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Conference agenda as of March 22

Thursday, March 28

7pm: Opening rally & launch

Friday, March 29

Item Speaker(s)

0800-1000 Registration

0930-1000 Welcome & introduction John Percy

10-1200: The world since Seattle and Sept 11 Presenter: Dipankar Bhattacharya
Discussants: Victor Briz, Michael Albert, Nina Benjamin, Doug Lorimer, Caroline Lund

12-1300 Lunch

1300-1430: Globalisation and militarism in Asia Presenter: Frank Pascual
Discussants: Kautsar, Won, Farooq Tariq, Kerryn Williams

1430-1600 Workshops

1. Major session: The Pakistani left and the struggle for peace and justice Farooq Tariq

2. US politics under the Bush Doctrine Caroline Lund, Michael Albert, US ISO

3. Argentina in revolt Luis Bilbao

4. The socialist alternative: Cuba’s intervention into anti-neoliberalism Pat Brewer

5. Australia at the forefront of anti-refugee policies: a history of mandatory detention Sarah Stephen

6. Islam, the veil and women’s liberation Margarita Windisch, Layla Mohammed

7. For the Acehnese people, Indonesia is an oppressor state Kautsar

8. Australian union militancy: traditions and future directions Craig Johnston, Amanda Perkins, Jeremy Smith, Naomi Arrowsmith

9. Philippines socialists regroup and unite Sonny Melencio, Victor Briz

10. Imperialism today: a popular explanation Doug Lorimer

11. A transnational capitalist class in formation? James Goodman

12. The anti-capitalist movement after Genoa, New York and Porto Alegre Alex Callinicos

13. Political agitation and education: a how-to workshop Jorge Jorquera

14. TBA Jean-Pierre Page

15. The internet: a net negative for capitalism? A panel of internet activists

16. Globalisation and the prison system Eric McCormack

1600-1800 Workshops

1. Major session: No reconciliation without justice Kim Bullimore, Ray Jackson

2. Breaking the silence: war, propaganda and the New Empire film of John Pilger’s speech at Sydney Town Hall, March 1

3. Globalisation and the labour movement: a higher education perspective Grahame McCulloch

4. Women and war Nurcan Kiyak

5. West Papua’s struggle for independence John Ondawame

6. The US war at home and abroad Ahmed Shawki

7. Paradise lost: the failure of parliamentary reformism in NZ Dave Colyer

8. Is the market replaceable? Sue Bolton

9. After Porto Alegre II, the dynamics of the anti-capitalist globalisation movements and present internationalism: elements of analysis and political issues Pierre Rousset

10. The camera as a weapon of social change Jill Hickson, Satya Sivaraman

11. The future of peace on the Korean peninsula PWC

12. Towards a socialist strategy for South Africa Dale McKinley

13. Anti-capitalism and the left in Australia Liz Humphreys

14. Democratic rights after September 11: has McCarthyism returned? Alex Bainbridge

15. Neoliberalism, the Tamil struggle and the realignment of Sri Lankan politics Lionel Bopage

1900: BBQ to welcome international guests

Saturday, March 30

Item Speaker(s)

0800-0900 Registration

0900-1100: The movement against capitalist globalisation after Sept 11 Presenter: Peter Boyle
Discussants: Michael Albert, Pierre Rousset, Luis Bilbao, Alex Callinicos

1100-1300 Workshops

Major session: Participatory economics: towards an alternative to capitalist globalisation

Michael Albert

Testimonials on the refugee experience in Australia
Rafael Pacheco and Riz Wakil

What is ATTAC?
Pierre Rousset

Cambodia’s garment workers in the face of globalisation
Helen Jarvis, Allen Myers

State of the US unions: help or hindrance for workers?
Caroline Lund

The South Korean left after September 11
PWC

Marxism and the state
Alison Dellit

Socialism and ecology
Dr Jim Green

The politics of the Socialist Party of Timor (PST)
Nelson Correia

Manufacturing consent, stirring dissent: taking on the media monopolies
Jill Hickson, Meagan Phillipson, Cinnamon Nippard

A critique of Hardt and Negri
Alex Callinicos

How do we build a new revolutionary international?
Stuart King

The struggle for a free Burma
Maung Maung Than

China: paying lip service to socialism
Francis Lau

Bougainville: victory and autonomy
Moses Havini

Drop the debt: developments since Jubilee 2000
Thea Ormerod

Kurdistan: the struggle against genocide
Australian Kurdish Cultural Centre

13-1400 Lunch

1400-1600: Mass revolt and left renewal in Asia Presenter: Sonny Melencio
Discussants: Dita Sari, Won, Nasir Hashim

