> Networking for Democracy > > presents > the 8th Annual > > Midwest Radical Scholars & Activists Conference > > A Teach-In On Labor & New Alliances: > Strategies for Workplace, School & Community in the 21st Century > > October 24 & 25, 1997 > > Co-sponsored by: > Committees of Correspondence > Democratic Socialists of America > Midwest Center for Labor Research > Open University of the Left > > Roosevelt Co-Sponsor: > School of Policy Studies > > Location: Roosevelt University > 430 South Michigan Avenue > Chicago, Illinois > > Program: > > Friday, October 24 > 12:00=F11:00 pm =09Registration, 2nd Floor Michigan Room > 1:00 pm=09=09Book Fair Opens, Michigan Room > > 1:00=F13:00 pm Concurrent Sessions > > A. Media , Labor & Labor's Media > Roger Kerson, editor & publisher, National News Reporter > Bob Ginsburg, Research Director, Midwest Center for Labor Research > Liane Chlorfene-Casten, Chicago Media Watch, Chair > > B. Unfair Burdens: Working Women, Today's Inequalities & the Tasks of Unio= > ns > Carole Travis, Political Director, Illinois Service Employees International > Union (SEIU) > Anne Zacharias-Walsh > Judy Raight, former official UAW Local 600 in Ann Arbor > [Chair to be assigned] > > C. Radical Theory: Why Dialectics? Why Now? > Bertell Olman, Philosophy, New York University > Peter Hudis, News & Letters > Ron Aronson, Philosophy, Wayne State University > Kevin Anderson, Philosophy, Northern Illinois University, Chair > > 3:00=F15:00 pm Concurrent Sessions > > A. Labor's Alliances: Learning from History > William Adelmen, Illinois Labor History Society > Frank Girard, Editor, Discussion Bulletin > Jack Metzger, Labor Education, Roosevelt University > Rado Mijanovich, New Union Party, Chair > > =0CB. New Technology, Unions & Changes in Work > Abdul Alkalimat, Africana Studies & Sociology, University of Toledo > Pavlos Stavropoulos, Managing Editor, English Language Edition, Democarcy & > Nature > Mike Parker, Labor Notes > Jerry Harris, History, DeVry Institute of Technology > Carl Davidson, Chicago Third Wave Study Group, Chair > > C. > > > 6:00=F17:00 pm Dinner Break > > > 7:00=F19:30 pm Plenary Session > > Call to Order: Carl Davidson, Conference Organizer > Greetings from Roosevelt University School of Policy Studies > > Speakers: > Helen Shiller, Alderman, 46 th Ward > Bill Fletcher, National Education Director, AFL-CIO > Carole Travis, Political Director, Illinois SEIU > Manning Marable, African American History, Columbia University > > -------------------------------- > > Saturday, October 25 > 10:00 am=F112:00 Noon Concurrent Sessions > > A. Market Socialism: A Debate among Socialists > David Schweikart, Philosophy, Loyola University: For > Bertell Ollman, Philosophy, New York University: Against > Rado Mijanovich, New Union Party, Chair > > B. Race, Nationality & Winning Alliances > Bill Fletcher, National Education Director, AFL-CIO > Manning Marable, African American History, Columbia University > Mike Goldfield, Labor Studies, Wayne State University > [Chair to be assigned] > > C. Structural Reform, Mass Campaigns & New Alliances > Bob Brown, South Shore Communiversity > Dan Swinney, Director, Midwest Center for Labor Research > Harry Targ, Political Science, Purdue University > Sondra Patrinos, Committees of Correspondence, Chair > > D. Cabrini-Green and the Future of Public Housing, or Do We Really Want to > Live in a =EBCommunitarian City'? > Larry Bennett, Political Science, DePaul University > Marilyn Katz > David Peterson [to be confirmed] > > E. Building Worldwide Resistance to Unfree Trade, Corporate Greed & the Ne= > w > Global Austerity Program > Keith McHenry, Food Not Bombs, San Fransisco > Two members of Baladre, an Iberian organization fighting unemployment, > poverty and social exclusion > panel members are presently on a North American Tour to End Corporate > Domination > session organizers: The Autonomous Zone (A-Zone) > > > Saturday, October 25 (continued) > > 12:00=F11:00 pm Lunch Break > > 1:00=F13:00 pm Concurrent Sessions > > A. Democratic Schools in a Democratic Society > Linda Voss, Chicago elementary school teacher > Beth Meeker, Chicago Public High School teacher > George Searfoss, Coordinator, Labor in the Schools Program, Indiana > University South Bend > Edna