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Alicia Pettys

Northern Plains Resource Council
Lead Organizer
Billings, Montana

northernplains.org

Diversifying rural economies while creating shared prosperity.
Building regional food systems.
Enabling local generation of clean renewable energy.
Reform of rural electric cooperatives.
Forging relationships with labor unions.
Building an economy that works for people and the planet.

9:30am EDT

Organizing Community Power for the New Energy Economy - INVITE ONLY Assembly Hall

5:30pm EDT

Light Dinner Rockwell Hall Patio

7:00pm EDT

Opening Plenary: Achieving Self-Determination And Sovereignty For Our Communities Rockwell Theater

9:30pm EDT

Opening Social Campbell Plaza, Tent

9:30am EDT

Banking and Finance for a New Economy Bulger Communication Center East 2 From One Owner to Many: Why and How to Convert Small Businesses to Employee Ownership (and why now is the time to do it) Ketchum 315 Scaling Up the New Economy in Red and Rural Communities: Best Practices from the Field Rockwell Hall 201

11:15am EDT

Building WealthWorks Food Value Chains Bulger Communication Center West 2 Challenging Entrenched Power Through New Economy Work in Red and Rural Communities Rockwell Hall 201 The Shocking Impact of Boring Energy Policy Rockwell Hall 304 When Coal Plants Retire, Who Should Pay? Bulger Communication Center East

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Social Hall

2:00pm EDT

New Economy Tour of Tonawanda TBA

4:00pm EDT

Building Your Community's Blueprint for Economic & Energy Democracy Rockwell Hall 305 Changing the Public Debate by Telling the Stories of the Emerging Economy in Red and Rural Places Ketchum 315 Confronting Utility Power Rockwell Hall 304 Democratizing Finance Rockwell Theater

5:30pm EDT

Evening Plenary Rockwell Theater

7:30pm EDT

Dinner & Party Quad outside Campbell Student Union

9:00am EDT

Breakfast Social Hall

9:30am EDT

Harnessing New Economy Work in Red and Rural Areas to Change Public and Institutional Policy Rockwell Hall 301 Housing Is A Human Right: Organizing For Community Land Trusts Ketchum Hall 118 The History and Future of the Community Development Finance Movement Rockwell Hall 204

11:15am EDT

Challenging a Rigged Market: Policy Tools to Enable Local Businesses to Thrive Rockwell Hall 204 Dismantling the Low-Wage Economy: The Fight for 15 and Beyond Ketchum Hall 113

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Social Hall

1:45pm EDT

How Class Continues to Impact Our New Economy Initiatives Ketchum 320 Preserving Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing in Chicago Rockwell Hall 204 Strategies to Increase Impact on Policy and the Public Debate across Red and Rural America Rockwell Hall 301