[Pen-l] URPE Summer Conference, August 15-18 -- Economic Crises: Opportunities for Radical Change

[Ruth Indeck <soapbox@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

URPE’s Annual Summer Conference is coming up soon! 

This year our theme is Economic Crises:  Opportunities for Radical Change.

The conference is from August 15 – 18 at Camp Deer Run in Pine Bush, New York. 

Our plenaries are "Radical Restructuring and Institutions" and "Grassroots Organizing and Responses," and our special David Gordon Lecture is "Finance without Financiers: Prospects for Radical Change in Financial Governance." We have workshop topics ranging from carbon emissions and GDP growth to the oil strategies of Hugo Chavez.  See details below, and click here for a preliminary list of workshops.

Workshop proposals are still being accepted; contact Laura Ebert -- laura.ebert@xxxxxxxxxx.

As always, there are opportunities for hiking, swimming, and great socializing with friends old and new!

Please register by July 31!   For more information, visit our webpage www.urpe.org or contact the National Office at 413-577-0806 urpe@xxxxxxxxxxxx. And look at the Summer Conference section of our website for specific information about transportation, rates, etc.

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Below is a list of plenaries:

Plenary 1:
RADICAL RESTRUCTURING AND INSTITUTIONS
The Current World Economic Crisis, Neoliberalism and the Role of Finance Capital
Paul Cooney, Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil
Rewriting the Book on Money and Banking
Jane D’Arista, Research Associate at PERI
Who Lost Wall Street? Should We Try to Find It Again?
Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts
The New Regional Financial Architecture in South America and its Relation with the Current Crisis
Matias Vernengo, University of Utah

Plenary 2:
GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING AND RESPONSES
Uncovering the Costs of Employment-based Health Insurance
Jenny Brown, co-chair of the Alachua County Labor Party (Gainesville, Florida) and project director, Redstockings of the Women's Liberation Movement
Stopping Foreclosures and Evictions
Roxan McKinnon, Executive Director, City Life/Vida Urbana
Organizing the Urban Unemployed: From Mass Incarceration to a Green Justice Economy
Aaron Tanaka, Director, Boston Workers Alliance

David Gordon Lecture:
FINANCE WITHOUT FINANCIERS:
PROSPECTS FOR RADICAL CHANGE IN FINANCIAL GOVERNANCE
Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts, Amherst & co-director, PERI (Political Economy Research Institute)
 

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