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Department of Geography
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Institute for Research on Labor and Employmet
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CHANGING CLIMATES: CLASS, CULTURE, AND POLITICS IN AN ERA OF GLOBAL WARMING

18th Annual California Studies Conference
Berkeley City College
2050 Center Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
(1/2 block from BART)


Program

FRIDAY, April 11

7:00-9: 00 p.m.
Keynote: Matt Gonzales, Independent candidate for Vice-President of the United States

Reception following keynote address.

SATURDAY, April 12
Complimentary buffet of coffee and pastries.

8:45-10:15 a.m.
Ports and People: Jobs, Health, Power (room 51)

  • Louise Dyble (chair), University of Southern California
  • Margaret Gordon, Port of Oakland Commission
  • Aditi Vaidya, EBASE
  • Clarence Thomas, ILWU
  • Peter Hall, Simon Fraser University

Organizing Community in the Silicon Valley (room 57)

  • Ruben Abrica, De Anza College
  • Chris Block, Charities Housing
  • Raj Jayadev, Silicon Valley De-Bug Magazine
  • Nari Rhee, University of California, Berkeley
10:30-12:00 P.M.
Writing California (room 51)
  • Susan McWilliams (chair), Pomona College
  • Rick Wartzman, Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of The Grapes of Wrath
  • Peter Richardson, American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams
  • Philip Fradkin, Wallace Stegner and the American West
  • Richard Walker, The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area

People, Place, and Water (room 57)

  • Michael Warburton, Public Trust Alliance
  • George Basye, Levee Historian and Water Policy consultant
  • Mark Franco and Caleen Sisk-Franco, Winnemem Wintu Tribe
  • Ruth Langridge, University of California, Santa Cruz

The Living Wage and Labor Power (room 14)

  • Marty Bennett (chair), Living Wage Coalition of Sonoma County
  • Wei-Ling Huber, Emeryville Living Wage/Woodfin Suites Campaign
  • Sonya Mehta, San Francisco Living Wage Campaign
  • Cesar Hernandez, CAUSE-Central Coast Organizing Project

12:00-12:30 P.M.
Lunch in atrium
Box lunch by Rick and Ann’s catering available through pre-registration, $15

12:30-1:30 P.M.
Luncheon address: Jackie Goldberg, “The Changing Climate of Our Schools: Put Students on the Endangered List” (auditorium)

1:45-3:15 P.M.
New California Literature: Breaking Into the Future (room 51)

  • Julia Stein (chair), Santa Monica College
  • Owen Hill, The Chandler Apartments
  • Judy Juanita, We Got Work to Do
  • Rip Rense, The Oaks

In Praise of Taxes (room 57)

  • Jeff Lustig (chair), California State University, Sacramento
  • Jackie Goldberg, UCLA Teach Compton
  • Peter Schrag, California: America’s High-Stakes Experiment
  • Mason Gaffney, University of California, Riverside

Immigration and the Border (room 14)

  • Peter Richardson (chair), San Francisco State University
  • Sasha Abramsky, American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment
  • David Bacon, Illegal: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants
  • Peter Laufer, Wetback Nation: The Case for Opening the Mexican-American Border
  • Mary Moreno-Richardson, Episcopal Diocese of San Diego

3:30-5:00 P.M.
Climate Change: What’s in Store for California? (auditorium)

  • Richard Walker (moderator), The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Norman Miller, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
  • David Beesley, Crow's Range: An Environmental History of the Sierra Nevada
  • Tim Rainey, California Federation of Labor
  • Max Aufhammer, University of California, Berkeley

5:10-5:45 P.M.
CSA business meeting (room 51)

8:00 p.m.
Ian Ruskin, “From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks: The Life and Times of Harry Bridges”

SUNDAY, April 13
Complimentary buffet of coffee and pastries.

9:00-10:30 A.M.
Working in the Green Economy (room 51)

  • Enrique Davalos, San Diego City College
  • Raquel Pinderhughes, San Francisco State University
  • Ian Kim, Ella Baker Center, Oakland
  • Kate Gordon, Apollo Alliance

Arts and Activism I (room 57)

  • Randolphe Belle (chair), Artist and community development consultant
  • Amanda Williams, Soul Salon 10 Collective
  • Arthur Monrow, Oakland Museum of California
  • Deborah Vaughan, Dimensions Dance Theater

10:45-12:15 P.M.
Green Media (room 51)

  • Yumi Wilson (chair), San Francisco State University
  • Rose Aguilar, KALW
  • John Scott, Green 960AM
  • Jonathon Rowe, KWMR

Sky as Commons: Pollution and Equal Rights (room 57)

  • Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor
  • Glenn Fieldman, San Francisco State University
  • Christopher Lepe, De Anza College
  • Ellen Choy, Environmental Justice and Climate Change

Arts and Activism II: Moral Imperative (room 14)

  • Randolphe Belle (chair), Artist and community development consultant
  • Robin Freeman, Merritt College
  • Kim Anno, California College of the Arts
  • Kristy Alfieri, The Crucible
  • Greg Morozumi, Eastside arts Alliance

Registration

To pre-register for the conference send an email to changingclimates@gmail.com

$35.00 suggested donation
$10.00 suggested student donation
$15.00 for box lunch on Saturday - be sure to request a box lunch with your registration - lunches will only be available by pre-order.