AJBAY13_PM3-113

Living Wage Organizing Strategies

Speakers: Christina Canaveral, Coleman Advocates For Children & Youth; Derecka Mehrens, Working Partnerships USA; Jahmese Myres, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE); Shaw San Liu, Chinese Progressive Association

While there is limited job growth in the middle income range, low wage work is on the rise. There needs to be a concentrated focus on lifting the minimum wage and basic benefits for the economic self sufficiency of low wage workers. Come and learn from this panel of organizations across the Bay Area that are fighting for living wages and dignified jobs for low and moderate workers.

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POC12-171

Slow Money – investing as if food, farms, and fertility matter

Speakers: Woody Tasch, Founder and Chairman, Slow Money; Speaker presented by – Temra Costa, Sustainable Food Advocate and Author of Farmer Jane

Today, over $12 million has been invested directly in small food enterprises through the Slow Money network, both nationally and through over a dozen local chapters, one of which is in Northern California. We are still at the beginning, and at the same time we are well on the way to our goal of 1 million people investing 1% of their money in local food systems, this decade. Learn how, in Wendell Berry’s words, these “millions of small acts” can begin to rebuild our economy… from the ground up.

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$7.00

$7.00

WRC09-210

Luncheon Banquet: Ricky Minor & Greg Phillinganes

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$10.00

$10.00

WRC09-102

Making the Classroom Exciting: Learning from Our Ancestors

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$10.00

$10.00

AJBAY13-120

Closing Plenary: Towards A Just Bay Area - Reports from the Field

Speakers: Keynote Speaker: Tina Brooks, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC); Bill Lindsay, City of Richmond; Dan Martinez, Congregations Organizing for Renewal (COR); Oscar Grande, People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights (PODER)

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WRC09-220

Culminating Event

Speakers: Elnora Webb & Gregory Hodge, Alfreda Lyons Campbell, Pastor John Henderson

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$12.00

$12.00

BALLE10-224

Bartering to Build Community Wealth

Speakers: Gary Field, Mary Ellen Rosinski, Krista Vardabash, Richard Logie

MP3

$12.00

$12.00

WRC09-110

Keynote: “Hope: Illuminating the Community in Community College”

Speakers: Gregory Hodge, Bryan Monroe

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$10.00

$10.00

SEA11-211

Pay-for-Success: Financing & Social Impact Bonds

Speakers: Pinakiewicz

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$12.00

$12.00

POC12-141

The new sustainable theory of investing

Speakers: Jay Youngdahl, East Bay Express and Harvard Fellow at the Institute for Responsible Investment; (Responder) Ed Church, Institute for Environmental Entrepreneurship

Wall Street investment activity is premised on a view of a theory of finance called, “Modern Portfolio Theory” (MPT). Due to lack of an alternative, even many green investment companies rely on MPT. But MPT is based on a selfish view of utilitarian interests in which the investments of an individual or enterprise are looked at out of societal context, and measured only by short term financial returns. Strict adherence to MPT forecloses most sustainable and green investment strategies and MPT has failed even as to what it promises. Hear from a panel working on a new replacement theory that is fascinating as well as nationally important, and which puts sustainability and people’s true needs at the heart of investment strategies.

MP3

$7.00

$7.00

SEA11-207

All Politics is Local: The Opportunity for Social Enterprise

Speakers: Smith, Sheridan

MP3

$10.00

$10.00

Subtotal

$90.00