Friday 4/16 – Get Acquainted & Updates

Literature table for local reports, leaflets, announcements.

6:00pm Registration, Refreshment, Get Acquainted, table for literature

7:30pm Introduction, BRIEF (gong monitored) )Center Introductions

8:15pm A Briefing on Peace Group Surveillance – The peace Fresno Infiltration by Local Law Enforcement: Camille Russell, Nick DeGraff with Catherine Campbell, Attorney at Law.

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Saturday 4/17 – Workshops & Keynote Schedule click here or scroll for workshop details

8:30am Breakfast

9:30am Keynote Reflection & Brief Discussion: Susan Zeman, SC Peace Coalition

10:00 - 11:30am Workshop Session #1

11:30 - 1:00pm Lunch – variety of local restaurants

1:00 - 2:30pm Workshop Session #2

3:00 - 4:30pm Workshop Session #3

6:00pm Gourmet "Asian Rose" (vegetarian) Dinner with “Planet USA� film characters – Greed Girl, Profit Man, Cowboy Bush, Cheekey Cheney, Fat Cat & Corporate Swine

7:00pm Speaker,“Solidarity in Contentious and Critical Times", Dr. John Brown Childs, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Sunday 4/18 – Planning & Reflection

8:30am Breakfast

9:00am Song & Reflection

9:15am Business meeting – next year, maintaining documents/ lists, etc.

9:45 - 11:30am Consideration of “coalition� proposals & circle reflections

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WORKSHOPS

GUIDELINES:

1) 1-3 experienced presenters will describe practical can-do case studies illustrating programs and campaigns that local organizations can duplicate

2) presenters will provide printed materials and information that enable participants to return home prepared to organize

3) lots of time for q&a and participant discussion about similar local efforts; 4) maximum candidness about critical steps, what works and problems.

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10:00am Saturday, Session #1

Local Organizing with Print, Publishing & Electronic Media

George Cadman, Free Radio Santa Cruz; Lisa Mastramico, Santa Cruz Indymedia; Ed Oberweiser & Elaine Charkowski, Green Press Insert.

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Activist Strategy for Counter recruitment in Schools & Colleges

Josh Sonnenfeld, Santa Cruz Schools Opt-In/Out Programs; Erin Kate Escobar, Harbor High Jr. & former Student Representative to the SC School Board; Ken Hudson, Peace Fresno.

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Facilitating Contentious Meetings

Presenters:

Skip Spitzer, Meeting Facilitation Trainer, Corporate Accountability Coordinator for PANNA (Pesticide Action Network North America)

Sherry Delgado, RCNV.

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1:00pm Saturday, Session #2

Fund raising & Volunteer Recruitment, New Tools for Survival

David Dodson, RCNB Steering Committee; Anita Heckman, RCNV

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Not Just the Choir: Case Studies in Reaching Out to Local Constituencies & the Opposition

Scott Kennedy, RCNV Mid East Forum; Amy Newell, Labor for Peace; Jennifer Laskin, Organizing “Throw Away� Youth, Teacher, Renaissance High, Watsonville, CA.

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Do We Want Another Wall? Prospects for Peace in the Middle East

Jacob Pace, Intern Palestine Center for Human Rights; & Ilise Cohen, Fellowship of Reconciliation National Council & Doctorate Student at Calif. Institute of Integral Studies.


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3:00pm Saturday, Session #3

Nuclear War & Biowarefare in Our Midst - Organize for Abolition

Tri-Valley CARE, Tara Dorabji; Gayle Cuddy; Video of Aug 3/02 Livermore Rally

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Contemporary Political Songs and Music for Organizing

Dave Perasso, SC Family Peace Chorus; Mark Levy, Folk Song Writer & Singer; Elain Schwartz, Raging Grannies.

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Practical Street Theater – Making Puppets & other Message Mediums

Grant Wilson & members of Santa Cruz Art & Revolution (street theater).


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Fee Schedule (sliding scale)

Full conference and meals (Sat. lunch on your own in SC): $25-40

Saturday, workshops only (no keynote, no meals): $10-20

One workshop: $4-8

Saturday evening Asian Rose vegetarian gourmet dinner: $10-20

Saturday evening speaker: $6-10

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2004 California Peace Centers and Peace Groups

ALBANY: East Bay Peace Action

ARCATA: Redwood Peace and Justice Center

BAKERSFIELD: Peace Bakersfield

BERKELEY: Cal Ecumenical Peace Institute

BERKELEY: California Peace Action

BERKELEY – WOMEN FOR PEACE

BERKELEY – WOMEN’S NET

CHICO: Chico Peace and Justice Center

FRESNO: Fresno Center for Nonviolence

FRESNO: Peace Fresno

LIVERMORE – TRI-VALLEY CARE

MARIN: Marin Peace and Justice Coalition

MARIPOSA: Mariposa Peace Network

MERCED: Peace Merced

MODESTO: Modesto Peace/Life

MONTEREY CO: Peace Coalition of Monterey County

NEVADA CO: Peace Center of Nevada County

PALO ALTO & PENINSULA: Peninsula Peace and Justice Center

REEDLEY: Reedley Peace Center

SACRMANTO: Sacramento Valley Labor Committee for Peace and Justice

SACRAMENTO: Sacramento/Yolo Peace Action

SAN JOAQUIN CO: Peace and Justice Network of San Joaquin County

SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY: San Joaquin Valley Action Coalition

SAN JOSE: San Jose Peace Center

SANTA CRUZ: Resource Center for Nonviolence

SONOMA CO: Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County

SOUTH VALLEY: South Valley Peace Center

STOCKTON/LODI STUDENTS: Student Advocates for Political and Social Awareness

WALNUT CREEK: Mount Diablo Peace Center