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Jonah Fertig

Cooperative Development Institute
Cooperative Food Systems Developer
jfertig@cdi.coop

Jonah Fertig is a cooperative food systems developer with the Cooperative Development Institute. He is a co-founder of Maine Farm & Sea Cooperative, the nation's first farm & sea-to-institution cooperative. He works with New American farmers, assisting them in developing cooperatives and helped Somali Bantu Farmers form New Roots Cooperative Farm, the first New American co-op in Maine. He is also Democracy at Work Institute 2016 Fellow.

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

8:30am EDT

Breakfast Campbell Student Union Lobby

9:30am EDT

Building Power to Transform our Food System Bulger Communication Center West Nonprofit Workplace Democracy: Self-governance for More Just and Resilient Movement Organizations Ketchum Hall 118

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 Economic Autonomy in the Immigrants' Rights Movement/ Economia autonoma en el movimiento de derechos a los inmigrantes Ketchum Hall 111 New Systems: Possibilities and Proposals Rockwell Theater

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Social Hall

2:00pm EDT

Green Development Zone Tour TBA

4:00pm EDT

Growing Food and Power: Food Sovereignty in the United States Rockwell Hall 204 What is the Next System? Bulger Communication Center East

9:00am EDT

Breakfast Social Hall

9:30am EDT

Growing Cooperation and Equity on Land and Sea Bulger Communication Center West 2

11:15am EDT

Strategy Framework for a Just Transition Ketchum Hall 118

1:45pm EDT

Strategizing for Racial Justice in the Cooperative Movement Rockwell Hall 304