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 "Building a New World" Conference 

 

May 22-25, 2008 - Radford University, Radford, Virginia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION CHECK-IN

Check-in for the conference will be held in the Bonnie Hurlburt Student Center located adjacent to Lot AA.  Lodging, Meal, Parking and Conference Information will be handed out between 9 am - 5 pm.  If you are checking in between 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Wednesday or between 5 pm - 11 pm and have a lodging reservation please contact Angela (540) 320-0745, Bobby (540) 320-0346 or Colby (540) 320-0694.  After 11 pm, please contact Radford Univesity Campus Police at (540) 831-5500 for lodging assistance.  Lodging Reservations are required for after hours check-in.

 

Note to Participants: 

 
A Smart Bus runs from the Roanoke Airport to Blacksburg every 1 and 1/2 hours that costs only $3.00 and is very nice. You should get off at the second stop after the airport, which is "Falling Branch Park & Ride, Exit 118A."  Please phone 866-920-2208 when leaving the airport so that someone will be at Exit 118A to pick you up. The Smart Bus schedule is on-line at http://www.smartbus.com/schedule.htm - Google search "Blacksburg Smart Bus"

 

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All participants along with workshop and paper presenters need to register, either on-line at the Radford University website or on arrival, and reserve their dorm rooms. If coming in a group, any number of persons can fit in one dorm room. If desired, participants can purchase daily meal tickets which include three buffet meals.

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ON SITE REGISTRATION

On-site registration will open at 9;00 am Thursday morning, May 22nd in the Lobby of the Bonnie Hurlburt Student Center. (Coming from Interstate 81, exit 109, go right into Route 177 into Radford.  After about 4 miles, the speed limit will slow to 25 mph and the University will be on your right. Turn right into Jefferson Street at the stop light where the white Greek pillars and Radford University sign also stand.  Go down the hill on Jefferson Street, pass the stop sign. The Hurlburt Student Center is on your left set back from Jefferson Street with a parking lot in front of it, one hundred yards after the stop sign. Park in the Hurlburt lot while getting your registration materials and parking tag, then move the car to the lots designated for Conference Parking. )  For those with vehicles, please look for Parking Lot EE, which is in closest proximity to the Hurlburt Building. A drop-in Reception will take place between 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm in the Food Court directly adjacent to the Lobby.  Registration will continue in the Bonnie Hurlburt Building on Friday and Saturday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. We look forward to meeting you all next week in Radford.

 

Conference Program

 

 

Thursday, May 22, 2008

 

Time                                       Event                                                                 Location

 

9:00 am - 5:00 pm                    REGISTRATION                                                    Bonnie Hurlburt Lobby

(Directions below)

 

2:00 - 5:00 pm                          DROP IN SOCIAL                                                  Food Court Adjacent to

                                                                                                                             Bonnie Hurlburt Lobby

 

7:00 pm                                    INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC: Leonard McGann,

                                                Native American flutist

 

WELCOMING REMARKS: Garda Ghista,                 Bonnie Hurlburt Aud

Gary Corseri, Clark Webb, Glen Martin

 

7:30 pm                                    CONFERENCE KEYNOTE:  Lynne Stewart              Bonnie Hurlburt Aud

Introduction by Garda Ghista

 

8:30 pm                                    SPEAKER INTRODUCTIONS: Each presenter &      Bonnie Hurlburt Aud

 panelist will introduce themselves, with a

 snapshot  description of the topics they will be

 presenting.

 

 

Friday, May 23, 2008

                               

Time                                       Major Session Title                                                Location

 

9:00 - 10:45 am                        END OF EMPIRE                                                           McGuffy 203

                                                Keynote: William Blum

                                                Moderator: David Swanson                                 

Panelists:  Kathy Kelly, Dahlia Wasfi,

Richard Cook, Mike Whitney

 

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11:00 am - 12:45 pm                HOMELESSNESS AND SURVIVING DEPRESSION         Cook 107

                                                            Keynote:  Ralph Poynter

                                                Moderator: Donna Smith

                                                Panelists: Danny Schechter, Carina Ruhlandt,

                                                Keith McHenry, Jesse Johnson

 

11:00 am - 12:45 pm                DOMESTIC VIOLENCE                                                  McGuffy 203

                                                Keynote: Rachel MacKnight

                                                Moderator:  Susan Thomas

                                                Panelists: Judge Philip Trompeter, Pamela Gold,

                                                Conni St. John, Susheela Varky, Alice Lovelace

 

11:00 am - 12:45 pm                IRAQ VETS SPEAK OUT                                               Russell 07

                                                                Keynote: Adam Kokesh

                                                Moderator: Adam Kokesh

                                                Panelists: Geoff Millard, Ray Curry, James Morriss,

James Gilligan, Jason Hurd

 

11:00 - 12:45 pm                      FACING FUNDAMENTALISM                                         Russell 033

                                                Keynote: Jim Fetzer

                                                Moderator:  Glen Martin

                                                Panelists:  Michael Rivage-Seul, Kirk MacGregor,

Philip Rockstroh, Carl Gunther, Mazin Qumziyeh

 

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm                    LUNCH                                                                         Campus Cafeterias

 

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm                    VENEZUELA: LEADER OF THE 21ST CENTURY   McGuffy 203

                                                Keynote: Natali Fani

                                                Moderator:  William Blum

                                                Panelist: Clark Webb

 

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm                    TAKING BACK THE MEDIA                                           Cook 107

                                                Keynote: Danny Schechter

                                                Moderator: Meria Heller

                                                Panelists: Steve Alten, George Wallace, Gary Corseri,

                                                Robert Jensen, David Rubinson, Philip Rockstroh

 

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm                    INDIGENOUS PEOPLE SPEAK OUT                              Russell 007

                                                                Keynote: Sharon Bryant

                                                Moderator: Sharon Bryant

                                                Panelists: Rev. B. Lloyd, Jesse Johnson

 

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm                    MONETARY POLICY                                                     Russell 033

                                                Keynote: JW Smith

                                                Moderator: Glen Martin

                                                Panelists: Robert Blain, Ellen Brown, Richard Cook,

                                                Geraldine Perry, William Krehm

 

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm                    BUILDING A MOVEMENT AGAINST MILITARISM          Davis 151

                                                Keynote:  Gareth Porter

 

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4:00 pm - 5:45 pm                    ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION                                          McGuffy 203

                                                        Keynote:  Mike Whitney

                                                Moderator:  Alice Lovelace

                                                Panelists:  Charles Sullivan, Max Kantar,

                                                Ellen Brown, David Schweickart, Danny Schechter,

David Swanson

 

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm                    9/11 TRUTH                                                                  Cook 107

                                                Keynote: William Woodward

                                                Moderator: Meria Heller

                                                Panelists: Steve Alten, Jesse Johnson, Jim Fetzer

 

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm                    PALESTINE                                                                  Russell 07

                                                Keynote:  Mazin Qumziyeh

                                                Moderator:  Dahlia Wasfi

Panelists: Tim Gatto, Kathy Kelly, Fareed Bitar, 

William Woodward

 

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm                    IMMIGRANT RIGHTS                                                    Russell 033

                                                Keynote: Jeff May

 

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6:30 pm  - 8:00 pm                   BANQUET                                                                     Muse

 

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm                  CULTURAL PROGRAM                                                  Muse

Fareed Bitar, Brant Lyon, Mirian Stanley,

Diana Guiterez-Hernandez, George Wallace,

Adam Engel, Gary Corseri, Phil Rockstroh,

Kathy Kelly, Alice Lovelace, and surprises...

 

DOCUMENTARIES

                                                               

POISON DUST                                                              Russell 007

                                                "You thought they came home safely from the war.

They didn't. Poison DUst is the story of DU in the

current Gulf War. Vets, anti-war organizers,

environmentalists and health care providers will find

this wake-up call to today's GI's invaluable."

                                               

EARTHLINGS                                                               Russell 033

"This is the single most powerful and informative

movie about society's treatment of animals. A

must see for anyone who cares enough to know."

