by Sue Walton
Evanston, IL
The 2006 CGO conference will be held in July 2006 in the
Metro Chicago area. The program as planned is printed below.
What makes a city self supporting? Is it good internal & external transportation? Efficient, well planned shopping, governmental and residential areas? Efficient public services? City Revenue derived from the Value Created by the City itself?
The Council of Georgist Organizations 2006 Conference will investigate how Chicago was and could again be such a city. Our Thursday afternoon outing will trace the roots of Chicago from its rebirth in 1871 after its great fire, we will do this by both elevated railway and river/lake cruise boat
DAY ONE
8:30 - 4:30. Preconference Meetings
7:00 - 9:00 pm -- Registration & Welcoming Reception (munchies)
Invited guests include Mayor George Van Dusen (Skokie Mayor), Dick Witry (Skokie Historical Society) and Larry Sufferdin ( Cook County Commissioner). Welcoming comments by the Officers, and the local hosts
9:00-9:30 pm - Open Microphone
DAY TWO
Registration
Welcome -- (Henry George School of Chicago)
Tax Policy to Support Sound Planning -- Ed Lawrence (Fairhope Single Tax Corporation) & Paul Justus (Common Ground-USA )
Transit Values -- Ed Anderson (Professor of Engineering University of Minnesota), Adam Kerman (Chicago transit activist) & Art Lyons (Director : Center for Economic Policy Analysis)
Lunch Speaker: Henry George & the Chicago Fire of 1871 -- Brian Lozell (Former Tour Director for the Chicago Architecture Foundation's River Tours)
2:00 - 8:00 pm. Chicago Tour by elevated rail car and river taxi
8:00 pm. Videos, Films and Informal Discussions
DAY THREE
Registration, Open Mic, Member Organization Reports
Geographical Information Systems: Technology for Change - Matt Harris (Geotrends & Edmondson Group)
Economic Euphemisms -- How substituting euphemisms for precise scientific language has twisted economics rhetoric into a kind of Orwellian Newspeak -- Dan Sullivan (Saving Communities)
Lunch - Table Topics
Henry George & Marx -- Cay Hehner (Director, Henry George School, New York)
More Robbers, Less Left: How the intellectual property enclosures are taking much of the rent that traditionally went to real estate -- Chuck Metalitz (Director, Henry George School, Chicago)
Land Value Taxation in the Bible -- John Kelly ( Peoria, Illinois)
Council of Georgist Organizations Town Meeting
Book Signing (Henry George's Progress and Poverty: a modern abridgment for easier comprehension by modern readers) Bob Drake (President, Henry George School of Chicago)
Open Mic
The Myth of Corporate Efficiency: How preoccupation with labor-efficiency has obscured the inefficient use land and resources, and why smaller independent proprietorships are often more efficient than larger corporations -- Dan Sullivan (Saving Communities)
DAY FOUR
Registration, Open Mic
Did Henry George Get the Free Trade Question Wrong ? - Yes! - Dan Sullivan, Saving Communities);
No! - Lindy Davies (Henry George Institute).
Actual Economic Forecasts: The future of land -- Phil Anderson (Economic Indicator Services) & Neil Weintraub (Author; Instructor, Chicago Board of Trade)
Georgist Writers Part I -- Heather Remoff (Board Member, Robert Schalkenbach Foundation., Henry George School/NY & Center for the Study of Economics) moderates a panel of Georgist writers in these categories: academic, screenplays, self publishers, non fiction, and trade publications [invited panelists: Jeff Smith (Institute for Geonomic Studies), Ed Dodson (School of Cooperative Individualism),
Joshua Farley (University of Vermont), Alanna Hartzok (Earth Rights Institute) and Wyn Achenbaum (Robert Schalkenbach Foundation))
Monetary Reform and Henry George -- Stephen Zarlenga (American Monetary Institute)
Lunch - Green Politics & Henry George -- Frank DeJong (Green Party of Ontario, Canada)
Georgist Writers Part II -- Heather Remoff (moderator)
Funding Health Care: Affordability, protection, and individual consumer control -- Dan Sullivan (Saving Communities)
Annual Council of Georgist Organizations Business Meeting
Banquet Speaker - Title to be Determined -- Bob Drake (President, Henry George School of Chicago)
National acclaimed Jazz Vocalist Spider Saloff with Multifaceted Dancer Osamu Uehara
DAY FIVE
Open Mic
Strategy Session: Building the Movements for Monetary Policy Reform and Land Value Taxation: Alanna Hartzok, (Earth Rights Institute); Dan Sullivan, (Saving Communities); Mark Sullivan (Robert Schalkenbach Foundation); Stephen Zarlenga (American Monetary Institute)
Friendship Brunch Speaker: Ideas for a Unified Georgist Movement -- John Fisher (Henry George Foundation of Canada)
2:00 pm -- Optional Walking and Elevated Rail Tours
(Subject to funding and change without notice.)
If you would like to receive more information or to receive a conference brochure, please contact: Sue or Scott Walton at 888/262-9015 or by email at sns@swwalton.com.