Friday Nov 27 – The People’s Summit Kick-off

Amy Goodman at Town Hall

7pm: Tickets $15 – $25 available online at KBCS.FM & at the door
Location:  1119 8th Ave

After Amy Goodman’s talk and benefit for KBCS at Townhall, there will be an afterparty at Hidmo (20th and Jackson). Hidmo and KBCS work closely together.

The Yes Men at NW Film Forum

7pm & 9pm: Tickets available here
Location:  1515 12 Ave (Between Pike & Pine) Capitol Hill

The Yes Men will participate in the People’s Summit throughout the week-end!

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Saturday Nov 28  – Seattle University

Campion Ballroom & Pigott Hall
Seattle University is located between Broadway & 12th Ave, and between Madison and Jefferson Streets, on Capitol Hill. Campion is located just South of James street.  Pigott Hall is located closer to Madison Street.  See the Practical Info page for maps!

Free, no registration required.

8:30am – 6pm Opening Plenary & Workshops

8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Registration/Check-in

Welcome & Opening Panel – 9:30 am – 11:15 am   CAMPION BALLROOM

The Climate is Changing: It’s Time for Solutions!

Launching the People’s Summit, the Opening Plenary will reflect on what we have accomplished, and the lessons learned from our collective victory over the WTO in 1999, and connect that watershed moment with the struggles for justice today. The Climate is Changing.  We know that means we have to take urgent action for climate justice. But it also means that this is the best opportunity we have had in a long time to put forth viable solutions for people and the planet.  The People’s Summit begins with specific ways we can all build alternatives to make another world possible.

Moderator: Sarah Van Gelder, Yes! Magazine Co-founder & Editor
Speakers:
Welcome and Overview of 1999: WA Representative Bob Hasegawa
Jihan Gearon, Indigenous Environmental Network, Native Energy and Climate Campaign
Dena Hoff – Farmer, Via Campesina, National Family Farm Coalition
David Korten – Author, Agenda for a New Economy, New Economy Working Group

Workshop Session #1 – 11:30 a.m. – 1:00pM – PIGOTT HALL

Art as an Antidote to Violence & Climate Chaos:
Urban Healing through today’s Eco-Culture Movements
Speakers: Alli Chagi-Starr  (Green For All, Art and Revolution/Art in Action), Ashel Eldridge (Alliance for Climate Education educator/Hip Hop artist)
Lessons from the field with slides, video, and stories. From the WTO cultural actions in 1999 to the climate justice movement of today, Ashel and Alli will share about their work in eco-justice, green jobs, youth power and the CommuniTree service project.
ROOM 202

Battling Poverty at the State Level: Advocacy and Action
Speakers: Danielle Friedman and Kate Baber (Statewide Poverty Action Network) , Michael Ramos (Church Council of Greater Seattle)
Learn about economic justice issues that affect Washington residents including predatory lending, consumer protections and fair revenue options. Discuss concrete ways about how you can be involved in building a movement to address the root causes of poverty.
ROOM 102

Building White Allyship & Anti-Racist Movements Accountable to People of Color
Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites, CARW
This workshop will explore how white people can build a more critical understanding of racism in their organizing, and participate in accountable anti-racist action. We will examine principles and practices of anti-racist allyship, barriers to white anti-racist collaboration and how to build accountable alliances with people of color.
ROOM 201

Framing a New Economy: Advancing the Local Living Economies Movement
Speakers: Members of BALLE Seattle, The New Economy Working Group, and YES! Magazine
It’s time for a new economy; let’s discuss what that means. Local living economies play a vital role in building the New Economy, a role of reinventing, revisioning, and re-encoding what really matters in our communities – neighborhoods, ecosystems, local economies; explore what that looks like on-the-ground thru strategies that protect “the commons”.
ROOM 103

Exploiting the Politics of ‘Need’: AGRA and the Gates Foundation
Speakers: Members of Community Alliance for Global Justice’s AGRA Watch project
Participants will learn more about how the Gates Foundation and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa exploit the idea of need to promote biotechnology, industrial agriculture, and a lack of accountability in development. Participants will then engage in interactive, creative discussion to complicate and challenge this idea, and find new spaces to support food sovereignty and self-determination.
ROOM 203