 

 

Saturday, May 24, 2008

 

Time                                       Major Session Title                                                Location

 

9:00 am - 10:45 am                  RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE                                             Cook 107

                                                Keynote:  Donna Smith

                                                Moderator: Donna Smith

                                                Panelists:  Stephen Landau, Eric Stoner,

                                                Reggie Cervantes, Geraldine Perry

 

9:00 am - 10:45 am                  TRIAL AND INDICTMENT OF BUSH ET AL                    Russell 007

                                                Moderator: David Swanson, William Woodward,

Gareth Porter, Lynne Stewart, Cathy Garger,

                                                Jesse Johnson

 

9:00 am - 10:45 am                  FIGHT FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY                           Hurlburt Aud

                                                Keynote: Mike Whitney

                                                Moderator:  Richard Cook

                                                Panelists: David Schweickart, JW Smith,

Ravipratap Singh, Tammy Belinski,

                                                Jason Schreiner, Ian MacPherson 

 

9:00 am - 10:45 am                  FOOD NOT BOMBS: PREPARING FOR FOOD

INDEPENDENCE                                                           Russell 033

                                                Keynote:  Keith McHenry

 

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11:00 am - 12:45 pm                VICTIMS OF OPPRESSION SPEAK OUT                       Hurlburt Aud

Keynote: Father Roy Bourgeois

Moderator: Kathy Kelly

Panelists:  Cindy Sheehan, Kianoosh Sanjari

 

11:00 am - 12:45 pm                WHY COOPERATIVES? LOCALIZATION                       Russell 007                  

                                                Keynote: David Schweickart

                                                Moderator: Alice Lovelace

                                                Panelists:  Carl Gunther, Ian MacPherson,

                                                Ravipratap Singh, Ronald Logan

 

11:00 am - 12:45 pm                CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER CRISIS                       Russell 007

                                                Keynote: Mitchel Cohen

                                                Moderator:  Meria Heller

                                                Panelists: Bryan Farrell, Tammy Belinski,

Jesse Johnson, Susan Livingston

 

11:00 am - 12:45 pm                NO MORE INCOME TAX                                                Russell 113

                                                Panelists:  Richard Cook, Ellen Brown

 

1:00 pm - 2:00                          LUNCH                                                                         Cafeterias

 

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm                    REVOLUTION                                                               Hurlburt Aud

                                                Keynote: Cindy Sheehan

                                                Moderator: David Swanson

                                                Panelists: Mitchel Cohen, Donna Smith,

                                                Kevin Zeese

                                                 

11:00 am - 12:45 pm                ANIMAL RIGHTS                                                          Russell 033

Keynote: Melissa Ilene Karpel

Moderator: Susan Thomas

Panelists: Erin Williams, Freeman Wicklund,

Karen Davis, Alwyn Moss

 

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm                    SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES                                      Russell 033

                                                Keynote: Michael Richards

                                                Moderator:  Keith McHenry

                                                Panelists:  Carl Gunther, Gordon Soderberg

                                                Dawn Shiner, Bryan Farrell, Chris Greene,

                                                Guy Prouty, Ian MacPherson

 

2:00 pm - 3:45 pm                    ENDING POVERTY THE HENRY GEORGE WAY              Russell 113

                                                            Keynote: Lindy Davies

                                                Moderator: Rita Rowan  

                                                Panelists: JW Smith, Mike Curtis, Carl Shaw, Art Costa

                                                Wyn Achenbaum

 

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4:00 pm - 5:45 pm                    CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS       Hurlburt Aud

                                                                Keynote: David Swanson           

                                                Moderator: David Swanson

                                                Panelists:  Lynne Stewart , Tammy Belinski,

                                                Tim Gatto, William Woodward, Keith McHenry,

                                                Jesse Johnson, Kevin Zeese

 

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm                    PREVENT UNWANTED PRESIDENCIES:

ELECTION FRAUD                                                        Russell 007

                                                Keynote: Bob Fitrakis

                                                Moderator:  Meria Heller

                                                Panelists: Richard Phillips, Jeannie Dean,

Marj Kreech, Jesse Johnson

 

4:00 pm- 5:45 pm                     THE SORROWS OF RACE, GENDER AND CLASS         Russell 033

                                                Keynote: Robert Jensen

                                                Moderator:  Dahlia Wasfi

                                                Panelists: Mazin Qumziyeh

 

4:00 pm - 5:45 pm                    CIVILIAN DEMOCRATIC EARTH FEDERATION              Russell 113

                                                                Keynote: Glen Martin

                                                Moderator: Glen Moderator

                                                Panelists: Bob Blain, Chuck Wollery, Eugenia Almand,

                                                Lucy Webster, Roger Kotila

 

 

Paper and Workshop Presentations

 

Friday, May 23rd, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

 

Economic Democracy                            Dr. David Schweickart                                        Cook 129

 

Anthrax Letters: FBI Acknowledges         Barry Kissin                                                      Cook 313

Inside Job - and the Demise of the

Sacred Military-Industrial Paradigm         

 

Collapse of Empire                                 Dr. Guy Prouty                                                  Cook 318

 

A brief economic history of the US,          Chris Leask                                                       Cook 319

the problems incurred and the

solutions using Prout

 

Social and Spiritual Rehabilitation            Dr. Steven Landau                                              Cook 230

Through Yoga

 

Money Owned and Owed                        Geraldine Perry                                                 

 

Law of Rent, Cause of Recessions          Mike Curtis                                                        Cook 229

International Trade, Development             Lindy Davies                                                     

and Sustainability in a Global

Economy

 

Why Cities Matter: War & Peace            Moderator: Rita Rowan                                       Whitt 204

and LVT; One Solution for Many              Presenters: Art Costa, Carl Shaw,

Problems                                              Wyn Achenbaum

 

The International Monetary Fund             Dr. Nozar Hashemzadeh                                   Whitt 108                     

and the World Bank: Part of the              Dr. .Charles L. Vehorn

Problem or Part of the Solution?

 

Morality, Religion, and Politics                Dr. Jim Fetzer                                                    Whitt 208                     

 

Real-Life Case History of Building            Michael Richards                                               Davis 142

a Sustainable Neighbourhood

as a Proven Sustainable Village

 

Language at the Heart of Social               Susan Livingston                                                Cook 311

Change

 

The Source of Population Submission:      Max Kantar                                                       Cook 317

A Brief Examination of Social Control

in the U.S.

 

 

Friday, May 23, 4:00 - 6:00 pm

 

Planning for a Sustainable                      Moderator: Dr. Guy Prouty                                  Cook 318

Economy                                              Presenters: Ronald Logan, Jason Schreiner        

 

Keep Money Flowing                              Chris Leask                                                       Cook 319

 

Venezuela and the Struggle                    Clark Webb                                                       Cook 313

for Global Economic Justice

 

Ecological Crises and Fascism               Mitchel Cohen                                                   Whitt 108

 

Yoga - A Social and Spiritual                  Dr. Steven Landau                                              Cook 230

Transformation

 

Law of Rent, Cause of Recessions          Mike Curtis                                                        Cook 229

 

International Trade, Development             Lindy Davies                                                      Cook 317

and Sustainability in a Global

Economy                                                         

 

Why Cities Matter: War & Peace            Moderator: Rita Rowan                                     Cook 311                     

And LVT: One Solution for Many             Presenters: Art Costa, Carl Shaw,

Problems                                              Wyn Achenbaum

 

Spiritual Practices on the Path                Rev. Pamela Anne Bro, Ph.D.                             Davis 142

to Peace

 

Depleted Uranium                                  Cathy Garger                                                     Cook 129

 

One World Economic/ Police                  Geraldine Perry                                                  Whitt 204

State order

 

Haiti                                                      Adele and Bob DellaValle-Rauth                          Whitt 208

 

 

Saturday, May 24, 2:00 - 4:00 pm

 

Regenerative Potential of                        Moderator: Chris Leask                                      Cook 318

