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The People's Summit, Nov 27-29, 2009
On Nov 30th the World Trade Organization (WTO) will host a "restart" meeting in Geneva – 10 years to the day from when we shut down the WTO! On Dec 7th, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change opens in Copenhagen. These are uncertain times and much is at stake: Join us to reclaim and amplify our voices with the vision we have for a healthy planet and people. Let's harness the spirit of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle with a renewed commitment to move global justice forward!
THE PEOPLE'S SUMMIT
Nov 27-29
WTO+10: Global Justice Forward
On Nov 30th the World Trade Organization (WTO) will host a "restart" meeting in Geneva – 10 years to the day from when we shut down the WTO! On Dec 7th, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change opens in Copenhagen. These are uncertain times and much is at stake: Join us to reclaim and amplify our voices with the vision we have for a healthy planet and people. Let's harness the spirit of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle with a renewed commitment to move global justice forward!
Schedule:
*Friday Nov 27: Amy Goodman at Town Hall & The Yes Men at NW Film Forum
*Saturday Nov 28: Opening Panel, "The Climate is Changing - It's Time for Solutions!" & Workshops at Seattle University, 9 – 5pm
**MAP to present workshop: "Industrial Aquaculture, A People’s Perspective on the “Blue Revolution”
Workshop description: Panel and Q & A Session highlighting industrial aquaculture and seafood production as a pertinent example of pressing issues affecting both our local and global marine environment and coastal communities dependent upon our oceans and waterways for life and livelihoods. We will use seafood and industrial aquaculture production and trade to illustrate important central points involving climate change, declining wild fisheries, biodiversity loss and adversely affected livelihoods of coastal communities.
Speakers/Affiliated Organizations: Alfredo Quarto (Mangrove Action Project), Anne Mosness (Go Wild Campaign), Laura Hendriks (Sierra Club)
Date/time: Saturday Nov. 28 from 2:30 – 4:00 PM
*Saturday Evening: “Reclaiming Community” Panel, Dinner & Music at New Hope Baptist Church, 6 – 10pm
*Sunday Nov 29: Workshops & "Catch the Buzz: Cross-Pollinating our Movements" Panel & Strategy Session at Seattle University, 10 – 5pm
*Sunday evening: Closing Panel, "Global Justice Forward!" Town Hall, 6 - 9pm
Confirmed speakers: Leo Gerard, United Steel-Workers President, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, Dena Hoff, National Family Farm Coalition & Via Campesina, Eric Holt-Gimenez & Annie Shattuck, Food First, Rev. Robert Jeffrey, Black Dollar Days Task Force, David Korten (When Corporations Rule the World, Agenda For a New Economy), Thea Lee, AFL-CIO, Sylvia Orduño, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and National Planning Committee, U.S. Social Forum, The Yes Men
Workshop topics:
· Building a New Economy, Fighting for Trade & Climate & Food Justice
· Battling Poverty, Resisting the Green & Blue Revolutions, Immigrant Rights
· Your Right to Protest, Grassroots Media, Art & Activism, Building anti-racist movements, Youth Organizing, Direct Action Organizing, Cross Border Organizing
· And more!
All events FREE or by donation; no registration required. Volunteers needed!
The People's Summit is sponsored by: BALLE Seattle – Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, Central Co-op’s Madison Market, Clean Greens Farm, Citizens Trade Campaign, Common Action, Community Alliance for Global Justice, Dyke Community Activists, Eat the State, Growing WA, Heroico Battalon de San Patricio, International Socialist Organization, Seattle Branch, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Lettuce Link/Solid Ground, Mangrove Action Project, Martin Luther King County Labor Council, Northwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering, Peace Action of WA, People-Centered Development Forum, PUSO – Philippine-US Solidarity Organization, Reclaim the Media, Riseup Collective, Seattle CISPES – Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Seattle Young People’s Project, SEEDS – Social Ecology Education Demonstration School, The Society for Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), WA Blue Green Alliance, WA Fair Trade Coalition, Washington State Labor Council, Witness for Peace Northwest, YES! Magazine
Learn More & Volunteer! www.seattleplus10.org
Or call 206.405.4600
