Program

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

**THURSDAY, February 16**
Introductory words / Making Worlds Organizers Introduction to the Commons / Silvia Federici 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) - Beyond Oil NYC. (Dan Miner). - Occupy Food: Seeds. (Alec Higgins & Otter Renson) - Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development Update. (Sara Burke) - Ecosocialist Horizons. Qunicy Saul. || 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) - Commons Support (Tom Nielsen) - 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** || Surveying Commons Activism on the International Stage - David Bollier
 * **8:15-9:45pm** || **SESSION 2:**

**SATURDAY, February 18**
**GENDER/CARE/HEALTH** - Feminist/Queer/Postcolonial commons. (Miriam Tola). - Challenging Male Supremacy Project. (RJ Maccani). - Child Raising as a Form of Resistance that builds radical communities and relationships. (Ileana Méndez-Peñate). - Reclaiming and Reorganizing Birth, Breastfeeding, Babycare for the Commons. (Ina Bransome & Haya Brant) - Domestic Workers Alliance. (Priscilla Gonzalez). - OWS Health Action. (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 Costanzo) - OWS Strategies in Alternative Economies. (Evan Wagner) - Questions and answers about money, banking and finance. (Chris Rude and Sara Burke - URPE) || **NURTURING THE COMMONS - OLD & NEW** - Creating New Commons with City Top Level Domains. (Tom Lowenhaupt) - Technology and Social Change: Building New Economic Networks. ([|Ron Suarez]) - Immigrant, Resident Voting Rights. (David Andersson) - Occupy-Commons Strategy Workshop. (Mary Beth Steisslinger, in New York. George Pór, Tina Bakolitsa, Mark Jagdev, in London) || **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:**
 * **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:**

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