*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
<http://www.urpe.org/conf/sum/sumprog09.html> for a preliminary list of
workshops.
*Workshop proposals are still being accepted*; contact Laura Ebert --
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.
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
[email protected]. And look at the Summer Conference
<http://www.urpe.org/conf/sum/summerhome.html> 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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