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Workshop Title/Track
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Description &
Organization
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Speakers
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Venue
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Wednesday, June 23rd
10:00 am
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WSFM & GFMD
Migration & Displacement
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The World Social Forum on Migration (WSFM) in Ecuador and Global Forum
on Migration and Development (GFMD) in Mexico: 2 critical global
mobilizations this year and their implications for US Immigration Reform
International
migrant leaders and organizers of these forums this year will discuss them
and their implications for US immigration reform.
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Unlisted
Contact
person: Colin Rajah crajah@nnirr.org
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Cobo Hall: DO-7A
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Wednesday, June 23RD
1:00 pm
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Building a Movement
to Combat Increased US Militarism
Militarism
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Discuss
building an unstoppable US movement against militarism and militarization at
home and interference abroad. Bring your strategy and campaign ideas to this
open discussion about how to build a permanent anti-militarism movement that
transcends "specific war" anti-war movements.
Alliance for
Global Justice
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Unlisted
Contact person: Chuck Kaufman
chuck@afgj.org
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Cobo Hall: D3-19
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Building a Movement to Combat Increased US Militarism
Militarism
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Discuss building an
unstoppable US movement against militarism and militarization at home and
interference abroad. Bring your strategy and campaign ideas to this open
discussion about how to build a permanent anti-militarism movement that
transcends "specific war" anti-war movements.
Alliance for
Global Justice
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Unlisted
Contact person: Chuck Kaufman
chuck@afgj.org
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Cobo Hall: D3-19
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Thursday, June 24TH
10:00 am
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Stop Firestone:
Building an international solidarity campaign for worker rights,
environmental justice and corporate accountability
International Solidarity
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Organizing a Labor Movement for the 21st Century:
crisis and opportunities. International Solidarity and Responsibility:
building a unified response to global crises.
Using the example of a campaign
targeting Firestone, this workshop focuses on building international
solidarity campaigns to hold corporations accountable for labor and
environmental abuses.
International
Labor Rights Forum & IPS (Submitted)
Jubilee
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Emira Woods
(IPS)
Daniel and
Biomah Flomo (Liberia)
& a rep from Green Advocates (Liberia)
Contact
person: Timothy Newman
tim.newman@ilrf.org
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TWW: 3
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Globalization, Criminalization and Managed Migration: Root Causus and
Immigrant Rights
Migration & Displacement
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Trade
agreements and globalization, border militarization and criminalization of
immigrant communities, and managed migration policies around the world
exploit migrant workers and violate our rights.
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Unlisted
Contact person: Colin Rajah crajah@nnirr.org
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WSU Old Main: 1133
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The Growing Global
Movement for a Solidarity Economy
International Solidarity
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Join in a discussion with
leaders of RIPESS, an intercontinental solidarity economy network, about how
the solidarity economy is growing throughout the world.
RIPESS (Intercontinental Solidarity
Economy Network)
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unlisted
Contact person: Emily Kawano
emily@populareconomics.org
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UAW Building:
Mustang
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Gender Militarism
and US Corporate Violence in Oil Producing States
Gender
Militarism
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This workshop will focus on the militarisation
of the oil producing region of the Niger Delta, Nigeria in order to protect
the interests of US multinational oil companies and Nigerian political elite.
It is hoped that through the discussion we will be able to identify common
factors and build solidarity links between grassroots activists on both sides
of the Atlantic.
