Schedule

= **MAKING WORLDS: An OWS Forum on the Commons** =

**THURSDAY, February 16**
Introductory words / Making Worlds Organizers. Introduction to the Commons / Silvia Federici and Priscilla Gonzalez Dawn Diaz - Women Against Domestic Violence. || James Quilligan - Global Commons Trust Christopher Rude - Union for Radical Political Economics. Alicia Godsberg - OWS Antiwar WG and Peace Action. ||
 * **5pm** || WELCOME: Sign-In, Food. ||
 * **6-6:45pm** || **OPENING:**
 * **6:45-7:15pm** || Dinner ||
 * **7:15-9pm** || George Caffentzis.

**FRIDAY, February 17**
**ENVIRONMENT** - Reclaiming the Commons, Alexa Bradley - Water struggle in Bolivia. Marcela Olivera - Dan Miner. Beyond Oil NYC. - Occupy Food: Seeds. Paula Winograd - Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development Update. Sara Burke || Dinner. || **ARTS, CULTURE AND EDUCATION** - Art and the Commons: Beyond the Tangible Maria Byck, Antonio Serna (OWS Artists) - From Copyright to Copyleft: Commons for arts and sciences. Marcos Wasem - Occupy University. - Occupy Student Debt Campaign. George Caffentzis, Robert Oxford and Chris Casuccio. ||
 * **5pm** || WELCOME: Sign-In, Food. ||
 * **6-7:30pm** || **SESSION 1:**
 * **7:30-8:15pm** || Update on Global Commons with David Bollier.
 * **8:15-9:45pm** || **SESSION 2:**

**SATURDAY, February 18**
**RACE/GENDER/LANGUAGE/ETHNICITY** - Miriam Tola. Feminist/Queer/Postcolonial commons - RJ Maccani. Challenging Male Supremacy Project - Ina Bransome. Child-work, breast-feeding, and parenting as Commons - Domestic Workers United. Priscilla Gonzalez. - Health as Commons. Babak Karimi. || **ECONOMY - Economics of the Commons** - Public Goods, Externalities. Market definitions of the Commons. John McGloin - Solidarity Economics. Caroline Woolard-Solidarity NYC - An Introduction to the Commons, James Quilligan, Nancy Roof - The Anti-commons of the Commodity, Chris Rude, URPE || **ECONOMY - Money and Banking** - Alternative Banking and Alternative Economies, Jim Constanzo (and possibly others). - Questions and answers about money, banking and finance. Chris Rude and Sara Burke (URPE) || **NURTURING THE COMMONS - OLD & NEW** Moderation. David Bollier - Creating New Commons with City Top Level Domains. Tom Lowenhaupt - Network. Ron Suarez - Immigrant, Resident Voting Rights. David Andersson - Occupy-Commons strategy workshop. George Pór, Mary Beth Steisslinger, Tina Bakolitsa, Mark Jagdev || **ASSEMBLY** ||
 * **9-10am** || WELCOME: Sign-In, Breakfast. ||
 * **10AM-11:45pm** || **SESSION 3:**
 * **11:45-12pm** || Break (15 min) ||
 * **12-1:45pm** || **SESSION 4:**
 * **1:45-2:45** || **LUNCH** ||
 * **2:45PM-4:30pm** || **SESSION 5:**
 * **2:45PM-4:30pm** || **SESSION 5:**
 * **4:30-4:45pm** || Break (15 min) ||
 * **4:45-6:30pm** || **SESSION 6:**
 * **6:30-6:45pm** || Break (15 min) ||
 * **6:45-9pm** || **FINAL SESSION:**

**RELATED EVENT: Sunday, February 19TH**