There are individuals and communities around the world who have stopped waiting for the systems around them to change, who are engaged in alternative practices and systems right now - in economics, safety, media and communications, politics and more.  For our Foundry Dialogue Series this year, THIS IS HOW WE DO IT brings together some of the leading innovators from around the globe - people who are redefining nothing less than how the world works and how we relate to each other.  We invite you to join us for their practicical and poetic show & tell presentations to find out of how the world is already working in radically different ways. (Events and speakers below.)

Opening Plenary:  MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE 

featuring
Grace Lee Boggs:  One of the great philosophers and political visionaries of our time. Boggs has been a part of almost every major movement in the United States over the last 75 years; she's 96, intellectually ageless and still going strong.

Nelson Johnson: Executive Director of the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, North Carolina and a leader of the Greensboro Truth & Community Reconciliation Project, the first of its kind in the US.
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Andrea Smith: Longtime anti-violence and Native American activist and scholar, Smith is a proponent and innovator of new political practices. She currently teaches in media and cultural studies at UC, Riverside.  

Moderated by Amy Goodman: Host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,000 public television and radio stations in North America.
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SATURDAY & SUNDAY DIALOGUES @ Cooper Union's Rose Auditorium /////

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ANOTHER POLITICS 

Int'l  Presenters:              Mzwakhe Mdlalose, President of the South African Shackdwellers’ Movement (Abahlali baseMjondolo)

Rafael Litvin Villas Bôas, a coordinator of Brazil’s Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento Sem Terra)

Local Respondents:       Erik Ehn, Playwright

Raquel Lavina, Program Director at Social Justice Leadership

Maria Mercado, member of Movement for Justice in El Barrio

Michael Premo, Co-creator of Housing is a Human Right and member of Organizing for Occupation

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ANOTHER MEDIA

Int'l  Presenters:              Claudia Acuña, Founding Member of La Vaca communications cooperative in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Diana Nucera, Program Director at Allied Media Projects in Detroit

Local Respondents:       Marisa Jahn, Executive & Creative Director at People’s Production House

Morgan Jenness, Cultural Occupier, Abrams Artists Agency

Alyssa Katz, Editor of The New York World

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ANOTHER SAFETY

Int'l  Presenters:              Joyce and Nelson Johnson presenting on the Greensboro Truth & Community Reconciliation Process

Mimi Kim, Founder of Creative Interventions in Oakland

Jill Williams, Truth Commission Consultant and Occupy Faith Organizer

YaliniDream*, Collective Member of Safe OUTside the System

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ANOTHER ECONOMY

Int'l  Presenters:              Michael Peck, US representative for the Mondragón federation of workers' cooperatives in the Basque Country

Daniel Tygel, former Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Forum for the Solidarity Economy

Local Respondents:       Carmen Piñeiro, Sustainable Communities Organizer at Community Voices Heard

Carne Ross, Executive Director of Independent Diplomat and member of the Occupy Wall Street Alternative Banking Working Group

Juan Carlos Ruiz, Communications Coordinator at Green Worker Cooperatives

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