Conferences, Presentations and Workshops

Here's a listing of upcoming workshops and conferences that is on the radar of May First/People Link:

• We've been invited by our latest member, the ​Institute for Anarchist Studies, to attend their Renewing the Anarchist Studies (RAT) workshop in November 7-9, 2008, in Montpelier, Vermont. There does not appear to be current web site information about the conference, but previous conference info is ​available for reference.
• The ​LabourTech2008 Canada conference is happening November 7 - 9, 208 in Toronto. See ticket #1378.
• Aspiration is organizing a ​Developers Summit November 17 - 19.
• The next world social forum is going to take place in ​Belem, Brazil. Because it is expensive to get there, the foro organizers are planning an ​Belem expanded project to allow for events in other locations to take place at the same time.
• The ​National Conference on Organized Resistance may be a conference we should go to in 2009. I don't see a page up yet, but the ​2008 conference site is available.
• Unity conference is another one we may want to consider next year (July 2009). This year's ​conference site is online.
• ​Blogging while Brown - missed it in 2008, maybe 2009?

Past Conferences and Presentations

2008

• The ​Forum of the Americas is scheduled for October 7 - 12, 2008. We did the Internet rights workshop - for the first time in two languages and two locations - ​check out the results!.
• dkg, Josue, and Alfredo attended ​the Critical Resistance 10 conference on prisons in Oakland, CA on September 26 - 28, 2008. We ran the Internet rights workshop (see discussion).
• ​DebConf 8 was held in Mar del Plata, Argentina from August 10th to August 16th, 2008. We didn't make it.
• ​Techmeet happened in Rio September 5 - 7. We didn't attend.
• The ​Last Hope - the hacker conference sponsored by ​2600 Magazine - happened July 18 - 20, 2008 in New York City. We attended but didn't present.
• ​Grassroots Technology conference was held June 28 in Boston. See ticket #852 for discussion about our participation.
• The annual ​Allied Media Conference, in Detroit, took place on June 22-24, 2008. It was a critically important gathering of progressive media activists and we were there! See ticket #743. our proposal for the AMC is available. The ​results of our workshop are also available.
• ​18th Annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference May 20-23, 2008. Maybe next year - we didn't make in 2008.
• ​Ross has been discussing the ​How Class Works conference on June 5-7, 2008 at SUNY Sunnybrook. Didn't go in 2008.
• The National Conference for Media Reform is happening in Minneapolis June 6-8 ​NCMR. Josue represented on a panel Sunday morning with 300 people!
• We missed the ​Labor notes conference (April 11 - 13). I'm adding it to the list after reading about it in ​Portside so that next year it's on our radar.
• We presented at the ​NYC Anarchist Book Fair April 12, 2008. See ticket #590 and workshop plans.
• 2008-02-22, We led and facilitated a discussion at ​Bluestockings in NYC.
• ​NYC Grassroots Media Conference is coming up on Sunday, March 2, 2008. our proposal for the GMC is available.
• Left Forum at Cooper Union - March 14-16 (possible sharing table with Charles Lenchner). Unfortunately we missed this one.