ZSVS, June 2006: Papers
Purpose
The goals of ZSVS will be:
- To explore ideas about long
term vision and related long and short term strategy and program, to reach
agreements and clarify persisting differences- To facilitate people laying a basis for working together
- To facilitate people
establishing joint projects- To generate enough agreement to initiate some
joint or collective work- To generate enough agreement to initiate continuing and/or
enlarging group connections- Additionally, Z will video,
record, and otherwise keep transcripts. Some material will appear
in Z, on ZNet, and/or in book form – with permissions, of course.
Attendees
Name Country InterviewPresentation Click for person’s page Origin/home Click to email person Click to read Click to read – will become links as the
articles arrive… Yugoslavia Andrea Schmidt Canada US Chantel Santerre Canada US US Evan Henshaw Plath U.S. Argentina Felipe Pérez Martí Venezuela Venezuela Harsha Walia India The Apartheid of Migration Irina Ceric Serbia/Canada Jamie LeJeune U.S./Thailand US US Jonah Gindin Canada Canada Kendra Fehrer US US Argentina Marina Sitrin US Mark
Evans UK US Britain Canada US Internationalism Ria Julien Trinidad/US France Sean Gonsalves US US
Rawa and Feminist Strategy US France Tamara Vukov Thomas Ponniah U.S. US
A number of people at one time or another during the preparations for ZSVS 2006 indicated
a desire to attend, but were later unable to do so. These included:
America Vera Zavala – Sweden Anthony Arnove – U.S. Barbara Ehrenreich – U.S. Betsy Hartman – U.S. Bill Fletcher – U.S. Boris Kagarlitsky – Russia Bridgit Anderson – Great Britain Carol Delgado – Venezuela Carola Reintjes- Spain Charlotte Ryan – U.S. Christophe Aguiton – Italy Daniel Chavez – Neth Dennis Brutus Devinder Sharma – India Elaine Bernard – U.S. Hector Mondragon – Colombia Hilary Wainwright – Great Britain Ilan Pappe – Israel John Hepburn – Australia John Pilger – Great Britain Katha Pollitt – U.S. Laura Flanders – U.S. Leslie Cagan – U.S. Mandisi Majavu – South Africa Manuel Rozental – Colombia Manning Marable – U.S. Pablo Ortellado – Brazil Pervez Hoodhboy – Pakistan Peter Bohmer – U.S. Robert Jensen – U.S. Robin Kelley – U.S. Ron Daniels – U.S. Sudhanva Deshpande – India Tanya Reinhart – Israel Tim Wise – U.S. Trevor Ngwane – South Africa Vandana Shiva – India Vijay Prashad – U.S. A number of other folks either said no to coming, or didn’t respond at all
Tariq Ali – Great Britain Arundhati Roy – India Sheila Rowbotham – Great Britain Naomi Klein – Can Amy Goodman – U.S. Juliet Shor – U.S. Luca Cassarini – Italy Howard Zinn – U.S. Walden Bello (Phil) Virginia Setshedi (SoAfr) Vittorio Agnoletto – Italy Adele Oliveri – Italy Atilo Boron – Arg Interviews
Click the following names for their ZSVS introductory interview…
Each participant has been sent the same series of questions to answer.
When the answers arrive they are linked here.
Submitted Interviews But Could Not Attend….
Bridget
AndersonSudhanva Deshpande Francesca Fiorentini John Hepburn Pervez Hoodbhoy Robert Jensen Mandisi
MajavuChhandasi Pandya Ilan Pappe Vijay Prashad Carola Reintjes Max
Uhlenbeck
Agenda
ZSVS Agenda
This agenda is in process of formation
in light of proposed papers, some guesses, etc.
Things will change, somewhat…no
doubt.
Schedule
Please see immediately below the timetable for information
on the format of presentations and questions…
June 1 / Thursday
Anytime All Day
Arrive Logan Airport in Boston, take hour and a
half Bonanza bus ride, arrive Woods Hole. Also possible, arrive Providence, Rhode
Island, but Bonanza bus trip to Woods Hole is longer and somewhat more compilcated.