Civilizational Collapse                             Presenters: Dr. Guy Prouty, Ron Logan, 

                                                            Jason Schreiner

 

Five Things Ordinary Citizens                  Dr. Bob Fitrakis, Dr. Richard Phillips,                   Cook 319

Can Do to Stop Election Fraud                Marj Creech, Jeannie Dean

 

Law of Rent, Cause of Recessions          Mike Curtis                                                        Cook 229

 

International Trade, Development             Lindy Davies                                                      Cook 317

and Sustainability in a Global

Economy

 

Why Cities Matter: War & Peace            Moderator: Rita Rowan                                       Whitt 108

And LVT: One Solution for Many             Presenters: Art Costa, Carl Shaw,

Problems                                              Wyn Achenbaum

 

Spiritual Practices on the Path                Rev. Pamela Anne Bro, Ph.D.                             Whitt 208

to Peace

 

A Lack of Safe Harbors:  The                  Jean-Luis Turcott                                               Cook 230

Link Between Environmental 

Destruction and Extreme Poverty  

 

Decentralized Management of                 Dr. Ravipratap Singh                                           Davis 142         

Local Natural Resources - a

Policy Perspective in Indian Setting

 

Online Grassroots Action:                       Andrew Lehman                                              Cook 129                     

Coordination Within States

and Across State Lines

 

One Global Community.com                   Roger Drowne, EC                                             Whitt 204

 

Health Care Reform                                Bob Griss                                                          Cook 313

 

How Do We Renounce War and              Ellen Thomas                                                     Cook 311

Abolish Nuclear Weapons?

 

 

Saturday, May 24, 4:00 - 6:00 pm

 

PROUT: A Decentralized and                  Ron Logan                                                         Cook 318

Sustainable Paradigm of

Development

 

The Power of Boycotts and                     Mazin Qumziyeh                                                Cook 129

Divestments in Challenging

Oppression       

 

Power of Mind, Body and Spirit         Dr. Steven Landau                                              Cook 230                     

Through Yoga

                       

The Radiant Message of the                    Diane Wittner                                                    Davis 142

Backbone Campaign:  Progressives

Have the Leaders and Ideas to

Run the Country

 

Truth in Recruiting                                  Iraq Vets Against the War                                  Whitt 204

 

Was 9/11 an 'Inside Job'?"                      Jim Fetzer                                                         Cook 313

 

The Permaculture Secret:                       Dawn Shiner                                                      Cook 229

Integrating with Nature's

Collaborative Patterns!

 

Poster Session: Cooperative                   Chris Greene                                                     Cook 317

Community: immediate socialism

and human liberation from the

bottom up

 

Cooperatives in the Emerging                  Dr. Ravipratap Singh                                           Whitt 108

Economic Order: A Case of the

Indian Cooperative Movement

 

Smarter and More Fun Ways to              Dr .Gary Krane                                                  Cook 319                     

Organize

 

Money Owned and Owed                        Geraldine Perry                                                  Whitt 208

                                                                   

Basic Income Guarantee                        Steven Shafarman                                              Cook 311

 

Our Food, Our World:                             Freeman Wickland                                             Whitt 204

Going Vegan 101

 

 

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6:30 - 8:00 pm                          BANQUET                                                                     Muse

 

7:00 pm                                    VOICE OF JUSTICE AWARDS                                       Muse

 

8:00 - 10:00 pm                        CULTURAL PROGRAM                                                  Muse

Fareed Bitar, Brant Lyon, Mirian Stanley,

Diana Guiterez-Hernandez, George Wallace,

Adam Engel, Gary Corseri, Phil Rockstroh,

Kathy Kelly, Alice Lovelace, and surprises

 

                                                DOCUMENTARIES

 

                                                Uncounted: The New Math of American                      Russell 007

  Elections

 "UNCOUNTED is an explosive new documentary

 that shows how the election fraud that changed

 the outcome of the 2004 election led to even

 greater fraud in 2006 - and now looms as an unbridled

 threat to the outcome of the 2008 election. Noted

 computer programmers, statisticians, journalists,

 and experienced election officials provide the  irrefutable

 proof. UNCOUNTED is about the spine-chilling

 disregard for the right to vote in America."                                                

 

Contaminated Forever: The Deadly Aftermath of

Depleted Uranium Munitions                                        Russell 033

"Exposes the terrible consequences of the use

of depleted uranium weapons (DU), including

interviews with the afflicted, whistleblowers, and

efforts to stop DU weapons production.  DU weapons

were used in the Balkans, Panama, Lebanon, and

are used in Afghanistan and Iraq, with their poison

dust afflicting all - soldiers and civilians."

 

In Debt We Trust                                                           Russell 113

"This Emmy-winning, hard-hitting documentary

Investigates why so many Americans are being

strangled by debt. It is a journalistic confrontation

with the 'powerful emergence of a debt-and-credit

industrial complex.' Economics is called "the dismal

science," yet this film is anything but; it talks about

how we can fight back.

 

 

Sunday, May 25, 2008

 

9:00 am - 12:00 noon               COLLECTIVE BRAINSTORMING FOR SOLUTIONS        Muse

 

12:00 noon                               CLOSING CEREMONY                                                  Muse

 

6:00 - 8:00 pm                          COLLECTIVE DINNER                                                   Selu Conservancy

 

 

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Speakers and Presenters

 

Wyn Achenbaum (Tax Reform activist; webster for wealthandwant.com)

 

Eugenia Almand (Executive Director, Institute on World Problems and Deputy Secretary, Provisional World Parliament)  

 

Steve Alten (Ph.D., New York Times best-selling American novelist and author of "The Shell Game")

 

Tammy Belinkski (J.D., environmental defense attorney with Wildlaw, Vice Chair of Virginia Forest Watch)

 

Fareed Bitar  ("THE FATOOSH" Ensemble of Eclectic, Activist & Spiritual Music, with Fareed Bitar (Palestinian-American), Miriam Stanley (Jewish-American), Diana Gitesha Hernandez (Puerto Rican Jazz-Spiritualist) and Brant Lyon (Anglo-American Protestant).

 

Robert Blain (delegate to the Provisional World Parliament)

 

William Blum (Blogger of "The Anti-Empire Report; author of "Rogue State" and "Killing Hope")

 

Father Roy Bourgeois (Founder / Director, SOA Watch)

 

Rev. Pamela Anne Bro (Ph.D. Living Waters Sanctuary)

 

Ellen Brown (attorney and author of eleven books, including "Web of Debt")

 

Reggie Cervantes (WTC Survivor Rescue Worker; nurse in Michael Moore's "Sicko") 

 

Sharon Bryant (leader, Moniker tribe, Northern Virginia)

 

Mitchel Cohen (Co-editor of "Green Politix", the national newspaper of the Green Party)

 

Richard Cook (former federal government analyst, whistleblower, leading scholar of monetary theory and economic reform, and author of "Challenger Revealed: An Insider's Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age")

 

Gary Corseri (Ph.D., poet, teacher, dramatist, novelist, editor, journalist, activist)

Art Costa (Activist/community organizer, urban economist, teacher, social thinker and writer)

 

Marj Creech (ElectionDefenseAlliance.org Coordinator, organizer of citizen exit polls)

 

Ray Curry (Iraq Veterans Against the War)

 

Mike Curtis (long-time teacher: Henry George theory; Trustee: Single Tax Village of Arden)

 

Lindy Davies (Writer, educator, Program Director, Henry George Institute)

 

Karen Davis (Ph.D., President, United Poultry Concerns, www.upc-online.org)

 

Jeannie Dean (Election investigation videographer in Sarasota in 06 and at the Illegal NH Recount of 08)

Adele and Bob DellaValle-Rauth (Co-coordinators Pax Christi Virginia)

 

William E. Douglas (Columnist & Author of "The Amateur Parent-A Book on Life, Death, War & Peace")

 

Roger Drowne (EC, poet, author who works for One Global Community)

 

Adam Engel (Poet and web author) 

 

Natali Fani (Associate Director of the Venezuela Information Office, Washington, D.C.)

