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align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 36pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">DEMOCRACY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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style="font-size: 21pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">at
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>
Social Forum<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 21pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><a
href="http://www.DemocracyTrack.org"><font size="5">http://www.DemocracyTrack.org</font><br>
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align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 21pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">THURSDAY,
JUNE 28</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">TH</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 21pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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align="center"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div>
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align="center"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">~
10:30 am to 12:30 pm ~</span></i></b><b><i><span
style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Corporations and the Deterioration of <span
style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">Democracy: Reasserting Popular
Sovereignty </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;">Over
Corporations & Creating Democracy</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Corporations</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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align="right"><span
style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Room
1202 room at the Westin Hotel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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align="right"><span
style="font-size: 4pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><span
style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
session will discuss the tools used by the wealthy elite to execute
their oppression of the masses and their subversion of
democracy—constitutional level interpretations by the elite Supreme
Court. the roots of imperialism and neoliberalism lie in our own
country’s governance structure. Primary sponsor:<b> </b>Sierra Club
Confronting Corporate Power Task Force<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Our Bodies, Our Water: Our Right to
Safe Water and Health<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Corporations</span></i><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Socrates
room at the Atlanta Marriott Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
workshop will focus on raising awareness about “chemical body burden”
and introduce specific strategies for claiming our right to safe water
in the face of corporations that profit from polluting our bodies.
Primary sponsor:<b> </b>Peoples Health Movement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Building a Democratic Movement</span></b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Democratizing
Education Convention</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Triangle
Classroom at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Inman</span></st1:PlaceName><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType> United <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Methodist</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
workshop will focus around how and why organizations on a state-wide
level should come together democratically to build a movement without
losing their own autonomy. Specific topics will include how to balance
effective, speedy, decision-making power while preserving the autonomy
of individual organizations and the individuals themselves.<span
style=""> </span>Primary sponsor: Students for a Democratic Society<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Education Against Empire<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Democratizing
Education Convention<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Mezzanine
Left room at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Civic</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">In
this session, the Global Studies Association, would like to discuss
some of our activities in studying and critiquing Empire, the current
form of capitalism in its global moment. We would like to share some of
our theories and research on the nature of globalization, its human and
social costs, and how to resist and transform the system. Primary
sponsor:<b> </b>The Global Studies Association<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Voter Disenfranchisement: From the
Voter Fraud/Voter ID Scam to Electronic Ballots/Touch-Screen Voting<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Elections &
Voting Rights<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Room
1401 at the Westin Hotel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 6pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Learn
about the struggle to make sure that you get to vote AND that your vote
is counted as cast. Panelists from the election integrity movement will
detail the current threats to democracy from the use of “electronic
ballot” technology, how these machines are used to disenfranchise
voters en masse, and the movement to ensure a tabulated, accessible
paper ballot for every voter, including voters with disabilities and
minority language voters. Primary sponsor:<b> </b>Velvet Revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Youth Power: Creating Change through
Effective Political Participation: Part I<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Elections &
Voting Rights<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Room
1207 at the Westin Hotel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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align="right"><span
style="font-size: 6pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Our
aims are that young people will gain an understanding of the political
process and accountability mechanisms, preparation to insert their
concerns and remedies in the 2008 election campaigns and encouragement
to put concerns and remedies together as a political agenda. Primary
sponsor: Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Moving the Movement in the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Movement</span></i></st1:PlaceName><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></span></i></st1:place><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Piedmont
A at the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:place></st1:City>
Civic Center<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
panel discussion will draw from the knowledge and experience from
veteran organizers from various sectors within the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
including labor, women, youth, queer, economic justice, and
environmental justice. We will talk about the challenges we will have
to overcome to build a broad-based, national progressive movement
within the context of an internationalist global justice movement.
