Wednesday October 9

Capitol Hill Hart Senate Building, Room 902, 2nd & Constitution Ave.

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM - 11:30 AM Capitol Hill Legislative Briefing

John Logue, Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Moderator

Who Wins and Loses as Global Corporations Acquire More Concentrated Control Over Wealth and Decision-making? What Can We Do?

William Greider, Author

Mark Levin, International Labour Organization (ILO) Cooperative Branch

Examples and Research Evidence on Benefits of Ownership - Firm Performance, Job Creation & Retention, Community Reinvestment, Asset Building, Improved Health and Education

Margaret Blair, Georgetown University Law Center

Adrian Celaya, Mondragon Cooperatives

David Erdal, Baxi Partnership Ltd.

New Capital Strategies to Protect Local Control and Humane Industrial Practices

Ron Blackwell, AFL-CIO

Jim English, United Steelworkers of America

Keith Romig, PACE International Union

Stock for Government Investment in Private Companies - Beyond the Airline Bailout

Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, US House of Representatives

Dennis Kucinich, US House of Representatives

Deborah Groban Olson, Capital Ownership Group

Business Perspective on Investing in Employee-Owned Companies from an Investor and Management.

Regis Canny, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

Eugene Keilin, KPS Special Situations Fund and Keilin and Company

Employee Ownership Act of 2001

Dana Rohrabacher, US House of Representatives

Wednesday October 9

Four Points Sheraton Hotel 1201, K Street NW

(All Subsequent sessions are being held at the Four Points Sheraton)

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Keynote and Lunch (Franklin CD Room)

Who Wins and Loses When Wealth and Decision-making are Concentrated in Large

Global Companies? Overview of Solutions to Humanize Globalization

William Greider, Author

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM Concurrent Workshops: Successful Employee Ownership

Think Globally, Act Locally - Successful Employee-Owned Companies and Supportive Local Policies (Franklin A Room)

Carla Dickstein, Coastal Enterprises (Moderator)

Adrian Celaya, Mondragon Cooperatives

John Logue, Ohio Employee Ownership Center

William Schweke, Corporation for Enterprise Development

Successful National and Transnational Employee Ownership Practices (Franklin B Room)

Jacquelyn Yates, Kent State University (Moderator)

Regis Canny, Science Applications International Corporation

Matthew Lea, National Center for Employee Ownership

Marc Mathieu, European Federation of Employee Shareownership

Erik Poutsma, University of Nijmegen Business School

Does Privatization Ever Work for Workers? (McPherson Room, 3rd Floor)

Dan Bell, Ohio Employee Ownership Center (Moderator)

David Binns, The Beyster Institute

David Ellerman, World Bank

David Wheatcroft, Job Ownership Limited

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Concurrent Workshops: Capital Strategies for Labor

Labor Venture Funds and Pension Investment Strategies (Franklin A Room)

Tom Croft, Steel Valley Authority, Heartland Labor Capital Network

Per Åhlström, Framtid I Norr

Bill Patterson, AFL-CIO

Labor’s Use of Employee Ownership (Franklin B Room)

Lynn Williams, United Steelworkers of America, retired (Moderator)

Keith Romig, PACE International Union

Vic Thorpe, International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions

David Wheatcroft, Job Ownership Limited

Social Investment Models and Socially Responsible Businesses that Work for Investors and Entrepreneurs (McPherson Room, 3rd Floor)

Mary Landry, Maryland Labor Education Association (Moderator)

Ray Carey, Carey Center for Democratic Capitalism

Eugene Keilin, KPS Special Situations Fund and Keilin and Company

Todd Larsen, COOP America

Alya Kayal, Calvert

5:45 PM - 7:15 PM Reception Sheraton Capitol Garden Room-Roof Top

Thursday October 10 Four Points Sheraton Hotel, 1201 K Street NW

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM Continental Breakfast & Registration (Hotel Lobby)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Concurrent Workshops: Building Economic Muscle - Companies

How Modern Cooperatives Succeed in Global Competition with Locally Controlled Companies (Franklin A Room)

Race Mathews, Monash University (Moderator)

Paul Hazen, National Cooperative Business Association

Chris Mackin, Ownership Associates, SweatX

Mark Sweet, Equal Exchange

Employee Ownership in Developing Countries (Franklin B Room)

Ravi Naidoo, National Labour & Economic Development Institute (Moderator)

Juan Guillermo Espinosa, External Advisor ECLA-UN

Situ Gongyun, China Institute for Reform and Development

Maria Adela Oliveros Maqueo, Roberto Oliveros Foundation

Community-Based Asset Building, Ownership Mechanisms, and IDAs (McPherson Room, 3rd Floor)

Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, University of Maryland, Democracy Collaborative (Moderator)

David John, Heritage Foundation

Heather McCulloch, Policylink

Rev. Walter Fauntroy, National Black Leadership Roundtable (NBLR)