Check-in at Motel, etc.Dinner and Socializing at Swope Hall: 6:00 – 7:30 PM
Official Welcome, Introductions, and Orientation 8:30 – 10:00 PM
June 2 / Friday – Economic/Social Vision and Strategy
Breakfast and Socializing at Swope Hall: 7:00 – 8:30 AM
Morning Session: 9:00 – 10:30 AM
—
Trigona:
Self-Management in Argentina
Questions: Spannos, BaillargeonSmall Group Discussions: 10:45 – 11:45 AM
Lunch and Socializing at Swope Hall: 12:00 – 1:15 PM
Afternoon Session One: 1:30 – 3:00 PM
— Wilpert:
Linking Post-Capitalist Alternatives
Questions: Julien, GindinAfternoon Session Two: 3:30 – 5:00 PM
—Wetzel:
Workers’ Liberation
Questions: Peters, CericSmall Group Discussions 5:10 – 6:00 PM
Dinner and Socializing at Swope Hall: 6:15 – 7:15 PM
Evening Session: 8:00 – 9:30 PM
— Albert:
Building A Pareconish Movement
Questions: Pérez-Martí, GeorgeWhole Group Sum Up, Socializing, Filmed Interviews: 9:30 – 11:00 PM
June 3 / Saturday – Political Vision
and StrategyBreakfast and Socializing at Swope: 7:00 – 8:30 AM
Morning Session: 9:00 – 10:30 AM
— Grubacic:
Power and Revolution
Questions: Baillargeon, JulienSmall Group Discussions: 10:45 – 11:45 AM
Lunch and Socializing at Swope: 12:00 – 1:15 PM
Afternoon Session One: 1:30 – 3:00 PM
— Martí:
Free Information, Free Software & Revolution
Questions: Plath, AzulayAfternoon Session Two: 3:30 – 5:00 PM
— Adamovsky: Autonomous Politics
Questions: Dominick, WetzelSmall Group Discussions 5:10 – 6:00 PM
Dinner and Socializing at Swope Hall: 6:15 – 7:15 PM
Evening Session: 8:00 – 9:30 PM
— Shalom:
Visionary Politics
Questions: Schmidt, AlbertWhole Group Sum Up, Socializing, Filmed Interviews 9:30 – 11:00 PM…
June 4 / Sunday – Gender Vision and Strategy
Breakfast and Socializing at Z House: 7:00 – 8:30 AM
Morning Session: 9:00 -10:30 AM
—
Peters: Kinship Vision
Questions: Sitrin, FehrerSmall Group Discussions: 10:45 – 11:45 AM
Lunch and Socializing at Z House: 12:00 – 1:15 PM
Afternoon Session One: 1:30 – 3:00 PM
— Kolhatkar: RAWA and Feminist Strategy
Questions:
Evans, GeorgeAfternoon Session Two: 3:30 – 5:00 PM
Where
Are We Going With These Sessions – Discussing Outcomes, etc.Free Time 5:10 – 6:00 PM
Dinner and Socializing at Z: 6:15 – 7:15 PM
Party at Z 8:00 – 10:30 PM…
June 5 / Monday – Race and Community Vision and Strategy
Breakfast and Socializing at Swope Hall: 7:00 – 8:30 AM
Morning Session: 9:00 – 10:30 AM
—
Podur:
Race, Culture, & Leftists
Questions: Gonsalves, PonniahSmall Group Discussions: 10:45 – 11:45 AM
Lunch and Socializing at Swope Hall: 12:00 – 1:15 PM
Afternoon Session Two: 1:30 – 3:00 PM
— Walia: The Apartheid of Migration
Questions: Shalom, PlathAfternoon Session One: 3:30 – 5:00 PM
Where Are We Going With These Sessions – Discussing Outcomes, etc.Small Group Discussions 5:15 – 6:15 PM
Dinner and Socializing at Swope Hall: 6:30 – 7:30 PM
Evening: Where Are We Going With These Sessions – Discussing Outcomes, etc.
/ Socializing – 8:00 – 11:00 PM…
June 6 / Tuesday – International Relations
Vision and StrategyBreakfast and Socializing at Swope Hall: 7:00 – 8:30 AM
Morning Session: 9:00 – 10:30 AM
— Rai:
World Upside Down
Questions: Spannos, GindinSmall Group Discussions: 10:45 – 11:45 AM
Lunch and Socializing at Swope Hall: 12:00 – 1:15
Afternoon Session One: 1:30 – 3:00 PM
— Brecher:
Global People’s Law?
