Program for TOES '90 - Houston, 1990 G7 Summit, TOES90
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TOES '90 - Houston
"The Voice of the People for a Change"
Program
Day 1: A Changing World - Listening for a Change
Day 2: New Perspectives on Ecology and Economy
Day 3: Democratizing the Economy
Overall Program Coodordinator: Trent Schroyer
List of People in Houston and elsewhere that made it work:
Reception
- Houston Children Sing: Guy Bonhomme conducting children from the Awty International School, kindergarten through 4th grade.
Day 1: A Changing World - Listening for a Change
Program Coordinators for Day 1: Ward Morehouse and Trent Schroyer
- Morning Plenary: Listening for a Change
- Populist Leaders' Summit
- Afternoon Plenary: An Overview of the Seven Poorest Peoples' Summit
- Summit at the Grass Roots: Organizing Strategies for the 90's
- Peoples' Conditionalities
- The Second Annual Summit of Witnesses from Seven of the World's Poorest Peoples
- Feminist Perspectives on the Economy
- Africa Takes the Lead: Alternatives to Structural Adjustment
- Gandhian Economics: The Economics of Abundance: Rejecting the Assumption of Scarcity
- Creating the Peace Economy
- The Economic Crisis and Its Socio/Political Repercussions in Central America: Alternative Models for the Economy
- Perspectives on International Health Care Economics
- The Body Politic (The Sustainable Development Project, Part 1 of 4)
- GATT Trade Negotiations: Threat to Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable Development
- Impacts of the Global Economy
- Transformation of Non-Governmental Organizations in the 80s
at the Local, National, and International Level
- The Struggle for Economic Justice: Immigrants in U.S. Society
- Changes in Eastern Europe and Their Implications for the Third World
- The Revolt against Modernity
- Developing a Sustainable and Just Economy in Post-Apartheid South Africa
- Asian Perspectives
- Indigenous Peoples Workshop: "We the Indigenous: On Land Reform, Development and Community"
- Houston as Microcosm: The Global City
- Dinner and Evening Plenary: Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, Antonio Navarro, Dr. Adalberto Carvajal-Salcedo, Jesse Jackson, all in person except for Jesse Jackson, who sent a tape recorded message.
- A Cultural Evening of International Music, Dance and Poetry
Day 2: New Perspectives on Ecology and Economy
Program Coordinator for Day 2: Robert J. King
Day 3: Democratizing the Economy
Program Coordinators for Day 3: Susan Hunt and Romesh Diwan
- Working Brunch to Draft Selected Paragraphs of the TOES Communiqué to the G-7
- The Colonizing Self (The Sustainable Development Project, Part 4 of 4)
- Gandhian Economics: Economics of Altruism vs. Economics of Greed
- Indigenous Peoples' Rights
- Political Power and Economic Democracy
- Humanistic Economics: Regenerating the Economics of Community
- The Economics of Jails, Prisons, Political Prisoners, and the Death Penalty
- Good Jobs and a Clean Environment is there a Conflict?
- Third World Debt and International Monetary Justice
- InterNation Roundtable
- Social Responsibility and the Knowledge Industry
- Affordable Housing: Dream or Reality
- Panama and the U.S. Invasion: Serving the Cause of Justice?
- Luncheon Speaker - David Morris, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
- Day 3 Plenary: Regenerating the Economics of Community
- Economic Conversion: Revitalizing Local Economies
- Community Regeneration and Forms of Self Reliance
- The Alternative Media and Economics
- Cities in a Global System
- S & L's: the $1 Trillion Financial Meltdown
- Alternative Economic Indicators
- Impact of Capitalism on Blacks, Other Minorities, and the Poor
- Economics and Access for Populations with Disabilities
- The Progressive Market: Creative Consuming
- Innovations in Recycling: Community "Waste" Resources and Economic Development
- Fair Trade Campaign Strategy Session
- Questioning Economic Development
- Power to the 84% (shown by polls to be concerned about the environment)
- Learning from Traditional Agriculture
- Hispanic Perspectives on Economics
- State and Local Tax Reform: Poor People of Texas! Why This is Your Issue, and What You Can Do About It
- Alternative Financial Institutions
- The Economics of Hunger: Share the Harvest of Peace
- Feminist Perspectives on the Economy
- Economic Perspectives on Health in the Industrialized Nations
- Work: (The Sustainable Development Project, Part 3 of 4)
- Worker Participation: Does it Democratize the Workplace?
- New Models of Ownership: Worked-Owned Enterprises, Community Financing, and Land Trusts
- A Superfund for Workers: Building Bridges Between Labor and the Public Interest Community
- World Religious Perspectives on Economics
- March and Rally
- Houston as Microcosm: Community in Need
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