To URPE Members and Friends,
Here is the final schedule for the URPE Summer Conference, including an
attached Word document.
Please print it out and bring it with you.
For more details on the conference, transportation, etc., see the URPE
website: http://urpe.org/urpesumm.html.
See you there!
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Right-Wing Coup, or Neoliberalism as Usual?
2004 URPE Summer Workshop/Retreat, 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 and Sang Hwan Jang
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. New Currents in the Political Economy of the Caribbean.
Susan Duron, Lester Henry, and Brenda Wyss
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, and Marina Sitrin
10:30 - 12:00. Agrarian Issues in the Latin American Economy. Ryan
Isakson, Tom Masterson and Barry Shelley
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.