Program
Nov 30. Urban Uprising
@ the CUNY Graduate Center, Proshansky Auditorium
365 Fifth Avenue, NYC 10016
9:30
to 10:00 am
Registration
10:00
to 10:30 am
Opening Keynote
David Harvey - Director, Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center
10:30
to 12 Noon
Urban Uprisings of the 1960s: Living Legacies
Chair: Frances Fox Piven Distinguished CUNY Professor of Political Science and Sociology
Jordan T. Camp Visiting Scholar, UCLA Inst. of American Cultures & Bunche Center for Af-American Studies
Marian Kramer Co-chair National Welfare Rights Union, founding member League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Karen Miller Historian, CUNY, LaGuardia Community College
12 Noon
to 1:00 pm
Lunch Break
1:00
to 3:00 pm
Global Urban Uprisings
Chair: Peter Marcuse Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning, Columbia University
Hiba Bou Akar Professor, School of Critical Social Inquiry, Hampshire College
Mavuso Dignani - with Abahlali baseMjondolo, South African miners and Democratic Left Front
Deen Sharp Journalist, PhD student Graduate Center
Éva Tessza Udvarhelyi Co-founder, The City is for All, Budapest, PhD student Graduate Center
3:30
to 5:30 pm
Securitization and the City
Chair: John Whitlow - CUNY School of Law, former attorney w/ Make the Road New York
Mizue Aizeki - Organizer with Immigrant Defense Project and documentary photographer
Christina Heatherton - Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, postdoctoral fellow
Pete White- Founder and Co-director of the Los Angeles Community Action Network
6:00
to 8:00 pm
Roundtable on How to Organize a Whole City
Chair: Kazembe Balagun -Writer and outreach coordinator of the Brecht Forum
Ujju Aggarwal - PhD student Graduate Center, former organizer with Center for Immigrant Families.
Tammy Bang Luu - Associate Director, Labor and Community Strategy Center
Rachel LaForest - Executive Director, The Right to the City Alliance
Rob Robinson - Campaign to Restore National Housing, Take Back the Land, US Human Rights Network
Miguel Robles-Duràn - Urbanist, Director of the Urban Ecologies, New School
Dec 1. Re-Imagining the City
@ The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street, NYC 10011
9:00
to 10:00
Registration
10:00
to 11:30 am
Opening Plenary
Chair & Welcome: Miguel Robles-Duràn - Urbanist, Director of the Urban Ecologies, New School
Ruth Wilson Gilmore - Associate Director, Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center
Rachel LaForest - Executive Director, The Right to the City Alliance
Peter Marcuse - Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning, Columbia University
Amaka Okechukwu with Matthew Birkhold - Co-founders, Growing Roots
Nancy Romer - General Coordinator, The Brooklyn Food Coalition
11:45 am
to 1:45 pm
Breakout Sessions by Issue Area
These facilitated session will discuss building a holistic vision for a more democratic, sustainable, and just New York City, and assessing the current work being done toward this end.
1:45
to 2:30 pm
Lunch Break
2:30
to 4:15 pm
Breakout Sessions Across Issue Areas
These facilitated sessions ask the question “What would your work look like if it was devoted to building new communities and a new city?” Participants will discuss the role of transformative demands and of building alternative institutions in realizing a collective vision for New York City.
4:30
to 6:00 pm
Wrap Up / Summation
5:00- 9:00 pm
Party --"Climate Change: What the F*&? is Going On?"
A Musical Fundraiser to benefit Green Worker Cooperatives
Location: Camaradas El Barrio, 2241 1st Avenue,
Admission $10