The High Road Runs Through the City
Advocating for Economic Justice at the Local Level
September 27 & 28, 2007
Buffalo, NY
This interactive conference provides a unique opportunity to explore recent experiments in local democracy to address problems of low-wage work, poverty, and inequality.
Citizens, experts, and public officials will exchange their practical experiences with policies designed to create economically dynamic, culturally inclusive and environmentally sustainable urban communities.
Sharing innovation and best practices on:
- New Frontiers for the Living Wage
- Subsidy Reform
- Green Cities
- Unions and the Crisis of Urban Inequality
- Enforcing Worker Protection Laws
- Making Progressive Movements Permanent
- Shadow Governments and Privatization
- International Experiments in Local Democracy
Keynote Speaker
Bill McKibben
Author of Deep Economy and The End of Nature
Speakers and Panelists Include
- Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO
- Paul Sonn, NYU Brennan Center for Justice
- Jen Kern, ACORN Living Wage Resources Center
- Greg LeRoy, Good Jobs First
- Joel Rogers, University of Wisconsin
- Patricia Smith Commissioner, NYS Department of Labor
- J. Phillip Thompson, III, MIT
- and many others
Who should attend?
Advocates, scholars, workers, policymakers, students, concerned citizens, and anyone else interested in changing the world one city at a time.
Conference supported by: Pierce Memorial Fund
Conference Partners
| The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy | University at Buffalo Law School | Coalition for Economic Justice |
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