Fwd: Planners Network Forum: Partnerships for Regional Equity, May 18th-19th, 2012

[Dominic Frongillo]

Of interest -- see below.

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From: Richard Kiely <rc...@cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:01 PM
Subject: RE: Planners Network Forum: Partnerships for Regional Equity, May 18th-19th, 2012

I hope you'll consider attending the Planners Network Forum, Partnerships for Regional Equity, May 18th-19th, 2012.

We’re inviting planners, citizens, and scholars to Cornell University in beautiful Ithaca, NY to share strategies to cooperate and achieve regional equity goals, even in the face of shrinking budgets and political opposition.

Forum Program Updated (see attached)

We want to announce updates to the website! Find an updated program with panel descriptions at: http://plannersnetworkcornell.wordpress.com.

We also would like to remind everyone to RSVP as soon as possible! Click here to register.

Want to know more about Planners Network? Check out plannersnetwork.org. Questions? Email plannersnet...@gmail.com

Featured Activities:

• Plenary Session: “Coalitions, Partnerships, and Activist Planning” with Chester Hartman and Ken Reardon
• Saturday Plenary: "Land Trusts, food access, and neighborhood revitalization: pieces of a whole," speakers to be announced soon.
• Food Systems: Presentations on Urban Agriculture, Equitable Access, and Regional Systems
• Housing: Presentations on Community Land Trusts and Just Housing
• Economic Dev: Presentations on Labor Coalitions, Manufacturing Retention, and Job Training
• Energy and Environment: Presentations on Hydrofracking Response and Coalitions for Environment
• Neighborhoods: Presentations on Gentrification and Preservation
• Mobile Workshops and Charrettes with Tompkins County Sustainability Initiative, Way2Go, and more
• Social Networking Events in the Community: Good food, discussion, and fun!

Speakers Include:

• Chester Hartman, Poverty & Race Research Action Council
• Kenneth Reardon, University of Memphis
• Vernell Bentley, Partnership for Onondaga Creek
• Steve Charters, Researcher at McGill University/Made in Montreal
• Kirby Edmonds, Senior Fellow and Program Coordinator at Dorothy Cotton Institute
• Dominic Frongillo, Town Councilor and Deputy Supervisor, Town of Caroline
• Joanna Green, Director of Groundswell
• Aggie Lane, Partnership for Onondaga Creek
• Chairperson Martha Robertson, Tompkins County
• Paul Mazzarella, Executive Director of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services
• Jemila Sequeria, Coordinator of the Whole Community Project
• Jeanne Shenandoah, Onondaga Nation
• Sarah Wraight, Onondaga Environmental Institute
• Louise Simmons, Professor at University of Connecticut School of Social Work
• Catherine Vandermeulen, Researcher at McGill University
• Brent Wasser, Manager of Sustainable Food & Agriculture Program, Williams College
• Students from MIT, University of Pennsylvania, McGill University, Concordia University, and Cornell University

Please forward this announcement to your friends, coworkers, chapters, and mailing lists!

The Planners Network Forum is sponsored by Organization of Cornell Planners, and co-sponsored by the Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell Preservation Studies Student Association, and Cornell Women's Planning Forum.
The event is funded in part by the Cornell GPSAFC, and is open to the public.

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Dominic Frongillo
Councilmember and Deputy Town Supervisor
Town of Caroline, New York

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