Labour and environment conference this saturday
What roles can the Union and Green movements play in …. Saving the planet?
Red, Green and In-between:
Reviewing Labour and the Environment in Historical Context
Here is a chance to hear Ian Lowe, Jack Mundey & Tony Maher discussing environmental and union campaigns. And that’s just for openers at this Saturday’s Brisbane Labour History conference, with The Centre for Work, Organisation and Well-being and The Department of Employment Relations, Griffith University.
Saturday 6 February
Queensland College of Art, 226 Grey Street, Griffith University, South Bank, Brisbane
8.30am – 5.30pm
Highlights of Program:
Music throughout the day (Bob & Margaret Fagan and Margaret Walters)
8.30 Registration and early bird coffee/tea
Opening panel: Red and Green: Towards a productive relationship?
Keynote speakers: Jack Mundey; Tony Maher; Ian Lowe
Afternoon Panel: Unions, Climate Change and the Future’
Panellists: Kate Flanders (QPSU – Climate Heroes programme), Tristan Douglas (ACTU Climate Connectors programme), Maggie May (NTEU and Worklife), Holly Kemp (Student environment network), John Mackenzie (Friends of the Earth), Bob Fagan (academic and activist)
Parallel Papers: a mix of academic and activist presentations
• Drew Hutton & Libby Connors: A Red-Green Alliance?
• Nick Fredman: Is Green the New Left? The political and social bases of the Australian Greens and the left Laborite tradition
• Jeannie Rea: The Earthworker Story
• Howard Guille: Getting Beyond Protests: Things we haven’t done but maybe still could?
• Heather Goodall: People, Politics and Public Nature: Rewriting green history on Sydney’s George’s River
• Joce Jesson: Mangere Mountain: Community organising/education
• Debra Beattie: Manufacturing Dissent
• Noel Bird: The Conflict between our Jobs and Planetary Survival: Can we find a mediated solution?
• Kate Lee: Bridging the Gap of Divergent Cultures
• Helen Masterman-Smith & Drew Cottle: A Labour History Analysis of Solidarity with Non-human Animals
• Janis Bailey: Community and Labour in the Mt Lesueur Campaign
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Register now. See http://asslh.org.au/ for full details,
or contact sr.music@bigpond.com
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