| Anti-Poverty Track | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Low-income Activists Speakout!Lecture A speak-out by low-income activists - a chance to learn from each other and for others to learn from those of us in the forefront of the battle for economic justice, the experts . Topics include, housing, homelessness, welfare and safety net issues, immigrants, environmental justice, low-wage work, contingent work, lack of healthcare and health coverage, etc Also listed under the following tracks: Global Justice, Movement Building |
Building: Wheatley Room: CPCS Wheatley W-4-CPCS Plaza Floor: |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Low-income Activists Speakout!Lecture A speak-out by low-income activists - a chance to learn from each other and for others to learn from those of us in the forefront of the battle for economic justice, the experts . Topics include, housing, homelessness, welfare and safety net issues, immigrants, environmental justice, low-wage work, contingent work, lack of healthcare and health coverage, etc Also listed under the following tracks: Global Justice, Movement Building |
Building: Wheatley Room: 4 Floor: 1 |
| BSF Film Series | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Hector Giraldo: Trade Unionist; 2004 World Social Forum - Building Another World, A Compilation of FilmsFilm Screening Produced by Julie Rosenberg; Edited by Rachel Clark, 2004, 25 min. This video is a portrait of Hector Giraldo, a Colombian man whose life is threatened by paramilitaries because of his union work. In the face of death threats Hector decides to leave Colombia and spend a year in the U.S. through an AFL-CIO sponsored program. This documentary follows Hector during his time in the U.S. as he works with American unions on their issues while trying to educate Americans about how the US funded Plan Colombia supports paramilitary violence that has threatened his life. *Discussion with filmmaker Julie Rosenberg to follow.* Title: 2004 World Social Forum - Building Another World A compilation of films: "Rumble in Mumbai" by Jawad Metni, Naeem Mohaiemen and Prerana Reddy, "Another World is Happening," by Catherine Benedict, and additional footage by Lev Grossman-Spivack, 2004, 30 min. In this video collaboration, independent filmmakers immerse the viewer in the 2004 WOrld Social Forum in Mumbai, India. Footage of marches, chanting, music and dance is interwoven with the inspiring words of activists from all over the world. With over 100,000 participants representing hundreds of people's movements, indigenous groups, NGO's, labor unions and other progressive organizations, the Mumbai social forum showed that another world is not only possible, it is on its way. *Discussion with filmmakers Jawad Metni, Lev Grossman-Spivack and Catherine Benedict to follow.* Also listed under the following track: Other Economies are Possible |
Building: Wheatley Room: Snowden Auditorium Floor: 1 |
| Challenging Corporate Power | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Protecting Our Children From ChemLawn and Toxic PesticidesWorkshop Everyone wants a green lawn, but not at the cost of our children's health. Lawn pesticide use by companies like TruGreen ChemLawn is increasing. But what we aren’t told is that ChemLawn’s pesticides are linked to serious environmental and public health effects, even when applied correctly. Pesticides that ChemLawn is promoting and calling safe are actually very dangerous. Come to this workshop and find out what you can do to protect your lawn, your children, and our environment from toxic pesticides. This workshop will be led by Jay Rasku and Will Everitt, Field Directors, Toxics Action Center. Also listed under the following tracks: Environment, Health |
Building: Wheatley Room: CPCS Wheatley W-4-141 Floor: |
| Climate Change | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Climate Change: Catastrophic Consequences and How to Avert Disaster!Panel Discussion Ross Gelbspan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Heat is On' and now author of a book to be published in July 2004: BOILING POINT: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled the Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do To Avert Disaster Prof. Barrett N. Rock University of New Hampshire Complex Systems Research Center and Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space. Demonstrating the Science of Climate Change Dr. Michael Charney Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Green Building Coalition Publisher, the Cambridge Climate Calendar Climate Change Activism: How to build the movement in your own community. Dr. Frank Ackerman Research Director Global Development and Environment Institute Tufts. What's Wrong with the Economic Critique-- What Economists Don't Know About Climate Change Dr. William Moomaw Professor of International Environmental Policy Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy Senior Director, Tufts Institute of the Environment; Science Advisory Committeee, Earthwatch. Speaking on Climate Change Crisis as Impetus for International Cooperation Also listed under the following tracks: Environment, Water |
Building: McCormack Room: Cafeteria Floor: 3 |
| Democracy | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Democracy in Peril -- How to Expand the Electorate and Challenge Winner-Take-All ElectionsSeminar This hands-on seminar will provide both information and activist suggestions as a preview of the Center for Voting and Democracy's July 26 event on "Democracy in Peril" at Suffolk University - -that July 26 event will feature Rev. Jesse Jackson, Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. , "Overruling Democracy" author Jamin Raskin and many more. Raskin will join the Center's Rob Richie and Boston-area reformers to discuss strategies for adding a right to vote in the U.S. Constitution, adopting instant runoff voting and proportional representation in states and building a pro-democracy movement to secure, enhance and exercise the vote. |
Building: McCormack Room: 206 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Pledging Integrity - Creating a Revolution/Evolution for the Democratic ConventionOther Creating a Revolution/Evolution for the Democratic Convention, supporting Delegates honoring Thomas Jefferson’s wisdom that: “Just to keep the government honest we need a revolution at least once every hundred years.” Ensuring that Delegates know that they are not required to vote for whom they are pledged. Delegates are required to vote integrity. Enroling Delegates in Pledging Integrity. |
Building: McCormack Room: 212 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | The Future of Social ForumsPanel Discussion The Social Forum-process is spreading around the world. A national forum is anticipated for the US in 2005. This panel will provide diverse perspectives on the process and its contribution to building social change movements. Panelists include several Boston Social Forum organizers Maria Aguiar (Grassroots), Joe Gerson (AFSC), Barbara Salvaterra (JwJ), and Suren Moodliar (NAFFE). Also listed under the following tracks: Global Justice, Movement Building |
Building: McCormack Room: 608 Floor: 1 |
| Economy | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Organizing for a Cooperative Economy in New England and Beyond (open discussion)Other The movement for an economy based on cooperation and solidarity is vast and diverse - full of ideas, exciting experiments, and people working hard on the ground for a better life. How can we unite our energies to spread these projects and ideas throughout our communities? What should we be doing to link up with people and projects internationally? Participants will include-- Stacey Cordeiro (Cooperative Development Institute); Len Krimerman (Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter; Rebecca Johnson (Cooperative Economics for Women); Noemi Gizpenc (Ownership Associates); Fr. Randy Eldridge (HOME Co-op and Alliance 21); and others. This discussion is open to all! Also listed under the following tracks: Other Economies are Possible, Movement Building |