Youth Organizing in the Movement for Social Justice
Speakers:  Members of Seattle Young People’s Project:  Jai’Brean Travis,  Pavielle Montes, Jovonna Vaughn,  Jeremy Louzao,
Throughout history, youth have been at the forefront of nearly every movement for social justice.  In this participatory, youth-led workshop, participants will explore the unique contributions that youth organizing offers to the social movements of today.
ROOM 204

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lunch Break

Workshop Sessions #2  – 2:30pm – 4pm PIGOTT HALL

Trade and Agriculture: How Farmers Get the Chaff
Panelists: Phil Bereano (Washington Biotechnology Action Council)
John Fawcett-Long (1999 Seattle WTO Food and Agriculture Day organizer), Claire Gilbert (UFCW Local 21), Barry Lia (Biodynamic Agriculture Consultant)
Speakers: Mark Dworkin (Moving Images)
The collapse of WTO talks in Seattle in 99 marked a turning point in trade negotiations between rich and poor nations.  Since then, many of the WTO’s disputes have centered on agricultural policies, including trade, with the global south holding some ground.   The panel will offer an explanation of WTO trade policies and how they impact agricultural practices, farmers and farm workers, here in the US and around the world.  10 years after the WTO protests in Seattle, what are the opportunities for more balanced trade and food policies?
ROOM 204

Art & Activism: Being a Cultural Worker
Speakers: Luzvimidna U. Carpenter (HIDMO), Donna Denina, Katrina Pestano (Pinay sa Seattle)
WTO was a time that people utilized arts and culture to protest injustice.  Within this workshop, we will discuss how we can reclaim and create art for the masses, so that it is accessible to marginalized communities and constituencies.  This time will be used to critique popular culture and how it can be used to be subversive.  We will define what a “Cultural Worker” is from a radical Filipina immigrant perspective, so that we can (re)define culture and its purpose. Within this workshop, we will show examples of various art forms from local to international of cultural work being used to create and envision movement and justice.  Pinay sa Seattle is a member of GABRIELA-USA & BAYAN-USA and is known for their work within the Filipino, Asian/Pacific Islander, progressive, and LGBTIQ Communities
ROOM 102

WTO Turnaround 2009 –  Building for Global Justice 10 Years Later
Speakers: James Ploeser (Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch), and members of: Washington Fair Trade Coalition
This session will emphasize how to advance present day efforts to challenge corporate power at the WTO. It will touch briefly on WTO history and on resistance to its unjust policies, providing a space to collectively strategize on further building the movement for global justice, both domestically and internationally.
ROOM 103

Camino ala Reforma Migratoria/The Path to Immigration Reform
Taller bilingüe/Bi-lingual Workshop
Speakers: Members of Comité for Immigration Reform and Social Justice
El tema que estaremos presentando es “Camino ala Reforma Migratoria”, es un análisis político sobre los diferentes programas que el gobierno esta implementando para supuestamente dar seguridad a la comunidad en forzando la ley, programas como el 287g, E-verify, Comunidades Seguras, Etc. Programas que están afectando muy negativamente ala base trabajadora, de manera mucho mas negativa a nuestra comunidad que todavía no cuenta con documentos para permanecer este país. También analizaremos las propuestas y el clima político sobre una posible Reforma Migratoria.
“The Road to the Migratory Reform” is a political analysis about the different programs that the government is implementing, ostensibly to provide greater security to the community by enforcing the laws – programs such as 287g, E-verify, Safe Communities, etc. These programs are very adversely affecting the working base, especially in a very negative way in our community that still doesn’t have the documents required to stay in this country. We will also analyse the proposals and the political climate regarding possible immigration reform.
ROOM 201

Industrial Aquaculture, A People’s Perspective on the “Blue Revolution”
Speakers: Laura Hendriks (Sierra Club), Anne Mosness (Go Wild Campaign), Curt Puddicombe (Coalition To Protect Puget Sound Habitat), Afredo Quarto (Mangrove Action Project)
Panel and Q & A Session highlighting industrial aquaculture and seafood production as a pertinent example of pressing issues affecting both our local and global marine environment and coastal communities dependent upon our oceans and waterways for life and livelihoods. We will use seafood and industrial aquaculture production and trade to illustrate important central points involving climate change, declining wild fisheries, biodiversity loss and adversely affected livelihoods of coastal communities.
ROOM 202

