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FS50 Breakout Session [clear filter]
Monday, June 23
 

3:45pm CDT

Action Steps Presented by Education Working Groups
Moderators
DD
BM

Monday June 23, 2014 3:45pm - 5:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session
 
Wednesday, June 25
 

2:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - " The Crisis: How Does Public Education Survive and Thrive?"
Moderators
JP

Speakers
JB
JH
RS
DE

Wednesday June 25, 2014 2:15pm - 4:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

2:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Health - "Mississippi 1964 Health Workers on the Front Line: A Proud Legacy Continues"
Speakers
DR

Wednesday June 25, 2014 2:15pm - 4:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

2:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Voting Rights - "Our Southern Strategy: Taking the Leadership
Speakers
DD
MS
RS

Wednesday June 25, 2014 2:15pm - 4:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

2:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Workers' Rights - "Organizing in the South"
Moderators
LR

Speakers
RB
JH
MR

Wednesday June 25, 2014 2:15pm - 4:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Library 1st Floor 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

4:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - "The Role of Higher Education in the Struggle"
Moderators
DG

Speakers
LB
LG
DR

Wednesday June 25, 2014 4:15pm - 5:30pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall, Bennie Thompson Center 109,110 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

4:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Health - "Increasing Minority Participation in the Affordable Care Act
Moderators
CW

Speakers
RR
DL
DD
DC

Wednesday June 25, 2014 4:15pm - 6:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

4:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Voting Rights - " One Person, One Vote"
Moderators
DL

Speakers
JB
SI

Wednesday June 25, 2014 4:15pm - 6:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

4:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Workers' Rights - "Youth as Labor Organizers"
Moderators
MA

Speakers
KC
LC
YG

Yasmin Gabriel

Upgrade Mississippi
AS

Wednesday June 25, 2014 4:15pm - 6:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Library 1st Floor 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

5:00pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education Breakout Working Groups
Wednesday June 25, 2014 5:00pm - 6:45pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall, Bennie G. Thompson 109,110 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session
 
Thursday, June 26
 

2:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - " Structure Opportunities for Educational Access for the Bottom Quartile of the Economic Distribution: A Conversation"
Moderators
DB

Speakers
LD
MW
WM

Thursday June 26, 2014 2:15pm - 3:30pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall, Bennie G. Thompson 109,110 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

2:30pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Health - " Child Obesity: Health Disparities Among African American Children"
Moderators
DT

Speakers
DC
DA

Thursday June 26, 2014 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

2:30pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Voting Rights - "Voting as a Constitutional Right"
Speakers
JB

Julian Bond

Statement of the Occasion
JB
LG
BJ

Thursday June 26, 2014 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

2:30pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Workers' Rights - "Union Organizing/ Community Organizing"
Moderators
IG

Speakers
SB
WL
SM
SW

Thursday June 26, 2014 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Library 1st Floor 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

3:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Environmental and Climate Justice - The People's Movement Assembly "Climate Change and Environmental Injustice: How Did We Get Here?"
Moderators
avatar for Jacqueline Patterson

Jacqueline Patterson

Senior Director, Environmental and Climate Justice, NAACP
Currently the Senior Director of NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice, Jacqui Patterson, MSW, MPH, serves on the Boards of Directors for the Institute of the Black World, the National Black Workers Center, The River Network, and Center for Story Based Strategy and the Center for... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2014 3:15pm - 4:45pm CDT
TBD
  FS50 Breakout Session

3:30pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - "Education as a Constitutional Right" and "Fully Funding Public Education/MS Ballot Initiative"
Moderators
DD

Speakers
TF
CT

Charles Taylor

Civic Engagement Consultant, One Voice
Better Schools Better Jobs 
AT

Amber Thomas

Better Schools Better Jobs

Thursday June 26, 2014 3:30pm - 5:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall, Bennie Thompson Center 109,110 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

4:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Health - "Dreams Deferred: Chronic Disease and Life Expectancy Rates Among African Americans"
Moderators
MT

Speakers
DS
DB
PO

Thursday June 26, 2014 4:15pm - 5:45pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

4:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Voting Rights - "Building Political Coalitions"
Moderators
DJ

Speakers
KC
GP

Thursday June 26, 2014 4:15pm - 5:45pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

4:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Workers' Rights - "Building Alliances with the Civil Rights Immigrant Rights Movement"
Moderators
avatar for Heather Booth

Heather Booth

Democracy Partners, Midwest Academy, many others
Heather Booth is a leading strategist about progressive issue campaigns and driving issues in elections. She started organizing in the civil rights, anti-Vietnam war and women's movements of the 1960s. She started JANE, an underground abortion service in 1965, before Roe.She was the... Read More →

