G8 Camp David Protest Schedule
May 18- 19, Frederick,
Maryland
OCCUPY G8 PEOPLE'S ECONOMIC SUMMIT
FRIDAY May 18, 2012
C. Burr Artz Public Library
110 East Patrick Street
Frederick, MD 21701
Community Room
The “Occupy G8 Summit for the People” is an alternative to
the G8 that will have
speakers (see agenda below) discuss the effect of concentrated wealth on global
public policy, the effects of wealth inequality on peoples' well-being and
alternative economic structures that would close the wealth divide and create a
more democratic, sustainable economy. The Summit
This summit
will discuss how to:
- Build
the international economy from the bottom up, not the top down.
- Highlight
the wealth divide that undermines the foundation of the economy and corrupts
political decision-making.
- Increase
the minimum wage, end poverty and reduce debt to provide a stronger foundation
on which to build a new sustainable economy.
- Institute
a Robin Hood Tax on the purchase of stocks, bonds and derivatives.
- Build
a new economy that is both economically and environmentally sustainable.
- Build
wealth at the base by encouraging worker owned co-ops and other democratized
economic institutions; and by turning corporate welfare into taxpayer
investment where everyone profits from the investment by the commonwealth, not
just the corporate owners.
- Recognize
that we all share a common destiny and that even the wealthiest require the
commonwealth in order to increase their riches.
Schedule
10:00 AM - WELCOME
Margaret
Flowers and Kevin Zeese - Co-Directors
10:10 AM - GLOBAL WEA LTH INEQUAL ITY
Sam Pizzigati - Too Much
Brooke Harper - Global Trade Watch
Jeremy Weyl - Jubilee USA
Brooke Harper - Global Trade Watch
Jeremy Weyl - Jubilee USA
11:10
AM - CREATING A GLOBAL ECONOMY BASE D ON
SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES
Brent
Blackwelder - former executive director Friends of the Earth and Steady State
Ruth Caplan - Campaign for Global Water Watch and Alliance for Democracy
Ruth Caplan - Campaign for Global Water Watch and Alliance for Democracy
Alexis Baden - Mayer - Organic Consumers
Association
12:10 PM - BREAK
12:20 PM - BUILDING A NEW ECONOMY FROM THE BOTTOM
UP
Rob
Kall - Editor of OpEd News and Bottom Up Radio Show
James Riker - University of Maryland and co-facilitator of 2010 G20 Civil Society Dialogue
Emily Kawano - Solidarity Economy Network and Center for Popular Economics
Lisa Stolarski - The National Cooperative Business Alliance
James Riker - University of Maryland and co-facilitator of 2010 G20 Civil Society Dialogue
Emily Kawano - Solidarity Economy Network and Center for Popular Economics
Lisa Stolarski - The National Cooperative Business Alliance