Priority
Africa Network
Fahamu
co-sponsoring
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Emem Okon
(Nigeria)
Contact person: Sokari Ekine
sokari@blacklooks.org
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Cobo Hall: O2-40
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Housing and Land
Rights: Lessons Learned and Next Steps
Migration & Displacement
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Housing is an essential human right that is
often seen by the government as just another commodity. Fortunately, this
issue has mobilized many struggles around the world that are fighting for
justice and equality on the land issue and beyond. The intent of this
workshop is to link international movements for land and housing with
domestic efforts within the United States. Also, we hope to explore different
models for “movement support.” This panel will feature brief presentations
and break out sessions to discuss areas such as 1) direct action in the US 2)
legal support and 3) international solidarity work regarding housing and land
rights
Center for Constitutitonal Rights
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Wendy
Pekeur & Sarah Claason, General Secretary and President of Sikhule Sonke
in the Western Cape, South Africa
Contact person: Laura Raymond
lraymond@ccrjustice.org
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Cobo Hall: D2-14
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Women struggling
against militarization and violence against women in war situation
Gender
Militarism
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International Solidarity and Responsibility:
building a unified response to global crises. Presentation of World March of
Women (WMW) and actions in Colombia and Congo Democratic Republic, in the
framework of the WMW Third International Action.
World March of Women
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Unlisted
Contact person: Alessandra Ceregatti
alessandra@marchemondiale.org
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Cobo Hall: W2-65
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Crossing the
Color Line: Alliance Building for Immigrants Rights and Racial Justice
International
Solidarity
Migration & Displacement
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Panelists will discuss the work of
their organizations in building cross-racial alliances. The focus will be on
distilling the groups’ alliance-building methodologies, factors for success,
educational and training activities organized and curricula used, lessons
learned, and future plans.
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Gerald Lenoir BAJI
Mónica Hernández, Highlander
Bill Chandler, MIRA
Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (invited)
Contact person: Gerald Lenoir
gerald@blackalliance.org
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Cobo
Hall: D3-18
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Confronting the US War Against Haiti
Militarism
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This workshop will address
the history, aims, and objectives of US imperial aggression against Haiti and
what US based activists can do to resist it and support the popular people’s
movement in Haiti.
Haiti Action
Committee
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Frantz Jerome
with the Haiti Action Committee
Contact
person: Kali Akuno
kaliakuno@gmail.com
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Cobo
Hall: W1-51
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Protecting Community
Rights and Resources
Economic justice
Land rights
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For
countries rich in natural resources like oil, gas, and minerals, economic
dependence on these resources is often accompanied by poverty, inequality,
environmental devastation, human rights abuses, and poor labor practices. For
citizens to combat the resource curse, they need to know how much
corporations are paying their government to extract natural resources. Now to find out about an exciting campaign
to pass a landmark bill that will close a critical gap in information
available to citizens and allow them to push their governments towards more
environmentally and socially responsible practices.
Justice in Nigeria Now
Publish
What You Pay
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Dimieari
Von Kemedi, Director-General of the Due Process and e-Governance Bureau of
Bayelsa State, Nigeria, Rachel Ackoff of the Sierra Club’s Labor, Workers’
Rights, and Trade Program, Isabel Munilla, Director of the US-Publish What
You Pay Coalition, and Laura Livoti of Justice in Nigeria Now
Contact
person: Rachel Ackoff
rachel.ackoff@sierraclub.org
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Wayne
County Community College: 349
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Thursday, June 24TH
1:00
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The Politics of
Exploiting Need: AGRA, the Gates Foundation, and the Food Crisis
Land Rights & Food
Sovereignty
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This popular theater workshop will critique the
Gates Foundation and Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and help the
group create democratic, sustainable alternatives.
Community
Alliance for Global Justice (Food First co-sponsoring)
Forum for
African Immigrant Associations
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Mamadou
Goita, Bill Aal, Travis English, and Heather Day, from CAGJ/AGRA Watch, and
Annie Shattuck and Eric Holt-Gimenez of Food First
Contact person: Heather Day
waal@toolsforchange.org
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UAW Building:
Taurus
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Food Sovereignty: A Building Block for People’s Sovereignty
Climate Change
Land
Rights & Food Sovereignty
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Speakers from Palestine, Haiti,
Detroit and Mississippi show how only Food Sovereignty ensures food security
for urban and rural communities in different places.
Grassroots
International
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Dr.
