Whose City? Chicago & Global Capital: Occupy Chicago Educati

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Here's our conference schedule at a glance. Please look here for more detailed information for the sessions, panels, and speakers, and join and share our facebook event here. To help shape the panel discussions, please contribute your questions here. For information on accessibility, please click here. 

Saturday, March 3

Panel Discussion 1: "Analysis and Reflections on the Occupy Movement": Noon - 2 p.m.

• Room 700, facilitated by Marissa Brown (Occupy the South Side), Brit Schulte (Occupy Chicago), Stephen Eisenman (Northwestern University) and Joe Macaré (writer and editor)

Teach-in Series "Whose City?" Session 1: 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

"A Short and Irreverent History of the G8 and NATO"

• Room 700, facilitated by Eric Ruder

"Immigrant Justice, Chicago & Global Capitalism"

• Room 501, facilitated by Mario Cardenas

Teach-in Series "Whose City?" Session 2: 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

"Health Disparities in Chicago"

• Room 700, facilitated by Professor Dorothy Roberts (Northwestern University)

"Walmart: Big Retail Employment and the 99%"

• Room 501, facilitated by Janel Bailey

 

Sunday, March 4

Teach-In Series "Whose City?" Session 3: Noon - 1:30 p.m.

"Chicago and the Human Right to Housing"

• Room 700, facilitated by Janet L. Smith (UIC) and Loren Taylor (Occupy Our Homes)

"Environmental Justice, Chicago & Global Capitalism"

• Room 501, facilitated by Jerry Mead-Lucero (P.E.R.R.O)

"SILENCE = DEBT"

• Room 501, facilitated by Brian Holmes (European Graduate School)

Teach-In Series "Whose City?" Session 4: 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

"Corporations Declare War Against Public Education"

• Room 700, facilitated by Bill Watkins (UIC) and Jackson Potter (CTU staff coordinator)

"Utility Profiteering and How to Fight It"

• Room 501, facilitated by Virginia Miller (Midwest Workers Association)

Panel Discussion 2: "Our City: Occupying, Decolonizing, Mobilizing": 4 - 6 p.m.

• Room 700, facilitated by Todd Freeman, Brian Holmes, Crystal Vance Guerra (Occupa El Barrio, Occupy Chicago) and Toby Chow (Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation)

 

 

 

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