PRESS RELEASE
Contacts: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Beth Wortzel October 1, 2012
Conference Organizer and Spokesperson
Cell: (608) 333-4449 | bwortzel@chorus.net
Rashad Barber
Conference Organizer and Spokesperson
Cell: (707) 362-0333 | rashadcbarber@gmail.com
CONFERENCE BRINGS NATIONAL DISCUSSION ON
ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY TO MADISON
Keynote Speeches by David Cobb, Ellen Brown, Gar Alperovitz, John Nichols and David Schweickart; Workshops with Robert McChesney, Local Activists and Others.
MADISON, WI – As the United States faces its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and the November election approaches, the country’s leading thinkers on sustainable, egalitarian approaches to America’s economic and political issues are gathering for the Economic Democracy Conference at Madison College from October 11-14, 2012.
Inspired by the viral growth of the Occupy movement and recent public dissatisfaction with the political and corporate status quo, the event aims to transform ideas generated at the conference into tangible long-term results. The conference’s keynote speeches and workshops conclude with an Action Summit on Sunday, October 14, where participants will form groups and create initiatives that can be put into action.
“This conference comes at a time when more and more Americans are seeing the power of money undermine our democratic institutions, the gap of wealth and poverty widening and the economic resources ot maintain the quality of life in our families and communities that we have come to enjoy draining away.
This is a time of growing openness to economic alternatives which this conference will explore, leading to our defining pragmatic strategies and actions to move us forward.”
More than 30 speakers are coming from around the country to join with another 30 speakers from the Madison area. Local organizations like The Madison Institute, Willy Street Co-op, Transition Madison Area, Wisconsin Grassroots Network, Build for the World, Family Farm Defenders have united to sponsor this event.
The conference is presented by the Economic Democracy Collaborative (EDC), a grassroots effort of individuals and organizations seeking to build an economic democracy movement in the United States.
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For more information, please visit EconomicDemocracyConference.org or contact Beth Wortzel or Rashad Barber at (608) 535-2194 or the numbers listed above.
