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| − | + | Also see [[The People's Summit 2017]]. | |
| − | The Summit | + | [[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..." |
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| + | ==People's Summit 2016== | ||
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| + | Excerpt from [[Maria Svart]]'s farewell blog dated January 16, 2024:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20240222185753/https://www.dsausa.org/news/a-farewell-from-the-national-director/ A Farewell from the National Director (accessed February 22, 2024)]</ref> | ||
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| + | ::"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. | ||
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| + | ::We kept growing, and then [[AOC]] won her upset primary in 2018. It was our largest new member month in history. | ||
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| + | ::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 Sanders|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 Sanders|Bernie]]’s second presidential run. | ||
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| + | [[Category: People's Summit]] | ||
| + | [[Category: Democratic Socialists of America]] | ||
| + | [[Category: National Nurses United]] | ||
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| + | ==Maria Svart's Farewell== | ||
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| + | Excerpt from <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160607225213/http://www.thepeoplessummit.org/ The People's Summit Homepage, accessed June 8 2016]</ref> | ||
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| + | ===Issues addressed=== | ||
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| + | "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.""<ref>[http://www.thepeoplessummit.org/ The People's Summit Homepage, accessed June 8 2016]</ref> | ||
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| + | ===Participating Organizations=== | ||
| + | [[File:Peoples summit cpusa.JPG|thumb|350px|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/]] | ||
*[[National Nurses United]] | *[[National Nurses United]] | ||
*[[Food & Water Action Fund]] | *[[Food & Water Action Fund]] | ||
| − | *[[National | + | *[[National People's Action]] |
*[[People Demanding Action]] | *[[People Demanding Action]] | ||
*[[The People for Bernie]] | *[[The People for Bernie]] | ||
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*[[Asian American Pacific Islanders for Bernie]] | *[[Asian American Pacific Islanders for Bernie]] | ||
*[[Presente.org]] | *[[Presente.org]] | ||
| − | *[[Maine | + | *[[Maine People's Alliance]] |
*[[Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund]] | *[[Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund]] | ||
*[[Progressive Maryland]] | *[[Progressive Maryland]] | ||
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*[[Labor Campaign for Single Payer]] | *[[Labor Campaign for Single Payer]] | ||
| − | ==Speakers== | + | ===Speakers=== |
| − | *Naomi Klein, Author/Social Activist | + | *[[Naomi Klein]], Author/Social Activist |
| − | *Roseann DeMoro, Executive Director of | + | *[[Roseann DeMoro]], Executive Director of [[National Nurses United]] |
| − | *Shaun King, Journalist / Social entrepreneur | + | *[[Shaun King]], Journalist / Social entrepreneur |
| − | *Dante Barry, Executive Director of Million Hoodies Movement for Justice | + | *[[Dante Barry]], Executive Director of [[Million Hoodies Movement for Justice]] |
| − | *Olga Bautista, Activist | + | *[[Olga Bautista]], Activist |
| − | *Becky Bond, Senior Adviser, Sanders 2016 campaign | + | *[[Becky Bond]], Senior Adviser, [[Sanders 2016 campaign]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Saikat Chakrabarti]], co-founder, [[Brand New Congress]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Tobita Chow]], Chair of [[The People’s Lobby]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Jeff Cohen]], Director of the [[Park Center for Independent Media]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Michael Collins]], [[People's Action of Metropolitan Chicago]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Patti Edwardson]], Born, raised, and now working on a family farm, transitioning to organic |
| − | * | + | *[[Lee Fang]], Journalist |
| − | * | + | *[[Josh Fox]], Emmy-winning writer/director of GASLAND Parts I and II |
| − | * | + | *[[Tulsi Gabbard]], Congresswoman, Hawaii's 2nd District |
| − | * | + | *[[Jesus Garcia|Jesus "Chuy" Garcia]], Cook County Commissioner, 7th District |
| − | * | + | *[[Arisha Michelle Hatch]], Managing Director of Campaigns, [[ColorOfChange.org]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Tara Houska]], National Campaigns Director, [[Honor the Earth]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Nomiki Konst,]] Writer / Political Strategist, Founder of [[The Accountability Project]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Jason Lee]], Organizer, Political Strategist, Researcher and Essayist |
| − | * | + | *[[Charles Lenchner]], Co-Founder, [[People for Bernie]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Michael Lighty]], Director of Public Policy, [[National Nurses United]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Richard Master]], Executive Producer of “Fix It … Healthcare at the Tipping Point” |
| − | * | + | *[[Margot McMillen]], Owner, Terra Bella Farm; radio host and writer |