Primary sponsor: Grassroots Global Justice Alliance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">The Democratic Arts: Tools of Social
Change<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Movement</span></i></st1:PlaceName><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></span></i></st1:place><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Auditorium
Back Left room at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Atlanta</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">
Civic Center<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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align="right"><span
style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Our
workshop is designed to equip participants with an understanding of the
democratic arts, the tools for practicing them, and their application
to social change. The ideas we want participants to take away relate to
demythologizing the Constitution and questioning the widely held
assumption that the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
is or ever has been a democracy. Primary sponsor: Democracy Unlimited
of Humboldt County<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Defining Racism: Different
Perspectives, Shared Goals<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Race &
Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:place w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Delphi</span></st1:place><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">
room at the Atlanta Marriott Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Different
anti-racism trainers/facilitators use different and sometime
contradictory definitions of racism. However, since we are all working
for the same goal - dismantling racism - we feel it is important that
we have an open dialogue about our varying definitions; what, if any,
is the impact on our work of using varying definitions; and how we can
collaborate in spite of those differences. Primary sponsor: <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Baltimore</st1:place></st1:City> Racial
Justice Action (BRJA)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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align="center"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">~
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ~<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Creating a “Third Party” That Will Make
the State Our Own</span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Elections &
Voting Rights</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Mezzanine</span></st1:PlaceName><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType> at the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:place></st1:City> Civic Center<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
session directly addresses the impulse to build a unified movement, one
that consciously employs “all available resources” in “educating others
and ourselves.” Moreover, a historical and internationalist perspective
provides many potential answers to the question of what kind of
unifying organization we need. Primary sponsor: Defenders Of Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Voting Rights and Election Integrity
Movements: Moving Forward Together<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Elections &
Voting Rights</span></i><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Magnolia
Conference Room at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Days
Inn Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
session is designed for people active in the voting rights and election
integrity movements to come together to listen deeply to each other and
build on our common goals toward a unified movement for true democracy
in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
Primary sponsor: Velvet Revolution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Visioning Toward Democratic Global
Governance<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Global Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Dogwood
Conference Room at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Days
Inn Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Our
biggest challenge is to overcome the legacy of Bush unilateralism,
militarism, and imperialism. Our proposal: To create momentum toward a
post-Bush era that both practices and celebrates Earth Community.
Primary sponsor: Coalition for World Parliament & Global Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Holding the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> Accountable for Racial
<span style="">Discrimination Against Native Americans</span></span></b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Race &
Democracy</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Zena
room at the Atlanta Marriott Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">The
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
has filed its Periodic Report with the International Convention on the
Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination Committee and is
slated to be examined by the Committee next spring. This workshop will
review previous CERD Conclusions and Recommendations to the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> with regard to Indigenous
Peoples, the standards applied to States by the CERD Committee, and the
issues that might be presented to the Committee by Indigenous Peoples
in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<span
style=""> </span>Primary sponsor:<span style=""> </span>Intern.
Indian Treaty Council.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">~
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm ~</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">1st Steps in Dismantling Corporate Rule<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Corporations<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Mediterranean
room at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Atlanta</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">
Marriott Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
introductory workshop teaches the history and context for corporate
power and will help participants to take the “1st Steps” necessary to
reclaim our democracy from corporations. After an initial presentation,
we will facilitate a series of focused discussions and small and large
group exercises. Primary sponsor: Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Campus Organizing Roundtable</span></b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Democratizing
Education Convention<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Mezzanine</span></st1:PlaceName><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType> room at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Civic</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Higher
education is in crisis, but those with the most to lose and the most to
gain don’t share knowledge, experience and resource enough. This
roundtable will therefore provide a unique, much needed opportunity to
strengthen our ties and build a movement to make education something
that really is of, by and for the people. Primary sponsor:
Democratizing Education Network<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Intergenerational organizing & the
new SDS</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Democratizing
Education Convention<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Sanctuary
room at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Inman</span></st1:PlaceName><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType> United <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Methodist</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