Street Speech: Your Right to Protest
ACLU – American Civil Liberties Union
What happens when activists try to exercise the right to free speech? A discussion of lessons from the WTO demonstrations and their legacy for today.
ROOM 203

Workshop Session #3  – 4:15 pm– 5:45 pm – PIGOTT HALL

Global Justice and Solidarity Across Borders
Speakers: Cameron Herrington (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), Kevin Millsip (Check-Your Head and Next-Up), Peter Bohmer (Latin American Solidarity Organization)
In this workshop we will examine how we can learn from and link the revolutionary changes in Latin America to our organizing in the United States and Canada for immigrant rights and against U.S. and Canadian economic, political and military intervention there. We will also examine how we are developing solidarity across borders.
ROOM 102

Land as a Right: A Rural Movement Towards Food Sovereignty
Speakers: Members of: CAGJ Food Justice Project, UW Labor Project, La Via Campesina
This workshop explores the importance of reclaiming access to land for the realization of food sovereignty and food justice among farmworkers and small farmers (Campesinos) in Washington State and beyond. Integrating perspectives from Dena Hoff, coordinator of Via Campesina North America, Hilario Alvarez, a Latino organic farmer from the Yakima Valley, and Oscar Rosales Castaneda from the University of Washington Civil Rights and Labor History Project, this workshop will present inspiring new ways that justice is being restored from the ground up.  Organized by CAGJ Food Justice Project
ROOM 103

Climate Justice, Not False Solutions
Speakers: Kim Marks (Rising Tide)
This talk will focus on exposing false solutions to climate change, their impacts on front line communities and indigenous cultures, and how we can act locally to support the struggle against false solutions and for climate justice.  We will also touch on how to organize against corporate power, power mapping your targets, organizing, and strategic campaigning.
ROOM 201

Grassroots Media and the Global Justice Movement (Communications Rights pt. 1)
Speakers: DeeDee Halleck (Deep Dish TV, New York), Norm Stockwell (WORT-FM, Madison) and Myoung-Joon Kim (MediAct, Seoul)
Moderator: Jonathan Lawson (Reclaim the Media).
The tenth anniversary of the Seattle WTO is also the tenth anniversary of the founding of Indymedianow an international network of grassroots media outlets, covering and supporting struggles for democracy and justice. This panel discussion will look at both the last ten years and the next ten years of grassroots electronic media; its successes, its misadventures, and its connections to global justice movements, communications policy battles, and the economic challenges facing all forms of journalism.
ROOM 202

Practical Proposals for a New Trade and Economic Strategy
Speakers: Thea Lee, Deputy Chief of Staff, AFL-CIO
We don’t need to choose between current policies and no trade. Instead, we should explore fairer, smarter trade policy and coordinate our new trade policies with national industrial strategies and investments in America.
ROOM 203

Queers Against the WTO – Reunited
Speakers: Members of: Allyship
This workshop, using film and speakers, will give voice to the organizers of the only workshop at the WTO organized by the LGBTQ community. Dyke Community Activists, Dyke Action and Pride at Work organized a day conference called ‘Queers Fight Agains the WTO’. Hear from the organizers on why they organized this historic conference, why LGBTQ people should be concerned about trade and global economics, and hear queers recount their experiences as they marched against the WTO. This workshop will delve into reasons why the LGBTQ community was so invisible at the WTO and why the progressive community should be concerned. Join us for analysis, stories and dialogue!
ROOM 204

Evening Plenary 6 – 10pm: Dinner, Speakers, Performance & Music

New Hope Baptist Church. 116 21st Ave Seattle, in the Central District

Dinner at 6pm: Spaghetti, Clean Greens Farm greens, corn bread, punch

Program 7:30 – 10pm
Free, no registration required.

Reclaiming Community

Join us to reclaim and amplify our voices with the vision we have for a healthy planet and people – Community Empowerment, Jobs, Prison Reform, Food Security and Native Sovereignty!