10:45 AM - 12:15 AM Concurrent Workshops: Building Economic Muscle - Policy

Corporate Accountability and Corporate Bailouts-Protecting Citizen Franchise when Government Invests in Private Businesses Directly or Through ESOPs (Franklin A Room)

Deborah Groban Olson, Capital Ownership Group (Moderator)

David Johanson, Johanson Berenson LLP

Michael Keeling, The ESOP Association

International Agencies and Central Bank Roles in Broadening Capital Ownership (Franklin B Room)

Karen May, Ariza Ownership Ventures (Moderator)

Tony Avirgan, Economic Policy Institute/ Global Policy Network

Steve Clem, Ohio Employee Ownership Center

Shann Turnbull, Australian Employee Ownership Association

Mara Vanderslice, Jubilee USA Network

Redefining the Corporation - Contract and Accountability (McPherson Room, 3rd Floor)

Vic Thorpe, Just Solutions (Moderator)

Ron Blackwell, AFL-CIO

David Ellerman, World Bank

Norm Kurland, Center for Economic and Social Justice

12:15 PM - 1:45 PM Plenary/Luncheon - Keynote (Franklin CD Room)

Globalization, Decent Work & Ownership: An ILO Perspective Mark Levin, International Labour Organization (ILO) Cooperative Branch

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Concurrent Workshops: Protecting the Citizen Franchise, Opportunity, and the Environment

Threat To and Response From Local Government (Franklin A Room)

William Schweke, Corporation for Enterprise Development (Moderator)

Ray Boshara, New America Foundation

Greg LeRoy, Good Jobs First

Stakeholder Control Models, Methods and Experiences (Franklin B Room)

Keith Wilde, Canadian Pension System (Moderator)

David Erdal, Baxi Partnership Limited

Race Mathews, Monash University

Shann Turnbull, Australian Employee Ownership Association

Trade Reform and Collective Bargaining Approaches to Tame Globalization (McPherson Room, 3rd Floor)

Steve Clem, Ohio Employee Ownership Center (Moderator)

Rob Scott, Economic Policy Institute

Lynn Williams, United Steelworkers of America, retired

3:45 PM - 5:30 PM Plenary

A Panel of Speakers Will Reflect on New Ideas Sparked by the Conference. Gar Alperovitz Will Integrate These in a Presentation - Challenges and Next Steps: Working Together to Fix Globalization (Franklin AB Room)

Gar Alperovitz, University of Maryland, Democracy Collaborative (Moderator)

Ron Blackwell, AFL-CIO

Matthew Lea, National Center for Employee Ownership

Ravi Naidoo, National Labour & Economic Development Institute

Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, University of Maryland, Democracy Collaborative

Maria Adela Oliveros Maqueo, Roberto Oliveras Foundation

6:30 PM sign up in advance at conference registration table at Four Points Sheraton

Informal Dinner - Dinner is not covered in the conference fee. Sign up at the conference reservation desk for a particular working group or coalition dinner group. Group leaders will announce restaurants or meeting places at the preceding plenary.

Informal dinner of to-be-formed Fix Globalization Coalition participants. Also COG Working Group meetings.

Friday October 11 Four Points Sheraton Hotel, 1201 K Street NW

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast (Franklin B Room)

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM COG and Coalition Strategy Meeting

Round robin of introductions of organization objectives and programs. Collection of specific action proposals arising out of Oct.10 closing plenary. Discussion of and agreement on small group discussion topics on strategic plan for COG and the new coalition (Franklin B Room)

Noon - 1:00 PM Working lunch (Franklin A Room)

Discussion of Mutual Aid Resources for Joint or Complimentary Action

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Small group discussion, report back & SWOT analysis (Franklin B Room)

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Next Step Decisions (Franklin B Room)

Co-Sponsors

Platinum

Ford Foundation

German Marshall Fund of the US

Gold

Carey Center for Democratic Capitalism

Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach LLP

Developing Country Scholarship

Johanson Berenson LLP

Robert Smiley, Jr.

Silver

Calvert

Idyll Foundation

International Brotherhood of Boilermakers

Mary Landry

Maryland Labor Education Association (MLEA)

Ohio Employee Ownership Center (OEOC) of Kent State University

PACE International Union

Shared Equity Strategies, Inc.

Contributing

Asociacion Nacional de Fondos de Empleados en Colombia

Beyster Institute

Coastal Enterprises, Inc.

Co-op America

Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED)

Democracy Collaborative, University of Maryland

Development Group for Alternative Policies (D’GAP)

Economic Policy Institute (EPI)

Equal Exchange

European Federation for Employee Shareownership (EFES)

Fair Trade Federation (FTF)

Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO)

Harrison Institute for Public Law

Institute for America’s Future (IAF)

International Labour Organization (ILO)

National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)

National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA)

Sisters of St. Joseph (SSJ)

TransFair USA

Union Network International (UNI)

United Steelworkers of America (USWA)