[Antiracism] What's the economy for, anyway? Conference

[Emily Kawano]

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REGISTER NOW FOR THE BIG

WHAT'S THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY? CONFERENCE AND JOIN US TO ASK THE BIG QUESTION!!!

 

 

"The most dangerous $35 conference you'll ever attend, from my point of view."    --Karl Rove*                                                                                       

 



Contact:          John de Graaf:            jodg at comcast.net  (206) 443-6747

or Laura Pacheco:      laurapacheco at comcast.net  (617) 694-7998

 

See the full schedule and register NOW at:   www.timeday.org/economyconference

 

WHEN: October 5-7, 2007

 

WHERE: Washington DC Convention Center (part of the annual Green Festival)

 

COST:  $35 (entire conference if you register before Sept. 15th!!!) or $50 (entire conference, no advance registration or $25 (per day).   Conference fee includes free admission to Green Festival.  Register NOW to assure a space at the conference!

 

What's the economy for, anyway?  Is it just about having the biggest GDP or the highest Dow Jones Average?  Or is it about providing for a healthy, happy, fair and sustainable society?  

 

If you think quality of life matters, and wonder how the United States compares to other countries when it comes to providing for its people, then the WHAT'S THE ECONOMY FOR, ANYWAY? Conference is for you!  Dozens of prominent experts and activists will offers parts of the answer to the big question and offer out-of-the-box ideas about what we can do to make our economy serve us instead of vice-versa.  Three tracks include QUALITY OF LIFE, SOCIAL JUSTICE and SUSTAINABILITY.  

 

Nearly 100 confirmed prominent speakers, including:

 

Jerome Ringo, President of the Apollo Alliance

Nancy Folbre, feminist economist, author of The Invisible Heart

Emily Kawano, director, Center for Popular Economics

Tim Kasser, psychologist, author of The High Price of Materialism

Gar Alperovitz, author of America After Capitalism

Vicki Robin, author of Your Money or Your Life

Riane Eisler, author of The Real Wealth of Nations, The Chalice and the Blade

Juliet Schor, author of The Overworked American, Born to Buy

Dean Baker, author of The United States Since 1980

Eric Liu, former presidential speechwriter and domestic adviser for Bill Clinton

Hunter Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism

Ann Crittenden, author of The High Price of Motherhood

Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization for Women

John Stauber, author or Trust Us, We're Experts, Weapons of Mass Deception

Jared Bernstein, director of The Economic Policy Institute

Michael Petit, former Maine Commissioner of Human Services

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, co-author of The Motherhood Manifesto

Celinda Lake, Democratic pollster, author of What Women Really Want

Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet, Hope's Edge

Bill Spriggs, Chairman, Economics Department, Howard University

Karen Nussbaum, AFL-CIO, former director, Women's Bureau, US Dept. of Labor

Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy, The End of Nature

Peter Barnes, co-founder of Working Assets and author of Capitalism 3.0

Karen Kornbluh, Policy Director for Senator Obama

James Lardner, editor of Inequality Matters

Cecile Andrews, author, Slow Is Beautiful

Chuck Collins, founder, United for a Fair Economy

Miles Rapoport, director, DEMOS

Jim Rubens, former Republican State Senator, New Hampshire

David Moberg, Senior Editor, In These Times

Julie Nelson, author Economics for Humans

 

The conference offers 25 individual speeches and nearly 30 workshops.  To see the complete agenda, go to:

 

http://www.timeday.org/economyconference/agenda.asp

 

Workshops will include in-depth analysis of current problems, comparisons to the economic performance of other industrial countries, and concrete policy solutions for a happier, healthier, most just and sustainable United States.  Conference organizers hope that this conference will mark the beginning of a new national campaign to put the question, "What's the economy for, anyway?" on the agenda of the 2008 election campaigns and beyond.

 

Whether you consider yourself an environmentalist, an advocate of social justice, family-friendly policies or universal health care, a union organizer or enlightened business leader, a practitioner of simple living, a student of economics, psychology or politics, a journalist or a wonk, a Democrat, moderate Republican or Green, this conference is for you.

 

The "What's the Economy for, Anyway?" project is a program of the Forum on Social Wealth.  Financial support for the project comes from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

The conference is self-supporting and made possible by a generous donation of space from the Green Festival.

 

*he didn't really say this, we think it's what he's thinking.

   
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