| − | * | + | *[[Debbie Medina]], Candidate for New York State Senate in the 18th District |
| − | * | + | *[[Jamie Merchant]], [[The People’s Lobby]], Co-founder [[Center for Progressive Strategy and Research]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Miles Mogulescu]], Activist and Film Producer |
| − | * | + | *[[Cherie Mortice]], Board Chair, [[Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Stephanie Nakajima]], Director of Communications, [[Healthcare-NOW]] |
| − | * | + | *[[George Naylor]], Family [non-GMO] farmer since 1976 |
| − | * | + | *[[Kai Newkirk]], Architect and Director of [[Democracy Spring]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Jose Oliva]], Co-Director, [[Food Chain Workers Alliance]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Robert Peters]], Director of Political Engagement, [[Reclaim Chicago]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Alexandra Rojas]], National Digital Field Manager, [[Sanders 2016 Campaign]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Linda Sarsour]], Executive Director of [[MPOWER Change]]/Racial Justice and Civil Rights Activist |
| − | * | + | *[[Kshama Sawant]], Seattle City Council Woman |
| − | * | + | *[[Paul Song]], MD, [[Physicians for a National Health Program]] and Co-chair, [[Campaign for a Healthy California]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Bhaskar Sunkara]], Founding Editor and Publisher of [[Jacobin]] magazine |
| − | * | + | *[[Sean Sweeney]], Director of the [[International Program on Labor, Climate & Environment]] at the [[Murphy Institute]], CUNY |
| − | * | + | *[[Nina Turner]], Former State Senator and Sanders Campaign Surrogate |
| − | * | + | *[[Cesar Vargas]], National Latino Outreach Strategist, [[Sanders 2016 campaign]] |
| − | * | + | *[[Winnie Wong]], Co-Founder, [[People for Bernie]] |
| − | *REV. | + | *REV. [[Lennox Yearwood]] JR., President and CEO, [[Hip Hop Caucus]] |
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Chicago]] | [[Category:Chicago]] | ||
Latest revision as of 20:24, 10 June 2024
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/
- National Nurses United
- Food & Water Action Fund
- National People's Action
- People Demanding Action
- The People for Bernie
- Progressive Democrats of America
- Reclaim Chicago
- United Students Against Sweatshops
- Democratic Socialists of America
- 350.org
- Physicians for a National Health Program
- African Americans for Bernie
- Latinos for Bernie
- Asian American Pacific Islanders for Bernie
- Presente.org
- Maine People's Alliance
- Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund
- Progressive Maryland
- Rights & Democracy
- Student Labor Action Project
- United States Student Association
- Socialist Alternative
- The People’s Lobby
- IIRON
- Showing Up for Racial Justice
- Labor Campaign for Single Payer
Speakers
- Naomi Klein, Author/Social Activist
- Roseann DeMoro, Executive Director of National Nurses United
- Shaun King, Journalist / Social entrepreneur
- Dante Barry, Executive Director of Million Hoodies Movement for Justice
- Olga Bautista, Activist
- Becky Bond, Senior Adviser, Sanders 2016 campaign
- Saikat Chakrabarti, co-founder, Brand New Congress
- Tobita Chow, Chair of The People’s Lobby
- Jeff Cohen, Director of the Park Center for Independent Media
- Michael Collins, People's Action of Metropolitan Chicago
- Patti Edwardson, Born, raised, and now working on a family farm, transitioning to organic
- Lee Fang, Journalist
- Josh Fox, Emmy-winning writer/director of GASLAND Parts I and II
- Tulsi Gabbard, Congresswoman, Hawaii's 2nd District
- Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Cook County Commissioner, 7th District
- Arisha Michelle Hatch, Managing Director of Campaigns, ColorOfChange.org
- Tara Houska, National Campaigns Director, Honor the Earth
- Nomiki Konst, Writer / Political Strategist, Founder of The Accountability Project
- Jason Lee, Organizer, Political Strategist, Researcher and Essayist
- Charles Lenchner, Co-Founder, People for Bernie
- Michael Lighty, Director of Public Policy, National Nurses United
- Richard Master, Executive Producer of “Fix It … Healthcare at the Tipping Point”
- Margot McMillen, Owner, Terra Bella Farm; radio host and writer
- Debbie Medina, Candidate for New York State Senate in the 18th District
- Jamie Merchant, The People’s Lobby, Co-founder Center for Progressive Strategy and Research
- Miles Mogulescu, Activist and Film Producer
- Cherie Mortice, Board Chair, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
- Stephanie Nakajima, Director of Communications, Healthcare-NOW
- George Naylor, Family [non-GMO] farmer since 1976
- Kai Newkirk, Architect and Director of Democracy Spring
- Jose Oliva, Co-Director, Food Chain Workers Alliance
- Robert Peters, Director of Political Engagement, Reclaim Chicago
- Alexandra Rojas, National Digital Field Manager, Sanders 2016 Campaign
- Linda Sarsour, Executive Director of MPOWER Change/Racial Justice and Civil Rights Activist
- Kshama Sawant, Seattle City Council Woman
- Paul Song, MD, Physicians for a National Health Program and Co-chair, Campaign for a Healthy California
- Bhaskar Sunkara, Founding Editor and Publisher of Jacobin magazine
- Sean Sweeney, Director of the International Program on Labor, Climate & Environment at the Murphy Institute, CUNY
- Nina Turner, Former State Senator and Sanders Campaign Surrogate
- Cesar Vargas, National Latino Outreach Strategist, Sanders 2016 campaign
- Winnie Wong, Co-Founder, People for Bernie
- REV. Lennox Yearwood JR., President and CEO, Hip Hop Caucus