We are pleased to announce these speakers and workshop presenters:
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M. Adams
Monica Adams works with Freedom, Inc. as a Queer Youth of Color Organizer, serves as the Middle School Program Assistant at the Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools (GSAFE), involved with the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, the Madison chapter of Take Back the Land, National Leadership Core, and other projects. From an early age, Adams was an organizer and has worked with low income communities of color on a variety of issues ranging from poverty to challenging subtle forms of misogny. Adams was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI, studied at UW-Madison, and is a graduate of the Wisconsin Apprentice Organizers Project. http://aboutfreedominc.com/
Gar Alperovitz
Gar Alperovitz is author of “America Beyond Capitalism” and “Unjust Deserts: How The Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back“, with Lew Daly. Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park Department of Government and Politics. He is a former Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge; a founding Fellow of Harvard’s Institute of Politics; a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; a founding principal of The Democracy Collaborative, and a member of the board of directors for the New Economics Institute. Focuses on cooperatives and new institutions of community wealth ownership.
Orland Bishop
Orland Bishop is founder and director of the Shade Tree Multicultural Foundation, a mentoring organization for youth. Orland’s work in healing and human development is framed by cultural streams primarily from west and south Africa. Part of his work is based in South Central Los Angeles where he helped broker a truce between rival gangs. He currently focuses on understanding the deeper meaning of money as a pathway to designing new economic forms that support healthy community life. www.theshadetree.org
Ellen Brown
Ellen Hodgson Brown is an American lawyer and author who since 2008 has become a well-known monetary reformer, mostly because of her book The Web of Debt. She is currently chairperson and president of the Public Banking Institute. In her book, she analyzes the Federal Reserve and the private money cartel. One of the solutions she sees for USA, and also for other countries, is a public bank system such as The Bank of North Dakota. She has also written several books about alternative medicine.
http://www.ellenbrown.com/ | http://www.webofdebt.com/ | http://publicbankinginstitute.org/
David Cobb
A lawyer and political activist, David Cobb is National Projects Director of Democracy Unlimited. His legal career is dedicated to challenging illegitimate corporate power and to creating democracy. He has sued corporate polluters, lobbied elected officials, run for political office himself, and has been arrested for non-violent civil disobedience. In 2004, he ran for President of the United States on the Green Party ticket and successfully campaigned for the Ohio recount. He serves on the Sierra Club’s national Corporate Accountability Committee. He is a Fellow with the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, and is a Principal with Program on Corporations Law and Democracy. David Cobb is currently leading the Move to Amend the Constitution Coalition to repeal corporate rights.
http://www.duhc.org/ | http://www.sierraclub.org/committees/cac/ | http://libertytreefoundation.org/liberty-tree-fellows | http://www.poclad.org/ | http://movetoamend.org/spokespeople
Laura Dresser
Laura Dresser is Associate Director of COWS at UW Madison. A labor economist and expert on low-wage work, Laura has written and spoken widely low-wage jobs, the restructuring of labor markets and American political economy. She is most recently co-editor of The Gloves-Off Economy: Workplace Standards at the Bottom of America’s Labor Market.
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Nada Khader
Nada Khader is the executive director of WESPAC Foundation, a peace and justice action network. She on the steering committee of the United National Anti-War Coalition, has represented the US Palestinian Community Network at the US Social Forum national planning meetings, and is a board member of United for a Fair Economy.
Patty Loew
Professor in the Department of Life Science Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a documentary film producer, Patty Loew is the award-winning author of Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal and Native People of Wisconsin, a social studies text for elementary school children. She has produced several documentaries, including “Way of the Warrior” for PBS. Patty Loew was a producer for Wisconsin Public Television and host of “In Wisconsin” until May 2011. A member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, she brings an indigenous perspective to the dialogue on Economic Democracy.
http://experts.news.wisc.edu/experts/205 | http://wpt.org/npa/iwMeetUs.cfm |
| http://www.nativetelecom.org/producer_profile_patricia_loew | http://lsc.wisc.edu/people/faculty/patty-loew/
Joel Magnuson
Joel Magnuson is an independent economist based in Portland, Oregon, USA. He is a visiting fellow at the Ashcroft International Business School at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England, serves as an international advisor to Anglia’s journal Interconnections, and is on the faculty at the East West Sanctuary in Nagykovácsi, Hungary. He is the author of Mindful Economics: How the US Economy Works, Why It Matters, and How It Could Be Different (Seven Stories Press, 2008) as well numerous articles in journals and anthologies in the US, Europe, and Japan. His newest book, The Approaching Great Transformation: Toward a Livable Post Carbon Economy, is forthcoming by Seven Stories Press.