1600-1800 Workshops

1. Major session: The labour movement and global justice Victor Briz, Caroline Lund, M.M Lawrence, Phil Davey, Chris Spindler

2. Documentary about assassinated Indian student leader Satya Sivaraman

3. Asylum and migration in Fortress Europe Eva Bjorklund, Pierre Rousset

4. Feminist debates in the Third World Reihana Mohideen

5. Peace in Asia and the world is guaranteed by Seraikistan Seraiki National Party

6. Debates on strategy and program in the Sudanese left Osama Yussuf

7. Socialism and democracy Dave Holmes

8. Commercialisation of aid in the Pacific Vikki John, Melita Grant

9. From S11 to M1: reflections on movement-building strategy and tactics since the Melbourne World Economic Forum blockade Jorge Jorquera

10. The gallery of the streets: third world solidarity posters Stephen O’Brien

11. From Kosovo to Timor: the politics of "humanitarian intervention" Ian Rintoul

12. State of community-based organisations in South Africa Nina Benjamin

13. TBA Haydar Ilker

14. Nation, nationalism and class: a Marxist perspective Jim McIlroy

15. Globalisation and the state Paul D’Amato

1900: Solidarity Dinner
with MC: Max Lane

Sunday, March 31

Conference action

BREAKING DOWN THE BORDERS:
GLOBAL SOLIDARITY ACTION FOR REFUGEES
Villawood Refugee Prison
Meet 8.30am, Villawood Train Station
OR
7.20am, Central Station, on platform for City to Liverpool train

Item Speaker(s)

12-1300 Lunch & registration

1300-1500: Break down the fortresses! Globalising freedom of asylum & migration Presenter: Lisa Macdonald
Discussants: Eva Bjorklund, Luis Pelayo, Haydar Ilker

1500-1700 Workshops

1. Major session: Against war and globalisation: the movement in Europe Alex Callinicos, Pierre Rousset

2. The Brazilian Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST) Roberto Baggio, Amelia Franz

3. "We live to tread on kings": the lessons of Genoa (A video showing and discussion) James Vassilopolous

4. The Greens’ vision for social alternatives Jamie Parker

5. Escalating the refugee solidarity campaign in Australia: discussion of tactics and direction Pip Hinman, Ian Rintoul, Jamal Daoud

6. The struggle of Bougainville women for peace and freedom Marilyn Havini

7. The Palestinian struggle today Khaldoun Hajaj

8. KCTU at the crossroads PWC

9. Crisis and resistance in Indonesia: a Q&A session Dita Sari

3. Not the "Best Ever" Olympics: the negative impacts of Sydney 2000 Helen Lenskyj

11. Politics in the workplace: an international exchange of experiences Sue Bull, Caroline Lund, B.R. Rahi

12. A history of Australian imperialism in the Asia Pacific Norm Dixon

13. India: the struggle against saffron fascism Dipankar Bhattacharya

14. United front yesterday and today Carlene Wilson

15. Australia’s indigenous culture and law: an introduction Wadjularbinna

1700-1900: Race, class and colonialism in the 21^st century: the struggle continues Presenter: Reihana Mohideen
Discussants: Nina Benjamin, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Paul D’Amato, (Jimmy Naouna)

2000: Culture Night, with singers, flamenco and salsa lessons

Monday, April 1

Item Speaker(s)

0800-0900: Registrations

0900-1100: The end of Asia’s "economic miracles": social alternatives & strategies Presenter: Dita Sari
Discussants: Nasir Hashim, Won, Dale McKinley

1100-1230 Workshops

1. Major session: Women of Afghanistan after the Taliban Tahmeena Faryal

2. The anti-immigrant offensive in the US Caroline Lund, US ISO, Luis Pelayo

3. Film on Cuban doctors abroad Tom Fawthrop

4. Participatory Budget: the Rio Grande do Sul experience Ben Reid

5. The impact of temporary protection visas Paula Abood

6. Social clauses: a poison pill for the international workers’ movement Tom Bramble

7. The Socialist Alliance in Britain Martin Thomas, Stuart King, Alex Callinicos

8. Where is Vietnam headed? Mike Karadjis

9. The fight for socialism: why a party? John Percy

10. International solidarity in a globalised world: case study: PNG and Australia Jesse Wynhausen

11. The second world conference of lesbian and gay trade unionists: an information and preparation seminar Ken Davis, Alison Peters

