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Climate Change | Social Change[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Aconference to strengthen radical social action to stop climate change[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]April 11-13, 2008[/FONT][FONT=Arial], [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Sydney[/FONT][FONT=Arial], [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Australia[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Redfern Community Centre[/FONT][FONT=Arial], [/FONT][FONT=Arial]29 Hugo St, Redfern, day sessions Friday April 11[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Sydney Girls High School[/FONT][FONT=Arial], [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Anzac Pde, Surry Hills, Friday night, April 11 – Sunday April 13[/FONT]
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AGENDA[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Friday April 11
Redfern Community Centre
[/FONT][FONT=Arial]10–10.30am[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Registration
10.30–12 noon Major workshop: [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Indigenous communities, climate change and the struggle for country[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Sam Watson[/FONT][FONT=Arial], 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

[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]12noon – 1pm Lunch

1– 2.30pm Major workshop [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Nuclear is still not the answer
[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Jim Green[/FONT][FONT=Arial], Friends of the Earth anti-nuclear campaigner
Wenny Theresia, Australian Student Environment Network
Genevieve Kelly, anti-Lucas Heights reactor campaigner, lecturer University of Western Sydney

[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]2.45–4.15pm[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Concurrentworkshops
[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Chiapas[/FONT][FONT=Arial] media project[/FONT][FONT=Arial], Alexandra Halkin
Elite co-option of the environment movement, Mike Barker –doctoral candidate, [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Australian[/FONT][FONT=Arial]School[/FONT][FONT=Arial] of Environmental Studies, [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Griffith[/FONT][FONT=Arial]University[/FONT][FONT=Arial]
Camp for Climate Action, Wenny Theresia

[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Sydney[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Girls[/FONT][FONT=Arial]HighSchool[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]6 for 6.30pm: Public meeting: [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Climatechange and its social roots
[/FONT][FONT=Arial]John Bellamy Foster[/FONT][FONT=Arial], editor of Monthly Review; authorof 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 ClimateCode Red
James Goodman, social researcher, University of Technology inSydney

[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]SaturdayApril 12 [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Sydney[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Girls[/FONT][FONT=Arial]HighSchool[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]8.30–9.15am[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Registration
9.15am Welcome to country &conference opening[/FONT]
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9.30–11am[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Plenary[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Climate change solutions: what role for the market?
[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Patrick Bond
Sylvia Hale[/FONT][FONT=Arial], Greens NSW MLC
Stuart Rosewarne, co-editor Journal of Australian Political Economy and Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
Renfrey Clarke, Green Left Weekly[/FONT]
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11.15am– 12.45 pm[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Major workshop[/FONT][FONT=Arial] The Cuban experience: the challenge of fossil fuels and climate change [/FONT][FONT=Arial]
Roberto Perez[/FONT][FONT=Arial], Cuban biologist and permaculturalist, Antonio Núñez Jimenez Foundation for Nature and Humanity, Cuban NGO[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Concurrent workshops
[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Equity in energy consumption: Getting the prices right for people and the
environment[/FONT][FONT=Arial], Patrick Bond
Critical anthropology of global warming, Hans Baer –Anthropology lecturer, Melbourne University
On the precipice: why climate is an emergency, David Spratt
Protecting jobs and the environment, Tim Gooden – Secretary Geelong Trades and Labour Council; Ben Courtice – AMWU Victorian branch environment activist; Cam Walker – Friends of the Earth Melbourne; Steve Phillips – RisingTide; Chris Cain – Maritime Union of Australia (tbc)

[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]12.45–1.45pm[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Lunch[/FONT]
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1.45–3.15pm[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Plenary[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Ecology,capitalism and socialism
[/FONT][FONT=Arial]John Bellamy Foster

[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]3.30– 5pm[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Major workshop [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Power privatisation and the environment
[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Matt Thistlethwaite[/FONT][FONT=Arial], Unions NSW deputy assistant secretary
John Kaye, Greens NSW MLC
Dick Nichols, author Environment, Capitalism, Socialism, Socialist Alliance national coordinator

[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Concurrent workshops
[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Marxism and the environment[/FONT][FONT=Arial], John Bellamy Foster
Are liveable cities just a dream? Dave Holmes, Green LeftWeekly and managing editor Resistance Books; Peter Droege – professor, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, author, Urban Energy Transition: from fossil fuels to renewable power
Climate change and the global South – beyond Third Worldism, James Goodman, Ian MacGregor, University of Technology, Sydney
Biomass, biofuels and meat production: shifting to sustainable, low emission agriculture, Zane Alcorn and Trent Hawkins – Resistance; Katrina Byrne –Animal Liberation

[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]6pm[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Conference dinner[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Roberto Perez: [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Cuba[/FONT][FONT=Arial] – from economic collapse to sustainability [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Roberto [/FONT][FONT=Arial]is a[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Cuban biologist and permaculturalist, Antonio Núñez Jimenez Foundation for Nature and Humanity, Cuban NGO

[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Sunday April13 [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Sydney[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Girls[/FONT][FONT=Arial] High School[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]9–10.30 am Plenary[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Transitions to sustainability
[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Mark Diesendorf,[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Institute of Environmental Studies, University ofNSW
Adrian Whitehead, Zero Emission Network
Stephanie Long, Friends of the Earth Australia's international climate justice spokesperson
Roberto Perez

[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]10.45am – 12.15pm [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Major workshop [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Sustainable energy solutions
[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Mark Diesendorf[/FONT]
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Concurrentworkshops
[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Why we must ration the future[/FONT][FONT=Arial], Damien Lawson
Climate refugees, adaptation issues in the global south, Stephanie Long
Individual and collective solutions: getting the balance right, TerryTownsend – Democratic Socialist Perspective and editor of Links; Lauren Carroll-Harris – Resistance
Cutting emissions, ditching coal, Graham Brown – former coalminer; Angela Nagle – Rising Tide
Food security, eating oil and the future of agriculture: permaculture solutions, Robyn Francis – international permaculture design and sustainability consultant, educator and facilitator

[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]12.15–1.15 pm Lunch

1.15– 2.45pm Major workshop: [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Radicalising the Australian climate change movement
[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Simon Cunich[/FONT][FONT=Arial], Resistance
Vanessa Bowden, Climate camp
Mel Barnes, Students Against the Pulp Mill
Ben Courtice, World Environment Day, Melbourne[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Concurrentworkshops
[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Adelaide ecosocialistnetwork ,[/FONT][FONT=Arial] John Rice
Securing water in a warmer Australia, Renfrey Clark – Green Left Weekly
Drought-resistant plants and fart-free pastures: can GM cropssave us? Adam Breasley – former researcher, Australian Gene Ethics Network;Frances Murrell – Mothers Against Genetic Engineering (MAdGE); Louise Sales – Greenpeace
Energy revolution: Cuba and Venezuela, Tim Anderson – political science lecturer, Sydney Uni, Marlene Obeid – solidarity activist[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]3 – 4.45 pm[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Plenary & resolutions [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Strategies for winning
[/FONT][FONT=Arial]Dick Nichols
John Rice[/FONT][FONT=Arial], Adelaide Ecosocialist Network
Patrick Bond

[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]4.45– 5pm[/FONT][FONT=Arial] Conference close[/FONT]