The People's Summit

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Also see The People's Summit 2017.

The People's Summit is an annual socialist conference. The conference seeks to "build power" by "further deepening the relationship between participating organizations rooted in principled anti-corporate politics, development of community leaders, direct action not based on partisan identification, and strategic organizing..."

People's Summit 2016

Excerpt from Maria Svart's farewell blog dated January 16, 2024:[1]

"I was nearing the five-year mark as the National Director, my self-imposed deadline to leave, but chose to stay to help DSA navigate the skyrocketing growth. We hired more staff and built infrastructure and processes for new chapters, fielded a large contingent at the Washington, D.C. Women's March against Trump, developed mass campaigns like Medicare for All, and organized hundreds of members to attend the national People's Summit conferences organized by National Nurses United. We also organized the first predecessor of our current Regional Organizing Retreats, a training for southern members paired with a contingent at the Canton, Mississippi UAW organizing rally with Bernie Sanders in 2017.
We kept growing, and then AOC won her upset primary in 2018. It was our largest new member month in history.
By answering Trumpism with democratic socialism, AOC and her fellow Squad and DSA members in Congress and beyond electrified the country and laid the groundwork for Bernie’s second presidential campaign and DSA’s steadily increasing number of local and state electoral victories running democratic socialists to the chagrin of Democratic Party power brokers. We also made major organizing investments, including 14 regional organizing trainings for chapter leaders to build a shared organizing vocabulary and model, and in 2019 I asked Jane McAlevey to do a three part national online training series for members. We also launched our campaign for Bernie’s second presidential run.

Maria Svart's Farewell

Excerpt from [2]

Issues addressed

"The Summit itself will include plenary and workshop sessions devoted to key issues such as the Fight for 15, mass incarceration and criminal justice reform, voting rights and expanding democratic participation, a tax on Wall Street speculation to fund human needs and jobs, climate justice toward a sustainable economy, improved Medicare for All, the fight for free and debt-free higher education, secure retirement through expanding social security, ending HIV/AIDS, achieving Constitutional pay equity for women, and ending deportations and support for DREAMers, among others.""[3]

Participating Organizations

Communist Party USA was a sponsor of the People's Summit in 2016; Image from Cached version of http://www.thepeoplessummit.org/sponsor/communist-party-usa/

Speakers

References

  1. ↑ A Farewell from the National Director (accessed February 22, 2024)
  2. ↑ The People's Summit Homepage, accessed June 8 2016
  3. ↑ The People's Summit Homepage, accessed June 8 2016
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