Climate Change | Social Change conference organising team
Below you will find the latest draft agenda for the Climate Change | Social Change conference. It will be available on the announcement list web-site as an rtf. As you can see, it's shaping up to be quite an exciting two-and-a-half days. Please pass this on.
Don't forget, you have until March 16 to put in a submission to present a workshop at the conference. And if you'd like to register for the conference, you can download a pdf registration form from the conference website: www.greenleft.org.au/conference.php.
Climate Change | Social Change
A conference to strengthen radical social action to stop climate change
April 11-13, 2008, Sydney Girls High School*, Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia
DRAFT AGENDA
Friday 11th April
Afternoon Redfern Community Centre
12-1pm Registration
1-2.30pm Major workshop:
Nuclear is still not the answer
Jim Green, FoE anti-nuclear campaigner
Donna Jackson, Top End Aboriginal Conservation Alliance
Wenny Theresia, Australian Students Environment Network
2.45-4.15pm Discussion space
Organising World Environment Day – networking for activists
Evening: Sydney Girls High School
Public meeting: 6 for 6.30pm
Climate change | Social change: The threats | The solutions
John Bellamy Foster – author of Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature; editor of Monthly Review.
Patrick Bond – director of the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; editor of Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society.
David Spratt – Carbon Equity; co-author Climate Code Red
Saturday 12th April
Morning – plenary (9.30 - 11 am)
Climate change and its social roots
John Bellamy Foster
James Goodman – UTS Transforming Cultures: Centre for Social, Cultural & Historical Studies
Kamala Emanuel – Green Left Weekly, Socialist Alliance climate change spokesperson
Major workshop (11am – 12.30pm)
Protecting jobs and the environment
Ben Courtice – AMWU environment group
Tim Gooden – Secretary Geelong Trades and Labour Council
Cam Walker – Friends of the Earth Melbourne
Concurrent workshops to be confirmed
12.30-1.30pm LUNCH
Afternoon – plenary (1.30-3pm)
Can the market drive climate change solutions?
Patrick Bond
Stuart Rosewarne – co-editor of Journal of Australian Political Economy, and Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
Nelson Davila – Venezuelan Chargé d'Affaires
Sylvia Hale – NSW Greens MLC (to be confirmed)
Major workshop (3-4.30pm)
Campaigning against power privatisation
Matt Thistlewaite – Unions NSW deputy assistant secretary
John Kaye – NSW Greens MLC
Concurrent workshops to be confirmed
Evening
Conference Dinner Address
Roberto Perez – Cuban permaculturalist (featured in The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil)
Sunday 13th April
Morning – plenary (9-11am)
Transitions to sustainability
Mark Diesendorf, Institute of Environmental Studies, University of NSW
Adrian Whitehead, Zero Emissions Network
Stephanie Long, FoE Australia's international climate justice spokesperson
Roberto Perez
Renfrey Clark, Green Left Weekly
Major workshop 11-12.30pm
Technical solutions to lower emissions
Mark Diesendorf
Renfrey Clarke
Concurrent workshops to be confirmed
Afternoon – major workshop
Radicalising the Australian climate change movement
Simon Cunich, Resistance
Vanessa Bowden, Climate camp (to be confirmed)
Australian Student Environment Network (ASEN)
Concurrent workshops to be confirmed
Plenary (3-4.30pm)
Strategies to win & conference resolutions
Dick Nichols, author Capitalism, Nature and Socialism
John Rice, Adelaide Ecosocialist Network, Australian Greens
Cam Walker, FoE Melbourne
Patrick Bond
Conference close
