Council of Georgist Organizations - Cleveland Ohio - August 5 to 9, 2009

8 AM - 5 PM:

Common Ground USA Board Meeting

Common Ground Members Only
 

time ??:

Henry George School Directors Meeting

Directors and invited participants
 

time ??:

Robert Schalkenbach Foundation

Board Members and Staff Only
 

5 - 7 PM:

Exhibitors Setup Time

5 - 8 PM:

Registration

7 - 9:30 PM:

Welcoming Reception and Member Reports

Welcome by Ted Gwartney, CGO President, and William Peirce, local host
Opening remarks on privilege by John Kelly
CGO Organization Reports Each organization reports for up to 2 minutes

7:30 AM

Registration Begins

8:45 - 10 AM

Cleveland's foreclosure crisis

Predatory Lending: Local Speaker To Be Announced
Fraudulent Mortgages in Slavic Village: Anthony Brancatelli*
Georgist Perspective: Alanna Hartzok
Moderator: Ed Dodson
 

10 - 10:30 AM

Break

10:30 - Noon

Money and Banking

Secret Life of Real Estate: Phil Anderson
Tom Johnson's Crisis Currency: Dan Sullivan
Social Right to Land &: Money: Nic Tideman
The Land-Money Connection: Polly Cleveland
Moderator: Gilbert Herman
 

12:00 -1:15

Lunch

Tom Johnson's Story: Chuck Metalitz
 

1:15 -3:30 PM

Real Estate Tax and the Housing Bubble

Who blocked LVT in Ohio?: William Peirce
Why Pittsburgh Flourished: Joshua Vincent
Prop 13 and California's Bubble: Mason Gaffney
Moderator: Bill Batt
 

3:30 - 3:45 PM

Break

3:45 - 5:00

Steps for Saving Cleveland

Shifting back to Property Tax: Fred Foldvary
County Land Banking: Robert (Bob) Rink
The For-Profit Land Trust: Dan Sullivan
Moderator: Adele Wick
 

5:00 - 5:30 PM

Roundtable session and Open Mike

Moderator: Adele Wick
 

5:30-7:00 PM

Dinner on your Own

7 - 8:30 PM

Secret Life of Real Estate

The regularity of real estate cycles: Phil Anderson
Moderator: Damon Gross
 

8:30 - 9:30 PM

Open Mike

Moderator: Damon Gross

7:30 AM

Registration Begins

8 - 8:30 AM

Open Mike

Moderator: Ed Dodson
 

8:30 - 10 AM

The Functions of Government

The Tom Johnson Trolley Wars: Bill Peirce
Contract Patronage and Civil Service: Dan Sullivan Selling and Leasing our Future: Frank DeJong What Should Be Private?: Fred Foldvary Moderator: Bill Batt
 

10 - 10:30 AM

Break

10:30 - Noon

State of the Current Economy

Michigan Following California's Folly: Mason Gaffney
Calculation of Aggregate Rent: Andrew Mazzone Moderator: Clay Berling
 

Noon - 1:30

Lunch

Cleveland's Assessment History: Bill Barrow Moderator: Wyn Achenbaum
 

1:30 - 3 PM

Building Classically Progressive Alliances

Modern Progressive Perspective: Debbie Kline Georgist perspective: Frank DeJong Political Strategies: Steve Cord Moderator: Herb Barry
 

3 - 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 - 4:25 PM

Quantum Leap Now! Marketing the Message, Building the Movement

Short presentations and thematic open mike combine for this outcome-oriented session.
Georgists-TBD Possibilities: Bill Batt, Polly Celeveland, Wyn?
Progressive Clevelanders: Debbie Kline, ??
Moderator: Alanna Hartzok
 

4:35 - 5:30 PM

The End of Capitalism?

Yes: Cay Hehner No: Andrew Mazzone:
 

5:30 - 7:00

Dinner on your Own

7 - 9:30PM

Discussion of "Renegade Economist" and Open Mike

Host of U-Tube Videos: Fred Harrison
Moderator: Richard Biddle

8 - 8:30 AM

Open Mike

Moderator: Chuck Metalitz
 

8:30 - 10 AM

Reaching the young, the media

Presenter: Karl Fitzgerald
Moderator: Richard Biddle?
 

10:30 - Noon (A)

CGO Annual Meeting

Particpants: CGO delegates and affiliate members
Outgoing CGO President: Ted Gwartney
Incoming CGO President: Ed Dodson
 

10:30 - Noon
(B)

The Origins of Monopoly

Presenter: Richard Biddle
 

Noon - 1:30

Lunch

Table Topics: Nic Rosen, host
 

1 - 2:15 PM

Honoring Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson's Statue: Walk 0.6 Mile or ride hotel shuttle
Moderator: Bill Peirce
 

2:15 - 5 PM

Boat Tour

Sight-seeing and Conversation
 

5 - 6:30 PM

Pre-banquet Break

6:30 - 7:15 PM

Pre Banquet Reception (Cash Bar)

7:15 - 9:00

Banquet

Will Obama Save Cleveland? Or Could Cleveland Save Obama?: Walt Rybeck
Moderator Pia DiSilva
 

8 - 8:30 AM

Open Mike

Moderator: Chuck Metalitz
 

8:30 - 10 AM

Tailoring Georgist Proposals to the Bust

Mike Curtis
Nic Rosen
Polly Cleveland
Moderator: Lindy Davies
 

10 - Noon

Farewell Brunch

Toasts, Farewells
CGO President's Vision for the Future: Ed Dodson
Moderator: Ted Gwartney