TEACH-IN PROGRAM
Saturday, October 11, 2003
| 9:30am |
Registration |
| 10am |
Congresswoman Barbara Lee - Keynote speaker |
| 10:30am |
Workshops (choose 1 of 3) |
| Noon |
Lunch |
| 1pm |
Workshops (choose 1 of 3) |
| 3pm |
Break-out sessions |
| 4:30pm |
Report backs |
| 5:30pm |
Wilson Riles, Jr. - Plenary speaker |
| 6pm |
Wine and cheese reception with music by Mokai |
| 7pm |
Dancing with "The Peace MOVEment" |
Workshops (10:30am)
Workshops (1:00pm)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS
The War Machine and Its Impacts in 90 Minutes
This workshop will
explore the domestic and international impacts of military bases
and deployments.
Speakers:
Saul Bloom, Director of Arc Ecology
The Bush Doctrine,
the Military Industrial Complex, infrastructure and a
secret success story.
Laura Reinhard, Peace Action
Arms trade and the Military
Industrial Complex.
John Lindsay Poland, Fellowship of Reconciliation
Sovereignty and globalism in Central America and
the Caribbean.
Jorge Emmanuel/Christina Leano, Filipino American Coalition
for Environmental Safeguards
Impacts, sovereignty, globalism
and environmental justice.
Peter Galvin, Center for
Biological Diversity
Military exemptions from
environmental legislation.
Olin Web
Environmental
justice and base closures.
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Military
Impacts on Iraq's Environment and Health
Speakers:
Dan Fahey is a policy analyst on depleted uranium munitions.
Dan is author
of several book chapters and reports on depleted uranium,
including most
recently "The Use of Depleted Uranium in the 2003 Iraq War." He
has a
master's degree in international relations from the Fletcher
School at
Tufts University, and wrote his thesis on the environmental
effects of war
and the emerging field of post conflict assessments.
Ross Mirkarimi is trained and certified by the EPA and the State of
California in environmental crime forensics. He's been
to Iraq twice to
chronicle the war and the UN sanctions' impact on the
flora and fauna. In
1991, he coordinated the environmental impact investigation
with the
Harvard Study Team, whose report was published in the
New England Journal
of Medicine. In 1992, he returned for a follow-up study
with the IPPNW.
His work on impacts to Iraq's civilian infrastructure
has been ongoing.
Michelle Stevens, PhD. is project manager
of Eden Again, a campaign
focusing on the restoration of Iraq's denuded marsh lands.
Eden Again is
one of the most comprehensive ecological restoration
undertakings ever
performed.
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Nuclear Weapons, the Militarization of Space, and the U.S.
Quest for Global Military Dominance: War Planning
and War Making from Livermore to Iraq
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
managed by the University of
California, is one of the two main laboratories that
design U.S. nuclear
weapons. This panel will link the social and ecological
effects of a half
century of nuclear weapons research and production
at Livermore and around
the country to the forces behind the broad drive by
the U.S. for new
generations of high technology weapons, ranging from
stealthy, powerful
conventional weapons to new types of weapons that are
intended to operate
through or from space. This overview of U.S. weapons
programs and their
impacts will be placed in the broader context of the
U.S. quest for global
military domination and the policy of "preventive" war.
Speakers:
Marylia Kelley, Executive Director of Tri-Valley Communities
Against a
Radioactive Environment
Andrew Lichterman, Program Director of
the Western States Legal Foundation
The Coalition to Demilitarize
the University of California.
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No Blood OR Oil: The Deadly Consequences of Oil Addiction,
and What We Can Do To Break the Petroleum Habit
During the global protests against
the invasion of Iraq, millions of people
around the world marched under the banner, "No Blood for Oil." The
statement-one among many reasons for opposing the war-made
clear that if
broccoli were the number one Middle East export, there
would be no invasion
of Iraq.
But the deadly consequences of our society's addiction
to oil don't end in
Iraq. From the Niger Delta to the jungles of Colombia
to the streets of
Richmond, CA, communities are needlessly put at risk
by our dependence on
oil. Oil-related violence leads to human rights abuses,
air pollution and
toxic runoffs create unnecessary health risks, oil-prompted
wars take lives.
This panel will outline the dangers
of oil addiction while exploring what
we can do to get off the oil treadmill. Specific, ongoing
campaigns calling
for oil companies to be held accountable for their
abuses and initiatives
to overhaul our transportation industry will be highlighted.
One hour
presentation followed by 30 minute Q&A.
Speakers:
Henry Clark, West County Toxics Coalition
Kevin Koenig, Amazon Watch
Holmes Hummel, Project Underground
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The Erosion of Civil Liberties Under the Guise of National
Security
This workshop will focus on the Bush administration's
attacks on civil
liberties under the guise of national security and the
war on terrorism.
Panelists will examine the detention and harassment of
immigrants; the
potential for a government crackdown on legitimate political
dissent, the
attack on labor and the denial of union rights to government
workers; and
the expanded power of government to invade the personal
privacy of ordinary
citizens.
Three to four speakers will give presentations, followed
by Q&A
and a
discussion about how we can take action.
Speakers:
Louis Garcia, attorney and member of American Federation
of Government Employees
Arnaldo Garcia, National Network of Immigrant and
Refugee Rights
Samina Faheem, American Muslim Voice
Ann Weilles, National Lawyers
Guild
Catherine Powell, Labor Archives & Research Center
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The Costs of War: The Economic and Social Justice Impacts
of the Military Budget
Moderator: Dr. Robert Gould, President, Physicians for
Social Responsibility
Mya Shone, Center for Independent Communication
Keith Carson,
Alameda Country Supervisor
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