Global Justice Forward! The Climate is Changing, it’s Time for Solutions!
The People’s Summit will be a three day Teach-in and Strategy Session at multiple venues in Seattle: Nov 27 – 29, 2009!
Media inquiries? email: info@seattleplus10.org
Friday Nov 27th:
- The Yes Men’s new documentary, The Yes Men Fix the World, premieres at NW Film Forum, Screenings at 7 and 9pm, Yes Men in attendance!
Location: 1515 12 Ave (Between Pike & Pine) Capitol Hill - Amy Goodman speaks at Town Hall! 7pm: Tickets $15 – $25 available at www.kbcs.fm & at the door – Location: 1119 8th Ave
Saturday Nov 28th:
8:30 – 5:45pm: Seattle University (901 12th Ave – Capitol Hill)
9:30 am: Welcome Plenary: “The Climate is Changing – It’s Time for Solutions!”
Moderator: Sarah Van Gelder, Yes! Magazine Co-founder & Editor
Campion Ballroom
- Jihan Gearon, Indigenous Environmental Network, Native Energy and Climate Campaign
- Bob Hasegawa, WA State Representative
- Dena Hoff, National Family Farm Coalition & Via Campesina
- David Korten When Corporations Rule the World, Agenda For a New Economy
11:30 – 5:45: Concurrent workshops, tabling, group discussions
All Workshops are in Pigott Hall
6 pm: New Hope Baptist Church (116 21st Ave – Capitol Hill, near E Yesler)
Dinner & Evening Plenary: “Reclaiming Community”
Moderator: Rahwa Habte, Hidmo Community Empowerment Project
- Rev. Robert Jeffrey, Black Dollar Days Task Force
- Walter Hayden, Marketing and sales director of Clean Greens
- Alli Chagi-Starr, Green for All, Art in Action
- Ray Williams, Swinomish Indian Tribal Council
- Wyking
- Performance by Jim Page
Sunday Nov 29th:
9 – 5pm: Seattle University (901 12th Ave – Capitol Hill)
10 – 3:30 Concurrent workshops, tabling group discussions - Pigott Hall
12:45 – 1:45 Strategy Plenary: “Catch the Buzz: Cross-Pollinating our Movements”
- Bill Aal and Margo Adair, Tools for Change
- Sylvia Orduño & Maureen Taylor, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and National Planning Committee, U.S. Social Forum
- Michael Ramos, Greater Seattle Church Council
1:45 – 5:00 Cross-Sector Strategy Session
7 pm: Town Hall (1119 8th Ave – Capitol Hill)
Closing Plenary: “Global Justice Forward!”
Moderator: Verlene Jones, MLK Labor Council
- Leo Gerard, United Steel-Workers
- Patti Goldman, Earthjustice
- Eric Holt-Gimenez Food First
- Thea Lee, AFL-CIO
- Jim Sinclair, BC Labour Federation
Musical Performances & Spoken Word by: Seattle Labor Chorus, Jack Chernos, Alli Chagi-Starr & Ashel Eldridge
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I am so honored you asked me to speak. I was one of the activists that
initiated the 1999 protest in Seattle. In 1996 we started planning our
campaign in the front lobby of Global Exchange in San Francisco. The first
action we did was called the UnFree Trade Tour where we visited 60 cities
in the United States and Canada during October and November of 1997. Three
anti-globalization activists from Spain and two Food Not Bombs activists
including myself spoke about the dangers of the WTO and invited everyone to
help organize a blockage of the first WTO meeting in North America. We
invited Global Exchange and the International Forum on Globalization to
join us on the UnFree Trade Tour but they chose not to participate.
A year after the tour the WTO announced the meeting would be in Seattle.
We had experience organizing a convergence center for our ten day gathering
in 1995 where we started Indymedia so we planned to set up another
convergence center in Seattle. We contacted the Food Not Bombs chapters
that hosted the UnFree Trade Tour and we called Global Exchange, the
International Forum on Globalization and many other groups that we thought
might be interested. We made flyers and posted the information of the
action on our website. Details were included in several issues of the Food
Not Bombs Menu.
Food Not Bombs activists from all over the United States and Canada started
to build for the action. Seattle Food Not Bombs rented the convergence
center and set up Indymedia. All groups were asked to bring food. We urged
everyone to bring their own bowl and forks. Three years of organizing paid
off and thousands came to block the WTO. While this information was never
written about in any books or shown in any films it turns out that the WTO
action was initiated and first organized by Food Not Bombs.
Thanks again.
Keith McHenry
co-founder of Food Not Bombs
http://www.foodnotbombs.net/battle_of_seattle.html