WCAT / Occupy Ann Arbor / Occupy UM Present: Occupy for the Future of Democracy – Tomorrow 11-5, Michigan Union (Rooms 2105 A &B)
18 students, professors, labor and social activists from around the state will hold workshops for imagining and making happen another world.
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Introductory Comments & Welcome
11:00-11:15pm
Session 1: Radical Histories: 11:15-12:30
The Tradition of Radical Labor
Steve Babson [Detroit Union Activist and Labor Educator]
Revolutionary France 1789 & 1968
Ronen Steinberg [MSU Assistant Professor of Western European Political and Intellectual History]
Odile Hugonot Haber [Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, WCAT]
Section II: The Crisis: 1:00-2:15
The Crisis: Economic, Political, & Ecological
Peter Solenberger [Solidarity]
Serge Farinas [UM Graduate Student, WCAT]
Tom Weisskopf [Emeritus Professor of Economics UM]
The Crisis: Race, Gender, & National Oppression
Brandon E. Mitchell [Master of Ceremonies, Abolitionist Projects]
Diana Carolina [Graduate Student]
Section III: The Response: 2:15-3:30
The Groundwork for Occupy on Campus: Student Protests and Solidarity
Adam Warner [WCAT]
Katie Frank [GEO, UM Graduate Student]
After the Empire Crumbles: Visions for the Future
Alex Upham [Organization for a Free Society]
Clayton Wheeler [Student Socialist Union]
Ian Matchett [Student Socialist Union, WCAT]
Occupying the Future of Democracy: Where We Are and Where We’re Going
Sara Feldman [UM Graduate Student, WCAT, Occupy UM]
Brendan Flynn [Occupy UM]
Washtenaw Community Action Team 