12. Indonesia after Wahid: democratic and permanent revolution Tom O’Lincoln

13. East Timor after independence: the struggle for economic justice and development Nelson Correia, Tomas Freitas

14. The struggle in Bangladesh today Badrul Alam, Abdul Quiyum

15. CITU’s perspectives for Indian politics M.M Lawrence

1230-1330 Lunch

1330-1530: Neoliberalism and resistance after Porto Alegre Presenter: Pierre Rousset
Discussants: Kautsar, Satya Sivaraman, Ahmed Shawki, Brazilian MST

1530-1700 Workshops

1. Major session: From liberation to neoliberalism: has the South African movement lost its way? Dale McKinley, Nina Benjamin

2. The anti-capitalist left in Europe Pierre Rousset, Alex Callinicos, Danish Red-Green Alliance

3. Performing resistance: an Indonesian factory workers theatre company and awareness raising through performance Rebecca Conroy

4. Refugees and the First World fortress: challenges for international law Pamela Lentini

5. Opposition in Israel: Resistance inside the army and developments in the Israeli peace movement Max Watts, Vivienne Porzsolt

6. White Australia and the Australian working class Phil Griffiths

7. The US: an environment outlaw US ISO

8. Colombia: the resistance after September 11 Luis Almario

9. Two critiques of globalisation: "Empire" and "new imperialism" Martin Thomas

10. Indian democracy: challenges in a changed scenario Dr Rajikishore Singh

11. Islam and imperialism in South Asia Tad Tietze

12. TBA Left activists from the Afghani community

13. Reproductive rights and the globalisation of pharmaceuticals Dr Kamala Emanuel, Dr Lynette Dumble

14. Sweden’s Third World policy: from Olof Palme to the European Union Eva Bjorklund

15. The fight for socialism in Malaysia Nasir Hashim

16. Get involved in Asia Pacific solidarity! A campaign workshop Panel of solidarity activists

17. The World Conference Against Racism and the struggle for indigenous peoples’ rights Waratah (Rosemary Gillespie) & Roy Kennedy

1700-1900: Why an Asia Pacific Social Forum? Presenter: Max Lane
Discussants: Frank Pascual, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Dita Sari, Farooq Tariq

2000: Restaurant dinner

Item	Speaker(s)
0800-1000 Registration
0930-1000 Welcome & introduction	John Percy
10-1200: The world since Seattle and Sept 11	Presenter: Dipankar Bhattacharya Discussants: Victor Briz, Michael Albert, Nina Benjamin, Doug Lorimer, Caroline Lund
12-1300 Lunch
1300-1430: Globalisation and militarism in Asia	Presenter: Frank Pascual Discussants: Kautsar, Won, Farooq Tariq, Kerryn Williams
1430-1600 Workshops
1. Major session: The Pakistani left and the struggle for peace and justice	Farooq Tariq
2. US politics under the Bush Doctrine	Caroline Lund, Michael Albert, US ISO
3. Argentina in revolt	Luis Bilbao
4. The socialist alternative: Cuba’s intervention into anti-neoliberalism	Pat Brewer
5. Australia at the forefront of anti-refugee policies: a history of mandatory detention	Sarah Stephen
6. Islam, the veil and women’s liberation	Margarita Windisch, Layla Mohammed
7. For the Acehnese people, Indonesia is an oppressor state	Kautsar
8. Australian union militancy: traditions and future directions	Craig Johnston, Amanda Perkins, Jeremy Smith, Naomi Arrowsmith
9. Philippines socialists regroup and unite	Sonny Melencio, Victor Briz
10. Imperialism today: a popular explanation	Doug Lorimer
11. A transnational capitalist class in formation?	James Goodman
12. The anti-capitalist movement after Genoa, New York and Porto Alegre	Alex Callinicos
13. Political agitation and education: a how-to workshop	Jorge Jorquera
14. TBA	Jean-Pierre Page
15. The internet: a net negative for capitalism?	A panel of internet activists
16. Globalisation and the prison system	Eric McCormack
1600-1800 Workshops
1. Major session: No reconciliation without justice	Kim Bullimore, Ray Jackson
2. Breaking the silence: war, propaganda and the New Empire	film of John Pilger’s speech at Sydney Town Hall, March 1
3. Globalisation and the labour movement: a higher education perspective	Grahame McCulloch
4. Women and war	Nurcan Kiyak
5. West Papua’s struggle for independence	John Ondawame
6. The US war at home and abroad	Ahmed Shawki
7. Paradise lost: the failure of parliamentary reformism in NZ	Dave Colyer
8. Is the market replaceable?	Sue Bolton
9. After Porto Alegre II, the dynamics of the anti-capitalist globalisation movements and present internationalism: elements of analysis and political issues	Pierre Rousset
10. The camera as a weapon of social change	Jill Hickson, Satya Sivaraman
11. The future of peace on the Korean peninsula	PWC
12. Towards a socialist strategy for South Africa	Dale McKinley
13. Anti-capitalism and the left in Australia	Liz Humphreys
14. Democratic rights after September 11: has McCarthyism returned?	Alex Bainbridge
15. Neoliberalism, the Tamil struggle and the realignment of Sri Lankan politics	Lionel Bopage
1900: BBQ to welcome international guests

