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Commonbound 2016

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Nicolle Teresa Ramos

Universidad Sin Fronteras
Campus coordinator
San Juan, Puerto Rico

I arrive from the archipielago of Puerto Rico. We are at this moment in a huge struggle for our sovereignty, our resources, schools, health, agriculture, and our economy. I am a puertorican single mom, organizer, worker, community doula, and many other things. An interdisciplinary being helping anyway she can in our many simultaneous struggles.

8:00am EDT

Registration & Check-in Open! Campbell Student Union Lobby

9:30am EDT

International Research Lab - INVITE ONLY Rockwell Hall 307 New York Cooperative Network: Building the State’s New Economy through Cross-Sectoral Collaboration Ketchum Hall 106

10:30am EDT

Foreign Trade and Investment in the New Economy Rockwell Hall 301

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Social Hall

5:00pm EDT

Registration/Check-in Open! Rockwell Lobby

5:30pm EDT

Light Dinner Rockwell Hall Patio

6:00pm EDT

#CommonBound Storytellers' Training Rockwell Hall 201

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 Registration/Check-in Open! Campbell Student Union Lobby

9:30am EDT

Building Power to Transform our Food System Bulger Communication Center West 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 Keynote Case Study: The 15M and Podemos movements in Spain/ El 15-M y el Movimiento Podemos de España Ketchum Hall 111 Unions and Co-ops Together Rockwell Hall 302

11:15am EDT

Power to the Parents: Building Strong Caregiver Networks Through Popular Education Ketchum 320

12:30pm EDT

Lunch Social Hall

2:00pm EDT

Decolonizing Our Solidarity Economies: A Conversation for People of Color Rockwell Hall 304

4:00pm EDT

Building the Business Movement for a New Economy Rockwell Hall 301 Building Your Community's Blueprint for Economic & Energy Democracy Rockwell Hall 305

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

Decolonizing the Economy from the Ground Up: Case Study Boston Ujima Project Rockwell Theater Housing Is A Human Right: Organizing For Community Land Trusts Ketchum Hall 118 Intro to the Solidarity Economy: Finding Common Ground Across Nation, Culture, and Language Ketchum 315