Building: Wheatley Room: 158 Floor: 2 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Gentrification of Neighborhoods of People of Color in BostonOther Workshop "Gentrification of Neighborhoods of People of Color in Boston" -Panel format- Sponsored by Community Change Inc. Chuck Turner (District 7 Boston City Councilor)- The History of Segregation and White Control of Neighborhoods in Boston. Lydia Lowe (Coordinator for the Chinese Progressive Association)- The Battle to Save Chinatown. City Life- Organizing Neighborhoods to defend themselves against gentrification. Boston Tenant Coalition- Boston Community Stabilization Act: Protections for Tenants and Small Property Owners. Felix Arroyo (At large Boston City Councilor)- Overall Picture for the Future-The Good and The Bad. Also listed under the following track: Localization |
Building: Wheatley Room: 200 Floor: 2 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Creating the World Future Council for Ethical Global LeadershipWorkshop Help create the World Future Council—a global council of 100 wise elders, youth leaders and pioneers—that will be a moral compass for the world. Once established, EarthAction's global network of 2,200 civil society organizations in 163 countries, and other networks, will press governments to support the Council's policy recommendations. The World Future Council Initiative needs your help to create this new global institution. Also listed under the following tracks: Global Justice, Peace |
Building: Wheatley Room: 41 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Conservation of Inequity? No Thanks! Environmental Sustainability
Meets Economic JusticePanel Discussion The poor, whether rural or urban, are the first to suffer from environmental damage and depletion. For years the inner cities of America have borne the brunt of pollution along with economic disinvestments. How can development,justice, and environmental wisdom combine to turn this situation on its head? Come learn about the economics of a green and just world. Speakers-- Omar Freilla (Green Workers Cooperatives, The Bronx, NY); Ed Connelly (New Ecology, Boston, MA); Others TBA Also listed under the following tracks: Other Economies are Possible, Environment |
Building: Wheatley Room: 45 Floor: 1 |
| Education | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Nonviolent Communication WorkshopWorkshop A two hour introductory overview to Nonviolent Communication, the work of Marshall Rosenberg. Nonviolent Communication (NVC)is a process for inspiring compassionate connection and action. NVC is a tool for helping prevent and resolve conflicts and facilitate communication that helps everyone get their needs met. This workshop will be interactive, with the audience working with whatever issues they have alive in them. We will practice translating our passionate judgements, analyses and evaluations into our feelings and needs so that our chances of being heard and understood by those in power will increase. NVC training emphasizes personal responsibility for our choices and having our words motivated by compassion, rather than by fear, guilt or shame. Also listed under the following tracks: Peace, Strategic Non-Violence |
Building: Wheatley Room: 62 Floor: 1 |
| Environment | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Protecting Our Children From ChemLawn and Toxic PesticidesWorkshop Everyone wants a green lawn, but not at the cost of our children's health. Lawn pesticide use by companies like TruGreen ChemLawn is increasing. But what we aren’t told is that ChemLawn’s pesticides are linked to serious environmental and public health effects, even when applied correctly. Pesticides that ChemLawn is promoting and calling safe are actually very dangerous. Come to this workshop and find out what you can do to protect your lawn, your children, and our environment from toxic pesticides. This workshop will be led by Jay Rasku and Will Everitt, Field Directors, Toxics Action Center. Also listed under the following tracks: Challenging Corporate Power, Health |
Building: Wheatley Room: CPCS Wheatley W-4-141 Floor: |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Climate Change: Catastrophic Consequences and How to Avert Disaster!Panel Discussion Ross Gelbspan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Heat is On' and now author of a book to be published in July 2004: BOILING POINT: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled the Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do To Avert Disaster Prof. Barrett N. Rock University of New Hampshire Complex Systems Research Center and Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space. Demonstrating the Science of Climate Change Dr. Michael Charney Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Green Building Coalition Publisher, the Cambridge Climate Calendar Climate Change Activism: How to build the movement in your own community. Dr. Frank Ackerman Research Director Global Development and Environment Institute Tufts. What's Wrong with the Economic Critique-- What Economists Don't Know About Climate Change Dr. William Moomaw Professor of International Environmental Policy Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy Senior Director, Tufts Institute of the Environment; Science Advisory Committeee, Earthwatch. Speaking on Climate Change Crisis as Impetus for International Cooperation Also listed under the following tracks: Climate Change, Water |
Building: McCormack Room: Cafeteria Floor: 3 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Conservation of Inequity? No Thanks! Environmental Sustainability
Meets Economic JusticePanel Discussion The poor, whether rural or urban, are the first to suffer from environmental damage and depletion. For years the inner cities of America have borne the brunt of pollution along with economic disinvestments. How can development,justice, and environmental wisdom combine to turn this situation on its head? Come learn about the economics of a green and just world. Speakers-- Omar Freilla (Green Workers Cooperatives, The Bronx, NY); Ed Connelly (New Ecology, Boston, MA); Others TBA Also listed under the following tracks: Other Economies are Possible, Economy |
Building: Wheatley Room: 45 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Global Classroom--Portraits of a Rain Forest: A visual expedition into the heart of the tropical rain forests of Costa RicaWorkshop MEG WINCHELL AND COLIN GARLAND provide insight into an environmental "Eco-Action" service program run entirely by volunteers. If you are ready to get out there in the world and make a difference this is a gathering you should not miss. Join master animal tracker, wildlife photographer, conservationist, environmental educator and world traveler Colin Garland as he tracks big cats, records endangered quetzals and hands suspended from the canapy in search of the world's smallest orchid. Join them as that take on the task of putting "ECO" back into eco-travel. |
Building: Wheatley Room: 61 Floor: 1 |
| Faith | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Same-sex Marriage: Today's Civil Rights MovementOther In "My Sister, My Bride" take a heart-warming and historic journey with two women, J. Farrell Cafferata and Caren Jenkins. Partners for five years, Farrell and Caren want to officially celebrate their commitment like any other couple in love. However, they do not have the same legal rights as any other couple. First meet Farrell and Caren at their B’rit Ahuvah, a Jewish commitment ceremony in Nevada in October 2002. Two years later, when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, in a ground breaking act, ordered the County Clerk to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses, Farrell and Caren come to be married at San Francisco City Hall in a civil ceremony. Together with thousands of other hopeful couples, they participate in what has become a defining moment in the on-going struggle for equality in this country. A story of love, marriage and the Constitution. Also listed under the following tracks: GLBT track, Women's Web/Feminist Agenda |
Building: McCormack Room: 420 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | TIKKUN: Community Building: Making ConnectionsOther This is an opportunity for people who have newly encountered the Tikkun Community at our BSF events, or have not yet but would like to, and for Tikkun members from near and far, to gather for some structured community-building activities, sharing and learning about what Tikkun Communities are doing in Boston and around the country and how you can plug into it, and informally getting to know one another over some refreshments (in the vernacular, "schmoozing with a little nosh"). Also listed under the following tracks: Movement Building, Peace |
Building: McCormack Room: Ryan Lounge Floor: 3 |
