Programme for 23 October

CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM II
Saturday 23 October 2010

MMU John Dalton Building, opposite the BBC on Oxford Road, Manchester
Registration and plenary sessions in Room C0.14


10.30-11.00 Registration and bookstalls

11.00-12.00 Opening Plenary
Introduction, Hugo Blanco and contribution from Chilean MPT comrade

12.00-1.30 Morning parallel session workshops:
4th floor in rooms E421, E422 and E423 & E424 (turn right out of C0.14 and go down to main reception area, turn left and go through to lifts, take lift to 4th floor and rooms are off that corridor)

E421: Autonomy and the state:
Manchester Zapatista Solidarity Group (Japhy Wilson)

E422: Local and global sustainable activity:
Eco-region politics (Mark Burton)

E423: Borders, displacement, division:
No Borders (Lauren Wroe)

E424: Long term strategy and immediate steps:
Honduras Solidarity (Dominic McCann)

1.30-2.30 Lunch break
Options are: a) Cafeteria and area to eat food brought in, turn left, area is through doors on right; b) ‘On the Eighth Day’ (vegetarian) turn right and on left past flyover; c) ‘Kro’ (glassy) opposite; d) ‘Odder’ (grungy) turn left, on the left; e) ‘Greggs’ (pies) turn left, on left past Odder.

2.30-4.00 Afternoon parallel session workshops:
same room as morning workshops

E421: Autonomy and the state:
Cuba Solidarity (Derek Wall)

E422: Borders, displacement, division:
Cochabamba (Alice Cutler)

E423: Local and global sustainable activity:
Manchester Climate Forum (Marc Hudson)

E424: Long term strategy and immediate steps:
Mapuche in Chile (Eli Valencia)

4.00-5.30 Closing plenary
Discussion, concluding comments by Hugo Blanco