[Antiracism] CPE Workshops and Plenaries: Free and Open to Public, July 23-28

[Heidi Garrett-Peltier]

>From July 23 through 28, the Center for Popular Economics will present
its annual Summer Institute, held this year on the Amherst College
campus.  The theme for this year's Institute is "Economic Alternatives",
and there will be workshops and plenaries held throughout the week that
focus on this theme.  

Plenary speakers will include Gar Alperowitz, Nancy Folbre, Michael
Albert, Julie Graham, and many more.  Workshops will cover a range of
topics such as financing cooperatives, building a healthcare coop, fair
trade, the economics of renewable energy, and others that range from
practice to policy.  A detailed list of events is provided below.  For
additional information, please visit www.populareconomics.org or send an
email to programs at populareconomics.org.

All events are free and open to the public, and will be located in
Fayerweather Hall on the Amherst College Campus.  A link to the campus
map is provided here: http://www.amherst.edu/about_amh/visit/map/

Please be sure to join us for as many events as you're able to attend,
and help us get the word out by circulating this email and posting a
hardcopy of the attached document where others can see it.  Thank you!


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*For up-to-date and more detailed information on the events above, see
descriptions below and please visit www.populareconomics.org 
Center for Popular Economics
2006 Summer Institute
July 23-29, Amherst College, Amherst, MA


**All workshops and plenary sessions are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC**
For the most up-to-date information, please visit
www.populareconomics.org

Sunday, July 23
7:00-9:00pm 	Plenary: Real World Economic Alternatives: Stepping
Stones to 'Another World' 
§	Gar Alperovitz (National Center for Economic and Security
Alternatives): “America Beyond Capitalism”
§	Julie Graham, (CPE staff economist, local economic activist and
author of A Postcapitalist Politics): “Create Your 		Own
Economy Now!  A Global Vision for Local Communities”
§	Rene Poitevin (NYU Professor, activist and low-income housing
organizer): “Venezuela and the 'Socialism of the New
Century': Lessons for the U.S. Left”

Monday, July 24
1:30-3:00pm 	Concurrent Workshops
§	Workshop 1 Economics of Renewable Energy - Lynn Benander (Coop
Power) 
§	Workshop 2 Where’s the Money: Resources for Economic
Alternatives – Mary Hoyer (Cooperative Fund of New England),
William Spademan (Common Good Bank) and others
§	Workshop 3: Short films on Economic Alternatives: Mondragon,
World Social Forum, Cooperatives

3:30-5:00pm 	Concurrent Workshops 
§	Workshop 1 Colonial Crises and Peoples’ Struggles: The Puerto
Rican Experience 
		– Rene Poitevin (see above), Saolo Colon
§	Workshop 2 Parecon: A Classes Economy, Vision and Strategy –
Michael Albert (Z Magazine, Z Institute and ZNet)
§	Workshop 3 Building a Living Local Economy – Daniel Finn (BALLE)

7:00-9:00pm 	Plenary: Visions of “Another World”
§	Nancy Folbre (CPE staff economist, UMass Professor, author of
Field Guide to the U.S. Economy "Socialist Fantasies, 		Feminist
Realities, and Imaginary Futures"
§	Michael Albert (see above), "A Vision of Life After Capitalism
and Implications for the Present"
§	David Kotz (CPE staff economist, UMass Professor, author of
Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System),
discussant/moderator

Tuesday, July 25
7:00-9:00pm 	Plenary: Is Socially Responsible Capitalism Enough?
§	Melissa Hoover (U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives) “From
Workers to Owners” 
§	Hector Saez (CPE staff economist, Univ. of Vermont) “Corporate
Social Responsibility: Potential and limits for
fundamental change”

 
Wednesday, July 26
1:30-3:00pm	Concurrent Workshops
§	Workshop 1 New-Old ways of living and owning – Charles Uchu
Strader (Sirius Community) and others.
§	Workshop 2 Creative Alternatives:  A Text & Movement Workshop –
Andrea Assaf (New World Theater). Will develop a
performance for the open mic. 
§	Workshop 3 Cooperatives 101 – Discussion with Len Krimerman
(Grassroots Economic Organizing), Mary Hoyer
(Cooperative Fund of New England), Melissa Hoover (U.S. Federation of
Worker Cooperatives), and others

3:30-5:00pm 	Concurrent Workshops 
§	Workshop 1   Film: “End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the
Collapse of the American Dream”  
§	Workshop 2   “Art and Social Change: Imaging Economic Justice” –
Brenda Cotto Escalera (United for a Fair Economy). 		Will
develop a mural and text for the open mic.
§	Workshop 3   Cooperatives and Social Movements
	-Worker Cooperatives: Some Theory and A Lot of Practice - Steve
Strimer, Adam Trott (Valley Alliance of Worker
Cooperatives)
	- Cooperatives: Globalization and Competition – Len Krimerman
(Grassroots Economic Organizing)
	- From Workers to Owners – Melissa Hoover (U.S. Federation of
Worker Coops)

7:00-9:00pm 	Plenary: Globalization, Gender and Development 
§	Merrilee Mardon (Connecticut College Professor), “The Benefits
of Including Women in Development: Evidence from
Rural Brazil” 
§	James Heintz (CPE staff economist, Political Economy Research
Institute) “Women, Work and Poverty in a Global
Economy”

9:00-10:30pm Coffee House, Open Mic, performances developed by workshops
earlier in the day

Thursday, July 27
1:30-3:00pm 	Concurrent Workshops
§	Workshop 1   Farmers in the city: economic & cultural
development through food and agricultural projects – Daniel
Ross (Nuestras Raices) 
§	Workshop 2   Economics of Non-violence - Amit Basole (CPE Staff
Economist)
§	Workshop 3   Building Cooperative Healthcare – Paul Glover
(Ithaca Health Care Alliance, founder of Ithaca Hours, a
local currency system)

3:30-5:00pm 	Concurrent Workshops 
§	Workshop 1   Socially Responsible Business
		-Fair Trade "A Practical Approach to Trade Justice in
Coffee" - Dean Cycon (Dean's Beans);
§	Workshop 2     Creating an alternative economy - the Beauty and
the Beast: Best practices, pitfalls, obstacles,
lessons learned - Caroline Murray (Anti-Displacement Project)
§	Workshop 3   Building Cooperative Healthcare (cont’d) – Paul
Glover

7:00-9:00pm 	Plenary: Linking Practice and Policy
§	Paul Glover (see above) “Cooperative Healthcare” 
§	Melissa Gonzalez-Brenes (UMass Professor) “Linking local and
global change: reflections on gender and development in
Africa”

Friday, July 28
8:30pm-11:00 	PARTY FOR SUMMER INSTITUTE COMMUNITY

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