| Fund the Dream | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Paying for Injustice (part 2): reparations for Slavery and Colonialism in North America and Worldwide
Workshop This one-and-a-half hour workshop will be an open discussion of issues raised by the first part of the workshop, and a brainstorm about next steps, and about how to link the various reparations movements presented in the first workshop more closely. These reparations movements are: 1. reparations to African Americans for slavery and continuing inequality. 2. reparations to communities of color for criminalization. 3. reparations to South Africans for Apartheid. 4. reparations to Haitians for slavery and colonialism. 5. reparations to communities (especially indigenous peoples) worldwide who are forcibly displaced for dams, mines, etc. Also listed under the following tracks: Global Justice, Other Economies are Possible |
Building: Wheatley Room: CPCS Wheatley W-4-147-2 Floor: |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Whitewashing MediaPanel Discussion Racial inequality, division and oppression are kept invisible to much of America. Race in Media is important as an advertising demographic--and little else--to large Media corporations. How are images of race and ethnicity playing in the major Media and the smaller local and community Media? Presenters include: Makani Themba-Nixon, The Praxis Project, Washington, D.C.; Esther Iverem, journalist, founder and editor of SeeingBlack.com; and Karen Carrillo, freelance journalist, Global Information Network, New York. Also listed under the following track: Media |
Building: Healey Library Room: Media Conference Room Floor: |
| Funding Our Movement | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Social Change Foundations Speak about Their Mission and ProcessPanel Discussion Representatives from local social change foundations will talk about their approach to funding social movements. |
Building: Science Center Room: Small Science 1-006 Floor: 1 |
| GLBT track | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Bridging Cultural Gaps in the Movement for Same-Sex MarriageWorkshop As we move forward to protect equal marriage rights for same-sex couples in Massachusetts, we face many challenges. Bridging the gap between culturally different communities is essential to preserving marriage rights for same-sex couples and defeating right wing attempts to undermine equality in Massachusetts. Many in diverse communities have contributed to the movement, but all too often we work in isolation, struggling to be recognized or inclusive. This workshop is designed to create connections, open dialogue, and foster collaboration between leaders in diverse communities throughout the state. |
Building: McCormack Room: 213 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Same-sex Marriage: Today's Civil Rights MovementOther In "My Sister, My Bride" take a heart-warming and historic journey with two women, J. Farrell Cafferata and Caren Jenkins. Partners for five years, Farrell and Caren want to officially celebrate their commitment like any other couple in love. However, they do not have the same legal rights as any other couple. First meet Farrell and Caren at their B’rit Ahuvah, a Jewish commitment ceremony in Nevada in October 2002. Two years later, when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, in a ground breaking act, ordered the County Clerk to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses, Farrell and Caren come to be married at San Francisco City Hall in a civil ceremony. Together with thousands of other hopeful couples, they participate in what has become a defining moment in the on-going struggle for equality in this country. A story of love, marriage and the Constitution. Also listed under the following tracks: Women's Web/Feminist Agenda, Faith |
Building: McCormack Room: 420 Floor: 1 |
| Global Justice | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Paying for Injustice (part 2): reparations for Slavery and Colonialism in North America and Worldwide
Workshop This one-and-a-half hour workshop will be an open discussion of issues raised by the first part of the workshop, and a brainstorm about next steps, and about how to link the various reparations movements presented in the first workshop more closely. These reparations movements are: 1. reparations to African Americans for slavery and continuing inequality. 2. reparations to communities of color for criminalization. 3. reparations to South Africans for Apartheid. 4. reparations to Haitians for slavery and colonialism. 5. reparations to communities (especially indigenous peoples) worldwide who are forcibly displaced for dams, mines, etc. Also listed under the following tracks: Fund the Dream, Other Economies are Possible |
Building: Wheatley Room: CPCS Wheatley W-4-147-2 Floor: |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Low-income Activists Speakout!Lecture A speak-out by low-income activists - a chance to learn from each other and for others to learn from those of us in the forefront of the battle for economic justice, the experts . Topics include, housing, homelessness, welfare and safety net issues, immigrants, environmental justice, low-wage work, contingent work, lack of healthcare and health coverage, etc Also listed under the following tracks: Anti-Poverty Track, Movement Building |
Building: Wheatley Room: CPCS Wheatley W-4-CPCS Plaza Floor: |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | The Future of Social ForumsPanel Discussion The Social Forum-process is spreading around the world. A national forum is anticipated for the US in 2005. This panel will provide diverse perspectives on the process and its contribution to building social change movements. Panelists include several Boston Social Forum organizers Maria Aguiar (Grassroots), Joe Gerson (AFSC), Barbara Salvaterra (JwJ), and Suren Moodliar (NAFFE). Also listed under the following tracks: Democracy, Movement Building |
Building: McCormack Room: 608 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | IndyMedia and Community Media Centers: a Local-to-Global Model of Building Independent Media
Panel Discussion In 1999 community and independent Media worldwide knew in advance that the reasons for the historic protest against corporate-led globalization in Seattle would not be articulated in major Media. So a loose coalition of journalists, producers, technicians and activists made an end run around the mainline Media. An Independent Media Center (IMC) was born. In some cases, entirely new Media forms of expression and delivery are evolving from grass roots Media centers around the world. This workshop will focus on Media centers as agents of progressive social change. What stands in the way of more intensive, racially diverse civic production of the journalism that informs our communities? Presenters include: Fred Johnson, Community Media & Technology Program, College of Public & Community Service, UMass-Boston; Michael Eisenmenger, NYC IndyMedia, Manhattan Neighborhood Network TV; John Grebe, Boston IndyMedia, "Sounds of Dissent" radio news WZBC 90.3 radio. Also listed under the following tracks: Media, Movement Building |
Building: Healey Library Room: Media Auditorium -LL-135 Floor: |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Low-income Activists Speakout!Lecture A speak-out by low-income activists - a chance to learn from each other and for others to learn from those of us in the forefront of the battle for economic justice, the experts . Topics include, housing, homelessness, welfare and safety net issues, immigrants, environmental justice, low-wage work, contingent work, lack of healthcare and health coverage, etc Also listed under the following tracks: Anti-Poverty Track, Movement Building |
Building: Wheatley Room: 4 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Creating the World Future Council for Ethical Global LeadershipWorkshop Help create the World Future Council—a global council of 100 wise elders, youth leaders and pioneers—that will be a moral compass for the world. Once established, EarthAction's global network of 2,200 civil society organizations in 163 countries, and other networks, will press governments to support the Council's policy recommendations. The World Future Council Initiative needs your help to create this new global institution. Also listed under the following tracks: Peace, Economy |
