First Panel: 11:00 to 1:00 pm
From Seattle in 1999 to Cancun and Miami in 2003, global resistance to the corporate trade agenda has brought the “free trade” momentum to a temporary halt. But where do we go from here? What lessons can we draw from our colleagues in developing countries? What are the goals of an alternative national and global economy? What economic policies are needed? What concrete proposals can move toward those goals? Panel Participants:
Barbara Dudley, Moderator, Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment
Dave Foster, Director, District 11, USWA, Minneapolis MN
Mark Levinson, Policy Director & Chief Economist, UNITE New York City
Denise O’Brien, Women, Food and Agriculture Network, Atlantic, Iowa
Mark Ritchie, President, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis

Second Panel: 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
The resistance to the trade agreements has been both inside the trade summits and outside in the streets. Efforts are being made to divide this opposition into “respectable” NGOs types inside and “violence prone anarchists” outside. How do we advance our direct action strategies beyond the increasingly choreographed dance with the police and a fence, and how do we maintain strategic and tactical unity as we build our new global system? Panel Participants:
Karen Pickett, Moderator, Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment
Steward Acuff, Director of Field Organizing, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.
Jennie Busch, Chicago Jobs with Justice
John Sellers, Director, The Ruckus Society, Oakland, CA
Greg Asbed and Lucas Benitez, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Immokalee, FL
More information: Dan Leahy at the Alliance: (360) 709-9324 email: leahyd (at) evergreen.edu. Chicago area contact: Bill Carey 219-881-6212 wcarey (at) uswa.org
CINTAS ACTION: Before the start of the panels there will be a short briefing at 9 AM at the hotel followed by a short walk to join an action in support of the laundry workers at CINTAS who are trying to organize with UNITE. CINTAS is a member of ASJE’s Rogue’s Gallery.