Climate Change | Social Change
A conference to strengthen radical social action to stop climate change
April 11-13, 2008, Sydney, Australia
Redfern Community Centre, 29 Hugo St, Redfern, day sessions Friday April 11;
Sydney Girls High School, Anzac Pde, Surry Hills, Friday night, April 11 – Sunday April 13
AGENDA: major sessions
(Concurrent workshop agenda to be advised)
Friday 11th April
Redfern Community Centre
10 – 10.30 am conference registration
10.30 am – 12 noon Indigenous communities, climate change and the struggle for country
Sam Watson, Biri Gubba, Munnejarl man from the Brisbane Murri community; activist since high school.
Pat Eatock, Kairie community elder, Aboriginal Rights Coalition, Sydney, secretary National Aboriginal Alliance
12 noon – 1pm Lunch break
1 – 2.30 pm Nuclear is still not the answer
Jim Green, FoE anti-nuclear campaigner
Wenny Theresia, Sydney Nuclear Free Coalition
2.45 – 4.15pm Concurrent workshops
Sydney Girls High School
6 for 6.30pm Public meeting
Climate change and its social roots
John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review; author of Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature
Patrick Bond, University of KwaZulu-Natal; editor of Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society
David Spratt, Carbon Equity, co-author Climate Code Red
James Goodman, social researcher, University of Technology in Sydney
Saturday 12th April SGHS
8.30 – 9.15 am Registration
9.15 am Welcome to country & conference opening
9.30 – 11am Plenary
Climate change solutions: what role for the market?
Patrick Bond
Sylvia Hale, Greens NSW MLC
Stuart Rosewarne, co-editor of Journal of Australian Political Economy, and Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
Nelson Davila, Venezuelan Chargé d’Affaires, tbc
11.15am – 12.45 pm Major workshop
Protecting jobs and the environment
Tim Gooden, Geelong Trades and Labour Council
Ben Courtice, AMWU environment group
Cam Walker, Friends of the Earth Melbourne
Steve Phillips, Rising Tide
Chris Cain, Maritime Union of Australia, tbc
12.45 – 1.45 pm Lunch break
1.45 – 3.15 pm Plenary
Ecology, capitalism and socialism
John Bellamy Foster
3.30 – 5pm Major workshop
Cuba: reducing reliance on fossil fuels
Roberto Perez, Cuban permaculturalist, featured in The Power of Community: how Cuba survived peak oil
6pm Dinner
Keynote address
Sustainability – the Cuban experience
Roberto Perez
Sunday 13th April
9 – 10.30 am Plenary
Transitions to sustainability
Mark Diesendorf, Institute of Environmental Studies, University of NSW
Adrian Whitehead, Zero Emission Network
Stephanie Long, FoE Australia’s international climate justice spokesperson
Roberto Perez
10.45 am – 12.15pm Major workshop
Sustainable energy solutions
Mark Diesendorf
12.15 – 1.15 pm Lunch break
1.15 – 2.45 pm Major workshop
Radicalising the Australian climate change movement
Simon Cunich, Resistance
Vanessa Bowden, Climate camp
Mel Barnes, Students Against the Pulp Mill
Ben Courtice, World Environment Day, Melbourne
3 – 4.45 pm Plenary & resolutions
Strategies for winning
John Bellamy Foster
Dick Nichols, author Capitalism, Nature and Socialism
John Rice, Adelaide Ecosocialist Network
Patrick Bond
4.45 – 5pm Conference close
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http://www.greenleft.org.au/conference/ccsc_registration_form.pdf
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