ALL PEOPLES POWER SUMMIT: Building Communities of Hope, Strength, and Sustainability

This summer young people from around the world will be gathering at the base of the sacred mountain known as the San Francisco Peaks for the ALL PEOPLES POWER SUMMIT: Building Communities of Hope, Strength, and Sustainability. The mountain, outside the town of Flagstaff, Arizona, is one of the most culturally significant places in the world, being sacred to more than twenty-two different nations in the southwestern United States.

From July 15-18, 2004, we will be holding three days of workshops, trainings, discussions, dancing, hip-hop, and poetry. We will be discussing and educating each other about the injustices our lands and our peoples face. We will be promoting the creative talents and positive self-expression of all.

The ALL PEOPLES POWER SUMMIT will address how we as leaders of our communities can work to better build a global movement that challenges the systems and structures of exploitation and domination, a movement that carries all our people with it. We are working to bring together youth and elders from different communities to promote a cross-cultural and cross-generational exchange, focusing on hope, strength, and sustainability.

The ALL PEOPLES POWER SUMMIT stems from a shared vision of protecting the health and sustainability of Mother Earth -- her land, water, and living beings. And this summer, we will be gathering as youth from all walks of life to meet, share, learn, and find ways to unite and deal with the many challenges that we face as global citizens.

While people up above are are trying to create a world based on destruction, hoplesness, ugliness, fear, terrorism, war, poverty, genocide, ecocide, stupidity, and conformity, the people who are attending the ALL PEOPLES POWER SUMMIT: BUILDING COMMUNITIES OF HOPE, STRENGTH, and SUSTAINABILITY, are committed to building a world based on hope, a sacred respect and honor for mother earth, imagination, memory, beauty, intelligence, and resistance. A world where many worlds can fit.

Goals of the Summit

* Networking, Learning, and Sharing
One of the major goals of this event is to give young people diverse opportunities to become better organizers by sharing with each other our stories - our struggles and our successes. We also hope to enhance our organizing abilities by offering trainings and workshops around techniques and tools.

* Launch of the All Peoples Power Movement
To create diverse opportunities for the youth who may or may have not have been involved with the environmental justice movement, also to identify the reason of just transition from corporate/fossil fuel energy to a more sustaining and empowering may of life.

* Declaration of the Youth
A declaration of the global community of our united vision for the world and how we are committed to working for social and environmental justice. Through this declaration we will set the goals and demands that we, as young people and as citizens of the world, will strive for.

Contacting the Planning Committee of the Summit

summit (at) allpeoplespower.org

(928) 226-0310

All Peoples Power Summit
c/o Black Mesa Water Coalition
408 E. Route 66, Suite #1
Flagstaff, AZ 86001