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Globalization and resistance conference
Friday, November 16 - Saturday, November 17, 2001
9:30 am - 6:00 (BOTH DAYS)
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. (@ 34th Street), NYC
Friday
8:30 am - Registration
9:30 - Plenary: Neo-liberalism and the New World Order
Speakers: Susan George (confirmed)
Stanley Aronowitz (confirmed)
Tariq Ali (confirmed)
11:15 - 1:00
1) Neoliberalism: Old imperialism or new capitalism?
Speakers: Doug Henwood; Silvia Federici
2) Free trade, the welfare state and wages
Speakers: Bill Tabb; Francis Piven
3) IMF, World Bank & the WTO: Can they ever change?
Speakers: Robert Naiman; Barbara Garson
4) Debt, Structual Adjustment and the Global South
Speakers: Dennis Brutus; Forrest Hylton;, Carmen
5) Globalization, the state, and imperialism
Speakers: Michael Hardt;, Peter Bratsis
6) Environment on the edge: The politics of global warming & GM
food
Speakers: Jonathan King
7) Corporate rule and the erosion of democracy
Speakers: Rob Weissman; Bill DiFazio
1:00 - 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 - 3:45
8) The culture of neoliberalism
Speakers: David Harvey; Randy Martin
9) The Corporate University
Speakers: Barbara Bowen; Clyde Barrow
10) The US, Islam, and Terrorism
Speakers: Tariq Ali; Stuart Schaar; Ellen Willis
11) The War at Home: Surveillence, Civil Liberties, and Dissent
Speakers: Cory Robbin; Norman Siegel (invited)
12) Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Speakers: Stanley Aronowitz;, Manuel DeLanda
4:00 - 6:00 Plenary: Alternatives to Globalization & War
Speakers: Manning Marable; Mike Davis; Rabab Abdulhadi
Saturday
9:30 Plenary: The shape of the resistance
Speakers: Leslie A. Kauffman; Kim Moody; Michael Letwin
11:15 - 1:00
1) From anti-capitalism to anti-war: Where do we go next?
Speakers: Marina Sitrin (People's Law Collective/Anti-War Activist)
Leslie Woods (Ontario Coalition Against Poverty) Laura Fantoni (Italian
Anti-Capitalist Activist)
2) Breaking the Two Party System
Speakers: Howie Hawkins (Green Party) Joel Kovel (Green Party)
3) Grassroots Media
Speakers: Arun Gupta (NYC-IMC/Former Editor of the Guardian Newsweekly)
Ana Nogueira (NYC-IMC/Founding member of IMCs in Argentina and Brazil)
Chris Strohm (DC-IMC/Reporter, DC Free Press newspaper)
4) Patents that Kill: Intellectual Property and the AIDS Epidemic
Speakers: Asia Russell ( ACT UP-Philadelphia) Mark Milano (ACT UP-New
York)
5) Direct Action Gets the Goods
Speakers: David Graeber (Direct Action Network) Brooke Lehman (Direct
Action Network)
6) Fault Lines of Empire - Colombia, Vieques, and Palestine
1:00 - 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 - 3:45
1) The Prison-Industrial Complex: Social Control and Profit- Critical
Resistance
Speakers: Luis Lopes (Critical Resistance - East) Pilar Maschi (Critical
Resistance -East)
2) Organizing the Unorganized - UNITE Local 169
Jose Schiffino
3) Targeting the Corporations -
Rainforest Action Network
4) Organizing Against Police Brutality: From Cincinnati to PG County
Speakers: Life Allah (Cincinnati Cop Watch) Karen Allen (Sister of
Caesar Allen,
killed by PG County Police)
5) Globalization on the Shop Floor
Matt Noyes
4:00 - 6:00 Final Rally: Directions: The future of the movement
Speakers:Jeremy Brecher; Alex Callincos; Dennis Brutus
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