panel will talk about the dynamics of intergenerational organizing -
and how they relate to race, gender, class, and sexuality - and one
national project that is making intergenerational organizing a reality
for hundreds of people across the country: The new Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS), and it’s sister organization Movement for a
Democratic Society (MDS). Primary sponsor: Students for a Democratic
Society<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Access to Higher Education: Breaking
Down the Barriers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Democratizing
Education Convention<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Atlanta
Ballroom D room <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">at
the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Access
to higher education goes beyond facts, figures, and financial aid. This
workshop will examine a comprehensive campaign addressing all barriers
to higher education. Participants will learn how immigration, the war,
racism, sexism, homophobia, and reproductive rights are all access
issues. Primary sponsor: United States Student Association<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Defending Democracy from Corporate <span
style="">Theft</span></span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">
& </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Restoring
People-Powered Elections</span></b><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Elections &
Voting Rights</span></i><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Second
Floor Meeting Room at the Central Library<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Goal:
To end <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>
oppression worldwide, US citizens need to re-take control of their
government, which begins with citizen-run, monitored and supervised
elections. This workshop will present discussions with those involved
in election reform, listen to workshop attendees election experiences
& voting system problems, envision a revitalized, engaged voting
public and strategize methods of making that vision a reality. Primary
sponsor: Defenders of Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Colonialism in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Global Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Room
1404 Westin Hotel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">We
are planning a panel event to discuss colonialism within the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Each panelist brings with them an experience with a form of colonialism.<span
style=""> </span>Primary sponsor: Green Institute<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Creating Democracy: Infrastructure for
Revolution in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Movement</span></i></st1:PlaceName><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></span></i></st1:place><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Atlanta</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">
Ballroom B at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Renaissance
Atlanta Hotel Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">In
this workshop we will discuss what structures ( in addition to
non-profits) can work to create fundamental social change in the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
Drawing on the democratic traditions and lessons of the civil rights
movement, women’s liberation, and anti-nuclear movement, and recent
examples from affinity groups of the anti-globalization movement, we
will look at what an alternative organizing model and practice for
revolution in the US could look like that is based on socially just,
grassroots, small group democracy. Primary sponsor: Rural Organizing
Project<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Direct Action Skills and Tactics Track</span></b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Movement</span></i></st1:PlaceName><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></span></i></st1:place><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Small
Dining Room at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Task
Force for the Homeless<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 6pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">The
Ruckus Society is collaborating with Art in Action, Midnight Special
Legal Collective, and smartMeme/STORY to provide a direct action skills
and tactics track at the US Social Forum.<span style=""> </span>Primary
sponsor: The Ruckus Society<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Through the Lens of Culture<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Race &
Democracy</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Second
Floor Gallery D at the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hammonds</st1:place></st1:City>
House<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 6pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to develop shared
definitions of key concepts in cross cultural effectiveness. It will
also focus on assessing organizations. Using case studies of
institutional oppression as a catalyst, we will focus our conversation
on dismantling oppression at the structural and institutional level.
Primary sponsor: <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oakland</st1:place></st1:City>
CAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Undoing Racism/ Community Organizing:
An Anti Racist Solution for Building a Movement toward Social
Transformation and Equity<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Race &
Democracy</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">International
F room at the Westin Hotel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">After
these sessions, participants will begin to have a collective
understanding of the imbalance of power, understand the relationship
between poverty, power, and wealth, and how it relates to the
foundation of racism, and be able to distinguish the differences
between racism, diversity, prejudice, discrimination, and other terms
use interchangeably as racism. Most important participants will
understand the importance of how accountable community organizing is
key to building an antiracist, multicultural movement for social
transformation and equity. Primary sponsor: The People’s Institute for
Survival & Beyond<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 21pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">FRIDAY,
JUNE 29</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">TH</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 21pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">~
10:30 am to 12:30 pm ~<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Ending Corporate Personhood<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Corporations</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Fellowship
Hall room at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Trinity
United <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Methodist</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Is
a Corporation a Person? The Supreme Court says yes. When corporations
wield legal rights in the U.S. Constitution, it undermines our
democracy and actually allows corporations to rule. Corporate rule
effects all aspects of our lives and every social justice and
environmental issue. Primary sponsor: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
for Community Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Creating the Local Green Economy:
Success Stories from the Grassroots<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Local Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Room
1208 room at the Westin Hotel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Something
powerful is building in cities, towns and neighborhoods across the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Citizens who may not consider themselves environmentalists are
organizing in their communities for local change that promotes green
principles and “localization”. Primary sponsor: Global Exchange<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><span
style=""> </span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span
style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">~
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ~<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">A Free University In A Free Society<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Democratizing
Education Convention<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">First
Floor Room at the Prince Hall Masons Grand Lodge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">The
purpose of this session would be to discuss the real meaning of a
slogan we’ve been throwing around for a while. Sure, it sounds hella
cool, but what would “A Free University in a Free Society” actually
look like? Primary sponsor: Students for a Democratic Society<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Empowering Student Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Democratizing
Education Convention<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Room
1208 at the Westin Hotel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
panel will be address participatory democracy across the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">americas</st1:country-region></st1:place>
and specifically focus on how students can translate participatory
democratic experiments to their campus in order to improve. Primary
sponsor: Global Exchange<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Don’t be Afraid to Vote for Third
Parties<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Elections &
Voting Rights</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Mezzanine
Left at the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:place></st1:City>
Civic Center<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">The
session will be a small group discussion about the importance of voting
for what we want, rather than voting for the less objectionable ruling
class candidate. We will provide handouts about important social
justice issues, and will seek to establish long-term connections among
socialist and other progressive groups that are represented in the
session. Primary sponsor: Peace and Freedom Party<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">What is Local Democracy? Building from
the Bottom Up for Political Power</span></b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Local Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Sparta</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">
room at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Atlanta</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">
Marriott Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
session will be an introduction to the Local Democracy movement, and
will engage participants by starting to explore a few of the
submovements that compose it. Specifically this session will feature
speakers with experience in direct legislation, home rule, community
wealth creation, and community empowerment and antiracism.<span style="">
</span>Primary sponsor: <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberty</st1:place></st1:City>
Tree<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Corporate Control of Hip Hop<span
style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Media Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Library
room at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Trinity
United <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Methodist</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
ground breaking audio, visual, and lecture presentation invites
attendees to share in a full sensory exploration of the role Hip-Hop
plays in shaping the culture of mass media information dissemination.
The purpose of this Capitol Resistance presentation is to give
provocative insight on the inner workings of the music industry - by
analyzing its pivotal role in shaping recent world history. Primary
sponsor: Green Institute<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Media Justice Scenario:<span style="">
</span>Imagining the (Un)-thinkable<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Media Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Room
1203 at the Westin Hotel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 6pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">The
purpose of this panel is to imagine the (un)thinkable – to push the
boundaries of current research on social, political, and technological
changes in media, in order to further understanding of the potential
implications of the changes in the media. The discussion will suggest
possible strategies for a more favorable scenario. Primary sponsor: The
Media Justice Fund of the Funding Exchange <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">A Little Revolution from time to time .
. . Democratizing the Constitution for social change in the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.A.</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Movement</span></i></st1:PlaceName><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></span></i></st1:place><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Sanctuary
room at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Inman</span></st1:PlaceName><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType> United <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Methodist</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 6pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
session will take another approach in addressing the possibilities for
deep social change in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.A.</st1:country-region></st1:place>. We will take an
open-eyed look at the reality of a Constitution that was, from the
get-go, a class compromise.<span style=""> </span>Then we’ll take a
look back at constitutional change throughout <st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> history, and at the recent
constitutional processes in <st1:place w:st="on">Latin America</st1:place>.<span
style=""> </span>We’ll wrap with an engaged group discussion
regarding what it will take to democratize the U.S. Constitution.<span
style=""> </span>Facilitators include Greg Coleridge, George Friday,
Ben Manski, and Virginia Rasmussen, with guest presentations by
Venezuelan academic Edgardo Lander and Nation writer John Nichols.<span
style=""> </span>Primary sponsor: Program on Corporations, Law &
Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Summit</span></b></st1:place></st1:City><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"> on Independent Politics<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Movement</span></i></st1:PlaceName><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></span></i></st1:place><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">International
G room at the Westin Hotel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">The
primary purpose of the IPPN Summit is to provide time for discussion,
debate and sharing of perspectives concerning electoral work in the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
and its relationship to other forms of organizing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">~
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm ~</span></i></b><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">The Higher Education Crisis: From
Resistance to Democratization!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Democratizing
Education Convention</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Auditorium
- Fourth Floor room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">at
the <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Auburn Avenue</st1:address></st1:Street>
Research Library</span><span
style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
session will feature both facilitated discussion and some prepared
presentations. It will ask and address the question of how the crisis
in higher education can not only be resisted, but used as an
opportunity to change our universities and colleges into truly
accessible, public, welcoming, and democratic institutions. Presenters
will include represenatives of the AAUP, USSA, DEN, Liberty Tree, AFT,
and the Venezuelan student movement.<span style=""> </span>Primary
sponsor: Democratizing Education Network<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Voter Organizing for People Who Hate
Voting<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Elections &
Voting Rights</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Sunshine
Class room at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Trinity
United <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Methodist</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Whatever
the cause you represent year-after-year, when election time rolls
around use your numbers to swing or win elections. Learn the importance
of using your networks to create strong voting blocs and convincing
them of their power. In this session, get hands-on experience figuring
out how to create voter guides that address the needs of your
community. Primary sponsor: The League of Young Voters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Participatory Budgeting: Community
Control Over Public Money<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Local Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Apollo
room at the Atlanta Marriott Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
session will be an introduction to participatory budgeting and how it
has been applied in Latin America and <st1:place w:st="on">North
America</st1:place>. Participatory budgeting is a process in which city
residents directly decide how part of a municipal or public budget is
spent. Primary sponsor: <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberty</st1:place></st1:City>
Tree<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Creating a Culture of Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Movement</span></i></st1:PlaceName><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></span></i></st1:place><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Second
Floor Meeting Room at the Central Library<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Envision
a <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
with a functional democracy, a system of self-government that repects
human rights and values, the environment and sustainable development.
Primary sponsor: Defenders of Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span
style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 21pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">SATURDAY,
JUNE 30</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">TH</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 21pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">~
10:30 am to 12:30 pm ~<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span
style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Trading Water, Trading Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Corporations</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Library
room at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Trinity</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">United</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Methodist</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">We
will expose and emphasize how democratic water governance is at risk
under neo-liberal financial and market-driven trade policies. One of
the biggest challenges the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> movement for “fair”
trade faces is to shift the discussion from economics and trade to
governance and democracy. Primary sponsor: <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Alliance</st1:place></st1:City> for Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Got Democracy? - Changing Felon
Disenfranchisement Laws to Change Power</span></b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Elections &
Voting Rights</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Room
1402 at the Westin Hotel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">The
Got Democracy? workshop will build power with and develop the tools
necessary for people directly impacted by felon disenfranchisement laws
to effect policy change on the state level. Primary sponsor: Got
Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Asserting Community Rights: Local
Campaigns to Challenge Corporate Rule<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Local Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Azalea
Conference Room at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Days
Inn Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">We
will engage participants through telling the story of Measure T in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Humboldt</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>; throughout the workshop
we will use that experience as a reference point. We will use a variety
of formats to facilitate attendees applying the content to their
communities, including small group discussion, brainstorming, and
role-plays. Primary sponsor: Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Race, Property and the Commons<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Movement</span></i></st1:PlaceName><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></span></i></st1:place><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Athena
room at the Atlanta Marriott Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Things
that were once clearly commons or shared things are fast being turned
into property and privatized. Our workshop will connect issues of Race,
Property, and the Commons. We envision a lively, participatory
conversation with on-your-feet activities, deep inquiry into root
causes, with plenty of time to explore strategy. Primary sponsor: The
Program on Corporations Law and Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Participatory Budgeting: Making it Work
for the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Local Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Achilles
room at the Atlanta Marriott Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
session will strategize how to implement participatory budgeting in the
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
Participatory budgeting is a process in which city residents directly
decide how part of a municipal or public budget is spent. After being
pioneered in the Brazilian city of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Porto Alegre</st1:place></st1:City>, participatory budgeting
has spread to hundreds of cities around the world. Primary sponsor:
Institute for Policy Studies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span
style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">~
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ~<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Power Shifting: From Corporate Rights
to Sovereign Communities</span></b><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Corporations<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Library
room at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Trinity</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">United</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Methodist</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Free
trade is neo-colonialism on a global scale and immigration and
outsourcing (jobs and factories) is a disruption of community and
displacement of people world-wide in general and, therefore,
unsustainable in regard to people and nature. We will focus on
reframing the discussion toward how to build a movement for a “People’s
Trade Agreement” that respects the rights of communities and nature
which is rights-based rather than free vs. fair trade both part of the
same regulatory approach. Primary sponsor: <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Alliance</st1:place></st1:City> for Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Democratizing Education Network Action
Plenary<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Democratizing
Education Convention</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Lenox
room at the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">During
this session, members and prospective members of the Democratizing
Education Network (DEN) representing a variety of diverse
constituencies nationwide will come together to discuss, decide on, and
coordinate upcoming activities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Militant Student Unionism in the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Democratizing
Education Convention</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Conversation
Pit room at the Central Library<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
will be a session on the state of student associations across the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.A.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
and some basic steps we can take to make them more militant and more
democratic. Note:<span style=""> </span>Watch the Democracy Tent
postings for this session to be rescheduled.<span style=""> </span>Primary
sponsor: Coalition for Students Power<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Elections for Radicals<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Elections &
Voting Rights</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Centennial
Ballroom A room at the Atlanta Marriott Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Current
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
elections are profundly undemocratic, and if we want to ensure that
people are able to participate in a meaningful way in making the
decisons that affects their lives then we must demand fundamental
reforms of the election process. Presenters include Bill Fletcher,
Adrienne Maree Brown, Medea Benjamin, David Cobb, and Jose Angel
Gutierrez. Primary sponsor: <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberty</st1:place></st1:City>
Tree<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Pushing Back: Building Electoral Power <span
style="">among Low-Income Communities of Color<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Elections &
Voting Rights</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">5th
Floor Conference Room at the CARE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
session will introduce the Pushback Network to the wider group of
participants at the Forum and engage participants in dialogue about how
civic engagement strategies can and should be integrated into long-term
politically conscious organizing work. Primary sponsor: Pushback Network<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">People’s Tribunal on Global
Corporations: Building a People’s Law Movement</span></b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Global Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Room
1204 room at the Westin Hotel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">This
is a People’s Law Tribunal designed to highlight the way existing
courts project corporate power and not people’s justice.<span style="">
</span>Primary sponsor: CIPA-APEX<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">News for the People: How Corporate
Media Consolidation Crippled Black Politics & How to Effectively
Fight Back<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Media Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Authors/Writers
Lounge room at the Auburn Avenue Research Library<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">The
purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate how corporate consolidation
of Black-oriented commercial radio has led directly to the current
crisis of leadership in Black America and contributed mightily to
social disorganization in African American communities. We will propose
specific strategies to enable communities to force owners to establish
news departments at every Black-oriented outlet in their market.
Primary sponsor: Black Agenda Report<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">The Crisis in US Media and the Growing
Movement for Media Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Media Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Room
1203 room at the Westin Hotel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">A
panel of US and international journalists and activists will discuss
the successes and challenges of the current independent media movement
in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Primary sponsor: Between the Lines Radio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">F*&k! the Police: Why Hip Hop
doesn’t cooperate w/Law Enforcement Agencies<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Movement</span></i></st1:PlaceName><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></span></i></st1:place><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Large
Dining Room room at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Task
Force for the Homeless<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Give
a clear analysis of why folks within the hip hop community and youth do
not, and should not voluntarily cooperate with law enforcement
agencies. We are not encouraging anyone to break the law, but rather to
exercise their constitutional rights. Primary sponsor: National Hip Hop
Political Convention<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">White Privilege as Benefit, Identity,
or Social Control? Exploring the Fault Lines Between Race and Class<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Race &
Democracy</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Sanctuary
at the Trinity United <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Methodist</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">We
want to point out that the “race problem” in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> is
a white problem, and that the focus of this workshop is the white race,
not Black people or other people of color. <span style=""> </span>Primary
sponsor: Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta, Ga<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Justice, Democracy & Truth: <span
style="">The <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Greensboro</st1:place></st1:City>
Truth & Reconciliation Process</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Race &
Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Cary-McPheeters
Gallery room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">at
the <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Auburn Avenue</st1:address></st1:Street>
