URPE Summer Conference Schedule

[Ruth Indeck <soapbox@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

          To URPE Members and Friends
 
 From Al Campbell, Summer Conference Organizer
 
 Note: Approximately final schedule as of 5/20/2004.  There will be a few
changes before the workshop/retreat, and these will be posted on our web site,
www.urpe.org,
as they are made, and will be in the final schedule that is distributed at
the workshop/retreat.
 
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 2004 URPE Summer Workshop/Retreat
 
 Right-Wing Coup, or Neoliberalism as Usual?
 
 June 4-7, 2004
 Camp Chinqueka
 Bantam, CT
 
 FRIDAY JUNE 4
 
 2:30 -  4:00. Steering Committee Meeting
 
 4:00 REGISTRATION BEGINS AND CONTINUES ALL WEEKEND
 
 4:30 - 5:30. INTRODUCTION TO URPE/RECEPTION
 
 6:00 - 7:00. Dinner
 
 7:00 - 9:00. PLENARY.  NEOLIBERALISM AT HOME: RIGHT-WING ESCALATION?
 
 Neoliberalism: Circling the Drain? Doug Henwood, Editor of Left Business
Observer.  Author most recently of After the New Economy.
 
 Worker Rights in the Global Economy.  Mark Levinson, Chief Economist, UNITE.
 
 America’ Peculiar Brand of Justice: Corporate Corruption and Reform?  Nomi
Prins, Journalist, Demos Senior Fellow, member of URPE Steering Committee.
Author most recently of Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America.
 
 9:15 - 11:00.  Music, Dancing and Conversation. Contra Dancing with OUT
ON A LIMB BAND
 
 SATURDAY JUNE 5
 
 7:45 - 8:45. BREAKFAST
 
 7:00 - 8:00. Yoga Session (See full description at the end of this schedule)
 
 8:50 - 12:00. Morning Workshops
 
 Site A:
     8:50 - 9:50. The New American Fascism. Arthur Pierson
     10:00 - 11:00. Medical Dominance and the Imbecilic Healthcare System.
Robert Kemp
     11:10 - 12:10. Can URPE Help Build a Campus Teach-ins Movement in Support
of Workers’ Rights? Sarah McKenzie
 
 Site B:
     8:50 - 9:50. The Power Triangle - Washington, Wall Street and Corporate
America. Nomi Prins
     10:00 - 11:00. How to Get Rich, and Why It Matters: Diamonds, Oil, and
Private Military Firms. Mehrene Larudee
     11:10 - 12:10. Rethinking Municipal Privatization: A Class Based Perspective.
Oliver Cooke
 
 12:00 - 1:00. WOMEN’S CAUCUS
                                     
 12:00 - 1:00. LUNCH
 
 1:00 - 1:55. RECREATION. Swim, boat, hike, relax with your friends, enjoy
life and the beautiful camp.
 
 1:55 - 4:20. Afternoon Workshops
 
 Site A:
     1:55 - 3:10. Organizing for Economic and Social Justice: Police Tactics
Today. Marina Sitrin and Mike McGuire
     3:20 - 4:20. Domination and Evolution in Some Agent Based Economic Models.
George Reiter
 
 Site B:
     1:55 - 3:10. Equality and Development. Clara Garcia, Sang Hwan Jang
and Annabel Kim Medhanie
 
     3:20 - 4:20. The Structure of Households in Different Modes of Production
(Feudal, Capitalist and Communist). Paddy Quick
     
 4:30 - 6:00. DAVID GORDON LECTURE
 Communicating Political Economy.  Ann Markusen, University of Minnesota.
Director of  the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics at the Humphrey
Institute of Public Affairs. Author most recently of From Defense to Development.
 
 6:00 - 7:00. DINNER
 
 7:00 - 9:00. PLENARY. GLOBAL NEOLIBERALISM: IS IT DIFFERENT UNDER BUSH AND
POST 9/11?
 
 Neoliberal Dynamics - Neoimperial Dynamics.  Gérard Duménil, economist and
Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (MODEM,
University of Paris X-Nanterre).  Author most recently of Capital Resurgent.
The Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution.
 
 Reclaiming Development: Policies for a Post-Neoliberal World.  Ilene Grabel,
Denver University. Co-author most recently of Reclaiming Development: An Alternative
Economic Policy Manuel, forthcoming.
 
 Venezuela: Participatory Democracy, State Socialism, or Capitalism as Ususal? 
Greg Wilpert, freelance journalist and an editor for one of the best sources
of information on what is happening today in Venezuela, www.venezuelanalysis.com
 
 9:15 - 11:00. Music, Dancing and Conversation. Self Managed DJ Night, bring
your favorite CDs (and we mean all types of music).
 
