Left renewal conference weekend may 29-30
From global crisis …to green future.
Australian Left Renewal Conference
Weekend May 29-30, 2010 University of Technology Sydney building 2, Broadway.
From the Search Foundation and UTS:CCS, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre.
Democratic responses to the social and ecological failure of global capitalism.
International Left responses to the global crises.
Alliances between environmentalists and unionists that show the way forward.
The Left and its strategic direction
12 Workshops and 4 Participatory Forums
International speakers – from the Philippines, Venezuela, India and South Africa.
Conference Program
Saturday, May 29, 2010
9.30am Registration
10.30am Welcome to Country
Sydney Trade Union Choir
10.45am-12.30pm Participatory Forum I
Democratic responses to the social and ecological failure of global capitalism
Panel: Cate Faehrmann (NSW Greens)
Maree O’Halloran (Welfare Rights Centre)
Tim Ayres (Australian Manufacturing Workers Union)
Lydia Miller (Australia Council for the Arts)
Debal Singha Roy (Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi)
12.30pm-1.30pm Lunch – provided
1.30pm-2.00pm SpeedGreets
2.00pm-3.30pm Workshops
Workshop 1
After Copenhagen – new strategies in the campaign to reduce global warming
Panel: James Goodman (UTS)
Cam Walker (Friends of the Earth)
Jill Finnane (Edmund Rice Centre)
Workshop 2
Great Recession in 2010 – outlook, challenges and opportunities
Panel: Jim Stanford (Canadian Auto Workers)
John Quiggin (University of Queensland)
Lynne Chester (University of Sydney)
Workshop 3
Empowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Panel: Lydia Miller (Australia Council for the Arts)
Millie Ingram (Wyanga Aged Care Program)
Paul Torzillo (University of Sydney)
Henry Reynolds (Historian)
Workshop 4
Millennium Development Goals – what have we achieved and what happens after 2015?
Panel: Peter Jennings (APHEDA)
Dr Meredith Burgmann (ACFID)
Kelly Dent (Oxfam)
Workshop 5
Getting to Equality – creating an inclusive society
Panel: Jo-Anne Schofield (Catalyst Australia)
Frank Stilwell (University of Sydney)
Jane Corpuz-Brock (Immigrant Women’s Speakout)
Workshop 6
The media, democracy and the Left
Panel: Lesley Vick (Dissent)
David McKnight (UNSW)
Alison Caddick (Arena Magazine)
3.30pm-3.45pm Tea Break
3.45pm-5.15pm Participatory Forum II
International Left responses to the global crises
Panel: Debal Singha Roy (Indira Gandhi National Open University)
Alexis Adarfio (Venezuela Ministry of People’s Power for the Economy)
Rey Casambre (Philippine Peace Centre)
COSATU representative tbc
Jim Stanford (Canadian Auto Workers)
5.15pm Drinks (modest charge)
6.00pm Rocking The Foundations (optional video 85 mins)
8.00pm Dinner at Marigold Restaurant, Level 5, 683 George St, Haymarket (optional)
Sunday, May 30, 2010
9.30am Registration
10.00am-11.30am Participatory Forum III
Alliances between environmentalists and unionists that show the way forward
Panel: John Kaye (NSW Greens)
Arthur Rorris (South Coast Labour Council)
Louise Tarrant (Liquor Hospitality & Miscellaneous Union)
Dave Kerin (CFMEU Mining & Energy Vic)
Jack Mundey (Ecological Union Activist)
11.30am-11.45am Tea break
11.45am – 1.15pm Workshops
Workshop 7
Water policy and sustainability in Australia
Panel: Julie Sheppard (Rivers SOS)
Pat Ranald (ACTU Campaign & Education Centre)
Sarah Moles
Workshop 8
What would a sustainable economy look like?
Panel: Ben Spies-Butcher (Macquarie University)
Ariel Salleh (University of Sydney)
Mark Diesendorf (University of NSW)
Workshop 9
Cooperatives and workplace democracy
Panel: Race Matthews (Monash University)
Alexis Adarfio (Venezuela Ministry of People’s Power for the Economy)
Nikki Balnave (University of Western Sydney)
Workshop 10
Building better social movements
Panel: Oliver MacColl (GetUp!)
Amanda Tattersall (Sydney Alliance)
Anna Rose (Aust. Youth Climate Coalition)
Workshop 11
Better human services – the ongoing fight against neoliberalism in housing, education and welfare
Panel: Senator Claire Moore (ALP)
Angelo Gavrielatos (AEU)
Sally McManus (ASU)
Workshop 12
Human Rights Act and the campaign to create a more democratic and tolerant Australia
Panel: Susan Ryan (Human Rights Act for Australia Campaign)
James Arvanitakis (Uni of Western Sydney)
Robert Stary (criminal defence lawyer)
1.15pm – 2.00pm Lunch provided
2pm Adoption of Declaration
2.30pm – 4pm Session IV
The Left and its strategic direction
Panel: Lee Rhiannon (NSW Greens)
Rob Durbridge (SEARCH Foundation)
Senator Claire Moore (ALP)
COSATU representative tbc
Ben Eltham (NewMatilda.com)
David Barrow (NUS President 2009)
4pm Conference Close
coffee, tea, water available throughout conference
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See www.search.org.au/projects/roundtables
The SEARCH Foundation’s program of ‘left renewal’ has convened Roundtables in Adelaide, Hobart, Launceston, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney over the last three years. This national conference will bring all those efforts together and reach out to more people across movements, organisations and political parties.
Copies for $5 “Project for a 21st Century Democratic Ecological Socialism” from the Search Foundation.
For those in Canberra I have copies. Contact me on chris.white1@internode.on.net
The national conference will focus on two levels of change – addressing the global crisis and the need to move to a green future, and the need for the left movement in Australia to change and renew itself as part of that process.
The Cosmpolitan Civil Societies Research Centre, set up in 2007, is an interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of Technology, Sydney, that brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in the broad social sciences and humanities to investigate the practices that are crucial in enabling social cohesion and change in cosmopolitan societies.
http://www.search.org.au/archives/1542
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