RadFest 2003 - Midwest Social Forum
RadFest 2003 - Midwest Social Forum was held at Aurora University, George Williams - Lake Geneva Campus, Williams Bay, WI. May 30-June 1, 2003.
Program
The opening event of the program was a plenary panel on Friday evening, titled “The Iraq War and the Anti-War Movement.” The panel was composed of Max Elbaum (author of Revolution in the Air), Betita Martínez(Institute for Multiracial Justice), Rania Masri (Iraq Action Coalition), and Jeremy Scahill (Democracy Now).
On Saturday evening, there was a second plenary panel, titled “The State of Black Politics.” The panelists were Linda Burnham (Women of Color Resource Center), Theresa El-Amin (Southern Anti-Racism Network, Solidarity), Bill Fletcher, Jr. (TransAfrica Forum), and Salim Muwakkil(Chicago Tribune, In These Times).
The remaining more than thirty workshops and panels addressing a wide array of social, political, and economic topics on Saturday and Sunday, including included:
- “Where is the U.S. Media Reform Movement Going?” (with Robert McChesney and John Nichols)
- “Activism in Times of War and Uprising: Israel/Palestine, the US, and the Iraq War” (with Ali Hadjarian, Jennifer Loewenstein, Mahmud Abu Rahma, Haitham Salawdeh, and Margaret Zaknoen)
- “Race and Education” (with Barbara Golden, Robert Howard, Lauren Mikol, Betty Volquardsen, and Donna Vukelich)
- “Civil Liberties under Assault in the Ashcroft Era” (with Ed Garvey and Mathew Rothschild)
- “USA Patriot Art 2003” (with Mike Konopacki and Chani Becker)
- “New Movements in Communities of Color” (with Bill Fletcher, Jr., Betita Martínez, and Matt Nelson)
- “Wisconsin’s Future with Healthcare Security for All” (with Gene Farley, Linda Farley, Darcy Haber, Jim McGhee, Mark Miller, and Joanne Ricca)
- “Moving toward Tax Fairness in Wisconsin” (with Laura Dresser, John Peck, and Mark Pocan)
- “In Search of People-driven Participatory Democracy” (with Luciano Brunet, Antonio Carmona Báez, Daniel Chávez, Diane Davis, Benjamin Goldfrank, Alvaro Portillo, Joel Rocamora, Beatriz Stolowicz, and Hilary Wainwright)
- “Race and Incarceration” (with David Hart, Pam Oliver, and Tim Wise)
- “How to Modernize Local and State Electoral Systems to Represent Everyone” (with Dan Johnson-Weinberger)
- “Weapons of Mass Deception: Government and Corporate Propaganda” (with Laura Miller, Sheldon Rampton, and Inger Stole)
- “Community Supported Labor Rights” (with Monica Guzman, Christine Neumann-Ortiz, and Sarah Shatz)
- “Coalition Building in Communities of Color” ( with Robert Miranda)
And on Saturday evening, there was a musical performance by singer-guitarist Amelia Royko.[1]