Taha Rafaie from the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Palestine
Camille
Chalmers of the Haitian Platform for Alternative Development- Haiti,
Malik
Yakini or other representative from the Detroit Black Community
Food Security Network
Ben
Burkett of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives and the National Family
Farm Coalition, Mississippi
Contact person: Maria M. Aguiar
maguiar@grassrootsonline.org
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Woodward Academy: 1443
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Mobilizing
Across the Diaspora for Change: Prospects for Latin America and the Caribbean
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Displacement, Migration
and Immigration. International Solidarity and Responsibility: building a
unified response to global crises This panel will explore some of the most
pressing issues defined by and affecting Afro-descendant communities in Latin
America and the Caribbean, with panel 2 focusing on Haiti’s reconstruction.
Discussion will focus on solidarity with civil society, South-South
partnerships, travel and advocacy.
TransAfrica Forum
and
Institute
for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
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Mario
Joseph, Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti(Haiti)
&
Representative of La Red Afrovenezolana (Venezuela)
Contact
person: Nora Rasman
nrasman@transafricaforum.org
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Cobo
Hall: D3-23
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Building Solidarity with Haiti’s Grassroots social movements
International
Solidarity
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International Solidarity and
Responsibility: building a unified response to global crises Strategy session
on how to build solidarity with Haiti’s grassroots.
Rising in
Solidarity with Ayiti
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Unlisted
Contact person: Toussaint Losier
toussaint.losier@gmail.com
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Cobo
Hall: W2-65
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Building a Black Immigration Network
Migration& Displacement
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This
workshop will bring black immigrants and African Americans together to build
a national network for just immigration reform and racial justice.
Black
Alliance for Just Immigration
Priority Africa
Network co-sponsoring
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Gerald Lenoir, Black Alliance for Just
Immigration
Contact person: Gerald Lenoir
gerald@blackalliance.org
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Cobo Hall: DO-03A
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D2D People’s Movement
Assembly – EVERYONE INVITED
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People’s
Movement Assembly (PMA)
Prioritizing
Africa & the African Diaspora Agenda from Detroit to Dakar (D2D)
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This PMA brings together organizations and
individuals to review historic challenges towards the people and the
continent of Africa. This PMA will analyze multiple issues ranging from
militarization, gender, land rights and food sovereignty, climate change,
democracy and governance, health and HIV/AIDS and corporate accountability as
relate to Africa and the African diaspora.
Priority
Africa Network, Africa Action, Institute for Policy Studies(IPS) & the
Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
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Briggs Bomba Africa Action, Emira
Woods, Institute for Policy Studies, Lieopllo Pheko, South Africa
Contact person: Nunu Kidane nunukidane@att.net
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Cobo Hall: W2-69
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Jubilee Economics and the Movement for International Debt Relief
Debt Cancellation
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Explore the biblical origins and
current vision of the international Jubilee Movement, campaigning to free
those enslaved by unjust debt
Jubilee US
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Hopewell Xwayani (ZIMCODD)
Contact person: Brooke Harper brooke@jubileeusa.org
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Christ Church
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Reparations for Climate Debt: Linking the Local and the
Global
Debt Cancellation
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U.S. and
international activists will work with participants to build proposals on how
to make reparations for ecological debts incurred through centuries of
exploitative development.
Jubilee USA
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Contact person: Brooke Harper brooke@jubileeusa.org
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TWW:
2
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Migration and the
Militarization of U.S. and European Borders: A Comparison and Contrast
Migration & Displacement
Militarization
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The workshop will explore the similarities and
differences between migration patterns to the U.S. and Europe and the border
militarization policies of the United States and the European Union.
Priority
Africa Network (PAN)
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Francesca Menes,
Madjiguène Cissé, Isabel Garcia,
Contact person: Gerald Lenoir
gerald@blackalliance.org
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Cobo Hall: O2-40
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Thursday, June 24 3:00 pm
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Lessons from the
Global Campaign to End South African Apartheid
International Solidarity
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Explores structure, methods of the South
African Anti-Apartheid movement, deriving lessons for similar movements in
Palestine and elsewhere.
