Location
10 a.m.
"Defeat the 1% and their Anti-Equality, Anti-Labour Agenda"
Guest speakers:
Octavian Cadabeschi is a student at the University of Toronto, as well as a community organizer and environmental activist. He has been involved with Occupy Toronto from the day it began and sits on the Action and Outreach committees.
Lana Goldberg is a graduate student at York University, studying political science. She has been living and organizing in St. James Park since the first day of the Occupation. She is on various Occupy Toronto committees, including Labour, Action, and Outreach.
Ray Doyle, President and Business Agent, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1587, presently involved in the private sector transit strike in York Region.
12 - 1 p.m. Lunch break
1 p.m. Should the Socialist Caucus run a candidate for Federal NDP Leader?
2 p.m. Resolutions The conference will update and supplement SC resolutions on many topics, including pension reform, public ownership, green energy conversion, taxing big wealth, support for the 'Occupy' movement, solidarity with Palestine, opposition to the imperial wars of occupation, for greater democracy in the NDP, and for the strengthening of workers' rights in Canada. Although party officials have decided there will be no debate on policy at the NDP Federal Convention set for Toronto, March 23-24, 2012, we will discuss strategy and tactics to advance socialist policies within the NDP as a whole, especially leading up to the Ontario NDP Convention set for April 12-15 in Hamilton.
4 p.m. Elections to welcome new members to the Socialist Caucus Federal Steering Committee and to the S.C. Ontario Steering Committee.
5 p.m. Adjournment. Social at a nearby pub.