 

Bryan Farrell (journalist and activist)

Jim Fetzer (Ph.D., Radio Co-host, American philosopher and Distinguished McKnight University Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, author of numerous books including "American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone" and "Render Unto Darwin: Philosophical Aspects of the Christian Right's Crusade Against Science")

Bob Fitrakis (Ph.D., Editor of Columbus FreePress.org, election fraud attorney, professor, speaker)

 

Cathy Garger (Freelance writer, anti-war activist, and anti-Depleted Uranium activist) 

 

Timothy V. Gatto (Former Chairman Liberal Party of America, Progressive writer, Activist, US Army (Ret.)

 

Garda Ghista (freelance journalist, author of "The Gujarat Genocide: A Case Study in Fundamentalist Cleansing" and Founding President, World Prout Assembly)

 

James Gilligan (member of Iraq Veterans Against the War)

 

Pamela Gold (advocate for women's rights)

 

Bob Griss (Executive Director of the Institute of Social Medicine and Community Health, health care policy researcher and advocate at the state and federal levels)

 

Carl Gunther (Writer promoting integrity vs. top-down control)

 

Chris Greene (organic farmer and founder, Cooperative Community)

 

Nozar Hashemzadeh (Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Radford University)

 

Meria Heller (Producer/Host of the Meria Show, Entering its 9th Year on the Net)    

 

Robert Jensen (Ph.D., professor; University of Texas at Austin; author of "Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim our Humanity" and "The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege")

 

Jesse Johnson (Green Party candidate for President, Mountain Party candidate for Governor of WV, and environmental activist fighting Mountaintop Removal mining)

 

Max Kantar (Freelance writer and public advocate)

 

Melissa Ilene Karpel (PETA senior campaign coordinator)

 

Kathy Kelly (Co-ordinator of Voices in the Wilderness & Voices for Creative Non-Violence; author of "Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison")

 

Barry Kissin (attorney; ran as a "progressive" candidate for Congress in 2006)

 

Adam Kokesh (IVAW Board Member and co-organizer of Winter Soldier)

 

Roger Kotila (President of the Democratic World Federalists)

 

Gary Krane (Ph.D. Founder, FairElections (www.FairElections.us)

 

William Krehm (Chairman, Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform)

 

Steven Landau (M.D. Adjunct Assistant Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing, Clinical Preceptor, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University)

 

Chris Leask (Prout Research Institute)

 

Andrew Lehman (Peace, Justice and Environment Project)

 

Reverend B. Lloyd (public advocate for the Moniker Indians in Virginia)

 

Ronald Logan  (author of 'PROUT: A New Paradigm of Development; Associate Director, Prout Institute)

 

Alice Lovelace (Poet, playwright, essayist, Author of "Remembering my Birth; This is for Family; The Kitchen Survival Almanac"; Editor of CRUS: a conversation in words and images South Africa to South USA; Co-editor at In Motion Magazine)

 

Kirk McGregory (Ph.D. Professor of Peace Studies, Radford Univerity)

 

Rachel MacKnight (advocate for women's rights)

 

Ian MacPherson (Ph.D., Director, British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies, University of Victoria, BC)

 

Glen Martin (Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Radford University; Secretary-General of World Constitution and Parliament Association; author of "World Revolution Through World Law")

 

Jeff May (Virginia Immigrant People's Coalition (VIP Coalition)

 

Leonard McGann (Native American flute player)

 

Keith McHenry (Co-founder of the global movement Food Not Bombs and a coordinator of the national food relief effort for the survivors of Katrina)

 

Geoff Millard (Iraq Veterans Against the War)

 

James Morris (Iraq Veterans Against the War)

 

Alwyn Moss (Animal rights advocate) 

 

Geraldine Perry (Librarian/researcher turned natural health and small farm advocate, author of The Two Faces of Money)

 

Mazin Qumsiyeh (Ph.D. former director of cytogenetic servies at Yale School of Medicine, author of "Sharing the Land of Canaan")

 

Richard Hayes Phillips (Ph.D. author of "Witness to a Crime" - Proof of the stolen '04 Election in Ohio", http://www.witnesstoacrime.com)

Gareth Porter (Journalist for I.P.S.; Huffington Post blogger; author, "Perils of Dominance")

 

Ralph Poynter (Community activist, Harlem and Brooklyn, NY. Forty-year advocate for community control of schools and other African-American causes) 

 

Guy Prouty  (Ph.D., Professor of anthropology, Oregon State University; Associate Director, Prout Institute)

Michael Richards (founder of Sustainable Ecological Economic Development (S.E.E.D.) author of "Sustainable Operating Systems/The Post Petrol Paradigm")    

 

Mike Rivage-Seul (Ph.D., Professor and Director of the Peace and Social Justice Studies program at Berea College, Kentucky) 

Philip Rockstroh (poet, lyricist, philosopher and bard)

Rita Rowan (Henry George institute)

David Rubinson (Political activist and co-founder, Stop-LossCongress.org, Music and film producer: Produced music for "Apocalypse Now," produced the film "Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness")   

 

Carina Ruhlandt (New River Community Action and Virginia Association of Housing Counselors)

 

Kiannoosh Sanjari (Iranian blogger and political refugee)

 

Danny Schechter (television producer, independent filmmaker, blogger, media critic, author of ""Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception: How the Media Failed to Cover the Iraq War" and producer of "In Debt We Trust."

 

Jason Schreiner  (Professor of philosophy, Oregon State University; Associate Director, Prout Institute)

David Schweickart (Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University' author of "After Capitalism" and "Against Capitalism")

 

Steven Shafarman (president of Citizen Policies Advocates and author of Peaceful, Positive Revolution: Economic Security for Every American)

 

Carl Shaw (Henry George Institute)

 

Cindy Sheehan (Writer and activist; anti-war leader known as the "Peace Mom")

 

Dawn Shiner (MSc, EcoSocial Regeneration Permaculture Designer & Educator, Exec Director, Dancing Green, Inc. Integrated Systems for Sustainability and Beyond)

 

Ravipratap Singh (Ph.D., Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Gorakhpur University, India)

 

Donna Smith (in Michael Moore's SICKO; full-time advocate for universal health care)

 

J.W. Smith (Ph.D., Director, Institute for Economic Democracy; author of "Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the Twenty-first Century" and "Money: A Mirror Image of the Economy") 

 

Gordon Soderberg (founding member of New Orleans Voices for Peace)

 

Lynne Stewart (J.D., 30-year veteran civil rights and criminal defense lawyer. Now fighting US government false conviction for work done on behalf of Islamist client.)

 

Eric Stoner (New York-based writer for the Nation and other prominent blogs and journals)

 

Charles Sullivan (nature photographer, freelance writer, naturalist and environmental educator; warrior for social justice)

 

Daniel Sunjata (Tony Award Nominated Actor, who stars as the Firefighter, Franco Rivera, on FOX's hit TV show "Rescue Me," and outspoken activist and public advocate) 

 

David Swanson (Creator of ImpeachCheney.org, Washington Director of Democrats.com, Co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition, Board member of Progressive Democrats of America, the Backbone Campaign, and Voters for Peace. Former Press Secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign. Website is www.davidswanson.org.

 

Susan Thomas (Ph.D. Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, Hollins University; animal rights activist. 

 

Philip Trompeter (Roanoke County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Judge)

 

Jean-Luis Turcott (writer and public advocate for the homeless)

 

Susheela Varkey (Virginia Poverty Law Center)

 

Charles Vehorn (Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Radford University)

 

George Wallace (Poet; editor, poetrybay.com; essayist, "John Reed and the Poetry of Protest and Praise"; activist)

 

Dahlia Wasfi (M.D., Iraqi American M.D. and anti-war activist)

Lucy Webster (Program Coordinator, Global Education Associates, Former Political Affairs Officer, UN Office of Disarmament)

 

Mike Whitney (Progressive economics web journalist)

 

Freeman Wicklund (Founder, Mercy for Animals)

 

Erin Williams (U.S. Humane Society and author)

 

Diane Wittner (Diane Wittner, Director of the Cheapeake Citizens organization.)

