Seattle+10 People's Summit
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People’s Summit
The People’s Summit: Global Justice Forward! The Climate is Changing, it’s Time for Solutions!
The People’s Summit will be a three day Teach-in and Strategy Session at multiple venues in Seattle: Nov 27, 28, 29, 2009!
SCHEDULE -Workshops Schedule Here
Friday Nov 27th:
- The Yes Men’s new documentary, The Yes Men Fix the World, premieres at NW Film Forum, Screenings at 7 and 9pm, Yes Men in attendance!
- Amy Goodman speaks at Town Hall! 7pm: Tickets $15 – $25 available at www.kbcs.fm & at the door
Saturday Nov 28th: 8:30 – 5pm Seattle University
8:30 am Registration Campion Ballroom
9:30 am: Welcome and Morning plenary
“The Climate is Changing – It’s Time for Solutions!”
Campion Ballroom
- Bob Hasegawa, WA State Representative
- Rebecca Adamson, Founder of First Peoples Worldwide
- Dena Hoff, National Family Farm Coalition & Via Campesina
- David Korten, Agenda For a New Economy, Co-founder of YES! Magazine
All Workshops are in Pigott Hall
- 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Workshop Session 1
- 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Lunch Break
- 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Workshop Session 2
- 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Workshop Session 3
6pm: Dinner & Evening plenary
“Reclaiming Community”
New Hope Baptist Church, 116 21st Ave, Seattle
- Rev. Robert Jeffrey, Black Dollar Days Task Force
- Walter Hayden, Marketing and sales director of Clean Greens
- Alli Chagi-Starr, Green for All, Art in Action
Sunday Nov 29th: 9 – 5, Seattle University
9am Registration Campion Ballroom
9:30 Welcome Campion Ballroom
10 – 11:30 Workshop Session 4 - Pigott Hall
11:30 – 12: 45 Lunch
12:45 – 1:45 Strategy Panel
“Catch the Buzz: Cross-Pollinating our Movements”
- Bill Aal and Margo Adair, Tools for Change
- Sylvia Orduño, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and National Planning Committee, U.S. Social Forum
1:45 – 3:30 Cross-Sector Strategy Session Part 1
2:00 – 3:30 Workshops Session 5- Pigott Hall
3:30 – 5:00 Cross-Sector Strategy Session Part 2
7pm: Closing Plenary: “Global Justice Forward!”
Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave, Seattle
- Leo Gerard, United Steel-Workers
- Patti Goldman, Earthjustice
- Eric Holt-Gimenez Food First
- Thea Lee, AFL-CIO
- Jim Sinclair, BC Labour Federation