The
Palestine Freedom Project
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Unlisted
Contact person:
greenhouse@palestinefreedom.org
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WSU Old Main: O171
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Cross-border
Dialogue: Building Women’s Movements Across All Boundaries
Gender
International Solidarity
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Dialogue with grassroots feminist organizers
from the US, Indonesia, South Africa and Honduras about strategies for
building powerful local-to-global women’s movements that prioritize
gender-justice agendas.
Just
Associates co-sponsor – Women of Color United
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unlisted
Contact person: Margaret Mapondera
maggie@justassociates.org
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Woodward Academy:
1437
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International
Financial Institutions and Climate Change: Community Impacts in the Congo
Climate Change
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The environmental and social impact of the
World Bank funded Inga Dam Project in the Congo. Highlighting civil society
resistance
Africa
Action Friends of the Congo co-sponsoring
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Meryl
Zendarski ( Africa Action), Maurice Carney ( Friends of the Congo)
Contact
person: Briggs Bomba
briggs@africaaction.org
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Wayne County
Community College: 337
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The New Africa
Command and U.S. Military Involvement in Africa
Militarism
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The workshop will examine the creation and
missions of the new U.S. military command for Africa (Africom) and the impact
of growing U.S. military involvement in Africa on the continent and on the
United States.
African
Security Research Project
IPS
co-sponsoring
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Daniel Volman, ACAS, Emira Woods, IPS
Daniel Volman
dvolman@igc.org
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UAW Building: PRES
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Women, Feminism,
Economic Crisis, and the Solidarity Economy
Gender
Economic Justice
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Feminist economists & activists discuss
solidarity economy practices and institutions as providing transformative,
feminist solutions to capitalism’s crises
International
Association for Feminist Economics
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Ethel Cote
(Canadian Community Economic Development Network, and coop developer in
Canada and Africa) , Radhika Balakrishan (Director of Center for Global
Leadership), Ann Ferguson (feminist philosopher/activist, U Mass Amherst),
Julie Matthaei (co-founder and boardmember, U.S. Solidarity Economy Network),
and Amy Bisno (Wellesley ’10
Contact person: Mai Perches
maimails@gmail.com
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Woodward Academy: 1449
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Thursday, June 24 3:30 – 5:30
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Oil and Outrage Flare in
Nigeria: Ending Global Climate Crime and Protecting Local health
Climate change
Economic justice
Gender
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Life
in the U.S. is partly fueled by oil extracted by U.S. companies like Chevron
in Nigeria. Forty percent of Nigeria's oil is exported to the United States.
Peaceful and militant resistance to oil company human rights and
environmental abuses, like the constant flaring of gas are gaining power. In
today's world, we understand the harm that these poison fires cause to local
health, sustainability and the global climate. It is time to hold
corporations accountable, end toxic flaring and create the conditions for
peace for the 20 million residents of the Niger Delta. Join Laura Livoti,
Founder of Justice in Nigeria Now (JINN), Sandy Cioffi, Director of Sweet
Crude the movie and Omoyele Sowore of Sahara Reporters to learn how you can
take concrete action to participate in global solidarity campaigns to end gas
flaring in Nigeria, pass U.S. transparency legislation to hold all extractive
industries accountable, and resolve the root causes of the unrest in Nigeria.
You will have a special opportunity to see 20 minutes of the beautiful and
award winning documentary Sweet Crude before its theatrical release and learn
how you can bring the film and action campaign to your community.
Justice in
Nigeria Now
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Laura
Livoti, JINN, Sandy Cioffi, Director of Sweet Crude the movie and Omoyele
Sowore of Sahara Reporters
Contact person: Justice in Nigeria Now
abby@justiceinnigerianow.org
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WSU Old Main:
1107
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Friday, June 25th 10 am
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Another
Haiti Is Possible
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Climate Justice:
sustainability, resources and land. Strategies for Building Power &
Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…)
Hear first hand from Haitian activists
about the role of popular movements in building a just, democratic Haiti out
of the rubble of the earthquake.
