NOW DC SOCIAL FORUM: Workshops and Speakers
The NOW DC Social Forum will be held on April 3 to 5 and April 10 to 14 at the Friends Meeting House near Dupont Circle, at 2111 Florida Ave., NW. During the interim, there will be activities focused on spirituality and activism. The schedule of workshops and speakers is still being put together. Here is a list of some of the workshops and speakers so that you can get an idea of what will be happening. We are accepting submissions until March 12. Contact workshops@nowdc.org if you would like to hold a workshop.
On April 2, 2012 from 8AM-6PM the Center for the Study of Responsive Law will be holding the Control the Corporation conference at the Carnegie Institute of Washington. This conference is open to people attending the National Occupation of Washington, DC -- all occupiers welcome. The conference will be held at 1530 P Street, NW, Washington, DC.
Control the Corporation
Schedule and Speakers
April 2nd, 2012
NOW DC Social Forum
April 3 to 5 and April 10 to 14
Track 1: Policies and strategies for ending corporate rule and shifting power from the 1% to the 99%
1. Mobilizing for the Robin Hood Tax Campaign in USA: Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) on Wall Street
2. Ending Wallstreet Healthcare and Creating Health Justice
3. Amending the Constitution & Calling for an Article V Constitutional Convention
4. Occupy and Electoral Politics
5. Transformational Strategies: Occupy Politics, Shifting Toward A New Society by People for a New Society
6. Public Banking - Marc Armstrong of the Public Banking Institute
7. Panel Discussion of the 99% Deficit Proposal with Gar Alperovitz, Project for Defense Alternatives, American 99ers Union, Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
8. Panel on War on Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran with David Swnson and more
Track 2: Lessons and the Way Forward for the Occupy Movement
1. New Organizing for New Activism in Today's Struggle for Revolt: Considering different strategies and tactics
2. Exploring Non-Violent Direct Action and Resistance
3. Women and Movements
4. History of Movements and Lessons Learned for the Occupy Movement
5. Facilitation Training
6. Livestreaming Training
7. Occupies share their experiences - what worked well, what didn't and what your occupation is doing
Track 3: Direct Action Tactics and Strategies
1. Development of Grand Strategy
2. InterAction: How to Bring Together a Diverse Movement
3. Bail Out America Training and Actions with Bill Moyer of the Backbone Campaign (March 31 to April 3)
4. Occupy Wells Fargo to end Private Prisons
5. Campaign against Bank of America
6. Occupy the Department of Education to end Privatization of Public Schools
7. Occupy the Department of Justice to end Mass Incarceration and Release Political Prisoners
8. Occupy the Environmental Protection Agency for Clean Air and to end Green Crimes
9. Occupy Homes to end Foreclosures and Evictions
10. Holding War Criminals Accountable with David Swanson and more
Track 4: Models for Building Alternative Systems
1. Creating an Employees Market -Occupreneurs Working Group from Occupy Denver
2. Horizontal Structure and AA - Using the 12 Traditions as a guide
3. Re-Envisioning Our Future: Models & Values For A Cooperative New Society by People of a New Society
4. Creating a Bio-Democracy - Ronnie Cummins of Organic Consumers Association
5. Alternative Currencies - Time Banks and Local Currencies
6. Creating Co-operative Businesses
7. Decentralized and Sustainable Energy Production
8. Solidarity Economy
Track 5: Occupy and Labor
1. Labor: Reclaiming It’s Power, Building It’s Future:
Goals: