Friday, August 6, 2004

Workshops (Session A):  1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

·    The U.S War in Iraq: A Father’s Story with Fernando Suarez del Solar, father of one of the first soldiers to fall in the war in Iraq, and an introduction from Arlene Inouye, Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools (CAMS)

·    The Labor Movement Today: Fulfilling the Promise of Inclusion?  Panelists: Kent Wong, Director of the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education; Ernesto Cortes, Jr., Southwest Region Supervisor of Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF); Rev. William Jarvis Johnson, Senior Clergy Organizer for Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE); Maria Elena Durazo, President, Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE) Local 11 Los Angeles

·    Restorative Practices in School Settings with Sheri Gatts, Coordinator of Victim-Offender Conferencing and Peer Court Programs, Board Member of Victim Offenders Mediation Association (VOMA)

·    Oil, War and Empire with Jason Mark, Communications Director of Global Exchange and co-author (with Kevin Danaher), of the new book Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power

·    Peace Blogging: Using the Internet for Activism with Kynn Barlett, Peace Works, an FOR affiliate

·    Conscientious Objection and the Military Draft with Bill Galvin, Counseling Coordinator for Center on Conscience and War, and Stefan Merken, Jewish Peace Fellowship

·    Troubled about Paying for War?: Alternatives to Military Taxation with Marian Franz, Executive Director, National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund

·    Forty Years in the Wilderness: Dr. King’s Nobel Lecture and the World House Vision with Carol Bragg, former member of FOR's National Council and co-founder of Rhode Island (RI) Committee for Nonviolence Initiatives

·    Creating Peace Through Dialogue with Decision-Makers with Pamela
Meidell, Director of the Atomic Mirror and Chair of FOR's Disarmament
Task Force, and Janet Bloomfield, Dialogue Project Leader for the
Oxford Research Group in England             

·    Special session of Adult Nonviolence Training (ages 18 and up) with Janet Chisholm, FOR National Coordinator of Nonviolence Training and Chair of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, and Heather Maxwell, FOR Nonviolence Training Facilitator from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm 

·    Special session of Peacemaker Training Institute (PTI) (ages 15 -25) with Maryrose Dolezal, FOR PTI Program Coordinator and Maritza Valenzuela, FOR PTI Training Facilitator from 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Workshops(Session B):  3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

·    Eyewitnesses to Occupation: Reports on FOR Interfaith Peace-Builders Work on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with FOR Interfaith Peace Builders and Joe Groves, FOR Interfaith Peace Builders Program Coordinator

·   Defending Civil Liberties and Immigrant Rights: Fair & Humane Laws vs The Patriot Act with Stephen Rodhe, Esq., past President, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Southern California, Ban Al Wardi, immigration attorney and President of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee of Los Angeles and Orange County; and Assemblywoman Judy Chu

·     Muslim Jewish Peace Walk for Interfaith Solidarity with Abdul Rauf Campos Marquetti Vice-President of the Islamic Center of New Mexico and Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Rabbi of Congregation Nahalat Shalom in Albuquerque, New Mexico, co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish Peace Walk

·    Restoring the Dream: The Soulforce of the 1960s with Stacy Bannerman, Founder of Reconciliation Works

·    Creating a Healing Society:  The Impact of Human Emotional Pain and Trauma on Society and the World with Dr. Susan Lawrence, Founder and Executive Director of the Catalyst Foundation, and David Mashore, co-founder of the Creating a Healing Society Program

·    Designing a Peace Studies Course with Dr. Stanley Rich, Professor of English at University of South Carolina, FOR member for nearly 30 years

·    Learning Nonviolence Through Games with Leonard Jimenez Garcia, Program Coordinator for Red Juvenil (Colombia)

·    Circle of Support and Accountability: A Restorative Response to Reentry and Reintegration into the Community for those who offend with Bruce Kittle, Co-Chair and Board Member of the Victim Offender Victim Offender Association (VOMA)

·    Conscientious Objection and the Military Draft with Bill Galvin, Counseling Coordinator for Center on Conscience and War, and Stefan Merken, Jewish Peace Fellowship

·    Irradiated School Lunches & Nuclear Communities:  Community Struggles Against Food Irradiation with Tracy Lerman, California Organizer for Public Citizen and Judy Szela and Dr. Philip Stein, Founders of International Anti-Food Irradiation Day & Nocobalt-4-food

·     Vandenberg Space Command: Opposing Global Domination with Macgregor Eddy, founder of the Vandenberg Peace Legal Defense Fund and a member of the Women’s International League Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Disarmament Leadership team 

Saturday, August 7, 2004

Workshops (Session C):  1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

·     The Fellowship of Reconciliation Legacy and History: A Springboard to Action with Rev. Richard Deats, editor Fellowship Magazine and George Houser, FOR member and pioneer

·     Nonviolent Action in Action: Vieques, Puerto Rico with speaker TBA

·     U.S. Drug Policy Impact on Communities of Color: Focus on Tulia, Texas with Sonia Dueño, FOR Racial and Economic Justice (REJ) Program Coordinator; Allen Bean, Drug Policy Forum of Texas; Will Harrell, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU); Thelma Johnson, Friends of Justice; Charles Thomas, Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative (IDPI), Freddie Brookings, Jr. Tulia Defendant

·     Peace and Democracy 101 with Eisha Mason, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence and Michal Golan, Founding Member and Lead Facilitator

·     Introduction to Augusto Boal’s World Renowned “Theatre of the Oppressed” with Hector Aristizabal, Center for Theatre of the Oppressed and Applied Theatre Arts

·    Gandhi: The Power of Satyagraha (Truth-Force) and Ahimsa (Nonviolence) with Bernie Meyer, FOR National Council Member and co-founder of the Thomas Merton Peace Community

·     The Healing Touch for Inner Peace with Suzi Mackintosh, FOR member, Los Angeles Chapter

·     Buddhist Peace Work: Theory and Practice with Ryan Walsh, Director of the Dharma Zen Center Los Angeles, and Richard Modiano, Buddhist Peace Fellowship Los Angeles

·    Special session of Adult Nonviolence Training (ages 18 and up) with Janet Chisholm, FOR National Coordinator of Nonviolence Training and Chair of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship, and Heather Maxwell, FOR Nonviolence Training Facilitator from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm 

·    Special session of Peacemaker Training Institute (PTI) (ages 15 -25) with Maryrose Dolezal, FOR PTI Program Coordinator and Maritza Valenzuela, FOR PTI Training Facilitator from 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Saturday, August 7, 2004

Workshops (Session D):  3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

·    Eyewitnesses to Occupation: Reports on FOR Interfaith Peace-Builders Work on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with FOR Interfaith Peace Builders and Joe Groves and Gretchen Merryman, FOR Interfaith Peace Builders Program Coordinators

·     Organizing and Sustaining a Local Interfaith Peace and Justice Movement presented by Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP) with Rev. Dr. George Regas. Rector Emeritus All-Saints Church, convener; Lisa Smithline, Temple Kol Tikvah; Margaret Lindgren, FOR Los Angeles Chapter; Rev. Louis Chase, convener; and Fidel Sanchez, Ministerio Shalom en Pico Union

·     Peace Building in a Time of (Cultural) War:  Challenging the Justice Vision of the LGBT, Peace, and Other Progressive Movements for Change with Kay Whitlock, the National Representative for LGBT Issues for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Michael Gibson-Faith, director of AFSC’s Michigan LGBT Issues Program

·     National Security Strategy of the United States: The New American Empire with Thomas Ambrogi, Jesuit Priest and ecumenical theologian, Progressive Christians Uniting

·     Creative Nonviolent Action with Kate Berrigan, Ruckus Society

·    FOR Local Groups Annual Meeting with Lisa Lane, FOR Local Groups Coordinator

·     Be the Change with Eisha Mason, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence and Michal Golan, Founding Member and Lead Facilitator

·     Introduction to Augusto Boal’s World Renowned “Theatre of the Oppressed” with Hector Aristizabal, MFTI, member of The Center For Theater Of the Oppressed and Applied Theater Arts (CTO/ATA/LA) in Los Angeles

·    Reinventing Gandhi's Constructive Program to Empower Today's Movement with Ken Preston-Pile, Training Coordinator of the From Violence to Wholeness program of Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service

·   Socially Engaged Buddhism: How do we “Be Peace” in a Time of War?”   presented by Diana Lion, Founding Director, Buddhist Peace Fellowship Prison Project

Sunday, August 8, 2004

Workshops (Session E):  1:30 – 3:00 p.m.