Building: Wheatley Room: 41 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Nuclear Terror from SpacePanel Discussion "Arsenal of Hypocrisy" documentary film & discussion with Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. "Unbelievable" but true history and technology of US space weaponization as an agency of terrestial control. Social and political implications; citizen action. www.space4peace.org Also listed under the following tracks: Strategic Non-Violence, Science & Technology |
Building: Wheatley Room: 57 Floor: 1 |
| Health | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Protecting Our Children From ChemLawn and Toxic PesticidesWorkshop Everyone wants a green lawn, but not at the cost of our children's health. Lawn pesticide use by companies like TruGreen ChemLawn is increasing. But what we aren’t told is that ChemLawn’s pesticides are linked to serious environmental and public health effects, even when applied correctly. Pesticides that ChemLawn is promoting and calling safe are actually very dangerous. Come to this workshop and find out what you can do to protect your lawn, your children, and our environment from toxic pesticides. This workshop will be led by Jay Rasku and Will Everitt, Field Directors, Toxics Action Center. Also listed under the following tracks: Environment, Challenging Corporate Power |
Building: Wheatley Room: CPCS Wheatley W-4-141 Floor: |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | The Challenges of Immigrant Access to Health CareWorkshop Come and see a play showing the barriers immigrants face in accessing health care. Whether if it is because of language barriers or fear of deportation, the issues faced by this group of people are enormous and immigrants a lot of the time are not getting the care they need and deserve. This workshop will be informative and educative, with great speakers who are on the frontline dealing with the “minority majority” immigrant group of this country. Come and listen to real stories from people suffering in the current health system and find out how to make a difference in these people’s lives. The panel will be facilitated by Dayanne Leal from Health Care For All. Also listed under the following track: Immigration |
Building: McCormack Room: 418 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Taking Action: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Health OutcomesWorkshop Barbara Ferrer, Ph.D., MPH Deputy Director, Boston Public Health Commission and representatives from community coalitions working in Boston to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health will discuss how racism contributes to racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes and will offer a framework to guide the development of strategies aimed at eliminating longstanding inequities in health. Session Objectives: 1)Present background information on racial disparities in health, 2)Identify mechanisms by which racism contributes to racial disparities in health, 3)Offer a framework for initiating undoing racism efforts as part of a public health agenda Also listed under the following track: Immigration |
Building: Wheatley Room: 63 Floor: 1 |
| Immigration | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | The Challenges of Immigrant Access to Health CareWorkshop Come and see a play showing the barriers immigrants face in accessing health care. Whether if it is because of language barriers or fear of deportation, the issues faced by this group of people are enormous and immigrants a lot of the time are not getting the care they need and deserve. This workshop will be informative and educative, with great speakers who are on the frontline dealing with the “minority majority” immigrant group of this country. Come and listen to real stories from people suffering in the current health system and find out how to make a difference in these people’s lives. The panel will be facilitated by Dayanne Leal from Health Care For All. Also listed under the following track: Health |
Building: McCormack Room: 418 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | The New Voices of Immigration: The Cry of White Fear and the Voice of Immigrant AmericaPanel Discussion Part I: Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates will set the historical context of the right-wing nativist movement, and Roberto Lovato, an author and former immigrants' rights activist who writes about white fear for several publications including The Nation, Salon and other media outlets will discuss how excluding white fear from the immigration debate leads to a lopsided debate that leaves immigrants rights advocates in a perpetual -and mostly losing- defensive position. Part II: Immigrants from different nations will speak about their reality, as it relates to anti-immigrant arguments Part III: A facilitated discussion of next steps for the movement Also listed under the following track: Movement Building |
Building: Wheatley Room: 31 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Taking Action: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Health OutcomesWorkshop Barbara Ferrer, Ph.D., MPH Deputy Director, Boston Public Health Commission and representatives from community coalitions working in Boston to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health will discuss how racism contributes to racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes and will offer a framework to guide the development of strategies aimed at eliminating longstanding inequities in health. Session Objectives: 1)Present background information on racial disparities in health, 2)Identify mechanisms by which racism contributes to racial disparities in health, 3)Offer a framework for initiating undoing racism efforts as part of a public health agenda Also listed under the following track: Health |
Building: Wheatley Room: 63 Floor: 1 |
| International Peace Conference - A World Working Together For Peace | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Common Struggles, Common Dreams: South Asians for Social Justice There & HereWorkshop This workshop will be conducted in conjunction with the U.S. Hegemony & Pre-Emptive War Conference, which is part of the larger “A World Working Together for Peace” track organized by the American Friends Service Committee, the European Network for Peace and Human Rights, and other organizations. Movements for social justice in South Asia and amongst South Asians in America have proliferated in recent years in response to growing social and gender inequalities, suppression of democratic rights of workers, and environmental degradation in the name of development. This workshop is intended to begin a dialogue between activists from South Asia and progressive South Asians in the US to learn from each other, to emphasize the commonality of our struggles, and to build solidarities across borders. |
Building: Wheatley Room: 123 Floor: 2 |
| Israel-Palestine Conference | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Poisoning Palestine: Israel's Use of Chemical Agents Against Civilians Workshop This workshop will survey the use of known and unknown toxic chemical agents by Israeli forces since 2001. We will focus on the repeated deployment of incapacitating poison gas(es) against Palestinian demonstrators and neighborhoods, including recent reported incidents in Zawiya and Nablus. The documentary evidence, including film (James Longley's "Gaza Strip" and the BBC's "Israel's Secret Weapon"), eyewitness testimony, canister photos, etc. will be presented and discussed. We will also briefly review the health impacts of chronically excessive tear gas, the spraying of civilians with Monsanto RoundUp, nuclear waste contamination at Dimona, and the escalating toxic threat to Palestinian civilians on both sides of the Green Line. Opportunities for progress in exposing, investigating and curbing these abuses will be discussed. James Brooks is a writer, activist, and volunteer webmaster for Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel (www.vtp.org). A former business owner and past vice-president of the National Assn. of Equine Supplement Manufacturers, Brooks currently serves as marketing director for Infra-red Analyzers, Inc. of Williston, VT. Brooks' articles on the Middle East have been widely published on the internet. |
