Schedule for the Global Teach-In

DRAFT PROGRAM SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION AND ELABORATION
Draft 2:05 EDT, 12 April 2012   NOTE THIS IS ONLY A DRAFT CHANGES POSSIBLE

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10:00  EDT: OPENING DISCUSSION
Bill McKibben, Founder 350.org, broadcasting live from Boston, Massachusetts, US:  To listen use this link.
12:00 EDT-13:00 EDT: GLOBAL TEACH-IN NETWORK BROADCAST PART ONE
Jonathan M. Feldman, Stockholm University, “Introduction: The Triple Crisis and Economic Reconstruction.”
TBA, “The Global Environmental Crisis.” 
Ellen Brown,  Public Banking Institute, “The Economic Crisis and Alternatives.”
Pam Brown,  New School University, “The Student Debt Crisis.”
Alice Slater,  Director, Nuclear Age Page Foundation, “From a Military Economy to Green Economy.”
Chris Townsend, United Electrical Workers, “Green Jobs and Globalization.”
TBA, “Canada and the Fight Against Austerity and Outsourcing.”
Colin Hines, Convenor Green New Deal UK, “From Green New Deal to Progressive Progressive.”
Jonathan M. Feldman, Stockholm University, “Summary.”

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13:00 EDT-14:00 EDT: GLOBAL TEACH-IN PART TWO: BROADCAST FOR CITIES NOT HAVING FACE-TO-FACE EVENTS, ALSO RECORDED FOR LATER VIEWING
Moderator, TBA, “Introduction of Panelists.”
Alice Slater, “Alternative Budgetary Policies.”
Robert Pollin, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, “A Green New Deal for the United States.”
Joel Rogers, COWS, “A Strategy for Green Economic Development.”
Brian D’Agostino, “Conversion, Disarmament and an Alternative Economy.”
Jon Rynn, “Why Manufacturing Matters.”
Other speakers (invited).
Moderator, “Conclusions.”

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14:00 EDT to 15:00 EDT: GLOBAL TEACH-IN NETWORK BROADCAST PART  THREE
Local reports and global discussion from:
Stockholm, Sweden
Washington, D.C.
Olympia, Washington
Durban, South Africa
London, U.K
Edinburgh, U.K.
Caracas, Venezuela
Vienna, Austria

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14:00 EDT to 15:00 EDT: GLOBAL TEACH-IN NETWORK BROADCAST PART  FOUR 
Local reports and global discussions from:
Ontario, Canada
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Chicago, Ilinois
Madison, Wisconsin (tentative)
Portland, Oregon
San Francisco, California
Boston, Massachusetts
Burlington, Vermont
New York, New York
Denver, Colorado (tentative)
Jonathan M. Feldman, Stockholm University, “Plans for the Future.”