Item	Speaker(s)
0800-0900 Registration
0900-1100: The movement against capitalist globalisation after Sept 11	Presenter: Peter Boyle Discussants: Michael Albert, Pierre Rousset, Luis Bilbao, Alex Callinicos
1100-1300 Workshops
Major session: Participatory economics: towards an alternative to capitalist globalisation	Michael Albert
Testimonials on the refugee experience in Australia	Rafael Pacheco and Riz Wakil
What is ATTAC?	Pierre Rousset
Cambodia’s garment workers in the face of globalisation	Helen Jarvis, Allen Myers
State of the US unions: help or hindrance for workers?	Caroline Lund
The South Korean left after September 11	PWC
Marxism and the state	Alison Dellit
Socialism and ecology	Dr Jim Green
The politics of the Socialist Party of Timor (PST)	Nelson Correia
Manufacturing consent, stirring dissent: taking on the media monopolies	Jill Hickson, Meagan Phillipson, Cinnamon Nippard
A critique of Hardt and Negri	Alex Callinicos
How do we build a new revolutionary international?	Stuart King
The struggle for a free Burma	Maung Maung Than
China: paying lip service to socialism	Francis Lau
Bougainville: victory and autonomy	Moses Havini
Drop the debt: developments since Jubilee 2000	Thea Ormerod
Kurdistan: the struggle against genocide	Australian Kurdish Cultural Centre
13-1400 Lunch
1400-1600: Mass revolt and left renewal in Asia	Presenter: Sonny Melencio Discussants: Dita Sari, Won, Nasir Hashim
1600-1800 Workshops
1. Major session: The labour movement and global justice	Victor Briz, Caroline Lund, M.M Lawrence, Phil Davey, Chris Spindler
2. Documentary about assassinated Indian student leader	Satya Sivaraman
3. Asylum and migration in Fortress Europe	Eva Bjorklund, Pierre Rousset
4. Feminist debates in the Third World	Reihana Mohideen
5. Peace in Asia and the world is guaranteed by Seraikistan	Seraiki National Party
6. Debates on strategy and program in the Sudanese left	Osama Yussuf
7. Socialism and democracy	Dave Holmes
8. Commercialisation of aid in the Pacific	Vikki John, Melita Grant
9. From S11 to M1: reflections on movement-building strategy and tactics since the Melbourne World Economic Forum blockade	Jorge Jorquera
10. The gallery of the streets: third world solidarity posters	Stephen O’Brien
11. From Kosovo to Timor: the politics of "humanitarian intervention"	Ian Rintoul
12. State of community-based organisations in South Africa	Nina Benjamin
13. TBA	Haydar Ilker
14. Nation, nationalism and class: a Marxist perspective	Jim McIlroy
15. Globalisation and the state	Paul D’Amato
1900: Solidarity Dinner with MC: Max Lane

