Below is our developing schedule of events for the Decolonizing Economics Summit. Each of these panel sessions will be virtual. Please register for conference here.
Time (PST)/Date | Thursday, April 21 | Friday, April 22 | Saturday, April 23 |
9:00-10:30 | Opening Session with Ted Hernandez and the Wiyot Tribe | Yoga for Eco-Grief: A Practice for Grounding and Embodiment with Laura Johnson | Non-Reformist Reforms: The Intersection of Electoral Politics & Solidarity Economy with Margaret Kimberly, Michael O’Neil, Peter Schwartzman |
11:00-12:30 | What Is to Be Done? With Rick Wolff, Jessica Alvarez-Parfrey, Yvonne Yen Liu, and Kali Akuno | What Does Post-Capitalism Mean? with Emily Kawano and Jerome Scott | Cooperative Cannabis for Post-Capitalist Communities with Nicole Riggs, Selena Rowan, Geoff Churchill, Shawn Cherry, and Drew Barber |
1:00-2:30 | Contesting for Power for a People’s Economy with Lisa Hubbard, Ernesto Arce, Ra Criscitiello, and Vivian Satterfield | The Role of Art & Culture in Building a Post-Capitalist Society with Stephanie McMillan, Michelle Hernandez, Kwame Braxton, and Shamako Noble | Carbon Supremacy, False Equivalencies and Corporate Impunity: How dominant Paradigms of Climate Policy Reinforce Colonialist Structures — and What You Can Do About It with Gary Graham Hughes, Thomas Joseph, Dr. Doreen Stabinsky, and Martha Dina Arguello |
3:00-4:30 | Dishgamu Humboldt Community Land Trust with Michelle Vassel, David Cobb, Alice Armstrong, Ashton Hamm | People’s Network for Land & Liberation with Kali Akuno, Kamau Franklin, Michelle Eddleman McCormick | Labor and Organizing in Higher Education with the California Faculty Association’s César Abarca and Chris Cox, joined by Joe Berry and Helena Worthen |
5:00-6:30 | Local Public Banking with George Syrop, eli zalee, Debbie Notkin | Decolonizing Restoration: Chico TEK and Cal Trout with Ali Meders-Knight, Mel Figueroa, Mary Burke, Gaby Roff, Lazara Ramos | The Intersection of White Supremacy, Capitalism & Settler-Colonialism with Mel Figueroa, Kali Akuno, and Suren Moodliar |
7:00-8:30 Cultural Offering | Films: ‘El Cacao: The Challenge of Fair Trade’ & ‘No Place to Grow” Featuring a discussion with the filmmaker, Michelle Aguilar | Music: Good Shield and 7th Generation Rise | Art: Putting Art to Work with Leslie Castellano, Stephen Nachtigall, Kait Angus, and Zuzka Sabata |