Finding Our Roots is a yearly conference held in Chicago to to discuss anarchist theory and action. The first FOR conference was held April 27-29, 2007, and focused on theory. The next FOR conference is planned for April 18-20, 2008, with the theme of “Anarchist Organizing in the Midwest.”

Location
Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave (Michigan and Congress)

Schedule
Friday April 18th:
5pm - 12am: Registration and Social at New World Resource Center 1300 N. Western


Workshop Schedule

Saturday

8:30 AM Breakfast

9:30 AM Anarchist Revolutionary Strategy
Know Your Rights
Magonism, Zapatismo, and Solidarity with Mexico
Beyond the Boardroom
10:45 AM Break

11:00 AM Tamms Supermax Prison
Law and Organizing
Collective Organizing
Power and Oppression
12:15 PM Lunch

1:30 PM Building a Popular Anarchism
Bash Back!
Animal Defense League
2:45 PM Break

3:00 RNC Welcoming Committee
Networking Chicago Social Movements with AREA Chicago
Organizing for Environmental Justice and Public Transit

4:15 PM Break

4:30 Anarchist Organizing Plenary

6:00 Close

7:00 PM BLACK FLAG, BLACK TIE
7pm-12:30am: Black Flag Black Tie event @ Q Studios, 2328 N. Milwaukee, 3rd Floor

Sunday

10:00 AM Radical Health Care
Mutual Aid in Action

11:15 AM Break

11:30 AM Anarchist Leadership
Precarity in the Midwest

12:45 PM Lunch

1:45 PM Art as Activism-1967 to Today
Anarchist Anti-War Organizing

3:00 PM Break

3:15 PM Forming a Chicago Anarcho-Communist Collective
Growing the Revolution: Organizing a Collective Community

4:30 PM Break

4:45 “Looking Back, Organizing Forward: Plenary

6:00 PM Close