 

Chuck Wollery (advocate for world government)

 

William Woodward (Ph.D., Professor of psychology; Co-editor of "B. F. Skinner and behaviorism in American culture," Quaker peace activist)

 

Kevin Zeese (Green candidate for Maryland's U.S. Senate seat, 2006)

 

 

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Cindy Sheehan, William Blum, Kathy Kelly, Mike Whitney, Alice Lovelace, David Swanson, Gareth Porter, Daniel Sunjata, Lynne Stewart, Bob Fitrakis, Gary Corseri, Mitchel Cohen, Fareed Bitar, Robert Jensen, Kevin Zeese, Jesse Johnson, Richard Cook, Mitchel Cohen, Adam Kokesh and IVAW, Ellen Brown, Father Roy Bourgeois and many more leaders and luminaries will join thousands of people from across the country and from other lands as well, for a conference to lay the foundations for building a new world now.

 

 

 

Major Session topics include End of Empire, Right to Health Care, Facing Fundamentalism, Economic Exploitation, Fight for Economic Democracy, Palestine, Cooperatives and Localization, Venezuela: Bolivarian Revolution, Civil Liberties / Constitutional Rights, Sustainability, Animal Rights, Climate Change and Water Crisis, Domestic Violence, Taking Back the Media, Iraq Vets Against War, Homelessness and Survival during Economic Depression, Monetary Theory, Civilian Democratic Earth Federation, Victims of Oppression Speak Out and more...

 

 

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]]> Speakers tag:www.wpaconference.org,2008://1.16 2008-02-02T21:13:02Z 2008-05-19T16:10:06Z WPA Administrator Present speakers confirmed as of February 2, 2008

Cindy Sheehan (Writer and activist; anti-war leader known as the "Peace Mom")

William Blum (Blogger of "The Anti-Empire Report; author of "Rogue State" and "Killing Hope")


Kathy Kelly (Co-ordinator of Voices in the Wilderness & Voices for Creative Non-Violence; author of "Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison")

 

Richard Cook (former federal government analyst, whistleblower, leading scholar of monetary theory and economic reform, and author of "Challenger Revealed: An Insider's Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age")

 

Daniel Sunjata (Tony Award Nominated Actor, who stars as the Firefighter, Franco Rivera, on FOX's hit TV show "Rescue Me," and outspoken activist and public advocate) 

 

Lynne Stewart (30-year veteran civil rights and criminal defense lawyer. Now fighting US government false conviction for work done on behalf of Islamist client.)

 
Ralph Poynter (Community activist, Harlem and Brooklyn, NY. Forty-year advocate for community control of schools and other African-American causes) 

Gareth Porter (Journalist for I.P.S.; Huffington Post blogger; author, "Perils of Dominance")


Alice Lovelace (Poet, playwright, essayist, Author of "Remembering my Birth; This is for Family; The Kitchen Survival Almanac"; Editor of CRUS: a conversation in words and images South Africa to South USA; Co-editor at In Motion Magazine)


Mike Whitney (Progressive economics web journalist)

 

David Schweickart (Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University' author of "After Capitalism" and "Against Capitalism")

 

Kevin Zeese (Green candidate for Maryland's U.S. Senate seat, 2006)


Reggie Cervantes (WTC Survivor Rescue Worker; nurse in Michael Moore's "Sicko") 

 

Jesse Johnson (Green Party candidate for President, Mountain Party candidate for Governor of WV, and environmental activist fighting Mountaintop Removal mining)

 

David Rubinson (Political activist and co-founder, Stop-LossCongress.org, Music and film producer: Produced music for "Apocalypse Now," produced the film "Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness")   


Robert Jensen (professor; University of Texas at Austin; author of "Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim our Humanity" and "The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege")

 

Steve Alten (New York Times best-selling American novelist and author of "The Shell Game")

 

Guy Prouty  (professor of anthropology, Oregon State University; Associate Director, Prout Institute)

Meria Heller (Producer/Host of the Meria Show, Entering its 9th Year on the Net)    


Michael Richards (founder of Sustainable Ecological Economic Development (S.E.E.D.) author of "Sustainable Operating Systems/The Post Petrol Paradigm")     


Olivia Burlingame Goumbri (of the Venezuela Information Office, Washington, D.C.)

David Swanson (Creator of ImpeachCheney.org, Washington Director of Democrats.com, Co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition, Board member of Progressive Democrats of America, the Backbone Campaign, and Voters for Peace. Former Press Secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign. Website is www.davidswanson.org.

 

Dahlia Wasfi (Iraqi American M.D. and anti-war activist)

Jim Fetzer (Radio Co-host, American philosopher and Distinguished McKnight University Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, author of numerous books including "American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone" and "Render Unto Darwin: Philosophical Aspects of the Christian Right's Crusade Against Science")

Gary Corseri (poet, teacher, dramatist, novelist, editor, journalist, activist)

Ian MacPherson (Director, British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies, University of Victoria, BC)

 

Ellen Brown (attorney and author of eleven books, including "Web of Debt")

 

Jason Schreiner  (professor of philosophy, Oregon State University; Associate Director, Prout Institute)

William E. Douglas (Columnist & Author of "The Amateur Parent–A Book on Life, Death, War & Peace")


Gordon Soderberg (founding member of New Orleans Voices for Peace)

 

Charles Sullivan (nature photographer, freelance writer, naturalist and environmental educator; warrior for social justice)

 

Timothy V. Gatto (Former Chairman Liberal Party of America, Progressive writer, Activist, US Army (Ret.)

 

Cathy Garger (Freelance writer, anti-war activist, and anti-Depleted Uranium activist) 
 
Keith McHenry (Co-founder of the global movement Food Not Bombs and a coordinator of the national food relief effort for the survivors of Katrina)
 
Ronald Logan  (author of 'PROUT: A New Paradigm of Development; Associate Director, Prout Institute)
 
Leonard McGann (Native American flute player)

Adam Kokesh (IVAW Board Member and co-organizer of Winter Soldier)

 

Karen Davis (Ph.D., President, United Poultry Concerns, www.upc-online.org)

 

Ravi Batra (Professor of Economics, Southern Methodist University; author of more than 20 books, including "The Crash of the Millennium: Surviving the Coming Inflationary Depression," "The Myth of Free Trade" and "Greenspan's Fraud." 


Fareed Bitar  ("THE FATOOSH" Ensemble of Eclectic, Activist & Spiritual Music, with Fareed Bitar (Palestinian-American), Miriam Stanley (Jewish-American), Diana Gitesha Hernandez (Puerto Rican Jazz-Spiritualist) and Brant Lyon (Anglo-American Protestant).

 

Bob Fitrakis (Editor of Columbus FreePress.org, election fraud attorney, professor, speaker)

 

Richard Hayes Phillips (Ph.D. author of "Witness to a Crime" - Proof of the stolen '04 Election in Ohio", http://www.witnesstoacrime.com)

Victoria Parks (singer / songwriter (W. Begins with Duh), researher, patriot connecting election fraud witih other fascist signs)

 

Carl Gunther (Writer promoting integrity vs. top-down control)

 

Melissa Ilene Karpel (PETA senior campaign coordinator)

 

Steven Shafarman (president of Citizen Policies Advocates and author of Peaceful, Positive Revolution: Economic Security for Every American)


Jeannie Dean (Election investigation videographer in Sarasota in 06 and at the Illegal NH Recount of 08)

Marj Creech (ElectionDefenseAlliance.org Coordinator, organizer of citizen exit polls)

 

Mike Rivage-Seul (Professor and Director of the Peace and Social Justice Studies program at Berea College, Kentucky) 

J.W. Smith (Director, Institute for Economic Democracy; author of "Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the Twenty-first Century" and "Money: A Mirror Image of the Economy") 


Father Roy Bourgeois (Founder / Director, SOA Watch)


George Wallace (Poet; editor, poetrybay.com; essayist, "John Reed and the Poetry of Protest and Praise"; activist)

 

Susan Thomas  (Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, Hollins University; animal rights activist. 


