2006 Conference Schedule 

The conference will begin midday on Friday, October 13 and run through early evening on Sunday, October 15. We recommend that attendees travelling from across the country arrive on Thursday night.

Conference Schedule PDF
Most recently updated 10.2.06.
Schedule is provisional: both time and content are subject to change

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FRIDAY
10:30am- 2pm
Tours of local co-ops and places of interest (more information to come)
Check in to lodging

2:30-6pm : COLORS Restaurant: 417 Lafayette St. @ Astor Place
* Opening Reception
* Introductions, orientation
* Update on US Federation work
* Reports from regional organizing
* The Importance of Intersectoral Cooperation: Paul Hazen, NCBA President & CEO
* Worker Cooperatives, the World and Wealth (Fishbowl discussion)

6:30pm on
Dinner: self-organized small groups go out

8pm on
West Side YMCA: 5 W 63rd St.
Social space and Films: Documentaries on the worker cooperative movement in Argentina

SATURDAY : Millennium High School: 75 Broad St.

9-9:30am
Welcome, continental breakfast

9:30-10:30
Keynote address: Rick Surpin, Cooperative Home Care Associates

10:30am- 12:30pm
WORKSHOPS
ABCs of Worker Co-ops
Cooperative Home Care panel
Confronting Internalized Oppression:Fostering Leadership Among Traditionally Marginalized Groups
One-on-one consultation times
Large Co-op Round Table Discussion

12:30-1:30pm
Lunch
Debut of the worker co-op loan fund

1:30-2:15pm
Group session: Building Community Wealth
Presentation by reps from Community Development Financial Institutions and foundations on available resources

2:30-4:30pm
WORKSHOPS
Start a Worker Cooperative: Innovative Models for Raising Money
How to Make Your Co-op Loan-Ready - Financial Reporting for Growth
Identifying the Barriers to Cooperative Development
Strategic Planning
One-on-one consultation times
Open space for spontaneous workshops

4:30-5pm
Break

5pm-7pm
WORKSHOPS
Unions and Worker Cooperatives: Is There Room for Collaboration?
Rebuilding New Orleans in the African-American Cooperative Tradition
Creating a Wave of New Worker Co-ops: Strategy for a Development Initiative
Generational Turnover
Developing an Online Data Commons Driectory Tool
Open space for spontaneous workshops

7pm-8pm
Dinner

8pm-11pm
Workerfest! Party, auction, performances

SUNDAY : Millennium High School: 75 Broad St.
8:30-9am
Continental Breakfast

9am-11:30am
USFWC membership meeting
Introduction to cooperation: it's everywhere!
One-on-one consultation times
Open space for spontaneous workshops

11:30am-noon
Regional caucuses
One-on-one consultation times
Open space

12-1pm
Lunch
Co-op marketplace and vendor space

1-2:30pm
WORKSHOPS
Growth: Different Models
Wealth Accumulation Through Cooperative Ownership: Bridging the Racial Divide
International Worker Cooperative Movements
Effective Democratic Participation
Coordinating local, regional and national organizing
Inter-Cooperative Collaboration: Focus on Marketing
One-on-one consultation times

2:30-3:15
Wrap-up, evaluations

3:30-6pm : Anthology Film Archives: 32 W. Second Ave @ Second St.
Screen documentary film The Take - public event (with filmmaker Avi Lewis)