Dada Maheshvarananda
Dada Maheshvarananda is a yogic monk, activist and writer. As a student activist protesting against the Vietnam War, he adopted a radical approach to social change, and was inspired to try to become, in the words of Che Guevara, a “true revolutionary guided by great feelings of love.” In 1978 he began to study the Progressive Utilization Theory (Prout) in India under its founder, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, by whom he was inspired to dedicate his life to the service of humanity. He has given hundreds of seminars and workshops around the world about social issues, spiritual values and cooperative games. In 2007 he founded the Prout Research Institute of Venezuela in Caracas, where he currently serves as director. His latest book is After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action.
www.aftercapitalism.org www.priven.org
Robert W. McChesney
Robert McChesney teaches at the University of Illinois. His work concentrates on the history and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. McChesney has a particular interest in the state of journalism, and the relationship of media systems and structures to effective self-governance. He is the co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization. McChesney also hosts the “Media Matters” weekly radio program. McChesney has written or edited 25 books on media and politics. His work has been translated into 29 languages.
http://www.robertmcchesney.com/
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John Nichols
Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine, John Nichols is a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and the associate editor of the Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin. Author of many books, his most recent are Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street and The ‘S’ Word: A Short History of an American Tradition…Socialism. With Robert W. McChesney, Nichols helped found Free Press, the nation’s media-reform network. John Nichols is a pioneering political blogger, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and dozens of other newspapers. He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs as a commentator on politics and media issues.
http://www.thenation.com/authors/john-nichols | http://host.madison.com/ct/opinion/column/john_nichols/ | http://www.citylightspodcast.com/john-nichols-reads-from-uprising-how-wisconsin-renewed-the-politics-of-protest-from-madison-to-wall-street/ | http://www.freepress.net/
Stephanie Rearick
Stephanie Rearick is founder and Director of the Dane County TimeBank and Project Coordinator of Time For the World/Build For the World. In addition to her work in timebanking, Rearick is co-owner of Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse. Rearick worked for Greenpeace for six years of young adulthood, helped launch Madison Hours local currency in 1995 and served for several years on the steering committee of independent local political party Progressive Dane. Rearick also works as a musician.
Jason Schreiner
Jason Schreiner is President of the PROUT Institute, a non-profit organization based in Eugene, Oregon (USA) that provides people and communities with empowering resources to envision and enact sustainable and equitable solutions to social, economic, and ecological challenges. He is also an Instructor for the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Oregon and a Faculty Consultant for the University of Oregon Teaching Effectiveness Program. He has worked previously in the agrifood sector as a farmer, non-profit professional, and award-winning social entrepreneur.
http://www.proutinstitute.org | http://tep.uoregon.edu/services/staff/jschreiner.html
David Schweickart
David Schweickart is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He holds Ph.D’s in mathematics and philosophy. He is the author of three books and coauthor of one, his latest being After Capitalism (2002; Chinese translation 2005; Slovak translation, 2010, 2nd Edition, 2011). He is also the author of numerous articles in social and political philosophy. His work has been translated into Chinese, Spanish, French, Slovak, Farsi, and Catalan.
http://www.luc.edu/faculty/dschwei
Norman Stockwell
Norm Stockwell serves as WORT’s (in Madison WI) Operations Coordinator. He has been working at the station in music and news programming since 1983. In addition to working as a journalist in the U.S., Cuba, Nicaragua & Mexico, Norm has been involved in the collective management of two Madison institutions – Lakeside Press and Mifflin Street Co-op. He is also former Director of the Old Town School of Folk Music-Madison, and served in the 1970′s as Facilities Manager for the Northwestern University Archeological Program.
Norm has been hosting programs of “A Public Affair” since 1989, covering such issues as the murder of the Jesuits in El Salvador, the Gulf War and its aftermath, the pro-democracy movement in Nepal, and the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico. His guests have included Noam Chomsky, Holly Near, Johnny Clegg, Sara Diamond, Paco Ignacio Taibo, Le Ly Hayslip, Alexander Cockburn, Fran Peavey, Howard Zinn, and many more. WORT Radio in Madison, Wisconsin: Madison’s Community Sponsored Radio Station
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