2021 Conference Schedule

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Labor and community must serve as the check and balance to the forces that promote special interests, inflame divisions, and dismantle pathways to freedom.  We must call out the role of white supremacy in stoking hate and examine how to stop the spread of its anti-Semitic, anti-Black, anti-Latino, anti-Asian American, anti-Native American, anti-Pacific Islander and anti-labor beliefs.  Join us in person or virtually for an experience that informs your mind, inspires your heart, and moves your spirit to action.

 

Dates:        October 22-23, 2021

                  Washington, DC

 

Location:   Washington Hilton Hotel

                  1919 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.

                  Washington, DC

Registration:  www.aft.org/chwr2021

                      $50 in person registration fee

                      $25 virtual registration fee

Hotel rates:   $251.74 per night (this includes the $219 room rate, fees and taxes)

Schedule at a Glance

October 21

3 p.m. – 6 p.m.

Conference Registration

6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Opening Reception

October 22

8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Registration

9 a.m. – 10 a.m.

Breakfast Plenary: All of Us

10:30 a.m. – noon

Workshops

• You Will Not Replace Us: White Supremacy Forever
• We Are One: Race, Gender, Class & LGBTQIA+ Intersectionality
• Essential & Invisible: the Politics of Immigration
• Is this Education Justice? Lessons from educator-community coalition building

Noon – 2 p.m.

Luncheon Plenary: We’re Better Together

2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Workshops

• Education, Not Deportation
• Patriarchy and Power
• Voter Suppression: White Supremacy in Disguise

4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Black Lives Matter Plaza: Circle of Hope

7 p.m.

Dinner on your own

October 23

8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.

Breakfast Plenary: We Got This!

10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Workshops

• Freedom to Thrive: Combating Anti-Asian Hate
• The Pink Tax: The Cost of Being a Woman
• Building Power for Equity and Justice - 10 Steps to building a community-union coalition

Noon – 1 p.m.

Closing Plenary:  Righteous Resistance

1 p.m.

Conference Ends