·      The Fellowship of Reconciliation Legacy and History: A Springboard to Action with Rev. Richard Deats, editor Fellowship Magazine and George Houser, FOR member and pioneer

·      Criminal Justice Reform: Abolishing the Death Penalty with Sonia Dueño, FOR Program Coordinator, Eric De Bode, California Interfaith Against the Death Penalty; Frankie Maryland, Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, and Charles Thomas, Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative (IDPI)

·      Peace Building in a Time of (Cultural) War:  Challenging the Justice Vision of the LGBT, Peace, and Other Progressive Movements for Change with Kay Whitlock, the National Representative for LGBT Issues for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Michael Gibson-Faith, director of AFSC’s Michigan LGBT Issues Program

·      Moving Beyond Hatred: Imagining Powerful Alliances and Refusing to be Enemies with Ilise Cohen, FOR National Council Member and Ibrahim Ramey, FOR Disarmament Program Coordinator

·      Intergenerational Organizing with Peacemaker Training Institute Maryrose Dolezal, FOR PTI Coordinator and Maritza Valenzuela, FOR Training Facilitator Intern

·     Religious Peace Fellowships Annual Meeting with Lisa Lane, FOR RPFs Coordinator

·      Land and Labor in Colombia: Nonviolent Responses to Persecution of
Unions and Rural Displacement with Patrick Bonner and Cole Miller, Colombia Peace Project

·     Creative Expressions with Paula Larke, an accomplished storyteller, writer and musician

·    FOR Planned Giving with Lloyd Berg and Anita Fee, FOR Development Staff

Sunday, August 8, 2004

Workshops (Session F):  3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

·    Compassionate Listening with Gene Hoffman, the founder of Fellowship of Reconciliation’s US/USSR Reconciliation program, and an introduction from Anthony Manousos, editor and publisher of her recent book Compassionate Listening and Other Writings by Gene Knudsen Hoffman: Quaker Peacemaker and Mystic

·    Community Economic Justice and Sustainable Development: Empowering the People Presented by Sonia Dueño, FOR Racial, Economic and Gender Justice (REGJ) Program Coordinator with panelists: Rosi Amaya, Los Angeles Indigenous People’s Alliance; Gilda Haas, UCLA Urban Planning, Applied Researcher; Nancy Ibrahim, Esperanza Community Housing Corp.; Enrique Velasquez, Strategies for a Just Economy; Rick Mantley, LA Coalition to End Hunger & Homelessness

·   Mobilizing Spiritual Resources for Nonviolent Revolution presented by Michael Nagler, author of Is There is No Other Way?: The Search for Nonviolent Future and founder and chairperson of UC Berkeley's Peace and Conflict Studies program

·     Building an Independent Anti-War, Anti-Repression and Anti-Racist
Movement During a Presidential Election Year presented by James Lafferty, Executive Director of the National Lawyers’ Guild, Steering Committee member of A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) L.A. with members TBA

·     The Nonviolent Peaceforce with David Hartsough, former FOR National Council member, Co-Founder and Director of the Nonviolent Peaceforce

·     Reinventing Gandhi's Constructive Program to Empower Today's Movement with Ken Preston-Pile, Training Coordinator of the From Violence to Wholeness program of Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service

·    Creative Nonviolent Action with Kate Berrigan, Ruckus Society

·    Muslim Jewish Peace Walk for Interfaith Solidarity with Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, rabbi of Congregation Nahalat Shalom in Albuquerque, New Mexico, co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish Peace Walk and Abdul Rauf Campos Marquetti,  Vice-President of the Islamic Center of New Mexico

·    Lobbying Elected Officials for a Safer World with Erin Sikorsky, Southern California Political Director of California Peace Action

·  Connecting Spirituality and Nonviolent Resolution with Susan Rice, professor of Social Work at California State University, Long Beach

·    Interfaith Youth Organizing for Peace with Dr. Garth T. Katner, Global Learning Works