Questions: Halimi, SitrinAfternoon Session Two: 3:30 – 5:00 PM
— Mahajan: Internationalism…
Questions: Vukov, PodurSmall Group Discussions 5:10 – 6:00 PM
Dinner and Socializing at Swope Hall: 6:15 – 7:15 PM
Lasting Outcomes of ZSVS: 8:00 – 11:00
June 7 / Wednesday
Checkout: Roughly 10:00 AM
Flights out from Logan Airport (or, via more difficult bus connections from Providence)
all day as arranged.Proposed Format
(Please send requests for either general changes,
or changes in your own sessions.)Presentation Sessions
- Presentations will be chaired by the presenter.
- All papers will be available online to participants a month in advance.
- Presentations will summarize papers for at most thirty minutes.
- Presentations will offer claims about vision and or strategy, or about tasks
regarding vision and or strategy.- Named questioners will ask questions they and perhaps others have about how
to understand or expand on the presenter’s points seeking to provoke discussion and
exploration.- Named questioners will be limited to four minutes each.
- Anyone who wants to present more in-depth comments in advance, for posting,
or debate, etc., should do so.- After initial questions are asked, the presenter will answer for at most twenty
minutes, and then take further questions and comments from all attending.- Toward the close of the session the presenter will get a sense of the room regarding
his or her claims – do people agree with them, disagree with them, or are they unclear
about them – to provide grist for small group explorations.Small Group Discussions
- Each day everyone will randomly get a colored slip before sessions – red, yellow,
blue, green – and there will be four groups based on all members having the same
color slip.- Morning and afternoon small group discussions will be in these groups to facilitate
that everyone spends time with everyone else and that there are small sessions for
sharing ideas, etc.- We considered a proposal that people have meals with their small groups, but
decided we might get burned in oil for micro-managing.Papers
Housing, Food, etc.
The Nautilous Motel
Harsha Walia / Ria Julien Andrea Schmidt / Cynthia Peters Susan George Marie Trigona / Sonali Kolhatkar Tamara Vukov / Irina Ceric Andrej Grubacic / Marina Sitrin Justin Podur / Greg Wilpert Jessica Azulay / Brian Dominick Kendra Fehrer / Thomas Ponniah Normand Baillargeon / Chantel Santerre Milan Rai / Mark Evans Steve Shalom / Jonah Gindin Ezequiel Adamovsky / Rahul Mahajan Felipe Pérez Martí / Chris Spannos Jeremy Brecher / Serge Halimi Evan Henshaw Plath Jamie LeJeune / Tom Wetzel Lydia Sargent and Michael Albert (Z House) Sean Gonsalves and Andy Dunn (commute) Food
Z pre-paid meals will be at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute’s Swope Hall.
Swope is a large University type dining hall, for marine biology students and faculty
– world famous and teeming with international students and scientist/professors.The meals are all you can eat, with diverse selections.
It isn’t gourmet, but it is quite good, and they have ample vegetarian selections
and even make a credible stab at Vegan offerings.It is also possible to eat at any of numerous local restaurants for breakfast,
lunch, or dinner,for those who want to escape the larger venue at some point, though
this is on your own tab.Sunday meals will be catered at the Z House, as Swope Hall is closed. Excellent
food.
Weather
Early June in Wood Holes is volatle. It will be mostly long pants and reasonably
warm clothing, especially for the evening or if there is a cold rainy day – but also
bring summer weight shorts and, if you would like to swim at a nearby beach, a swimming
suit.There are times when people, especially from hot climates, will want sweaters,
etc. Other times, most everyone would have short sleeves. In short, come diversely
prepared, depending on your needs. An umbrella is likely to prove useful once or
twice. Our real summar weather starts a couple to three weeks later…which is why
we get good prices on motel rooms, etc., in early June.Temperatures can range from 50F to 80F but are likely to be in the 58F to 68F
range, most often, unless we get an early warm spell.
Tactics, Strategy, Etc. …
Conspiracy Theory
Various essays critical of conspiracy theory, with some debate.Consensus?
Primarily Albert and ZNeter Brian Dominick debate the merits of consensus decision making.“Feminism”
Lydia Sargent satire essays critiquing confused feminisms.Pollitt/Media
Albert and Katha Pollit debate media, the Nation, etc.
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