Their Wars Left Behind: Education for Action -- Upcoming Conference in Detroit MARCH 1-4, 2007

[Rouge Forum <rougeforum@pipeline.com>]

This promises to be a great conference. Please 
join us if you can.  More information available 
at RougeForum.org.  Contact 
rougeforum@pipeline.com or rgibson2@pipeline.com 
with questions or for additional information.


Tentative schedule:


The Rouge Forum presents

Their Wars Left Behind: Education for Action

(National Conference on How to Be Anti-War & Pro-Learning)



THURSDAY, MARCH 1 ? SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2007



Wayne State University, Manoogian Hall (<http://www.campusmap.wayne.edu/>map)

NW corner of Warren & Third Street, Detroit



Thursday Night (3-1-07)



8:00-Bill Boyer and his infamous Ground Zen at 
the Zeitgeist.  Discussion to follow.



Friday (3-2-07)



9:00-9:30??.?    Meet and Greet

9:30- 10:30?.?.    Susan Ohanian- Authored Why Is Corporate America Bashing

                                                       Our 
Schools? and co-authored What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children

                                                       Struggling 
in Kindergarten? (Room 91)

10:45-12:00??.. Steve Fleury and Eugenio Basualdo 
Toward Liberalizing Vocational Education

                                Joseph Cronin, 
The Knowledge Based Economy, Educational Debt, and Class Reproduction (Room 43)

                                Susan Newel- 
FAME: Finding Alternative to Military Enlistment

                                Nancy Patterson, 
Free Speech in the Balance (Room 54)

                                Scott Craig FLEX  Education, (Room 91)

12:00-1:30??...    Lunch

1:30-2:45???.    Elizabeth Jaegar, The Downer 5 and

                                Susan Harman,  (Room 43)

                                Steve Strauss, 
Global Transformation of Public Education under Neoliberal Influence

                                Tim Cashman, The 
United States and Its Wars; Mexican Teachers? Perspective  (Room 54)

                                Rich Gibson Why Have Schools

                                Eric Ferris, 
Social Class: America?s Well Kept Dirty Little Secret (Room 91)

3:00-3:30??.?George Schmidt (Room 91)

3:30-4:00???.    M.L. Liebler Poetry and Music (Room 91)



8:00-Bill Boyer and his infamous Ground Zen at 
the Zeitgeist.  Discussion to follow.



Saturday (3-3-07)



9:00-9:30??.?    Meet and Greet

9:30-10:30??..    Patrick Shannon (Room 91)

10:45-12:00??.    Fran Shor Bush League Spectacles (Room 43)

                                Adam Renner The 
Achievement Gap in Mathematics

                                Carolyn 
Stirling, Burqas, Bombs and Bleeding Hearts: The 
Role(s) of Antiracist/Culturally Inclusive 
Education                                         (Room 54)

                                Peter Werbe (Room 91)

12:00-1:30??...    Lunch

1:30-2:45???.    Dave Hill, Class, Capital and 
Education in this Neoliberal NeoConservative Period

                                Faith Wilson , 
Downsized Discourse: Classroom Management, 
Corporate Talk, and the Shaping of Correct 
Workplace                                         Attitudes (Room 43)

                                Michael Peterson

                                Wayne Ross (Room 54)

                                Nancye McCrary

                                Richard Kamler 
Artist as Citizen in Contemporary Society (Room 91)

3:00-3:30??.?    Rich Gibson (Room 91)

3:30-4:00??.?    Alan Franklin, Music (Room 91)



8:00-Bill Boyer and his infamous Ground Zen at 
the Zeitgeist.  Discussion to follow.



Sunday (3-4-07)  What to do? Organizing and 
proposals for action. (Room to be determined)





Schedule subject to change.  See 
<http://www.RougeForum.org>RougeForum.org for any changes.