Building: McCormack Room: 208 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Strategies for Building the Movement Against the Occupation: Learning Lessons from the South African Liberation MovementWorkshop An exciting workshop for activists to discuss effective ways of building a movement in the US to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine and to plan future joint actions. Presentation and facilitation by Dennis Brutus. Poet, teacher, freedom fighter. Known as the "singing voice of the South African Liberation Movement". Incarcerated at Robben Island with Nelson Mandela. Moderator, Marilyn Levin Israel/Palestine Task Force of United with Justice for Peace |
Building: McCormack Room: 209 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | It's No Dream (60min) documentary; The Children of Ibdaa: To Create Something Out of Nothing (30 min) documentary by S. Smith PatrickFilm Screening An examination of the views of conscientious objectors—“refuseniks”—within the Israeli military who refuse to be deployed in the Occupied Territories. Israelis relate how they've come to feel that their country is being held hostage to the radical ideology of settlers. A devastating indictment of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, seen through newly opened eyes. The Children of Ibdaa: To Create Something Out of Nothing: A children's dance troupe from Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank use their performance to express the history, struggle, and aspirations of the Palestinian people, specifically the right to return to their homeland. |
Building: Healey Library Room: Media Presentation Room 4 Floor: |
| Lifestyles & Personal Choices | ||
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| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Let's Release The Miracle of Hemp IIIWorkshop The Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition (MassCann), in conjunction with The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and local cannabis activists, present "The Hemposium," a symposium on the ecological, medicinal and other cultural benefits of the cannabis plant. A series of moderated speaker panels (c. 40-60 minutes each) will address topics such as: Hemp for Fuel, Food & Fiber; Medical Cannabis; Drug Prohibition and Censorship; Hemp Cultivation Across the Globe; and A History of Marijuana Policy Reform, 1964-present. The Hemposium will also feature visual displays produced by the November Coalition ("Faces of the Drug War"). Free literature will be distributed and there will be hemp products on display. Hemp-friendly musical entertainment will be provided between panels. The prohibition of cannabis is not only an issue of politics, criminal justice, faith, or culture, but involves each of them. |
Building: Wheatley Room: 64 Floor: 1 |
| Localization | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Gentrification of Neighborhoods of People of Color in BostonOther Workshop "Gentrification of Neighborhoods of People of Color in Boston" -Panel format- Sponsored by Community Change Inc. Chuck Turner (District 7 Boston City Councilor)- The History of Segregation and White Control of Neighborhoods in Boston. Lydia Lowe (Coordinator for the Chinese Progressive Association)- The Battle to Save Chinatown. City Life- Organizing Neighborhoods to defend themselves against gentrification. Boston Tenant Coalition- Boston Community Stabilization Act: Protections for Tenants and Small Property Owners. Felix Arroyo (At large Boston City Councilor)- Overall Picture for the Future-The Good and The Bad. Also listed under the following track: Economy |
Building: Wheatley Room: 200 Floor: 2 |
| Media | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | IndyMedia and Community Media Centers: a Local-to-Global Model of Building Independent Media
Panel Discussion In 1999 community and independent Media worldwide knew in advance that the reasons for the historic protest against corporate-led globalization in Seattle would not be articulated in major Media. So a loose coalition of journalists, producers, technicians and activists made an end run around the mainline Media. An Independent Media Center (IMC) was born. In some cases, entirely new Media forms of expression and delivery are evolving from grass roots Media centers around the world. This workshop will focus on Media centers as agents of progressive social change. What stands in the way of more intensive, racially diverse civic production of the journalism that informs our communities? Presenters include: Fred Johnson, Community Media & Technology Program, College of Public & Community Service, UMass-Boston; Michael Eisenmenger, NYC IndyMedia, Manhattan Neighborhood Network TV; John Grebe, Boston IndyMedia, "Sounds of Dissent" radio news WZBC 90.3 radio. Also listed under the following tracks: Movement Building, Global Justice |
Building: Healey Library Room: Media Auditorium -LL-135 Floor: |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Whitewashing MediaPanel Discussion Racial inequality, division and oppression are kept invisible to much of America. Race in Media is important as an advertising demographic--and little else--to large Media corporations. How are images of race and ethnicity playing in the major Media and the smaller local and community Media? Presenters include: Makani Themba-Nixon, The Praxis Project, Washington, D.C.; Esther Iverem, journalist, founder and editor of SeeingBlack.com; and Karen Carrillo, freelance journalist, Global Information Network, New York. Also listed under the following track: Fund the Dream |
Building: Healey Library Room: Media Conference Room Floor: |
| Movement Building | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Low-income Activists Speakout!Lecture A speak-out by low-income activists - a chance to learn from each other and for others to learn from those of us in the forefront of the battle for economic justice, the experts . Topics include, housing, homelessness, welfare and safety net issues, immigrants, environmental justice, low-wage work, contingent work, lack of healthcare and health coverage, etc Also listed under the following tracks: Anti-Poverty Track, Global Justice |
Building: Wheatley Room: CPCS Wheatley W-4-CPCS Plaza Floor: |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Peter Miguel Camejo & Ralph Nader: Shifting the Power - Rebuilding DemocracyLecture This election is dominated by fear -- the Republicans play on the the fear of terrorism and the Democrats play on the the fear of Bush. One of the goals of the Nader-Camejo campaign is to free voters from fear so they can vote their conscience, their interests and their dreams. |
Building: Science Center Room: Lipke Auditorium Floor: 2 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | The Future of Social ForumsPanel Discussion The Social Forum-process is spreading around the world. A national forum is anticipated for the US in 2005. This panel will provide diverse perspectives on the process and its contribution to building social change movements. Panelists include several Boston Social Forum organizers Maria Aguiar (Grassroots), Joe Gerson (AFSC), Barbara Salvaterra (JwJ), and Suren Moodliar (NAFFE). Also listed under the following tracks: Global Justice, Democracy |
Building: McCormack Room: 608 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | IndyMedia and Community Media Centers: a Local-to-Global Model of Building Independent Media
Panel Discussion In 1999 community and independent Media worldwide knew in advance that the reasons for the historic protest against corporate-led globalization in Seattle would not be articulated in major Media. So a loose coalition of journalists, producers, technicians and activists made an end run around the mainline Media. An Independent Media Center (IMC) was born. In some cases, entirely new Media forms of expression and delivery are evolving from grass roots Media centers around the world. This workshop will focus on Media centers as agents of progressive social change. What stands in the way of more intensive, racially diverse civic production of the journalism that informs our communities? Presenters include: Fred Johnson, Community Media & Technology Program, College of Public & Community Service, UMass-Boston; Michael Eisenmenger, NYC IndyMedia, Manhattan Neighborhood Network TV; John Grebe, Boston IndyMedia, "Sounds of Dissent" radio news WZBC 90.3 radio. Also listed under the following tracks: Media, Global Justice |
