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      Topic Tracks

Each track is a series of workshops and panels designed to help conference participants explore their areas of interest in-depth. When registering for the individual conference events (on your arrival at the conference), feel free to register for events within a conference track or to register for events in different tracks. Currently the conference has the following tracks:

Workshops
Foundations of the Movement Track
Contemporary Corporate Institutions Driving Corporate Globalization and
     Corporate Rule - Friday 8:00am
Alphabet Soup for the New World Order - Saturday 10:30am
Making Trouble: Youth Agitate for Justice - Saturday 2:00pm

Tools for Change Track
How to Organize a Grassroots Campaign - Friday 8:00am
Copwatch (Part 1) - Friday 8:00am
The Integrated Life: Transforming Global Problems into
     Sustainable Solutions - Friday 10:30am
Copwatch (Part 2): How to Observe Cops - Friday 10:30am
The New Tools for Breaking News: Independent Media Center’s End
Run Around the Corporate Media Blockade - Friday 10:30am
Break the Bank: World Bank Bonds Boycott - Friday 2:00pm
How to Do Activism in the New Globalization Movement - Friday 2:00pm
Organizing an Effective Campaign to Reform the
     Citigroup Corporation - Saturday 8:00am
Legislative Efforts for Social Justice - Saturday 10:30am
Strategies for Organizing Against GM Foods - Saturday 2:00pm
Building an Organization--One Door at a Time - Sunday 9:00am
Que es Comunidad? A Community Growing Workshop - Sunday 9:00am

Inequality, Poverty and Power Track
Women’s Rights as Global Rights - Friday 8:00am
Speaking Truth to Power: Effective Organizing to
     Close the School of the America - Sunday 9:00am
Zapatismo: The Struggle in Chiapas - Sunday 9:00am

FTAA and Direct Action Track
Non-Violence Training - Friday 8:00am
Tree Climbing Workshop to Climbing-Techniques for
     Trees & Banners - Friday 10:30am
Street Medic - Friday 2:00pm
Campaigning and Culture Jamming - Saturday 8:00am
Blockades: From Land to Water - Saturday 10:30am
Media Workshop for Direct Action - Saturday 2:00pm
Radio Communications - Saturday 2:00pm
Action Planning and Strategy - Sunday 9:00am

Labor Track
Jobs With Soul: Above and Beyond Corporate Treadmills - Friday 8:00am
Workshop on Sweatshops - Friday 10:30am
Know Your Rights on the Job - Saturday 2:00pm
Labor Organizing Workshop - Sunday 9:00am

Art and Activism Track
Puppets & Protest.(2) - Friday 2:00pm, - Saturday 10:30am
What is Radical Cheerleading? - Saturday 8:00am
Bag o' Theater Tricks for Activists - Saturday 2:00pm

Resource Development or Exploitation? Track
Rethinking Urban Communities: Sustainable Community &
     Economic Development - Saturday 8:00am
Eco-Physiological Awareness - Saturday 8:00am

Alternative Media Track
The New Tools for Breaking News: Independent Media Center’s End
     Run Around the Corporate Media Blockade - Friday 10:30am
Media Workshop for Direct Action - Saturday 2:00pm

Other
Globalization and Beyond (Part1) - Friday 8:00am
Globalization and Beyond (Part 2) - Friday 10:30am
Neo-Classical Economic Theory: Why is it Wrong? - Saturday 10:30am


Panels
Foundations of the Movement Track

History of Neoliberalism International Trade and Finance - Friday 10:30am
What are We Fighting for? - Friday 2:00pm
The Role of Direct Action: Resistance to Trade Agreements - Saturday 8:00am

Inequality, Poverty and Power Track
Combating Environmental Injustice - Friday 10:30am
Immigrant Labor in the Global Economy - Friday 2:00pm
The Race to Incarcerate -- Understanding the
Prison Industrial Complex - Saturday 10:30am
The Politics of Sanctions: The Case of Iraq - Saturday 2:00pm
US Counter Insurgencies: Vietnam and Colombia - Sunday 9:00am

Labor Track

Organized Labor in a Globalized Free Market - Saturday 10:30am

Resource Development or Exploitation? Track
Effects of Global Development on the World’s Ecosystems - Friday 2:00pm
Answers to Globalization for Global Justice - Saturday 8:00am
The World Bank: Whose Bank is it? - Saturday 10:30am
Globalization and the World Food Supply - Saturday 2:00pm
Effects of Global Development on Land-Based Communities - Sunday 9:00am

Alternative Media Track
Cyberspace: Transcending Borders, Community-Building, and Activism - Friday 2:00pm
Grassroots and Globalized Media - Saturday 10:30am

 
 



CONTACT INFORMATION:
Phone: (303) 492-5024
Fax: (303) 735-2315
E-mail: psummit@colorado.edu
Web: http://powerful.as/people or
http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/summit
The Coalition for Economic Justice
University of Colorado at Boulder
Campus Box 207, UMC 183
Boulder, CO 80309