TOES '90 - Houston

List of People in Houston and elsewhere that made it work:

• 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

• Morning Plenary: Redefining Prosperity

• Introduction of Morning Summits and Workshops

• Energy and the Environment Summit

• The EnviroSummit: Planning the Group of Ten's Environmental Accountability Project

• Summit of the Seven Poorest Peoples, Part II: The North-South Monitoring Group Reports

• Ecological Development Summit: North-South Reforms in an Interdependent World

• Sustainable Cities Workshop

• Redefining Prosperity at the Personal Level

• Corporate Accountability

• Financial Policy vs. the Environment

• Ecological Sustainability (The Sustainable Development Project, Part 2 of 4)

• Permaculture: Natural Systems for Living Sustainably

• Luncheon Speakers

• Afternoon Plenary: Introduction of Afternoon Issue Summits and Workshops

• Summit on Labor, Toxics and the Environment

• Summit on Eastern Europe and the Environment

• Reducing G-7 Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Policies and Politics

• Houston as a Microcosm: Focus on the Environment

• Oceans and Bays Workshop

• The Valdez Principles Workshop: Influencing Corporate Behavior through Consumer & Investor Action

• The Green Seal Workshop

• Ecological Accounting Workshop: Natural Capital and Sustainable Development

• Ecofeminism

• Technology for a Just and Sustainable Society

• Funding for Change

• Dinner Speakers

• Clean Water Action's Boat Tour of Bush's Boston Harbor

Day 3: Democratizing the Economy

• 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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