Building: Healey Library Room: Media Auditorium -LL-135 Floor: |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | TIKKUN: Community Building: Making ConnectionsOther This is an opportunity for people who have newly encountered the Tikkun Community at our BSF events, or have not yet but would like to, and for Tikkun members from near and far, to gather for some structured community-building activities, sharing and learning about what Tikkun Communities are doing in Boston and around the country and how you can plug into it, and informally getting to know one another over some refreshments (in the vernacular, "schmoozing with a little nosh"). Also listed under the following tracks: Faith, Peace |
Building: McCormack Room: Ryan Lounge Floor: 3 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Coaching Skills for ActivistsWorkshop As activists and social change agents we participate in many groups: organizations, campaign/organizing teams, networks,, affinity groups, etc. Communication is central to all good working relationships: the ability to go to the heart of a matter and present your view in a way that others can hear it, the ability to respond apropriately and powerfully to others, the ability to give useful feedback, negotiating in a way that creates win/wins, etc. Coaching skills are powerful tools for both upgrading your communication skills as well as increasing your emotional intelligence. Coaching tools also help us all look at how we and our organizations walk our talk and model the values that are central to our work, to be the change we want to create in the world. If we work for peace, or sustainability, we must be vigilant in watching for ways we do violence to each other, or how we live unsustainable lives which undermine our long term impact. |
Building: Science Center Room: 62 Floor: 2 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Organizing for a Cooperative Economy in New England and Beyond (open discussion)Other The movement for an economy based on cooperation and solidarity is vast and diverse - full of ideas, exciting experiments, and people working hard on the ground for a better life. How can we unite our energies to spread these projects and ideas throughout our communities? What should we be doing to link up with people and projects internationally? Participants will include-- Stacey Cordeiro (Cooperative Development Institute); Len Krimerman (Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter; Rebecca Johnson (Cooperative Economics for Women); Noemi Gizpenc (Ownership Associates); Fr. Randy Eldridge (HOME Co-op and Alliance 21); and others. This discussion is open to all! Also listed under the following tracks: Other Economies are Possible, Economy |
Building: Wheatley Room: 158 Floor: 2 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | The New Voices of Immigration: The Cry of White Fear and the Voice of Immigrant AmericaPanel Discussion Part I: Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates will set the historical context of the right-wing nativist movement, and Roberto Lovato, an author and former immigrants' rights activist who writes about white fear for several publications including The Nation, Salon and other media outlets will discuss how excluding white fear from the immigration debate leads to a lopsided debate that leaves immigrants rights advocates in a perpetual -and mostly losing- defensive position. Part II: Immigrants from different nations will speak about their reality, as it relates to anti-immigrant arguments Part III: A facilitated discussion of next steps for the movement Also listed under the following track: Immigration |
Building: Wheatley Room: 31 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Low-income Activists Speakout!Lecture A speak-out by low-income activists - a chance to learn from each other and for others to learn from those of us in the forefront of the battle for economic justice, the experts . Topics include, housing, homelessness, welfare and safety net issues, immigrants, environmental justice, low-wage work, contingent work, lack of healthcare and health coverage, etc Also listed under the following tracks: Anti-Poverty Track, Global Justice |
Building: Wheatley Room: 4 Floor: 1 |
| Other Economies are Possible | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Paying for Injustice (part 2): reparations for Slavery and Colonialism in North America and Worldwide
Workshop This one-and-a-half hour workshop will be an open discussion of issues raised by the first part of the workshop, and a brainstorm about next steps, and about how to link the various reparations movements presented in the first workshop more closely. These reparations movements are: 1. reparations to African Americans for slavery and continuing inequality. 2. reparations to communities of color for criminalization. 3. reparations to South Africans for Apartheid. 4. reparations to Haitians for slavery and colonialism. 5. reparations to communities (especially indigenous peoples) worldwide who are forcibly displaced for dams, mines, etc. Also listed under the following tracks: Fund the Dream, Global Justice |
Building: Wheatley Room: CPCS Wheatley W-4-147-2 Floor: |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Hector Giraldo: Trade Unionist; 2004 World Social Forum - Building Another World, A Compilation of FilmsFilm Screening Produced by Julie Rosenberg; Edited by Rachel Clark, 2004, 25 min. This video is a portrait of Hector Giraldo, a Colombian man whose life is threatened by paramilitaries because of his union work. In the face of death threats Hector decides to leave Colombia and spend a year in the U.S. through an AFL-CIO sponsored program. This documentary follows Hector during his time in the U.S. as he works with American unions on their issues while trying to educate Americans about how the US funded Plan Colombia supports paramilitary violence that has threatened his life. *Discussion with filmmaker Julie Rosenberg to follow.* Title: 2004 World Social Forum - Building Another World A compilation of films: "Rumble in Mumbai" by Jawad Metni, Naeem Mohaiemen and Prerana Reddy, "Another World is Happening," by Catherine Benedict, and additional footage by Lev Grossman-Spivack, 2004, 30 min. In this video collaboration, independent filmmakers immerse the viewer in the 2004 WOrld Social Forum in Mumbai, India. Footage of marches, chanting, music and dance is interwoven with the inspiring words of activists from all over the world. With over 100,000 participants representing hundreds of people's movements, indigenous groups, NGO's, labor unions and other progressive organizations, the Mumbai social forum showed that another world is not only possible, it is on its way. *Discussion with filmmakers Jawad Metni, Lev Grossman-Spivack and Catherine Benedict to follow.* Also listed under the following track: BSF Film Series |
Building: Wheatley Room: Snowden Auditorium Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Organizing for a Cooperative Economy in New England and Beyond (open discussion)Other The movement for an economy based on cooperation and solidarity is vast and diverse - full of ideas, exciting experiments, and people working hard on the ground for a better life. How can we unite our energies to spread these projects and ideas throughout our communities? What should we be doing to link up with people and projects internationally? Participants will include-- Stacey Cordeiro (Cooperative Development Institute); Len Krimerman (Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter; Rebecca Johnson (Cooperative Economics for Women); Noemi Gizpenc (Ownership Associates); Fr. Randy Eldridge (HOME Co-op and Alliance 21); and others. This discussion is open to all! Also listed under the following tracks: Movement Building, Economy |
Building: Wheatley Room: 158 Floor: 2 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Conservation of Inequity? No Thanks! Environmental Sustainability
Meets Economic JusticePanel Discussion The poor, whether rural or urban, are the first to suffer from environmental damage and depletion. For years the inner cities of America have borne the brunt of pollution along with economic disinvestments. How can development,justice, and environmental wisdom combine to turn this situation on its head? Come learn about the economics of a green and just world. Speakers-- Omar Freilla (Green Workers Cooperatives, The Bronx, NY); Ed Connelly (New Ecology, Boston, MA); Others TBA Also listed under the following tracks: Economy, Environment |
Building: Wheatley Room: 45 Floor: 1 |
