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This Is How We Do It: A Festival of Dialogues About Another World Under Construction The Foundry Theatre WHEN: Friday, April 20 - Sunday, April 22 (schedule below) WHERE: Cooper Union, New York, NY TICKETS: RIGHT HERE There are communities around the world that have stopped waiting for the systems around them to change. They are engaged in alternative practices right now -- in economics, safety, media and communications, politics and more. With This Is How We Do It, Foundry Dialogues is bringing together many of the foremost innovators from around the globe -- people who are redening nothing less than how the world works. We invite you to join the conversation on the poetic and practical experiences of remaking the diverse places in which we live (a kind of 'there-are-other-ways-to-do-things' show & tell) -- from the inside out. Below is schedule of the weekend's events. FRIDAY, APRIL 20 @ 7PM OPENING PLENARY: MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE Cooper Union's Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street, between Third & Fourth Avenues 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. JOINED BY Nelson Johnson: Executive Director of the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, North Carolina and a leader of the Greensboro Truth & Community Reconciliation Project, the rst of its kind in the US. & 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

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America. SATURDAY & SUNDAY DIALOGUES Cooper Union's Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square, on Third Avenue between 6th & 7th Streets Saturday @ Noon: ANOTHER POLITICS GUEST PRESENTERS Mzwakhe Mdlalose, President of the South African Shackdwellers' Movement (Abahlali baseMjondolo) Rafael Litvin Villas Bas, a coordinator of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento Sem Terra) LOCAL RESPONDENTS 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 Saturday @ 3PM:ANOTHER MEDIA GUEST PRESENTERS Claudia Acua, 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 Sunday @ Noon: ANOTHER SAFETY GUEST PRESENTERS Joyce and Nelson Johnson presenting on the Greensboro Truth & Community Reconciliation Process Mimi Kim, Founder of Creative Interventions in Oakland LOCAL RESPONDENTS YaliniDream, Collective Member of Safe OUTside the System Jill Williams, Truth Commission Consultant and Occupy Faith Organizer Marcus Gardley, Playwright Sunday @ 3p: ANOTHER ECONOMY GUEST PRESENTERS Michael Peck, US representative for the Mondragn federation of workers' cooperatives in the Basque Country

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Daniel Tygel, former Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Forum for the Solidarity Economy LOCAL RESPONDENTS Carmen Pieiro, 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 Artist respondent TBA Spanish/English Interpretation & Off-Site Childcare Available Upon Request contact rj [at] thefoundrytheatre [dot] org Web site of the Foundry Theatre: <www.thefoundrytheatre.org>. URL: mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2012/tihwdi060412.html

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