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-----Original Message-----
From: Center for Theory [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Enid Arvidson
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:45 AM
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Subject: Conference on Local Economic Justice

THE HIGH ROAD RUNS THROUGH THE CITY: ADVOCATING FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE  
AT THE LOCAL LEVEL

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/wied/highroadrunsthroughthecity/

Sept. 27-28 2007 , Buffalo, NY

Sponsored by the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School,  
the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, and Cornell University ILR.

Local government provides important opportunities and challenges for  
efforts to address economic inequality.  Living wage ordinances are  
one example of the recent interest in using local policy to promote   
more equitable  economic development.  However, such local  
initiatives for economic justice frequently raise questions about the  
relationship between local democratic governance and economic  
policymaking.  Many cities have failed to enforce their living wage  
ordinances; many local economic policies are made outside of  
democratic processes; local governments are often constrained by  
"subsidy wars" encouraging a race to the bottom; and local politics  
is often dominated by narrow interests.   This conference brings  
together scholars in a variety of disciplines with activists and  
policymakers to explore the possibilities and challenges for  
developing progressive economic policies in local government.

  KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Journalist Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp? 
z=y&EAN=9780805076264&itm=1

PANELISTS INCLUDE:

*Peter Enrich, Northeastern University School of Law

*Susan Jones, George Washington University School of Law

*J. Phillip Thompson, III, MIT Urban Politics

*Annette Bernhardt, NYU Brennan Center for Justice

*Jen Kern, ACORN Living Wage Resource Center

*Greg LeRoy, Good Jobs First

*Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO

*Stephanie Luce, University of Massachusetts Labor Studies

*Joel Rogers, University of Wisconsin.

PANEL TOPICS INCLUDE:

*Shadow Governments and Privatization

*New Frontiers for the Living Wage

*Subsidy Reform

*Building Lasting Institutions from Progressive Coalitions

*Green Cities

*Global Connections

For more information, please visit http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/wied/ 
highroadrunsthroughthecity/ or contact Martha McCluskey, Professor of  
Law and William J. Magavern Fellow, State University of New York at  
Buffalo, [log in to unmask]