| Peace | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | The Possibilities of City Peace CommissionsWorkshop How can municipalities support local and global agendas for peace and justice??? What are ways for community folks to connect and have an impact on a variety of issues like violence, militarism, budget cuts, civil liberties, and education? Please join representatives from the New Haven and Cambridge Peace Commissions in a discussion. These Peace commissions have worked to connect with sister cities, passed resolutions on issues from the death penalty to the PATRIOT Act, fostered peace education in the schools and been a forum for celebrating our communiites. |
Building: Wheatley Room: CPCS Wheatley W-3-154-3 Floor: 3 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | The Peace Patriots -- Video Preview and Discussion of National Screening/Speaking Tour as organizing toolFilm Screening Award-winning, nationally acclaimed independent filmmaker Robbie Leppzer (AN ACT OF CONSCIENCE) will screen a work-in-progress edit of his latest feature documentary, THE PEACE PATRIOTS, which chronicles the dramatic events of protest and resistance in the weeks leading up to and during the U.S. military invasion of Iraq. This 56-minute film is an intimate personal portrait of a diverse group of peace activists and their response to war. Ranging in age from 13 to 74, this feature documentary follows the activities of middle and high school students, college students, a Quaker community organizer and war veterans from the Persian Gulf, Vietnam and Korean wars. The activists take part in community protests, marches and rallies, and campus teach-ins. Leppzer is looking for local organizers to host community and campus showings of this film in September and October as a way to galvanize anti-war organizing efforts leading up to the elections. Contact 1-800-557-6414. |
Building: McCormack Room: 417 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | TIKKUN: Community Building: Making ConnectionsOther This is an opportunity for people who have newly encountered the Tikkun Community at our BSF events, or have not yet but would like to, and for Tikkun members from near and far, to gather for some structured community-building activities, sharing and learning about what Tikkun Communities are doing in Boston and around the country and how you can plug into it, and informally getting to know one another over some refreshments (in the vernacular, "schmoozing with a little nosh"). Also listed under the following tracks: Faith, Movement Building |
Building: McCormack Room: Ryan Lounge Floor: 3 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Creating the World Future Council for Ethical Global LeadershipWorkshop Help create the World Future Council—a global council of 100 wise elders, youth leaders and pioneers—that will be a moral compass for the world. Once established, EarthAction's global network of 2,200 civil society organizations in 163 countries, and other networks, will press governments to support the Council's policy recommendations. The World Future Council Initiative needs your help to create this new global institution. Also listed under the following tracks: Global Justice, Economy |
Building: Wheatley Room: 41 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Nonviolent Communication WorkshopWorkshop A two hour introductory overview to Nonviolent Communication, the work of Marshall Rosenberg. Nonviolent Communication (NVC)is a process for inspiring compassionate connection and action. NVC is a tool for helping prevent and resolve conflicts and facilitate communication that helps everyone get their needs met. This workshop will be interactive, with the audience working with whatever issues they have alive in them. We will practice translating our passionate judgements, analyses and evaluations into our feelings and needs so that our chances of being heard and understood by those in power will increase. NVC training emphasizes personal responsibility for our choices and having our words motivated by compassion, rather than by fear, guilt or shame. Also listed under the following tracks: Education, Strategic Non-Violence |
Building: Wheatley Room: 62 Floor: 1 |
| Science & Technology | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Towards Sustainable TransportationPanel Discussion This panel discussion compares and contrasts strategies for advancing sustainable transport domestically and abroad. Panelists include academics working on multi-stakeholder sustainable transportation projects in India, China and Mexico, Khalida Small from the T Riders Union, a community group mobilizing transport users to demand for more equitable public transport in Boston and a representative from Bikes Not Bombs, a local Boston organization that promotes bicycling in the innercity and internationally by helping to set up locally run bicycle shops. |
Building: Healey Library Room: University Club Floor: 11 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Nuclear Terror from SpacePanel Discussion "Arsenal of Hypocrisy" documentary film & discussion with Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. "Unbelievable" but true history and technology of US space weaponization as an agency of terrestial control. Social and political implications; citizen action. www.space4peace.org Also listed under the following tracks: Strategic Non-Violence, Global Justice |
Building: Wheatley Room: 57 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer NetworksLecture The copyright system does not fit well with the modern world of computer networks. The draconian punishments used to enforce it benefit only global corporations vying to increase their copyright powers while suppressing public access to technology. To serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright--to promote progress, for the benefit of the public--we must create change in a new direction. Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project launched in 1984 to develop the free software operating system, will discuss the Free Software Movement and copyright issues in particular. |
Building: Wheatley Room: Wheatley A [Formerly Wheatley Cafeteria} Floor: 3 |
| Strategic Non-Violence | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Nuclear Terror from SpacePanel Discussion "Arsenal of Hypocrisy" documentary film & discussion with Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. "Unbelievable" but true history and technology of US space weaponization as an agency of terrestial control. Social and political implications; citizen action. www.space4peace.org Also listed under the following tracks: Global Justice, Science & Technology |
Building: Wheatley Room: 57 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Nonviolent Communication WorkshopWorkshop A two hour introductory overview to Nonviolent Communication, the work of Marshall Rosenberg. Nonviolent Communication (NVC)is a process for inspiring compassionate connection and action. NVC is a tool for helping prevent and resolve conflicts and facilitate communication that helps everyone get their needs met. This workshop will be interactive, with the audience working with whatever issues they have alive in them. We will practice translating our passionate judgements, analyses and evaluations into our feelings and needs so that our chances of being heard and understood by those in power will increase. NVC training emphasizes personal responsibility for our choices and having our words motivated by compassion, rather than by fear, guilt or shame. Also listed under the following tracks: Peace, Education |
Building: Wheatley Room: 62 Floor: 1 |
| Student & Youth | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Running Fun and Effective MeetingsWorkshop Ever been to a meeting that seems directionless and unproductive? Ever been to a meeting where a few people dominate discussion? Ever been to a meeting so boring it made you want to fall asleep? At the end of a meeting ever wonder what you accomplished? This workshop will help you learn how to avoid all these problems and ensure that your meetings will make people want to keep coming back. Topics covered include: Facilitation techniques, useful exercises, trouble-shooting common problems, hand-signals, meeting roles, preparation and follow-up, and more. |
