Updated Conference Schedule October 11 2012

Madison College – Madison WI, October 11 – 14, 2012

Thursday, October 11

3:00-5:00pm at Madison College  (Wisconsin Avenue Entrance)

Registration; Getting Acquainted; Gathering with Refreshments

7:00-9:00pm at Inn On The Park

History of Economic Democracy and where we are now

Opening Ceremony: Beth Wortzel, conference chair

    Rev. Le Anne Clausen de Montes

Welcome: Mayor Paul Soglin of Madison WI; Nada Khader, Director of WESPAC Foundation, Board member of United for a Fair Economy
Keynote: John Nichols, Washington correspondent of The Nation and associate editor of The Capital Times

Friday, October 12

8:30am-12:30pm at Inn on the Park

Economic Democracy: Theoretical Underpinnings

Keynote: Gar Alperovitz, author of America Beyond Capitalism

Panel: Presenting various aspects of Economic Democracy featuring Madison’s local initiative

Stephanie Rearick , Director and founder, Dane County Timebank, Build for the World

Laura Dresser, Associate Director, Center on Wisconsin Strategy

Frank Emspak, Workers Independent News, UW School for Workers, Professor Emeritus

Alex Jackimovicz, master electrician, Maine People’s Alliance

Rashad Barber, Occupy activist, community organizer

Jason Schreiner, Instructor of Environmental studies, U. of Oregon, President, Prout Institute

12:30-2pm at Madison College  (Wisconsin Avenue Entrance)

Lunch time caucuses around important issues of Economic Democracy

2:00-3:15pm Workshops-session #1       

3:30-4:45pm Workshops-session #2

To find details (including location) about the workshops offered during these sessions – search here.

 7:00-9:00pm at MMOCA (Madison Museum of Contemporary Art) 

Policy and Political Initiatives

Keynotes: Ellen Brown, Public Banking Institute

            David Cobb, 2004 Green Party presidential candidate, Move To Amend

Saturday, October 13  at the Auditorium of MMoCA (Madison Museum of Contemporary Ave)

9:00-10:45am Models and Grass Roots Initiatives

Keynote: David Schweickart is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of three books and coauthor of one, his latest being After Capitalism (2002).

Panel: Orland Bishop, founder and director of the ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation

 Suzanne Bowles, Alliance to Develop Power (Springfield MA)

 Anne Reynolds-University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, associate director

11:15-12:30pm at Madison College (Wisconsin Avenue Entrance)

Workhops-session #3

To find details (including location) about the workshops offered during these sessions – search here.

12:30-2:00pm Lunch time caucuses around issues of Economic Democracy

2:00-3:15pm Workshops-session #4

3:30-4:45pm Workshops-session #5

5:00-7:00pm Dinner, Networking, and Coalition Building 

7:00-9:00pm at Auditorium of MMoCA (Madison Museum of Contemporary Art)

Evening of Songs and Stories

Raging Grannies, Forward Marching Band, Stephanie Rearick, and much more

Sunday, October 14 at (Madison College) (Wisconsin Avenue Entrance)

Action Summit

9:00am-2:30pm Facilitated group processes for taking the work of the conference forward.

Brunch will be at Madison College provided by the Willy St. Coop.

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