Freeman Wicklund (Founder, Mercy for Animals)

 

Art Costa (Activist/community organizer, urban economist, teacher, social thinker and writer)

 

Max Kantar (Freelance writer and public advocate)


Erin Williams (U.S. Humane Society and author)

 

Adam Engel (Poet and web author) 

 

Wyn Achenbaum (Tax Reform activist; webster for wealthandwant.com)


William Woodward (Professor of psychology; Co-editor of "B. F. Skinner and behaviorism in American culture," Quaker peace activist)

 

Geraldine Perry (Librarian/researcher turned natural health and small farm advocate, author of The Two Faces of Money)

 

Lindy Davies (Writer, educator, Program Director, Henry George Institute)


Mike Curtis (long-time teacher: Henry George theory; Trustee: Single Tax Village of Arden)

 

Bob Griss (Executive Director of the Institute of Social Medicine and Community Health, health care policy researcher and advocate at the state and federal levels)

Glen Martin (Professor of Philosophy, Radford University; Secretary-General of World Constitution and Parliament Association; author of "World Revolution Through World Law")

Garda Ghista (freelance journalist, author of "The Gujarat Genocide: A Case Study in Fundamentalist Cleansing" and Founding President, World Prout Assembly)


And more to come! 

]]> Creative Writing Series tag:www.wpaconference.org,2007://1.15 2007-12-10T07:06:18Z 2007-12-10T07:10:24Z Because we believe that progressive and radical paradigms for a New World must embrace and complement artistic vision, a significant feature of WPA's Building a New World Conference will be the inclusion of venues for presenting creative works of poetry,... WPA Administrator Because we believe that progressive and radical paradigms for a New World must embrace and complement artistic vision, a significant feature of WPA's Building a New World Conference will be the inclusion of venues for presenting creative works of poetry, dance, drama, photography and painting. 

We look forward to making space for writing which expresses ideals related to pressing political, cultural and social issues in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, dramatic monologue, and experimental creative writing.  In addition to featured artists, all those wishing to share their work with a wider progressive/radical audience in venues consisting of 25-1500 seats, are encouraged to participate.

]]> Poster Sessions tag:www.wpaconference.org,2007://1.14 2007-12-10T07:02:38Z 2007-12-10T07:06:01Z Poster sessions are informal in nature, with excellent networking potential. We will provide ample space for poster sessions and encourage prospective participants to consider this option. Poster sessions present research or analysis on a topic by combining graphics and text... WPA Administrator Poster sessions are informal in nature, with excellent networking potential. We will provide ample space for poster sessions and encourage prospective participants to consider this option. Poster sessions present research or analysis on a topic by combining graphics and text on a 4' x 6' poster board.  The poster session presenter is available during an assigned session time in order to interact on a one-to-one basis with the attendees viewing the poster.  A well-planned poster communicates its message in a visually and textually powerful way, allowing the attendee to grasp the overview of information quickly.

 

Selecting this option increases the likelihood of acceptance.

 

]]> Proposal Guidelines tag:www.wpaconference.org,2007://1.13 2007-12-10T06:54:14Z 2007-12-10T07:02:07Z All panel proposals must include complete contact information on participants, plus a non-presenting moderator. Incomplete panels with less than three participants will not be considered for review. Workshop and roundtable proposals that feature multiple participants must include all participants' names... WPA Administrator All panel proposals must include complete contact information on participants, plus a non-presenting moderator. Incomplete panels with less than three participants will not be considered for review. Workshop and roundtable proposals that feature multiple participants must include all participants' names and contact information at the time of proposal submission. One-person workshops will also be considered.

Abstracts for all proposals should be 50-100 words. Abstracts explain to potential attendees the topic, foci and/or goals of the presentation reading in a clear and succinct manner in the conference program book. Abstracts may be revised or edited for the printed program.

One to two-page proposal descriptions (250-500 words) will serve as the basis for evaluation by the Proposal Review Committee and thus should include some or all of the following as appropriate: (1) Objective and purpose of the paper panel, workshop, etc. (2) Perspective and theoretical framework and/or reference to relevant, specific text, authors, or research, or on-going debates in related fields; (3) Results and/or conclusions and point of view; (4) Relevance to the conference theme; (5) Discussion of how the session will be structured. Proposal descriptions will assist proposal reviewers' evaluation of and appropriateness of the session or paper for inclusion in the conference program. Abstracts and proposal descriptions may not exceed the word limits given above.

 

 

 

]]> Disability Information tag:www.wpaconference.org,2007://1.12 2007-12-10T06:47:07Z 2007-12-10T06:47:55Z Disability Information Radford University is wholly wheelchair accessible and caters to persons with disabilities. The Conference organizers will make every effort to provide reasonable accommodations to presenters and attendees with disabilities. Please indicate your need for accommodations on the... WPA Administrator
Disability Information
Radford University is wholly wheelchair accessible and caters to persons with disabilities. The Conference organizers will make every effort to provide reasonable accommodations to presenters and attendees with disabilities. Please indicate your need for accommodations on the registration form. We must receive requests for special accommodations by April 15, 2008.
]]> Directions tag:www.wpaconference.org,2007://1.11 2007-12-10T06:44:56Z 2007-12-10T06:46:52Z Directions Radford University in Radford, VA is just 36 miles southwest of Roanoke and within easy driving distance of many mid-East Coast metropolitan areas. Richmond is only a three and a half hour drive, while Washington, D.C., and the... WPA Administrator
Directions
Radford University in Radford, VA is just 36 miles southwest of Roanoke and within easy driving distance of many mid-East Coast metropolitan areas. Richmond is only a three and a half hour drive, while Washington, D.C., and the Tidewater area are only about four and a half hours away.

By Car:
From Interstate 81, take Exit 109 onto Route 177/Tyler Avenue into Radford. At the third traffic light, turn right onto Jefferson Street. The university is on the left. Follow signs for conference parking.

Travel By Air or By Bus:
Roanoke Regional Airport and Greyhound Bus Lines provide connections to cities throughout the country. To get to Radford from the airport, take Interstate 581-North to Interstate 81-South and follow the directions for traveling by car. Advance reservations for limousine service to and from the airport may be made by calling Blacksburg Limousine Service at US +1 5409513973 Call .

Nearby Airports:
Several other airports are within driving distance of RU. Charlotte-Douglas International Airport is two and a half hours away in Charlotte, N.C., and Richmond International Airport is three and a half hours away in Richmond, VA.
]]> Tote Bag Inserts tag:www.wpaconference.org,2007://1.10 2007-12-10T06:43:26Z 2008-01-16T18:42:45Z Tote Bag Inserts An excellent way to reach out to conference attendees is by including a promotional insert in the tote bag handed out to all attendees. A limited number of bag inserts are permitted, so early reservation is... WPA Administrator
Tote Bag Inserts
An excellent way to reach out to conference attendees is by including a promotional insert in the tote bag handed out to all attendees. A limited number of bag inserts are permitted, so early reservation is encouraged. Bag inserts may be a flyer/advertisement or a promotional item (pens, stress balls, key rings, etc.) A sample of the item must be submitted to WPA for approval, care of Garda Ghista, 7 Bordeaux Drive, Highland Heights, KY 41076. Acceptance is at WPA's discretion. If accepted, 2,500 copies of the item must be provided. Please note inserts must be preassembled (i.e. folded, clipped, etc..) prior to shipping.

