“Control the Corporation” Conference

Please join us for the “Control the Corporation” Conference, sponsored by Ralph Nader and the Center for Study of Responsive Law.

WHO: See the conference agenda.

WHERE: The Carnegie Institute of Washington,1530 P Street, NW Washington, DC 20005

WHEN: April 2, 2012, 8am – 5pm.

WHY: It is time to reclaim our democracy and our political economy.

The Agenda:

8:00	Registration & Breakfast
8:45	Welcome – Ralph Nader
9:00	Countering the impact of corporate control of the electoral process Bob Edgar – President, Common Cause Common Cause Launches “Amend2012” Effort Aims to Give Voters a Direct Voice in November on Overturning Citizens United Theresa Amato – Executive Director, Citizen Works If you’re about to lose your home… maybe it’s time to just occupy it Rob Richie – Executive, Director Fair Vote Open Up Elections With Proportional Voting Lou Dubose – Editor, The Washington Spectator Can Obama Occupy Wall Street Harvey Wasserman – Anti-Nuclear Activist Merge and win: Occupy Wall Street and the ‘No Nukes’ movement
10:10	Holding corporations accountable for their crimes Russell Mokhiber – Editor, Corporate Crime Reporter Crime Without Conviction: The Rise of Deferred and Non Prosecution Agreements Bill Black – Professor, University of Missouri School of Law – KC Former Financial Regulator William Black: Occupy Wall Street a Counter to White-Collar Fraud Patrick Burns – Director of Communications, Taxpayers Against Fraud Why are TAF and the TAF Education Fund Needed? Kent Greenfield – Professor, Boston College Law The Difference Between The Occupiers and The Tea Party? The Meaning of Freedom Carl Mayer– Mayer Law Group Carl Mayer Speaks at Zuccotti Park, Says OWS Can Be Third Party
11:15	Protecting the “Commons” from the insatiable advocates of privatization Phineas Baxandall – Federal Tax and Budget Policy Analyst for US PIRG In The Public Interest: How Much Did You Pay for Tax Dodging Corporations? David Morris – Vice President, Institute for Local Self-Reliance It’s Labor vs. Capital, Stupid Wenonah Hauter – Executive Director, Food & Water Watch World Water Forum Paves the Way to Privatize Nature, Undermine Human Right to Water in RIO+20 Jamie Love – Director, Knowledge Ecology International Incentive Mechanisms for Collaborative Innovation Margaret Flowers –Congressional Fellow and co-chair of the Maryland chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program Dr. Margaret Flowers Confronts The Real Death Panels
12:15	Lunch
1:00	Occupy the Future Christopher Hedges – TruthDig columnist C-SPAN: In Depth With Chris Hedges Kevin Zeese – National Occupation of Washington, DC A Culture of Resistance is Born in 2011: the People United in an Independent Movement Robert Weissman – President, Public Citizen Occupy Wall Street: Americans Are Furious, And They Are Right to Be Dean Baker – Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research How Occupy stopped the supercommittee
2:05	Creating economic models that provide jobs/Increasing minimum wage Gar Alperovitz – Professor of Political Economy, UMD America Beyond Capitalism Greg LeRoy – Executive Director, Good Jobs First Community Benefits Agreements Dimitra Doukas – author of Worked Over: the corporate sabotage of an American community Worked Over (Google Books view) Gayle McLaughlin– Mayor, Richmond CA One Bay Area mayor Welcomes Occupy protests to her city Alexis Baden-Mayer –Political Director, Organic Consumers Association Why We Need Mandatory GMO Food Labels
3:15	Mobilizing for Action Ralph Nader – Consumer advocate Ralph Nader: Raise the Minimum Wage Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman – Executive Director and Founder , SumOfUs Welcome to SumOfUs Tom O’Brien – United Steelworkers USW Supports Continued Existence of Occupy Pittsburgh Encampment Michael Gecan – Industrial Areas Foundation Occupy Wall Street’s anger isn’t enough: How the push for change can be sustained David Freeman – former head of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Sacramento Municipal Utility District SMUD), Power Authority State of New York How to Phase Out Nuclear, Coal and Oil in 25 Years
4:30	Reception