 SUNDAY JUNE 6
 
 7:00 - 8:00. Yoga Session (See full description at the end of this schedule)
 
 7:45 - 8:45. BREAKFAST
 
 8:50 - 12:00. Morning Workshops
 
 Site A:
     8:50 - 9:50. The Economics of US Imperialism. Gérard Duménil
     10:00 - 11:00. The Rise and Decline of Neoliberalism in Latin America.
Paul Cooney and Joe Smith
     11:10 - 12:10. Understanding Venezuela Today. Greg Wilpert.
 
 Site B:
     8:50 - 10:20. The Latin American Economy Today. Ryan Isakson, Tom Masterson
and Barry Shelley
     10:30 - 12:00. Organizing, Organizing Until Our Demands Are Met. Carrie
Bernstein, Graham Cassano, Kate Harris, Germai Medhanie, and Gwen Mills
 
 12:00 - 1:15. ELECTIONS FOR THE STEERING COMMITTEE
 
 12:00 - 1:00. LUNCH
 
 1:00 - 1:30. RECREATION. Swim, boat, hike, relax with your friends, enjoy
life and the beautiful camp.
 
 1:30 - 4:50. Afternoon Workshops
 
 Site A:
     1:30 - 2:30. The Master’s Tools: Subverting Mainstream Economics. Julie
Matthaei
     2:40 - 3:40. Gloves Off and Promoting Alternatives to Mainstream Economics.
Editors of Gloves Off and Al Campbell
 
 Site B:
     1:30 - 2:30. Theoretical Stages in Capitalist Development. David Laibman
     2:40 - 3:40. The Triumph of Value Theory over History in Marx's Evolving
Critique of Capitalism. Gil Skillman
 
 3:50 -  4:50. THE LEGACY OF PAUL SWEEZY.
     This will be an open discussion/memorial - personal, political and economic
-  about Paul Sweezy, his work, and his role in the development of radical
political economics. Come share your memories or your analysis: what did we
learn from him, how do we go beyond him today - or do we?
 
 5:00 -  6:00. URPE BUSINESS MEETING
 
 6:00 - 7:00. DINNER
 
 7:00 - 9:00. PLENARY.  RESISTANCE TO NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM
 
 Breaking the Enclosing Circles: Black Public Sphere Resistance.  Ashanti
Alston.  Currently working with Critical Resisitance in Brooklyn, is a board
member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, works with Estación Libre in
Chiapas and is formerly with the Black Panthers.
 
 Neoliberalism’s Last Stand? Victories and Challenges for the Global Justice
Movement. Mike McGuire, a global justice activist with the Baltimore based
Coalition Against Global Exploitation (CAGE), who recently participated in
organizing the demonstrations against the WTO in Cancun and the FTAA in Miami.
 
 Anarchism’s Promise for Anti-Capitalist Resistance. Cindy Milstein,  a faculty
member at the Institute for Social Ecology, board member for the Institute
for Anarchist Studies, co-organizer of the Renewing Anarchist Tradition conference
and a writer for anti-authoritarian periodicals.
 
 9:15 - 11:00. Radical Folk Music in one location, and continued Self Managed
DJ music and conversation in another.
 
 MONDAY JUNE 7
 
 7:00 - 8:00. Yoga Session (See full description at the end of this schedule)
 
 7:45 - 8:45. BREAKFAST
 
 8:50 - 12:00. Morning Workshops
 
 Site A:
     8:50 - 10:20. What Strategy to Organizing for Social and Economic Justice:
Anarchism, Social Democracy, ????  Ashanti Alston, Jonathan Martin, Mike McGuire,
Cindy Milstein, and Marina Sitrin
     10:30 - 12:00. New Currents in the Political Economy of the Caribbean.
Susan Duron, Lester Henry, Germai Medhanie, and Brenda Wyss
 
 12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
 
 END OF CONFERENCE - SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR!
 
 Morning Yoga Sessions: 
 Within Iyengar Yoga. Vibrancy of Peace, Health and Stamina by Columbia Fiero.
 When: Sat, Sun and Mon, 7 - 8 am.
 What to bring: an empty stomach and bare feet, shorts or leggings are best.
If you have a yoga mat, please do bring it - some mats will be available at
the site; also a towel, the larger the better.
 Open to people of all capabilities!
 Iyengar yoga is a method of Hatha yoga, of doing positions of yoga in an
especially therapeutic, knowledgeable way. We use props to assist in bringing
healing to the spine, the joints, the endocrine system. This practice brings
radicals to greater capacity of focus, maximizes and sustains one’s infrastructure
with a stability that is emotional and physical, and an understanding and
fulfillment of self.

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