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SUMMARY:Corporate Coup D'Etat (Screening and Post Screening-Panel /Discussion)
DESCRIPTION:One World Arts  and the Group of 78\, have partnered to offer the Ottawa premiere of The Corporate Coup d’Etat . This event will open the Group of 78\, 2019 Annual Policy Conference\, Global Markets\, Inequality\, and the Future of Democracy. It is also the opening film of the One World Film Festival which is celebrating its 30th anniversary. \nFilm Screening will be followed by a panel discussion on the issues raised in the film. \nLocation: Academic Hall (SMN) 133 Séraphin-Marion Private\, Ottawa\, ON\, K1N 1A2\nAdmission is free: We will be accepting voluntary donation at the door to help cover the cost of the event.\n*Seating will be first come first serve. Donating through Eventbrite does not guarantee a seat. We thank you for your support and look forward to seeing you there.  \nTHE CORPORATE COUP D’ÉTAT PDF \n \n \n\nDirector Fred Peabody\nProducers Peter Raymont \nExecutive Producers Peter Raymont\, Fred Peabody\, Steve Ord\, Jeff Cohen\, Hans Robert Eisenhauer\n\nA democracy should protect its citizens\, especially the most vulnerable among them\, but increasingly the United States is failing to do so. This investigative and persuasive documentary blends the insights of philosophers\, authors and journalists with the experiences of citizens of the Rust Belt in the U.S. Midwest\, where the steel industry once flourished\, but where closures and outsourcing have left urban areas desolate and hopeless. It’s here that Donald Trump finds some of his most fervent supporters\, as he’s not considered part of the hated Washington establishment. \nJournalist Chris Hedges\, argues that the crisis predates Donald Trump’s election by many years. As his source of inspiration\, the Canadian philosopher John Ralston Saul\, Hedges regards Trump as the symptom rather than the disease. Decades ago\, U.S. democracy began selling its soul to big corporations. Lobbyists and corporatism took control in Washington\, gradually undermining the will of the people. Journalist Naomi Klein recently described Trump’s administration as a “corporate coup d’état”. Hedges and Ralston Saul argue that the real coup took place long before. \nFeaturing: Chris Hedges\, John Ralston Saul\, Cornel West\, Sarah Jaffe\, Lee Fang\, Maude Barlow\, Phillip Martin \nThe screening date will be Thursday\, Sept. 26 and the start time will be 7:00 pm. There will be a Panel discussion on the issues raised in the film. \nParking is available at the rear of the building after 3:00 pm\, $4.50/hour\, max $9/day. Please see the map below. Please note that Séraphin-Marion is closed to vehicles directly in front\, but there is a loading zone adjacent to Tabaret Lawn not far from the entrance. 
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SUMMARY:2019 G78 Annual Policy Conference: Global Markets\, Inequality and the Future of Democracy - September 27-28\, 2019
DESCRIPTION:University of Ottawa\, Faculty of Social Sciences Building\n120 University Private\, Ottawa\, September 27-28\, 2019\n\n  Program    Chair Statement \n  Credit Card Registration     Register by Cheque/Email Transfer \n\nStatement of Conference Chair: Manfred Beinefeld \n Democracies around the world are being eroded and destabilized by a tsunami of social challenges all ultimately linked to an explosive growth in inequality and economic insecurity. But although this fact is now all but universally acknowledged there is confusion and disagreement about the forces that have led to these totally unexpected outcomes. Well\, unexpected to those old enough to remember a time when the almost everyone believed in the idea of progress and the dream of a leisure society?” So how are we to understand the reasons why those dreams have now been all but forgotten\, especially since the hoped for technological progress that was to make that leisure society possible\, did actually materialize? Or to put this another way\, why did that technological progress occur in a form that is not only failing to usher in a leisure society\, but that is actually further accelerating the scourges of inequality and economic insecurity. \nAt heart this conference will focus on a critical examination of the proposition that despite the complexity of the issues\, and the diversity of the consequences\, the roots of this nightmare can be traced back to three fundamental – and interrelated – causes: the rise of a global financial system that can no longer be regulated in the public interest; the rise of an international trading system that has dramatically undercut the ability of labour to share in productivity gains; and the enshrinement of a deeply individualistic ideology that has greatly increased the power of corporate capital to act with virtual impunity – witness the US pharmaceutical industry’s pricing policies – while reducing the scope for effective collective action in the public interest\, either by governments\, regulatory