TOTE BAG INSERT FEE: $260/each insert

The final deadline for receiving requests for Tote Bag Inserts is April 1st 2008.
]]> Food on Campus tag:www.wpaconference.org,2007://1.9 2007-12-10T06:41:55Z 2007-12-10T06:50:16Z Food on Campus For the low cost of $22.60/per day(tax included) participants can enjoy breakfast, lunch, and dinner in our newly renovated Dalton or Muse Dining Halls, conveniently located near residence halls, meeting and recreational facilities. The various food... WPA Administrator
Food on Campus

For the low cost of $22.60/per day(tax included) participants can enjoy breakfast, lunch, and dinner in our newly renovated Dalton or Muse Dining Halls, conveniently located near residence halls, meeting and recreational facilities. The various food stations offer a full salad and condiment bar, dessert bar, a variety of tasty and healthy hot meals including regular, low-fat, and vegetarian all-you-can-eat entrees. They also serve traditional home cooking, pizza and pasta, made to order sandwiches, salads and a variety of homemade desserts.

Note: With pre-registration of meals, the dining hall will be able to accuratly prepare the correct amount of food. A card will be issued to you at check-in, which will speed up the entry process into the dining hall. Paying cash at the door is discouraged and pre-registration of meals in advance is strongly reccomended.


Aside from campus dining, there are numerous restaurants in the town of Radford and surrounding vicinity.

]]> Lodging tag:www.wpaconference.org,2007://1.8 2007-12-10T06:37:44Z 2008-03-06T19:50:26Z On-Campus Lodging Residence hall guest rooms are arranged in suites (two rooms sharing a bathroom), or single rooms with private bathrooms. Radford University has premium residential housing air conditioned and ample non-air conditioned space as well. All residence halls are... WPA Administrator
On-Campus Lodging

Residence hall guest rooms are arranged in suites (two rooms sharing a bathroom), or single rooms with private bathrooms. Radford University has premium residential housing air conditioned and ample non-air conditioned space as well. All residence halls are equipped with a working phone outlet, ethernet and wireless internet access, lounges, kitchens, laundry rooms, and TV lounges. Please bring your own phone, computer and appropriate accessories. Linens are provided in air conditioned rooms only which includes sheet set, pillow, pillow cloth, towel, wash cloth and blanket. Air Conditioned rooms $36.08/per night/per person for a single room (tax included) Non-air conditioned rooms $24.98/per night/per person for a single room (tax included) Note: Space is limited, you must pre-register lodging in order to guarantee space.

Area Hotels

There are a number of local hotels within driving distance to Radford University.


The Radford Best Western

1501 Tyler Avenue, Radford VA 24141 Telephone  (540) 639-3000       

Indoor pool - fitness center - restaurant - lounge - pet friendly hotel - high-speed internet Rooms have been reserved for the conference. Please indicate that you are attending the Building a New World Conference. Rate for reserved rooms is $70.00 per day plus tax. Rate for non-reserved rooms is $99.00 per day plus tax.


The Comfort Inn and Suites

2331 Tyler Rd. Radford VA US. Telephone (540) 639-3333 

FREE high speed hard-wired and wireless internet access in all rooms. FREE deluxe continental breakfast, excersise room, guest laundry, indoor pool and hot-tub. All rooms have a microwave, refrigerator, hair dryer, iron and board, desk, coffee maker, and a 27 TV with expanded cable. Minutes away from Radford University. Please indicate that you are attending the Building a New World Conference. Rate for reserved rooms is $64.00 per day plus tax. Rate for non-reserved rooms is $73.99.

Directions: I-81 Southbound, Exit 109, bear right. Go apx. 1/4 mile, hotel on left. I-81 Northbound, Exit 109, take Left. Go apx. 1/3 mile, hotel on left.

 

La Quinta Inn in Radford

1450 Tyler Avenue, Radford, VA 24141, Telephone  (540) 633-6800

Located 2 miles from downtown, free high-speed Internet access. Non-smoking, coffee maker, hairdryer, iron with ironing board. Fitness center. Complimentary continental breakfast and Bistro for dining. Please indicate that you are attending the Building a New World Conference. Rate for reserved rooms is $64.99 per day plus tax.

 

]]> Registration tag:www.wpaconference.org,2007://1.7 2007-12-10T06:33:46Z 2008-02-17T00:25:25Z WPA Administrator To register, please visit:

https://www.123signup.com/event?id=xyycy

 

Or contact:

RU Conference Services

PO Box 6911

Radford, Virginia  24142

Phone:  (540)  831-5800

Fax:  (540)  831-6036

Email:  conf-serv@radford.edu

 

To register online, please visit

https://www.123signup.com/event?id=xyycy

 

Registration per person is $110.00.

Tote bag inserts are $210.00

NGO/Exhibitor/Vendor registration is $310.00.

 

All persons participating in the conference are required to register.

 

]]> Conference Schedule tag:www.wpaconference.org,2007://1.6 2007-12-10T05:19:46Z 2008-04-14T16:49:28Z WPA Administrator Building a New World Conference

Date:  May 22-25, 2008

Location:  Radford, Virginia

Theme:  Building a New World: Radical Visions

 

 

Thursday, May 22, 2008

9:00 am - 6:00 pm - Registration

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Get Acquainted Social

7:00 pm - Keynote Speech, followed by Speaker Introductions

 

Friday, May 23, 2008

 

9:00 - 11:00 am

Plenary session: End of Empire

 

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

IVAW Speak Out Against War, Torture, Genocide

Domestic Violence

Indigenous Peoples Speak Out

Homelessness and Surviving Economic Depresion

 

2:00 - 4:00 pm

Taking Back the Media

Monetary Policy

Immigrant Rights

Facing Fundamentalism

Workshop and Paper Presentations

 

4:00 - 6:00 pm

Economic Exploitation

Climate Change and Water Crisis

Palestine

Workshop and Paper Presentations

 

6:30 - 8:00 pm

Banquet

 

8:00 - 10:00 pm

Cultural Program

 

Saturday, May 24th

 

9:00 - 11:00 am

Right to Health Care

Undoing Racism

Fight for Economic Democracy

Trial and Indictment of Bush-Cheney

 

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Victims of Oppression Speak Out

Animal Rights

Venezuela: Bolivarian Revolution

Why Cooperatives?  Localization

Election Fraud

 

2:00 - 4:00 pm

Resistance and Social Change

Katrina - the Epilogue

Secession and Sustainability

Ending Poverty the Henry George Way

Workshop and Paper Presentations

 

4:00 - 6:00 pm

Civil Liberties and Constitutional Rights

Academic Freedom

No More Income Tax

Civilian Democratic Earth Federation

Workshop and Paper Presentations

 

 

6:30 - 8:00 pm

Banquet

 

8:00 - 10:00 pm

Cultural Program

 

Sunday, May 25th

 

9:00 am - Noon

Collective Brainstorming for Solutions Session

 

12:00 noon

Closing Ceremony

 

2:00 - 4:00 pm

Peace Walk to downtown Radford

 

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Dinner at Selu Conservancy

 

]]> ]]> Important Deadlines tag:www.wpaconference.org,2007://1.5 2007-12-10T05:10:24Z 2008-04-09T00:32:12Z WPA Administrator March 15, 2008

Deadline for Paper and Workshop Proposals to be received at wpaeditor@gmail.com.

 

April 1 2008  

Accept and decline notifications will be sent via email.

 

April 15, 2008

Last day for Exhibitor/Vendor requests.

 

April 15, 2008          

Last day for Tote Bag Insert requests

 

April 15 2008         

Conference attendees with disabilities should request accommodations by this date.

 

Additional deadines will be listed here as they become available.

