-----Original Message----- From: GLOMATT at aol.com <GLOMATT at aol.com> To: Recipients of conference <labr.party at conf.igc.apc.org> Date: Thursday, May 18, 2000 10:32 PM Subject: June 4th Labor Party Conference in NYC
>
>To: Labor Party list
>From: Sean Sweeney
>
>I thought people might like to know about this conference being organized
by
>the Labor Party Economic Forum in New York on June 4. The thinking is
>expressed in the statement below. As you can see, it's turning into a
>serious statement in favor of independent class politics, and allows the
>Labor Party space to link up with others to the left of the Democrats
around
>an effort to build programmatic unity around basic issues, a unity that
goes
>beyond slogans and puts forward concrete policy proposals in favor of
working
>class people.
>
>If you have friends in NY, please let them know about it.
>
>solidarity! SS
>
>
> > Beyond Wall Street: A Future for New York
> >
> > A one-day working conference organized by the Labor
> > Party Economic Forum. Co-sponsored by the Five Borough Institute.
> >
> > Sunday, June 4, 2000
> > 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
> > Worker Education Extension Center
> > 25 West 43rd St., 19th Floor
> > New York
> > (Between 5th & 6th Aves)
> >
> > Suggested donation: $10
>Register by e-mail: glomatt at aol.com (Sean Sweeney) or call 718 369 2998
> >
> > Purpose:
> >
> > With the 2001 City Council elections approaching,
> > progressive independent and
> > third-party candidates are gearing up to challenge
> > the Democratic and
> > Republican machines. The imposition of term limits
> > and availability of
> > matching funds opens the City Council contests to
> > activists as never before.
> >
> > At the same time, the Wall Street financial bubble
> > now signals its imminent
> > deflation. The immense wealth of the 1990s, never
> > shared or enjoyed by the
> > majority of New Yorkers, is certain to be replaced
> > by massive cuts in public
> > spending for social needs as the local economy
> > struggles to cope with falling
> > revenues.
> >
> > In this context, the dreary political debate offered
> > by the major parties
> > must be cast aside. For this conference, we have
> > challenged each of our
> > panels of People's Experts to propose bold plans to
> > address human needs in
> > New York, to determine the dollar cost of such
> > programs and to identify new
> > and underutilized sources of finance and wealth to
> > pay for them.
> >
> > Our goal is ambitious but achievable: for panelists
> > and audience to come
> > together to lay the foundations for a coherent and
> > and compelling People's
> > Policy Agenda for 2001 and beyond, one that would
> > build classrooms and
> > housing, attract industry and create union jobs,
> > provide just health care,
> > impose a fair tax policy, and end repression and
> > state violence.
> >
> > Program: (* = invited, not yet confirmed)
>
> > 9:30 Registration
> >
> > 10: 00 - 11:20 a.m.
> > Morning Plenary
> >
> > Welcome & Introductions: Sean Sweeney (Labor Party)
> >
> > Speakers:
> >
> > George Locker, The Mission of the Economic Forum and
> > the People's Policy
> > Agenda 2001
> > Adolph Reed, (New School) A Class Agenda for New
> > York
> > Barbara Bowen (President, PSC/CUNY) Labor as a
> > Vehicle for Change
> >
> > keynote: William Tabb (Queens College, CUNY) New
> > York in the International
> > Economy
> >
> > Tony Mazzocchi (National Organizer, Labor Party)
> >
> > Q&A
> >
> > Ten minute break
> >
> > 11:30 - 1:00 Morning Workshops
> >
> > 1. Education: Towards A Class Policy
> >
> > Stanley Aronowitz (CUNY Grad. Ctr.)
> > Barbara Bowen (Pres. PSC CUNY)
> > Mike Zweig (SUNY Stonybrook)
> > Leo Casey* (UFT)
>
>2. Prisons, Profit, & the New Authoritarianism
> >
> > Iris Baez (Activist against police violence)
> > Randy Credico (William Kuntsler Fund for Racial
> > Justice)
> > Adolph Reed (New School, Labor Party)
> > Norman Seigel (NY ACLU)
> > Neil Smith (CUNY Grad Ctr.)
> > Milton Stroud (100 Blacks in Law Enforcement)
> >
> >
> > > 3. Declaring a New War on Poverty
>
> > Heidi Dorow (Urban Justice Center)
> > Trudy Goldberg (Chair, National Jobs for all Coalition)
> > Eva Kittay (SUNY Stonybrook & Women's Committee of 100)
> > Maureen Lane (Welfare Rights Initiative)
> Frances Fox Piven (CUNY Grad Ctr & Women's Committee of 1000)
> > Diane Savino (VP for Political Action & Legislative Affairs, Social
Service
> > Employees Union, Local 371, AFSCME)
> > Miriam Thompson (Labor Resource Center)
>
>
> > 4. Cleaning & Greening Toxic New York
> >
> > Jeff Jones (Environmental Advocates)
> > Charles Komanoff
> > Tony Mazzocchi (Labor Party)
> > Elizabeth Shanklin (Green Party)
> > Tom Smith (Green Party)
> > John Orcutt* (Tri-State Transportation Campaign)
> >
> >
> > 1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. -- Lunch (Sorry, no food
> > provided)
> >
> >
> > 2:00 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. Afternoon Plenary:
> >
> > "WWW. Waste, Want & Wall St. Time to Recapture the
> > Wealth"
> >
> > keynote: James Parrott (Dir. Fiscal Policy Institute)
> >
> > Q&A
> >
> > Ten minute break
> >
> > 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Afternoon Workshops
> >
> > 5. No One Will Be Turned Away: Providing Quality
> > Health Care for All
> >
> > Mark Hannay (Dir., Metro NY Health Care for All
> > Campaign)
> > Jerome Joffe (Health Economist, Brooklyn College)
> > Gloria Mattera (NY Physicians for a National Health
> > Program, Labor Party Task
> > Force on Health)
> > Tony Mazzocchi (Just Health Care Campaign, Labor
> > Party)
> > Tim Sullivan M.D. (Physicians for a National Health
> > Program)
> > Judy Wessler* (Dir., Commission on the Public Health
> > System)
> >
>6. Making New York A Union Town
> >
> > Greg DeFreitas, (Inst. for Labor & Democracy,
> > Hofstra University)
> > Gerry Domingez (Organizer, UNITE Local 169)
> > Immanuel Ness (Brooklyn Coll., Lower East Side
> > Collective)
> > Jane Sweeney (Labor Resource Center)
> > Sean Sweeney (Labor Party)
> > ReneeToback (NY URPE)
>
>
> >
> > 7. Building Housing, Building Schools
> >
> > Nellie Bailey (Harlem Tenants Organizer)
> Paul Fernandez* (Building & Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO)
> > Jodie Horowitz (Citywide Taskforce on Housing)
> > Jennie Laurie (Metropolitan Council on Housing)
> > George Locker (LP Economic Forum)
> > Peter Marcuse (Professor of Urban Planning)
> > Patrick Markee (Coalition for the Homeless)
>