Building: McCormack Room: 210 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | International Perspectives on Student Movement OrganizingPanel Discussion Student movements around the world have led successful campaigns to defend the rights of young people to universal quality education, decent housing, meaningful job opportunities, and more. At the same time, these movements, lead by powerful national student unions, have built their own student-run institutions to provide their members with everything from affordable healthcare to cheap travel discounts. In the U.S. there is essentially no comparable national student movement, let alone one that is capable of conducting large-scale student strikes. In this panel discussion, international student movement leaders will share their perspectives on organizing and draw lessons that U.S. students can use to build a more effective movement in this country. The panel with offer a comparative examination of the structural, political and cultural realities that can determine the success of student movements. Invited speakers include leaders from the Canadian Federation of Students and the French National Student Union (each representing hundreds of thousands of students) along with members of the International Union of Socialist Youth - the world's largest youth political coalition. |
Building: McCormack Room: 430 Floor: 3 |
| Water | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Taking on the Water Barons: Where do we go from here?Panel Discussion The closing plenary of the water track will feature spirited presentations from Ruth Caplan of the Water Allies Network, Ryan Case of the Water Stewards Network, Tom Goldtooth of Indigenous Environmental Network, and Carl Flecker of the Polaris Institute in Canada. Ali Hebshi will chair the session. Also listed under the following tracks: |
Building: McCormack Room: 407 Floor: 3 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Taking on the Water Barons: Where do we go from here?Panel Discussion The closing plenary of the water track will feature spirited presentations from Ruth Caplan of the Water Allies Network, Ryan Case of the Water Stewards Network, Tom Goldtooth of Indigenous Environmental Network, and Carl Flecker of the Polaris Institute in Canada. Ali Hebshi will chair the session. Also listed under the following tracks: |
Building: McCormack Room: 407 Floor: 3 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Taking on the Water Barons: Where do we go from here?Panel Discussion The closing plenary of the water track will feature spirited presentations from Ruth Caplan of the Water Allies Network, Ryan Case of the Water Stewards Network, Tom Goldtooth of Indigenous Environmental Network, and Carl Flecker of the Polaris Institute in Canada. Ali Hebshi will chair the session. Also listed under the following tracks: |
Building: McCormack Room: 407 Floor: 3 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Climate Change: Catastrophic Consequences and How to Avert Disaster!Panel Discussion Ross Gelbspan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Heat is On' and now author of a book to be published in July 2004: BOILING POINT: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled the Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do To Avert Disaster Prof. Barrett N. Rock University of New Hampshire Complex Systems Research Center and Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space. Demonstrating the Science of Climate Change Dr. Michael Charney Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Green Building Coalition Publisher, the Cambridge Climate Calendar Climate Change Activism: How to build the movement in your own community. Dr. Frank Ackerman Research Director Global Development and Environment Institute Tufts. What's Wrong with the Economic Critique-- What Economists Don't Know About Climate Change Dr. William Moomaw Professor of International Environmental Policy Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy Senior Director, Tufts Institute of the Environment; Science Advisory Committeee, Earthwatch. Speaking on Climate Change Crisis as Impetus for International Cooperation Also listed under the following tracks: Climate Change, Environment |
Building: McCormack Room: Cafeteria Floor: 3 |
| Women's Web/Feminist Agenda | ||
| Day / Time | Event Description | Location |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | "State of Grace"Other A staged reading of a new play, "State of Grace," based on the work of Grace Paley, poet and peace acivist, presented by the Underground Railway Theater. Grace Paley, Vermont State Poet, will be present to speak and answer questions after the reading. Deborah Wise is the director and producer of this work. She has been producing works with social impact for the last 25 years. Grace Paley is the author of The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, Later the Same Day, The Collected Stories, New and Collected Poems, and a gathering of essays, Just As I Thought. Her many honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Senior fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship in fiction, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for short story writing, a Lannan Award, and a citation as the First Official New York State Writer. She is a member of the War Resister’s League, the Women’s Pentagon Action, and she has long been an influential member of PEN, the international association of writers. |
Building: Room: Floor: |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Same-sex Marriage: Today's Civil Rights MovementOther In "My Sister, My Bride" take a heart-warming and historic journey with two women, J. Farrell Cafferata and Caren Jenkins. Partners for five years, Farrell and Caren want to officially celebrate their commitment like any other couple in love. However, they do not have the same legal rights as any other couple. First meet Farrell and Caren at their B’rit Ahuvah, a Jewish commitment ceremony in Nevada in October 2002. Two years later, when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, in a ground breaking act, ordered the County Clerk to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses, Farrell and Caren come to be married at San Francisco City Hall in a civil ceremony. Together with thousands of other hopeful couples, they participate in what has become a defining moment in the on-going struggle for equality in this country. A story of love, marriage and the Constitution. Also listed under the following tracks: GLBT track, Faith |
Building: McCormack Room: 420 Floor: 1 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | Connecting Human Security to the Realization of Human RightsWorkshop Despite government's insistence that "security" lies in militarism, policing, and punishment, increasing numbers of people realize that there can be no real human security without human rights. This workshop will discuss the crucial relevance of human rights to human security, emphasizing implementation at the state level. Amy Agigian, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University (Boston), where she is Founding Director of the Center for Women's Health and Human Rights. Her new book Baby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative Insemination is Changing the World, is published by Wesleyan University Press. Lawrence Curry has been a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since 1993. He has worked successfully to bring his state's legislation into compliance with international human rights standards. |
Building: Wheatley Room: 124 Floor: 2 |
| Sunday - July 25 Events X (Sunday 2:30-4:00) | America's Checkbook: What It Looks Like and What It Has to Say About Our NationWorkshop The presentation examines federal budget priorites as reflected by how we spend our money. Barbara Hildt and Suleyken Walker will make the connection between fiscal and military policy on Capitol Hill and our lives on the state and local level. The emphasis will be on the importance of women's participationin. the political process as a means to change the way this nation spends ots money. Barbara Hildt is a former State Representative and served as the president of Women’s Alternatives for New Directions (WAND) from 1996-1999. She is the founding director of Youth Empowerment Services (YES) which focuses on violence prevention.Suleyken Walker is a past executive director of the Massachusetts Caucus of Women Legislators and longtime advocate for increasing women’s participation in the political process. With Barbara Hildt, she currently serves on the national board of WAND, and organization that advocates the reduction of military spending. |
Building: Wheatley Room: 127 Floor: 2 |