 101LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 444Alicia Garza

1:15pm EDT

#BlackKidsLivesMatter Part 2: Revolutionary ParentingLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 326Amara Abdullah • Melina Abdullah • Thandiwe Abdullah And I showed up #SayHerName: JeNae' Taylor, Jonathan LykesLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 146JeNae' Taylor and Jonathan Lykes CANCELED: #BlackKidsLivesMatter Part 1: Packing Backpacks for Rebellion and RevolutionLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 326LeRoi Newbold • Kandace Price Don’t Talk About it, Be About it: Calling Out and Ending Systemic Racism: Cuyahoga PlaceMatters TeamLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 302Cuyahoga PlaceMatters Team Engaging Policy Makers Around Issues of Police Militarization: Million Hoodies Movement for JusticeLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 306AMillion Hoodies Movement for Justice International Decade for People of African Descent and the National Plan of Action: MXGMLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 307Bbrandon king MXGM Jackson Chapter • Jonathan Stith: MXGM DC Chapter • Sanyika Bryant Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) Oakland Chapter • taliba obuya: MXGM Atlanta Chapter Liberation Can't Wait: How Black Queer and trans folks can and must be at the forefront of the movement towards LGBTQ liberation and full equality.LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 301Angela Peoples Riding Through the 6 Wit My Woes: Anti- Black Racism in Canada and Beyond: J Future KhanLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 329Future- Janaya (j) Khan The 60th Anniversary of Emmet Till’s Murder: From Emmet Till to Rekia Boyd, Extrajudicial Killings & Black ResistanceLIMITED Student Center: Ballroom:Room 1Airickca Gordon -Taylor • Martinez Sutton - Brother of Rekia Boyd • Brock Satter - Mass Action Against Police Brutality • Aislinn Pulley - BLM Chicago • Brian Taylor - BLM Cincinnati • cousin of Emmett Till and Executive Director at Mamie Till Mobley Memorial Foundation The People, United, Shall Never be Defeated: How to craft a Black Revolutionary consensus for the 21st CenturyLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 322Toussaint Losier WE WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM COINTELPRO 101 & US POLITICAL PRISONERS: When We Fight Back & The State Strikes BackLIMITED Student Center: Ballroom:Room 2Fred Hampton Jr (Son of Chairman Fred Hampton) • Ramona Africa (MOVE Sole Survivor of the government's 1985 bombing of MOVE) • Ashanti Alston (Former Balck Panther/BLA Former Political Prisoner) • Eddie Conway (Former Black Panther/Former Political Prisoner) • Russell Maroon Shoatz (Son of US Political Prisoner Russell Shoatz) Welcome to America; Black Immigrant Experience of Anti-Black & Anti-Immigrant State Violence in the US: BAJI & BINLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 441Devonte Jackson • Black Alliance for Just Immigration + Black Immigration Network members • Ben Ndugga-Kabuye • Marybeth Onyeukwu • Tia Oso • Abraham Paulos • Opal Tometi • Aly Wane What had happened was… Building tools for collective accountability: Che LongLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 315Che J long

3:00pm EDT

Direct Action Play LabLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 330Celeste Faison • Chinyere Tutashinda Beyond IDFWU: best practices for collaboration in a Black led movementLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 414 Black Community Control Over the PoliceLIMITED Student Center: Ballroom: Room 3M. Adams • Max Rameau Black Lives Matter: Race and Inequality is a Labor IssueLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 301Carmen Berkley: Director of Civil • Human and Woman’s Rights—AFL-CIO • Ephrin Jenkins: United Steel Workers Local #1014 • Yanela Sims: Service Employees International Union Local 1 • Darrin Spann: Executive Assistant to President -AFSCME Council 13 • Cherika Carter: Field Representative-Ohio AFL-CIO Black Love, Black Leadership, Black Power: Rebuilding the Black Liberation MovementLIMITED Student Center: Ballroom: Room 2Sendolo Diaminah • Denise Perry Black Radical Women and Revolutionary Movement Building: Critical Insights and ActionsLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 306ARose Brewer Check Your Bias: Ending American Denial of RacismLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 306BErika Maye Conscious Leadership: Grappling with Work-Life Dilemma Using the power of Life MappingLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 123Monika Moss-Gransberry Freedom from Violence is Reproductive Justice: Advancing the Human rights of Black women and people in ClevelandLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 122New Voices: La'Tasha D. Mayes- Founder and Executive Director Global Black StrugglesLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 441 Towards a Black Feminist Future: Co-creating a National Black Feminist StrategyLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 440Paris Hatcher

1:15pm EDT

#Shutitdown: Building a National Action Table Student Center: Ballroom: Room 1 Electric Melanin: Technology and Black Freedom Main Classroom: Room 441Dante Berry • Rashad Robinson Movement Building: Creating Bases & Black Networks Across Regions Student Center: Ballroom: Room 3Charlene Carruthers: Black Youth Project 100 • Ash-Lee Henderson Telling Our Stories: Communications Strategies & Narratives Main Classroom: Room 123