You are invivted to come to the How Class Works – 2012 conference at SUNY Stony Brook June 7-9, 2012. Nearly 200 people from 15 countries on all continents except Antarctica will present in over 50 sessions – senior scholars and graduate students, labor and community activists, artists, all exploring ways in which class dynamics shape society and our lives, and how we can engage these class dynamics to improve the lives of working people.
Plenary sessions:
Thursday June 7, 7 p.m.: Jeffrey Clements, “Corporations Are Not People: Responding to the Supreme Court in Citizens United”
Friday June 8, 9 a.m.: “May Day in NYC – Occupy and Labor”
Nastaran Mohit, Domestic Workers United; Thisanjali Gongoda, Occupy Wall Street; Amy Muldoon, Communication Workers of American; Teresa Guttierrez, May 1st Coalition (tentative)
Saturday June 9, 9 a.m.: “The U.S. in 2012” – a roundtable discussion with Bill Fletcher, Jr., Juan Gonzalez, Bob Herbert, Frances Fox Piven
See the full schedule with registration housing, and other information at: http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/conference/2012/
NOTE that early registration rates end at the end of business Monday April 30. Rates go up about 10% after that.
Thanks to Michael Zweig, director for the Center for Study of Working Class Life at SUNY – Stony Brook, for passing the information along!
