EVENT: Secure Jobs in a Green Future Conference - Organised by SEARCH Foundation

Just a reminder that the Secure Jobs in a Green Future Conference is on next weekend in Sydney at the University of Technology, Sydney. Please spread the word about the conference (see flyer attached and program below) and you can register with trybooking here

 

See: http://www.search.org.au/archives/3514

We’ve got a great program, including an international speaker, Costas Isychos, the defence and foreign policy spokesperson for the radical left SYRIZA party, who is coming straight from Cyprus, the current epicentre of the European crisis. SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has just been touring North America, Latin America and Europe to build support for an anti-austerity, anti-racist politics that provides a radical alternative to neo-liberalism. He might well be the next Greek Prime Minister (see more in this New Statesman interview http://www.newstatesman.com/austerity-and-its-discontents/2013/03/more-and-more-people-realise-austerity-not-viable-there-no-oth ). We have a special session with Costas on the Saturday:  3.30pm-5.00pm Special Forum - SYRIZA, Greece and the European Left: challenges and opportunities in the crisis

 

above: The SYRIZA Logo

 

BELOW:  Timetable of the Conference

Saturday, April 6, 2013 9.30am Registration 10.15am Welcome to Country Sydney Trade Union Choir	Sunday, April 7, 2013 9.30am Registration
10.30am-12.00pm Participatory Forum I Building a Stronger Left Panel: Mick Gooda (Aust Human Rights Commission) Maree O’Halloran (Welfare Rights Centre) Andrew Dettmer (AMWU) Wenny Theresia (Occupy Sydney) Angelo Gavrielatos (AEU)	10.00am-11.30am Participatory Forum II Uniting to Fight the Abbott Coalition Panel: Sally McManus (ASU, NSW/ACT) Cate Faehrmann MLC (Greens NSW) Tad Tietze (Left Flank) TBC Labor Left speaker Hall Greenland (Greens candidate, Grayndler) Andrew Giles (Labor Socialist Left, Victoria)
12.00pm-12.30pm Speedgreets 12.30pm-1.30pm Lunch (provided) 1.30pm-3.00pm Workshop Session 1	11.30am-12pm Tea Break 12.00pm-1.30pm Workshop Session 2
Workshop 1 Understanding the Neoliberal Right and Australia’s Power Elite Panel: Damien Cahill (USyd) David McKnight (UNSW) Wendy Bacon (UTS)	Workshop 9 Progressive Futures Panel: Nick Moraitis (Centre for Australian Progress) Lucy Manne (Aust Youth Climate Coalition) Tim Scriven (Sydney Uni Post-Grad Students) Linda Scott (Sydney) Labor City Councillor
Workshop 2 Empowering Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities - Constitutional Recognition vs the Intervention Panel: Nicole Major (AEU) Heidi Norman (UTS) Paddy Gibson (Stop the Intervention Collective) David Shoebridge MLC (Greens NSW)	Workshop 10 Sustainable Futures Panel: Nicky Ison (Institute for Sustainable Futures) Anna Schlunke (Steady State Economy) Alejandro Rodriguez (Super Renewables)
Workshop 3 Feminism: Challenges and Strategies Panel: Eva Cox (Women’s Equity Think Tank) Margaret Kirkby (Women’s Abortion Action Campaign) Melanie Fernandez (Women’s Electoral Lobby)	Workshop 11 Campaigning for a Green Future Panel: Dave Kerin (Earthworker Cooperative) Jess Moore (Illawarra CSG campaign) Tim Thorne (Tasmanian sustainability) Phil Ireland (Labor Enviro Action Network)
Workshop 4 Equality, Race and Refugees in Australia Panel: Jock Collins (UTS) Dianne Hiles (Children Out of Detention) Ian Rintoul (Refugee Action Coalition)	Workshop 12 Secure Work in a Green Future Panel: Roy Green (UTS, Maunfacturing Report) Jill Biddington (ACTU Inquiry into Secure Work) Tim Ayres (AMWU) Rose Jackson (ALP Socialist Left, NSW)
Workshop 5 Learning from Elsewhere Panel: Peter Ross (UNSW) Adam Rorris (Greek community, Sydney) Thulsi Narayanasamy (Aid/Watch)	Workshop 13 Strategies for Stronger Trade Unions Panel: Jim Casey (NSW FBEU) Sally McManus (ASU NSW/ACT) Rita Malia (CFMEU NSW)
Workshop 6 A Strong Public Sector and a Fair Tax System Panel: Chris Stone (Centre for Policy Development) Jo-Anne Schofield (Catalyst Australia) John Kaye MLC (Greens NSW) Troy Wright (CPSU-SPSF)	Workshop 14 Australia, the USA - China Confrontation & the Asia-Pacific Panel: Peter Hayes (via skype) (Nautilus Institute) Jane Corpuz-Brock (Migrante Australia) Peter Jennings (Sydney - APHEDA) Amy Smith (ALP Socialist Left, NSW)
Workshop 7 Free Trade Agreements vs Jobs and the Public Interest Panel: Andrew Dettmer (AMWU) Patricia Ranald (AFTINET)	Workshop 15 Left Responses to the Global Capitalist Crisis Panel: Elizabeth Humphrys (USyd) Graham Larcombe (Economist) Jean Parker (UTS)
Workshop 8 Food and Resource Scarcity in the Capitalist Crisis Panel: Catriona Macmillan (Syd Food Fairness Alliance) Kathy Ridge (Ridgelegal) Jacinta Green (UNSW)	1.30pm-2.15pm Lunch (provided) 2.15pm Adoption of Declaration
3.00pm-3.30pm Tea Break 3.30pm-5.00pm Special Forum SYRIZA, Greece and the European Left: challenges and opportunities in the crisis Guest Speaker: Costas Isychos (member of SYRIZA’s Secretariat and head of External and Defence Policy)	2.30pm - 4pm Participatory Forum III Strategic Priorities for the Left Panel: Rob Durbridge (SEARCH Foundation) Holly Creenaune (United Voice) Keelia Fitzpatrick (Victorian Trades Hall) Maurie Mulheron (NSW Teachers Fed) Senator Lee Rhiannon (NSW Greens) Senator Doug Cameron (ALP Socialist Left)
5pm Drinks and Booklet Launch: Enemies of a Fair Society Frank Stilwell and Jenna Price	4pm Conference Close coffee, tea, water available throughout conference