Pardo, League of Women Voters > Bill Ayres, Small Schools Workshop, UIC, Chair > > B. Globalization, NeoLiberalism & Labor Strategy > Kim Moody, Labor Notes > Dave Ranney, Center for Urban Economic Development, UIC > [third person to be named] > Mel Rothenberg, Mathematics, University of Chicago, Chair > > C. Independent Politics: Labor-Community Alliances > Doug Gills, Center for Urban Economic Development, UIC > Todd Reardon, Independent Progressive Political Network > Helen Shiller, Alderman, 46th Ward > Julie Brow, IL Committee for Proportional Representation > Dennis Dixon, Jobs With Justice, Networking for Democracy, Chair > > D. Welfare Reform, Income Policy & Trade Unions > John Hagedorn, Criminal Justice Dept. UIC > Helen Slessarev, Director, Urban Studies Program, Wheaton College; author o= > f > The Betrayal of the Urban Poor (1997) > Wendy Pollack, Poverty Law Center > Ken Gagala, Labor Education Service, University of Minnesota > Rhon Baiman, Sociology, Roosevelt University, Chair > > 3:00=F15:00 pm Concurrent Sessions > > A. Expendable Youth: America's Child Welfare and Penal Systems > Rennie Golden, author of Disposable Children: America's Child Welfare Syste= > m > (1997) > William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent: the Children of Juvenile > Court (1997) > John Hagedorn, author of Forsaking Our Children: Bureaucracy and Reform in = > a > Child Welfare System (1995) > Richard Doonan, Illinois DCFS worker, Chair > > B. Anarchism, Ecology & Inclusive Democracy > Pavlos Stavropoulos, Managing Editor, English Language Edition, Democracy & > Nature > [Kristin] > > C. Abolishing Lawyer Tyranny > Jane Doe, author of Abolishing Lawyer Tyranny, activist for across-the-boar= > d > legal reform, founder, Just Cause for Legal Reform > Bill Wendt, College of Complexes > > D. Radical Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century > Bill Martin, Philosophy, DePaul University > Ron Aronson, Philosophy, Wayne State University > > =0CE. Contested Terrain: Identity, Space and the Social as Political > Battlefields > Dennis Bryson, Ph.D. in History, UC Irvine "The Politics of =EBthe Social'" > Talmadge Wright, Sociology, Loyola University, "Homeless Exclusions, Homele= > ss > Resistances: Urban Social-Physical Space as Contested Territory" > Lauren Langman, Sociology, Loyola University, "The Political Economy of the > Self" > > F. The Role of Culture in the Movement [to be confirmed] > Janet Kuypers, Scars Publications & Designs, "My Experience in the Small > Press" > William Leahy, foreign correspondent, Irish Times, "Reportage" > Fred Whitehead, publisher of newsletters People's Culture and Freethought > History, "The Need for Cultural Strategy" > > G. Workshop on Proportional Representation: What is PR? Models of PR, Here > and Abroad;What's Being Done and What Can You Do? > Dan Johnson-Weinberger, founder of Illinois Citizens for Proportional > Representation > Julie Brow, Independent Progressive Political Network, IL Citizens for PR > > H. Nix-MOX: Is There A Way Out of the Nuclear Trap? (Plutonium-based mixed > oxide) > Sydney Baiman, Nuclear Energy Information Service (N.E.I.S.) on the health > effects of radiation > Corey Conn, N.E.I.S. on the dangers of high-level nuclear waste transport > through Chicago by train and truck, and pending bills HR 1270 & S104 > > I. Free Liberation Nation: The Drug War & It's Cure > [to be confirmed] > > J. So You Think You Know Everything about Anarchism? > Bill Burns and the A-Zone Free Skool Anarchist Study Group > > K. Green Politics, Green Movement, Green Future? > Lionel Trepanier, Greens Forestry Network > Bob Rudner, Chicago Arcology Network, Chicago Greens Calendar > Wes Wagar, Greens Regional Representative, Green Party, Greens Calendar > > L. Mideast [to be confirmed] > Dick Reilly > > M. Helms-Burton and Democracy in Cuba > Slides & Discussion from recent visit > > N. Civil Liberties & the Prison Growth Industry > Todd Reardon, National Lawyers Guild > [others to be confirmed] > > O. Involving High School Students in Unionism [to be confirmed] > Joseph Hahn, Milwaukee School of Languages, Ph.D. in European Social Histor= > y > from U. of Munich, 15 year teacher, developer of upper grade curriculum > > P. Will Teach For Food [tentative] >