Moderator: Rahwa Habte, Hidmo Community Empowerment Project
Speakers:
Welcome: Rev Robert Jeffrey – Pastor, New Hope Baptist Church, Black Dollar Days Task Force
Walter Hayden – Community Outreach Director Clean Greens Farm
Alli Chagi-Starr -Green for All, Art in Action

Ray Williams – Swinomish Tribal Council

Wyking
Performances by Jim Page & others!

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Sunday Nov 29,  9am – 5pm  Seattle University

Campion Ballroom & Pigott Hall
Seattle University is located at 901 12th Ave – Capitol Hill

Free, no registration required.

9am – 5pm Workshops & Strategy Session

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Check-in

9:30  Welcome

Workshop Session #4   – 10 – 11:30  PIGOTT HALL

Dispossession and Climate Refugees
Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School (SEEDS)
Speakers:  Emet Degirmenci & Marguerite Tingkhye of Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School (SEEDS)
This workshop will bring an authentic picture of dispossessed people of the Global South and how climate change exacerbates conditions.  The second part of the workshop will be interactive and skill exchange to encourage and inspire people to take action.
ROOM 102

Brainstorming with The “Yes Men”
Join Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men for this brainstorming session to prepare for a planned action the next day – Monday November 30th – ten years to the day we shut down the WTO!   The Yes Men use politically charged hijinks to create their highly entertaining brand of activism. During the People’s Summit and through Dec 3, check out their new documentary, The Yes Men Fix The World, at NW Film Forum, 7 and 9pm screenings every day.
ROOM 103

Bringing Environmental Justice to the Global Economy
Speakers: Jonathan Betz-Zall (Community Coalition for Environmental Justice), Michael Righi & Betsy Bell (Jubilee)
This session will showcase how the current global economic system violates the spirit of environmental justice, particularly for people in the developing world.  It will include two presentations: “Environmental Justice: How Free Trade Harms It” and “Global Lending by the IMF As a Barrier to Sustainable Agriculture,” and will include a round-table discussion on how we can all work to fix these issues.
ROOM 201

Grow a carrot, build a movement:
Connecting urban gardening with movements for justice
Speakers: Sharon Lerman (Seattle Tilth), Scott Royder (Clean Greens)
Growing your own food is a means to re-localize economies, combat corporate control of agriculture, and build community from the ground up.  This workshop will connect urban agriculture and home gardening with movements for social, economic, and environmental justice, and will leave you with tools to build community in your own neighborhood through hyper-local organizing around good, fresh food.
ROOM 202

Movement building for the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit 2010
U.S. Social Forum and Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
The U.S Social Forum is a unique opportunity for social movement organizations to converge every three years to discuss strategies and goals for creating another U.S. This workshop will lay out how we can work to build a grassroots movement toward Detroit in 2010.
ROOM 203

Cross-cultural Alliances & Activism
Speakers: Luzviminda “Lulu” Carpenter (Hidmo Community Empowerment Project)
Hidmo’s history and its growth as a new urban hub of grassroots activism is an inspiration to many.  We will demonstrate and model the Hidmo as an example of a people of color & immigrant centered space that is inclusive of all people.  There will be real life scenarios and histories shared that demonstrate how cross cultural alliances have been made and sustained.  Also, we will dialogue about localizing & personalizing global struggles, so that they are tangible to everyday people.  Hidmo has over 75 community partners and allies, such as Vera Project, Reclaim the Media, 206 Zulu Nation, the Service Board, BAYAN-USA, and more ranging from local politicians to national grassroots organizations. Partnerships and allies include cultural artists and workers, such as Gabriel Teodros, Khingz, Rogue Pinay, Blue Scholars, and most especially artists from Ethopia, Eritrean, Philipines, Somalia, Haiti, Palestine, etc.  Come share this rich story telling with us.
ROOM 204

11:30 – 12:45 Lunch break

Strategy Session: 12:45 – 5pm

CAMPION BALLROOM – PANEL: 12:45 – 1:45

Catch the Buzz: Cross-Pollinating our Movements

How can we work together as a movement recognizing that our work is interconnected and we are working towards similar goals?  This strategy session explores the strategic potential of cross-sector organizing, seeking opportunities to build intersections.