PAPDA
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Unlisted
Contact person: Camille CHALMERS
camillecha@yahoo.fr
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Woodward Academy: 1435
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Thursday,
June 25th 1:00 pm
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GM crops - the
poisoned chalice: perspectives and victories from South Africa
Land Rights & Food Sovereignty
Environment
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IDEX partner, Biowatch South Africa will
present its recent legal victory against the State and Monsanto. Struggles
for food sovereignty, biodiversity and sustainable agriculture in the Global
South will be explored.
International
Development Exchange (IDEX)
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Rajasvini Bhansali
vini@idex.org
&
Rose Williams, Biowatch
(S. Africa)
Contact person: Rajasvini Bhansali
vini@idex.org
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Cobo Hall: D3-23
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Power Sharing
Deals in Africa: Implications for Democracy - The Case of Zimbabwe and Kenya
Democracy & Governance
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Power sharing deals in Africa, implications for
democracy. Strengthening human rights based solidarity in shaping
alternatives to elitist deals.
Africa
Action
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Hopewell
Gumbo, Emira Woods, IPS & two more TBD
Contact
person: Briggs Bomba
briggs@africaaction.org
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WSU Student
Center: 261
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Dialogue with Activists from the Haitian Popular Movement
International
Solidarity
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This workshop will provide an open
platform for US activists to dialogue with activists from the popular
movement in Haiti and explore what the movement is doing to resist the
current US occupation and rebuild the country.
Haiti Action
Committee
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unlisted
Contact person: Kali Akuno
kaliakuno@gmail.com
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Cobo
Hall: O2-41
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Support the Call of Haiti’s Grassroots for Reconstruction and
the Return of President Aristide and democracy to Haiti
International
solidarity
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International solidarity
with the Haitian grassroots movement which is organizing reconstruction and
calling for Aristide’s return, despite US coups, UN occupation, and 10,000
NGOs.
Women
of Color Global Women's Strike
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Unlisted
Contact person: Margaret Prescod
margaretprescod@crossroadswomen.net
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Cobo
Hall: O2-40
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Funders’ Movement Assembly
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For
funders to explore concrete ways in which philanthropy can support social
justice and deeper systemic change over the next five years.
Funders
Network on Transforming the Global Economy (FNTG)
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Unlisted
Contact person: Mark Randazzo
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Friday, June 25 3:30 – 5:30 pm
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From Food Crisis to Food
Sovereignty: Proposals for Building a US Food Sovereignty Network
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Skyrocketing
rates of hunger, coupled with the economic crisis and worsening impacts of
climate change, point to the need for a radically different food system. In
response, international movements of peasants, farmworkers, fisherfolk,
indigenous peoples, and others have united to form a powerful global campaign
for food sovereignty calling for the right of people to control their own
food and agricultural systems. This campaign was sparked by the realization
that only through joining forces across borders can we confront the global
powers that have hijacked the world’s food systems. While vibrant food
movements abound throughout the US, much work remains to be done to connect our
efforts here to this broader global campaign. Join this participatory
strategizing session on the formation of a US food sovereignty network that
links domestic and international social movements to transform the global
food system. WhyHunger & US Working Group on the Food Crisis:
www.usfoodcrisisgroup.org
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Speakers:
Ben Yahola, Mvskoke Food Sovereignty Initiative
Carlos Marentes, Via Campesina North America
Joann
Lo, Food Chain Workers Alliance
Karen
Washington, Black Farmers and Urban Gardeners
Rosalinda
Guillen, Community to Community Development
Contact
person: Christina Schiavoni christina@whyhunger.org
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Food Justice
Canopy at the USSF Village
Venue
changed from:
WSU Old Main:
1114
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