 

]]> Advisory Board tag:www.wpaconference.org,2007://1.4 2007-12-10T04:22:24Z 2007-12-10T05:56:06Z WPA Administrator World Prout Assembly Advisory Board

 

Dr. Arun Ahluwalia

Center of Advanced Study in Geology, Punjab University, Chandigarh, INDIA

Dr. As'ad AbuKhalil

Political Science Dept., California State University, Turlock, California, USA

William Bagby

World Prout Assembly,  Urbana, Illinois,  USA

Dr. Carolyn Baker

Author and Editor, Speaking Truth to Power, USA

Vedran Banaj

World Prout Assembly, Croatia, CROATIA

Dr. Rafael Barrozo

P.R. Sarkar Institute of Strategic Studies, University of the Philippines, Los Banos, MAHARLIKA (PHILIPPINES)

Dr. Ravi Batra

Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA

Medea Benjamin

Founding Director, Global Exchange; Co-Founder, CodePink, San Francisco, California, USA

Pranav Bihari

London School of Economics, London, ENGLAND

Jeff Blankfort

Former editor, Middle East Labor Bulletin, Radio host, KPOO, San Francisco, and KZYX, Mendocino California, USA

Albino Bordieri

President, Movement for Economic Democracy, Treviso, ITALY

Dr. Angana Chatterjee

Social and Cultural Anthropology Program, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California, USA

Arnab Roy

Research Fellow, Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Orissa, INDIA

Jonathan Cook

Journalist and Author, Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State, Nazareth, ISRAEL

Dr. William Cook

Department of English and American Studies, LaVerne University, California, USA

Hazel Corcoran

Executive Director, Canadian Worker Cooperatives Federation, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA

Dr. Gary Corseri

Writer, Editor and Educator, Washington, D.C. USA

Shermon Cruz

Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, MAHARLIKA (PHILIPPINES)

Jack Dalton

Co-Editor, Project for the Old American Century, Portland, Oregon, USA

Tom Feeley

Editor, Information Clearinghouse, USA

Victor Gabriel Barbosa Garcia

Proutist Universal de Mexico, Morelia, MEXICO

Garda Ghista

Freelance journalist and author, The Gujarat Genocide; President, World Prout Assembly, Kentucky, USA

Carl Gunther

World Prout Assembly, Los Angeles, USA

Alanna Hartzok

Co-Director, Earth Rights Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Liila Hass

Naturopath, Hobart, TASMANIA

Kent Hesselund

Proutist Universal, Copenhagen, DENMARK

Jyotirmaya Hull-Jurkovic

Proutist Universal, London, ENGLAND

Anwaar Hussain

Journalist, Al Ain, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Dr. Sohail Inayatullah

Tamkang University; Sunshine Coast University, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA

Alex Jackimovicz

Proutist Universal, Portland, Maine, USA

Dr. Sally Jacobsen

Dept of Literature and Language, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, USA

Dahr Jamail

Journalist, Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches, Juno, Alaska, USA

Peter Jenssen

Oslo State Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, NORWAY

Max Kantar

Sociology Department, Ferris State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Jake Karlyle

Futurist, author and founding member, Prout Institute of Australia, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

Slyusar Konstantin

Proutist Universal, RUSSIA

Dr. Franklin Lamb

American University of Beirut, Beirut, LEBANON

Prakash Laufer

Editorial Board, United for a Fair Economy; Proutist Universal, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Tom Lavrih

P. Eng. Brain Injury Specialist (CBIS), Toronto, CANADA

Stephen Lendman

Freelance author, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Alexander Lesnichev

Doctor of Naturopathy, RUSSIA

Honorio Lopez

Freelance Journalist, Porto Allegre, BRAZIL

Dr. Glen Martin

Dept of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Radford University, Radford, Virginia, USA

Dr. Lars Mazzola

English Department, SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport, New York, USA

Jason Miller

Freelance journalist and author, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Richard Moore

Freelance writer and author, Escaping the Matrix, Wexford, IRELAND

Greg O'Neill

Founding member, Big Idea, Northwest Territories, CANADA

Matt Oppenheim

ABD, California Institute of Integral Studies, Los Angeles, California, USA

Juan Osegueda

Proutista Universal de Mexico, Cuernavaca, MEXICO

Shree Padre

Rainwater Harvesting Educator and Consultant, Kerala, INDIA

Ranjan Panda

Founder/Secretary, Manav Adhikar Seva Samti (MASS); Convenor, Water Initiatives, Sambalpur, Orissa, INDIA

Pratik Pande

Jagaran Media Center (JMC), Katmandu, NEPAL

Chuck Paprocki

Proutist Universal, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Dr. John Parks

Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis (AAP), Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Sourabh Bikas Paul

Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. CANADA

Dale Pfeiffer

Geologist, journalist, novelist, editor, The Mountain Sentinel, Kentucky, USA

Terri Proulx

Business Counsellor, Community & Worker Ownership Program, SEED Winnipeg, Inc. Manitoba, CANADA

Hadiyah Rashid

ABD, University of Cincinnati, Educator, Conflict Resolution Mediator; Dept of Sociology, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, USA

Gennaro Rotoli

Proutist Universal, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA

Jhu Elno Rubio

Proutist Universal, MAHARLIKA (PHILIPPINES)

Dr. Saajidha Sader

School of Education and Development, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal, SOUTH AFRICA

Dr. Kerin Schell

Psychologist, Wichita, Kansas, USA

Alan Serilo

Proutist Universal, AngKaSaMa, MAHARLIKA (PHILIPPINES)

Nina Shapiro

Social worker, alcohol & drug rehab counsellor, Women Proutists, Los Angeles, California, USA

Mehmooda Shekiba

Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), Kabul, AFGHANISTAN

Dr. Sauli Siekkinen

M.D., Psychiatrist, Helsinki, FINLAND

Dr. Morton Skorodin

M.D. and Founder, Concerned Americans of Stillwater, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA

Dr. J.W. Smith

Director, Institute for Economic Democracy, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Dr. Doug Soderstrom

Department of Psychology, Wharton Community Jr. College, Wharton, Texas, USA

Jonathan Stephenson

Public Advocate, Manchester, Vermont, USA

Giulio Stocchi

Poet, ITALY

Ac. Sudhiirananda Avt.

Proutist Universal, Bataam, INDONESIA

Charles Sullivan

Photographer, freelance writer and social activist, West Virginia, USA

T.J. Templeton

Owner/editor, Project for the Old American Century

Valerie Thibodeau

Herbalist, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA

Leonardo de Amorim Thury

Political Scientist, Proutist Univesal, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL

Dr. Michael Towsey

Prout Institute of Australia, Maleny, Queensland, AUSTRALIA

Horen Tudu

Research Scholar, Los Angeles, California, USA

Dr. Will Tuttle

Prayer for Animals, San Diego, California, USA

Marina Urquidi

Editor, Global Citizens Report, Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World, Acquitaine, FRANCE

Sylvia Valle

Women's rights activist, Montevideo, URUGUAY

Ami Vitale

Photographer, Washington, D.C. USA

Barbara Walker

Educator, PBS, Kentucky, USA

Abraham Weizfeld

ABD, Universite du Quebec, Direct Democracy Movement, Montreal, CANADA

Dr. Cornel West

Dept of Religion, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Mike Whitney

Freelance journalist, Portland, Oregon, USA

Mary Wiese

Owner, Barnes Brothers Books, Carrollton, Kentucky, USA

Jeroen Willems

Yoga Teacher, Huize Sundaram, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS

Huei Yueh Wu

Pharmacist, TAIWAN

Mari York

Dept of Literature and Language, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky, USA

 

 

 

 

 

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Organization:     World Prout Assembly

 

The World Prout Assembly was established in January 2005 to study ways to create a holistic, socio-economic, political, cultural and spiritual transformation throughout the world. The vision is for activisits in all countries fighting for justice in all spheres of life to come together to form one universal coalition so as to create global change. By providing solidarity to all local and global anti-exploitation struggles, the World Prout Assembly envisions the mobilization of humanity to end the economic hegemony of Empire and to usher the revitalization of local community and local, self-sustaining economies.  Specific topics of concern include (1) economic democracy and cooperatives, including worker, producer and consumer cooperaives; (2) energy and water self-sufficiency, including solar, wind and water cooperaives, and (3) bioregional, independent, self-sustaining, locally self-sufficient, ecological-agricultural communities that can provide the minimum necessities of life to all inhabitants; (4) countering racisms and fundamentalisms; (5) health and health care; (6) immigration and (7) future visions.

 

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