Moderator: Bill Aal and Margo Adair, Tools for Change
Speakers:
Sylvia Orduno and Maureen Taylor, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, U.S. Social Forum

Strategy Session  – 1:45  – 5pm CAMPION BALLROOM

1:45 – 3:30 Cross-sector Strategy Session Part 1
Break
3:45  – 5:00 Cross-sector Strategy Session Part 2

Workshop Session #5  -   1:45 – 3:15  PIGOTT HALL

Ganging Up on the Bosses:
A New Take on a Classic Model of Direct Action Organizing
Speakers: Emily, John, Andrew (of Seattle Solidarity Network)
In this workshop, we will introduce and discuss the strategy and tactics of the Seattle Solidarity Network (SeaSol).  Since 2008, SeaSol has used collective direct action against bosses and landlords to win (and sometimes lose) a series of fights over stolen wages, deposits and repairs.
ROOM 102

The Revolution will not be Tweeted (Communications Rights, part II)
Speakers: Devin & Jessi of Riseup Networks
Audre Lorde said, “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Who built the electronic tools you’re using to organize? We’ll talk about advantages of using free & open source software, the surveillance inherent in cogtrporate online media, and provide a hands-on look at Riseup’s own organizing tool, Crabgrass.
ROOM 103

Community Accountability:
Building a Global Resistance Movement Starting at Home
Speakers: Members of Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA): Mako Fitts, (Sociology Department, Seattle University), Gary Perry, (Sociology Department – Seattle University), Sera Day, (School of Social Work – University of Washington)
This workshop will expand CARA’s “community accountability politic” into the development of glocalized networks that emphasize local organizing approaches to building a global, anti-violence movement for social justice, particularly as it relates to working within a heightened police state.  Through interactive learning strategies, participants will collectively interrogate definitions of ‘accountability’ as it relates to community organizing work.
ROOM 201

Free Trade and Militarism
Speakers: Stan Sorscher (community activist in trade, globalization and labor issues), Fred Miller (Peace Action of Washington), Geov Parrish (Peace Action of Washington and Eat the State! community newspaper)
Panel and discussion on the links between US industrial policy, militarism, and neoliberal priorities, and what can be done to promote policies that better serve ordinary people.
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This is What Democracy Looks Like:
Direct Democracy Using Cultural Work Strategies
Speakers: Annie Brule, Bob Spivey, and Marguerite Tingkhye of Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School (SEEDS), Bill Moyer (Backbone Campaign)
“This is what democracy looks like!” was a key slogan of the 1999 WTO protests.  This workshop uses cultural work strategies to explore, mobilize, and educate about the multiple dimensions of a more genuine democracy, from direct action, to building movements for popular power, to community self-management.
ROOM 203

Strengthening local resistance, from Seattle to the 2010 Olympics
Speakers: Members of the Olympic Resistance Network
The modern Olympics have a long history of racism, and are financed by government spending that would be more appropriately used for other purposes. This workshop will discuss ways of utilizing mega-events and summits such as Seattle in 1999, and the 2010 Winter Olympics in British Columbia to strengthen local resistance efforts and build a diverse movement opposed to unjust free trade agreements, increasing security measures, and multi-national corporations’ exploitation and degradation of land.
ROOM 204

Closing Plenary & Celebration of the People’s Summit  7 – 10pm

Town Hall -  1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca Street)
Doors open at 6pm – Suggested donation, $5 – $10

Global Justice Forward!

The closing celebration of The People’s Summit is an opportunity for leaders in labor, environmental justice, cultural activism and food sovereignty to move forward a shared vision for Global Justice, reflecting on the significance of the 2009 WTO meeting on November 30th, the 10th anniversary of the WTO shutdown in Seattle, and the upcoming Climate Change talks in Copenhagen in December. Participants will be encouraged to reach across sectors and borders to strengthen alliances, drawing inspiration from the People’s Summit to forge shared goals for the next 10 years and more.

Moderator: Verlene Jones, MLK Labor Council

Speakers:
Leo Gerard – US Steelworkers (via recorded greeting)
Patti Goldman – Earthjustice
Eric Holt-Giménez – Food First
Thea Lee – AFL-CIO
Jim Sinclair – BC Labour Federation
Performances by Jack Chernos, Seattle Labor Chorus, Alli Chagi-Starr & Ashel Eldridge