Final Reminder: Global Teach In 20 Locations, 7 Countries

[Global Teach In]

Seven Nations and More than 15 Cities in 4 Continents Organize Global
Teach-In to answer the question: What’s Next for the Occupy Movement?



On April 25th, 2012, activists, policy makers, and scholars from
around the world will assemble for a global teach-in, commencing with
a kick off event at 10AM Eastern Daylight Time and continuing until 4
pm EDT. On April 25th, the first day of the United Nations Conference
on International Organization in San Francisco, cities around the
world will address concrete solutions to the economic, environmental
and energy crises.



Seven months ago, on September 17, 2011 the Occupy Movement was
launched in Zuccotti Park in Wall Street. With a change in weather
and a renewed cycle of activism around the corner, Occupy,
environmental, labor, peace and other activists around the world will
address the question: “What’s next for the Occupy Movement?” They
will do this through a live, interactive broadcast involving lectures,
face-to-face discussion groups and action plans showcasing how to
promote democracy movements, green jobs and planning, and an
alternative financial system.



This event will showcase the alternative policies needed globally,
nationally and locally to constitute a concrete plan of action.
Speakers will address the need for not only new tax and budgetary
policies, but also the necessity to build new economic institutions
from the ground up. These include: alternative banks, utilities,
cooperatives and other new economic forms to promote needed economic
and ecological changes.



The world’s leading thinkers and activists will be involved in this
event, including: Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org (US); Gar
Alperovitz, founding Principal of The Democracy Collaborative (US);
Colin Hines, Convenor of the Green new Deal (UK); Bruce Nixon,
environmental author and activist (UK); Ellen Hodgson Brown, Chairman
and President, Public Banking Institute (US); Alice Slater, noted
peace and anti-nuclear activist (US); Robert Pollin, a leading
economist on green economic transformations (US); Pamela Brown, a
leader of the movement against student debt (US); Joel Rogers, a
leading green activist (US); Oscar Kejllberg, Former President of
Sweden’s leading cooperative bank (Sweden); and Dada Maheshvarananda,
a leader of the PROUT movement for economic democracy (Venezuela).
Jonathan M. Feldman (Sweden), principal convenor, organized the
televised national Green New Deal Conference in Sweden in March 2009
and was a principal organizer of the May 2, 1990 National Town Meeting
on the Peace Dividend held in Washington, D.C.



Promotional video: http://vimeo.com/39371903;

Webpage: http://www.globalteachin.com/