New York City Social Forum

Oct. 28-30, 2004

The New York City Social Forum is this week! (Oct28-30).
Be sure to check out the schedule below and at www.nycsocialforum.org for more details on the sessions and participants.   

There is a sliding scale of $5/$10/$15 for entry to
the entire event, but we promise the NO ONE will be
turned away.THURSDAY 28 October:

The following events will take place at the CUNY
Graduate Center (365 5th Avenue)

9:45 - 10:25 am

Welcome!

Intro to the NYC SF

What is an SF?

Intro to Local Struggles and Global Justice

with

--New York City Social Forum Seed Group

10:30 - 12:00 pm

Toward US and  North American  social forums

PART I: Overview of the present situation.

Sponsor:

Petri Minkkinen

University of Helsinki

Network Institute for Global Democratization

1 - 3pm

Popular Education and School Reform

-Gregory Tewksbury, New School for Social Research

3:15 - 5:15pm

How the Child Exploitation Complex Feeds the Prison
Industrial Complex and the Homeless and Mentally Ill
Populations: New York City, a case study

-Parents in Action

-Rolando Bini

-Lucy Delapenha, Executive Director of Parents Against
Forced  Adoptions

3:15 - 5:15pm

Toward US  and North American Social Forums

PART II: How to promote national and transnational
"we" consciousness within the US and North  American
civil societies and civil society organizations.

Sponsor:

Petri Minkkinen

University of Helsinki

Network Institute for Global Democratization

5:30 - 7pm

Another Queer World is Possible! Queering and
Reclaiming Urban Space in NYC

Sponsors:

-Jack Waters, artist, educator, Le Petit  Versailles
Garden

-Matilda, Gay Shame

-Dominic Wetzel, CUNY Graduate Center

-Audre Lorde Project (invited), BMCC (Borough of
Manhattan Community College) LBGT Coloros of Diversity

-Mervin, FIERCE (Fabulously Educated Radicals  for
CommunityEmpowerment) (invited)


5:30 - 7pm

Track Meeting on Voting Rights/Elections

Sponsor:

-Theresa Boulart

7 - 9pm

Building  a Movement Against the Draft

Sponsor:

-Victor Rosado, Social Justice Alliance, Stony Brook

-People Against the Draft

7 - 9pm

Roundtable  on Global Civil Society

Sponsors:

-Petri Minkkinen, University of Helsinki, Network
Institute for Global Democratization

-Carol Gould, George Mason University

The following event will take place at the Community
Church (28 E 35th St):

5:30 - 8:30pm

Building a Movement For a Human Rights  Based System
of Public Education For NYC

Sponsor:

-iCOPE

Participants:

--Institutional Racism and Public  Mis-education
led by Sam Anderson,  Parent, Grandparent, and
iCOPE Founder


--Been There, Done That, Why Reform  Hasn't Worked in
the South            Bronx - led by Diane Lowman,
Parent, Grandparent, and iCOPE Founder

--A Human Rights Approach, Our Best  Hope for Real
Change

led by Cecilia Blewer,  Parent and iCOPE Founder

FRIDAY 29 October:

The following events all take place at the Community
Church (28 - 40 E. 35th St)

1 - 3pm (40 E. 35th St)

Social Unionism - Panel: Professional Staff Congress
of the City University of  New York

Presentations by Representatives from :

The Solidarity Committee

The Women's Committee

The Part-time Instructional Committee

The Open Access Committee

The Peace and Justice Committee

The International Committee

Moderator:

Renate Bridenthal  Emerita Prof. of History

Brooklyn College

Chair of PSC-CUNY International Committee

3 - 5pm (40 E. 35th St.)

Participatory Budgeting and the Social Forum Process:
looking towards the "People's Convention"

Sponsors:

Jack Hammond, Hunter College

Mike Menser, Hunter College

Premilla Dixit (WILPF)

Glenn S. Pasanen*

5:30 - 7:30 pm

Unpacking High-stakes Tests:

A Workshop Exploring Testing in NYCs K-12  Public
Schools

Sponsor:

Edwin Mayorga

PS 87

New York Collective of Radical Educators

The following event will take place at the CUNY Grad
Center (365 5th Ave):

8 - 10pm

The Struggle for Power:

Building New York's Peoples' Convention 2005 A
workshop on how YOU can join the fight for Peoples'
Power in The New Age of Global Repression

Sponsors:

Ron Hayduk, BMCC

Sam Anderson, Medgar Evers

Premilla Dixit, WILPF

SATURDAY 30 October:

The following events all take place at the Community
Church (28 & 40 E. 35th St.)

1 - 3pm (28 E. 35th St.)

Housing Rights in  Harlem

Sponsor:

Nellie Bailey

Contributors:

--Harlem Tenants Council

--Harlem Fight Back and Coalition to Preserve
Community

4:15 - 6:30pm (40 E. 35th St.)

Anti-War  Roundtable

Sponsor:

Premilla Dixit

6:30 - 8:30pm (40 E. 35th St.)

9/11  Unreported - Moving Towards Global Justice

Sponsor:

NY 9/11  Truth

Contributors:

--Michael Kane

--Cathie Bell

--Les Jamieson