Speakers
CB
JB

Julian Bond

Statement of the Occasion
CJ

Thursday June 26, 2014 4:15pm - 5:45pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Library 1st Floor 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

5:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - "Education as a Constitutional Right"
Educational Working Breakout Group
Thursday June 26, 2014 5:15pm - 6:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall, Bennie G. Thompson 109,110 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session
 
Friday, June 27
 

12:30pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Lunch Theater - Acts and Movements: Arts and Culture in Times of Struggle
Participants are encouraged to bring their lunches to the session.
Moderators
CT

Speakers
DD
MM
SM
CM
JO

Friday June 27, 2014 12:30pm - 1:45pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

2:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - "Networking Organizations Working in After School Programs for Quality Education as a Constitutional Right and Freedom Schooling"
Moderators
MM

Speakers
RF
BA

Friday June 27, 2014 2:15pm - 3:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

2:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Environment and Climate Justice - Rebel Smell: Voter Disenfranchisement and Environmental Justice in the South
Moderators
avatar for Jacqueline Patterson

Jacqueline Patterson

Senior Director, Environmental and Climate Justice, NAACP
Currently the Senior Director of NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice, Jacqui Patterson, MSW, MPH, serves on the Boards of Directors for the Institute of the Black World, the National Black Workers Center, The River Network, and Center for Story Based Strategy and the Center for... Read More →

Speakers
BM
JM

Friday June 27, 2014 2:15pm - 4:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Library 1st Floor 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

2:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Health - "Targeted Marketing: Promoting Unhealthy Behaviors to African American Youth"
Moderators
DT

Speakers
RA

R. Ashley Jackson

Human Rights Campaign / Alabama Safe Schools Coalition
VL
GC

Friday June 27, 2014 2:15pm - 4:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

2:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Public Forum
Friday June 27, 2014 2:15pm - 4:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Bennie Thompson Center Room 209 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

2:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Voting Rights - "From Protest to Politics: The Importance of Demographic Changes in the United States Over the Next 30 Years"
Moderators
CC

Speakers
ID
JH
CJ
DJ

Friday June 27, 2014 2:15pm - 4:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

2:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Workers' Rights - Support for Nissan workers in Canton, Mississippi
Friday June 27, 2014 2:15pm - 4:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

3:45pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Action Steps Presented by Education Working Group
Moderators
DD
BM

Friday June 27, 2014 3:45pm - 5:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

4:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Health - "The Faith-based Communities' Role in Addressing Health Disparities: Shining a Light on the 'Mississippi Model'"
Speakers
DL
RM
RW
DC

Friday June 27, 2014 4:15pm - 6:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

4:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Voting Rights - "From Protest to Politics: Building a Political Infrastructure Using the Tools of Communications, Research and Data"
Moderators
JL

Speakers
DC
BC
DF

Diane Feldman

The Feldman Group
EK
AM
KR

Friday June 27, 2014 4:15pm - 6:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session

5:15pm CDT

FS50 Main Breakout Sessions: Education - "A New Era of Philanthropic Support for Quality Education as a Civil Right for the Bottom Quartile"
Moderators
MN

Friday June 27, 2014 5:15pm - 6:00pm CDT
Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall 500 W County Line Rd, Jackson, MS 39174
  FS50 Breakout Session
 
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    • COFO
    Jackson Convention Complex
    Jackson Hilton
    Jackson State University, Dixon Hall Lobby
    Mississippi Museum of Art
    Smith Robertson Cultural Musuem
    TBD
    Togaloo College, Library - Townsend Room, 3rd Floor
    Tougaloo College
    Tougaloo College
    Tougaloo College, Amphitheater
    Tougaloo College, Ballard Hall 2nd Floor
    Tougaloo College, Bennie G. Thompson Center
    Tougaloo College, Bennie G. Thompson Center
    Tougaloo College, Bennie Thompson Center 209
    Tougaloo College, Bennie Thompson Center Courtyard
    Tougaloo College, Bennie Thompson Center Room 209
    Tougaloo College, Berkshire Hall 107
    Tougaloo College, Berkshire Hall 202
    Tougaloo College, Galloway Rm. 9
    Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall
    Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall, Bennie G. Thompson 109,110
    Tougaloo College, Holmes Hall, Bennie Thompson Center 109,110
    Tougaloo College, Library - Roach Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
    Tougaloo College, Library 1st Floor
    Tougaloo College, Lunch Tents
    Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center
    Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center
    Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center Gym
    Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center Gym
    Tougaloo College, Owens Wellness Center, Room 212 A & B
    Tougaloo College, Warren Hall
    Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel
    Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel Basement Conference Room
    Tougaloo College, Youth Congress Tent
    Tougaloo College, Youth Tent
    Tougaloo County, Ballard 2nd Floor Theater