| 12- 12:30 pm | Registration and Lunch Reception |
| 12:30 – 1:25 pm (55 minutes) |
Welcome and Opening Plenary
DaMareo Cooper (Center for Popular Democracy) |
| 1:25 – 2:20 pm (55 minutes) | Panel Discussion 1 – Reparations and Economic Justice
This panel will focus on the role of reparations in struggles against the racially hierarchized exposure to precarity, inequality, and premature death at the core of racial capitalism. The panel will explore contemporary debates about reparations—as a project rooted in making amends in the present for historical wrongs and as a future-oriented project aimed at building a better social order. The discussion of reparations will be grounded in examples of concrete organizing efforts for distributive and racial justice. Panelists:
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| 2:20- 3:15 pm (55 minutes) | Panel Discussion 2 – Climate and Environmental Justice
This panel will examine the often-overlooked role of climate change, environmental policy, and land use/ownership in perpetuating racial oppression and the legacy of slavery in the United States. Through a racial capitalism lens, panelists will explore the myriad ways in which Black and brown communities have been targeted and harmed historically by government and private entities in this country—often in the name of economic and social development—and the extraordinary efforts by local activists and community organizations to fight for environmental justice, advocate for collective land ownership, and otherwise challenge the existing social order. Panelists: |
| 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm (45 minutes) | Coffee & Snack Break with Breakout Discussions |
| 4:00 – 4:55 pm (55 minutes) | Panel Discussion 3 – Housing
It is impossible to consider housing and residential property in the United States without reference to racism. Starting with the history and definition of property in this country, racism and market housing have long been intertwined. Racial projects have been at the core of government and private sector efforts to expand markets and profits over the last century. These include New Deal institutions like the Federal Housing Administration that excluded Black families from homeownership programs, to the segregated history of public housing, to more recent predatory mortgage lending practices. And even as fair housing laws have sought to outlaw discrimination, the housing market continues to profit from and reinforce racism and inequality. This panel seeks to deepen our understanding of racial capitalism as it functions in housing. Together we will discuss its specific manifestations, its institutional and legal anchors, and how we might challenge and dismantle it. We will examine both local campaigns and proposals as well as “big picture” perspectives. Panelists: |
| 4:55 – 5:50 pm | Closing Plenary
Jordan Camp (Trinity College) |
| 5:50- 7:30 pm | Evening Reception |