agencies\, trade unions or civil society organizations. \nAttempts to resist – let alone reverse – these trends face formidable challenges\, in part because the underlying issues are so international in scope\, and in part because their complexity allows powerful interests to poison the efforts to deal with these problems rationally – and democratically – which is to say\, on the basis of an informed and free public debate. But that does not mean that such efforts are doomed to fail and\, at this conference\, we will seek to explore the most promising avenues for resistance always remembering that what progress was made at certain times in the past\, was made in the teeth of fierce resistance and vitriolic denunciation. If success does not seem imminent\, it is increasingly clear that business as usual is surely a recipe for a future that almost no one would willingly choose if presented with its true dimensions and characteristics. After all\, none of the political parties promoting the neoliberal reforms that brought us to the current impasse\, advised voters that they were voting for increased income equality and greater economic insecurity\, which should serve as a reminder that democracy can function as it should – and must – only when voters are making choices based on an open and well informed debate. \n\nProgram \n6:30 pm\, THURSDAY\, Sept. 26\, 2019\, Academic Hall (SMN) University of Ottawa\,133 Séraphin-Marion Private \nDoors Open: Special Film Screening and Panel: Free event\, donations are much appreciated\nOne World Arts and the Group of 78\, have partnered to offer the Ottawa premiere of The Corporate Coup d’Etat .  \n  \n5:00 p.m. FRIDAY\, Sept. 27\, 2019 Conference Registration opens\, University of Ottawa\, Faculty of Social Sciences Building\, 120 University Private\, Room 4007\n5:30 p.m. Keynote Address by Robert Kuttner: Saving Democracy From Globalization:  \nModerator: Roy Culpeper\, Chair\, Group of 78 \nIntroductory Remarks: Ed Broadbent \nKeynote speaker: Robert Kuttner\, Heller School for Social Policy and Management\, Brandeis University. \n 7:30 p.m. Dinner and Discussion: Q & A \nModerator: Roy Culpeper\, Chair\, Group of 78 \nDiscussants: \nManfred Bienefeld\, Professor Emeritus\, School of Policy and Public Administration. \nRobert Kuttner\, Heller School for Social Policy and Management\, Brandeis University. \nArmine Yalnizyan\, Former senior economist\, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives; Fellow at the Atkinson Foundation. \n 8:15 a.m. SATURDAY\, Sept 28\, 2019 Registration Opens\n9:00 a.m. Panel 1: Global and macroeconomic policies that drive increasing inequality and challenge democracy:  \nModerator: Peter Venton\, Former senior economist in Ontario Government \nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nMario Seccareccia\, Professor Emeritus of Economics\, University of\n\n\n\nOttawa \n\n\n\nJohn Myles\, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Senior Research\n\n\n\nFellow\, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy\, University of \nToronto \n 10:30 a.m.  Coffee/Health Break \n11:00 a.m. Panel 2: National\, microeconomic\, social and labour market policies leading to wage stagnation\, precarity\, the gig economy\, growing income disparities: \nModerator: Gordon Betcherman\, Professor\, School of International Development and \nGlobal Studies\, University of Ottawa \nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nLeilani Farha\, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing;\n\n\n\n        Executive Director\, Canada without Poverty \n\n\n\nKatherine Scott\, Senior Economist\, CCPA\, gender equality and public policy\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEllen Russell\, Associate professor in Digital Media and Journalism and Social and Environmental Justice programs\, Wilfrid Laurier University\n\n\n\n12:30 p.m. Lunch \n1:30 p.m. Keynote Address by Julie Delahanty: Public Good or Private Wealth? \nModerator: Roy Culpeper\, Chair\, Group of 78\nKeynote speaker: Julie Delahanty\, Executive Director\, Oxfam Canada \n2:30 p.m. Coffee/Health Break \n2:45 p.m.  Panel 3: Restoring policy space and national capacity to reverse growing inequality and strengthen democracy. \nModerator: Manfred Bienefeld\, Professor Emeritus\, School of Policy and Public Administration \nSpeakers: \n\n\n\nLars Osberg\, McCulloch Professor of Economics\, Dalhousie University.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToby Sanger\, Executive Director\, Canadians for Tax Fairness.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAngella MacEwen\, Senior Economist\, Canadian Union of Public Employees.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4:20 p.m. Robert Kuttner\, Keynote Speaker: Reflections on the Conference Proceedings \n4:35 p.m. Conference Conclusion and Closing Remarks \n4:50 p.m. Conference Adjourns \n5:15 p.m. Group of 78 Annual Meeting to follow immediately \n\nThank you to our Sponsors:
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