Control the Corporation

April 2, 2012 8am-6pm
Carnegie Institute of Washington
1530 P Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
 

To register for Control the Corporation go here: http://csrl.org (this will help plan food and space for the day).

The Agenda:

8:00     Registration & Breakfast

8:45     Welcome – Ralph Nader

9:00     Countering the impact of corporate control of the electoral process

            Bob Edgar – President, Common Cause

            Theresa Amato – Executive Director, Citizen Works

            Rob Richie – Executive, Director Fair Vote

            Lou Dubose – Editor, The Washington Spectator

            Harvey Wasserman – Anti-Nuclear Activist

10:10   Holding corporations accountable for their crimes

            Russell Mokhiber – Editor, Corporate Crime Reporter

            Bill Black – Professor, University of Missouri School of Law – KC

            Patrick Burns – Director of Communications, Taxpayers Against Fraud

            Kent Greenfield – Professor, Boston College Law

            Carl Mayer– Mayer Law Group

11:15   Protecting the “Commons” from the insatiable advocates of privatization

            Phineas Baxandall – Federal Tax and Budget Policy Analyst for US PIRG

            David Morris – Vice President, Institute for Local Self-Reliance

            Wenonah Hauter – Executive Director, Food & Water Watch

            Jamie Love – Director, Knowledge Ecology International

            Margaret Flowers –Congressional Fellow and co-chair of the Maryland chapter of  Physicians for a      
            National Health Program

12:15 LUNCH

1:00     Occupy the Future

            Christopher Hedges – TruthDig columnist

            Kevin Zeese – National Occupation of Washngton, DC

            Robert Weissman – President, Public Citizen

            Dean Baker – Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research

2:05     Creating economic models that provide jobs/Increasing minimum wage

            Gar Alperovitz – Professor of Political Economy, UMD

            Greg LeRoy – Executive Director, Good Jobs First

            Dimitra Doukas – author of Worked Over

            Gayle McLaughlin– Mayor, Richmond CA

            Alexis Baden-Mayer –Political Director, Organic Consumers Association

3:15     Mobilizing for Action

            Ralph Nader – Consumer advocate

            Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman – Executive Director and Founder , SumOfUs

            Tom O’Brien – United Steelworkers

            Michael Gecan – Industrial Areas Foundation

            David Freeman – former head of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Sacramento Municipal Utility District 
            (SMUD), Power Authority State of New York.

4:30     Reception