Conference action
*BREAKING DOWN THE BORDERS:* *GLOBAL SOLIDARITY ACTION FOR REFUGEES* *Villawood Refugee Prison* *Meet 8.30am, Villawood Train Station* OR *7.20am, Central Station, on platform for City to Liverpool train*
Item	Speaker(s)
12-1300 Lunch & registration
1300-1500: Break down the fortresses! Globalising freedom of asylum & migration	Presenter: Lisa Macdonald Discussants: Eva Bjorklund, Luis Pelayo, Haydar Ilker
1500-1700 Workshops
1. Major session: Against war and globalisation: the movement in Europe	Alex Callinicos, Pierre Rousset
2. The Brazilian Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST)	Roberto Baggio, Amelia Franz
3. "We live to tread on kings": the lessons of Genoa (A video showing and discussion)	James Vassilopolous
4. The Greens’ vision for social alternatives	Jamie Parker
5. Escalating the refugee solidarity campaign in Australia: discussion of tactics and direction	Pip Hinman, Ian Rintoul, Jamal Daoud
6. The struggle of Bougainville women for peace and freedom	Marilyn Havini
7. The Palestinian struggle today	Khaldoun Hajaj
8. KCTU at the crossroads	PWC
9. Crisis and resistance in Indonesia: a Q&A session	Dita Sari
3. Not the "Best Ever" Olympics: the negative impacts of Sydney 2000	Helen Lenskyj
11. Politics in the workplace: an international exchange of experiences	Sue Bull, Caroline Lund, B.R. Rahi
12. A history of Australian imperialism in the Asia Pacific	Norm Dixon
13. India: the struggle against saffron fascism	Dipankar Bhattacharya
14. United front yesterday and today	Carlene Wilson
15. Australia’s indigenous culture and law: an introduction	Wadjularbinna
1700-1900: Race, class and colonialism in the 21^st century: the struggle continues	Presenter: Reihana Mohideen Discussants: Nina Benjamin, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Paul D’Amato, (Jimmy Naouna)
2000: Culture Night, with singers, flamenco and salsa lessons

Item	Speaker(s)
0800-0900: Registrations
0900-1100: The end of Asia’s "economic miracles": social alternatives & strategies	Presenter: Dita Sari Discussants: Nasir Hashim, Won, Dale McKinley
1100-1230 Workshops
1. Major session: Women of Afghanistan after the Taliban	Tahmeena Faryal
2. The anti-immigrant offensive in the US	Caroline Lund, US ISO, Luis Pelayo
3. Film on Cuban doctors abroad	Tom Fawthrop
4. Participatory Budget: the Rio Grande do Sul experience	Ben Reid
5. The impact of temporary protection visas	Paula Abood
6. Social clauses: a poison pill for the international workers’ movement	Tom Bramble
7. The Socialist Alliance in Britain	Martin Thomas, Stuart King, Alex Callinicos
8. Where is Vietnam headed?	Mike Karadjis
9. The fight for socialism: why a party?	John Percy
10. International solidarity in a globalised world: case study: PNG and Australia	Jesse Wynhausen
11. The second world conference of lesbian and gay trade unionists: an information and preparation seminar	Ken Davis, Alison Peters
12. Indonesia after Wahid: democratic and permanent revolution	Tom O’Lincoln
13. East Timor after independence: the struggle for economic justice and development	Nelson Correia, Tomas Freitas
14. The struggle in Bangladesh today	Badrul Alam, Abdul Quiyum
15. CITU’s perspectives for Indian politics	M.M Lawrence
1230-1330 Lunch
1330-1530: Neoliberalism and resistance after Porto Alegre	Presenter: Pierre Rousset Discussants: Kautsar, Satya Sivaraman, Ahmed Shawki, Brazilian MST
1530-1700 Workshops
1. Major session: From liberation to neoliberalism: has the South African movement lost its way?	Dale McKinley, Nina Benjamin
2. The anti-capitalist left in Europe	Pierre Rousset, Alex Callinicos, Danish Red-Green Alliance
3. Performing resistance: an Indonesian factory workers theatre company and awareness raising through performance	Rebecca Conroy
4. Refugees and the First World fortress: challenges for international law	Pamela Lentini
5. Opposition in Israel: Resistance inside the army and developments in the Israeli peace movement	Max Watts, Vivienne Porzsolt
6. White Australia and the Australian working class	Phil Griffiths
7. The US: an environment outlaw	US ISO
8. Colombia: the resistance after September 11	Luis Almario
9. Two critiques of globalisation: "Empire" and "new imperialism"	Martin Thomas
10. Indian democracy: challenges in a changed scenario	Dr Rajikishore Singh
11. Islam and imperialism in South Asia	Tad Tietze
12. TBA	Left activists from the Afghani community
13. Reproductive rights and the globalisation of pharmaceuticals	Dr Kamala Emanuel, Dr Lynette Dumble
14. Sweden’s Third World policy: from Olof Palme to the European Union	Eva Bjorklund
15. The fight for socialism in Malaysia	Nasir Hashim
16. Get involved in Asia Pacific solidarity! A campaign workshop	Panel of solidarity activists
17. The World Conference Against Racism and the struggle for indigenous peoples’ rights	Waratah (Rosemary Gillespie) & Roy Kennedy
1700-1900: Why an Asia Pacific Social Forum?	Presenter: Max Lane Discussants: Frank Pascual, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Dita Sari, Farooq Tariq
2000: Restaurant dinner