Research Library<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 6pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">In <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Greensboro</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">NC</st1:State></st1:place>, on November 3, 1979, in the
absence of a dissuasive police presence, Klansmen and Nazis killed five
labor organizers and wounded ten others at an anti-Klan rally sponsored
by the Communist Workers Party.<span style=""> </span>This workshop
will be made up of presenters including community members and survivors
of the who initiated and worked with the independent truth and
reconciliation commission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><span
style=""> </span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><span
style=""> </span></span><b><i><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><i><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: WarnockPro-BoldIt;">~
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm ~<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Democratizing Education Network
Steering Committee Meeting<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Democratizing
Education Convention</span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">First
Floor Room at the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Prince
Hall Masons Grand Lodge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Come
to the DEN Steering Committee meeting, find out what the DEN is up to,
and find out how your campus or community organization can get
involved. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Uniting for Democracy: Unifying And
Growing the Voting Integrity Movemen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Elections &
Voting Rights</span></i><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Second
Floor Meeting Room at the Central Library<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">The
Voting Integrity movement nationwide has been divided over solutions to
restore transparent elections to the nation, yet for the sake of
preventing fascism, we should be able to unite around core principles.<span
style=""> </span>Primary sponsor: Defenders of Democracy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Click Your Heels Three Times: Fair
Trade Means Another World is Here!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Global Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Room
1208 room at the Westin Hotel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Panelists
will discuss how farmers around the world have united to build people’s
power in the face of corporate-driven globalization and how some
farmers have completely turned the status quo on its head by owning
their own brands. Primary sponsor: Global Exchange<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Local Democracy: Changing National
& International Policy at the Local Level<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Local Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Conversation
Pit room at the Central Library<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">The
workshop will consist of a short panel, laying out existing frameworks
and examples of municipal foreign policy, at home and abroad. We will
then quickly become a roundtable with brainstorming around: 1. your
experiences with locally-based national and international policy-making
2. vehicles for change 3. engaging existing efforts 4. possibilities
for new avenues. Primary sponsor: Institute for Policy Studies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Does one corporation own all the black
radio stations in your town?</span></b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Media Democracy</span></i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Auditorium
- Fourth Floor <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">at
the <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Auburn Avenue</st1:address></st1:Street>
Research Library<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Participants
will learn how institutionalized racism and the corporate takeover of
the media has harmed us all, having done the most harm to Black urban
communities across the country. Primary sponsor: National Black
Coalition for Media Justice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Hip-Hop: From Exploiting to Liberating?</span></b><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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align="right"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Movement</span></i></st1:PlaceName><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></span></i></st1:place><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Front
Area room at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Civic</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Presentation
of a workshop that will train young people from the hip hop generation
on organizing through the use of Hip Hop Culture as a tool of
resistance against injustice and oppression. The workshop will include
shared successes and failures in hopes that attendees can and will
learn from one another. Primary sponsor: National Hip Hop Political
Convention<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle"><b><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">A Democracy Movement for the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.A.</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;">Movement</span></i></st1:PlaceName><i><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></span></i></st1:place><span
style="font-family: Garamond;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">Centennial
Ballroom B room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="text-align: right;"
align="right"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;">at
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:City></st1:place>
Marriott Downtown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; font-family: Garamond;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Garamond;">A survey of the
Democracy Track, featuring Rep. Cynthia McKinney, John Nichols, Sergio
Sanchez, Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Rev. Lenox Yearwood, moderated by Ben
Manski.<span style=""> </span>Campaigns to democratize elections,
education, communities, work, law, media, culture, and many other areas
of society are well underway. And a good thing too: We might survive by
demanding table scraps, but we’ll only thrive once we run the kitchen.
Primary sponsor: <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberty</st1:place></st1:City>
Tree</span></div>
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Ben Manski
LIBERTY TREE
Foundation for the
Democratic Revolution
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.LibertyTreeFDR.org/">http://www.LibertyTreeFDR.org/</a>
"If ye love wealth better than liberty . . . may your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." ~ Samuel Adams </pre>
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Ben Manski
Co-Secretary, Four Lakes Green Party of Dane County
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.FourLakesGreenParty.org">http://www.FourLakesGreenParty.org</a>
"We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable'." ~ Petra Kelly
See also:
Wisconsin Green Party
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.WisconsinGreenParty.org">http://www.WisconsinGreenParty.org</a>
Green Party of the United States
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.GP.org">http://www.GP.org</a>
Liberty Tree
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.LibertyTreeFDR.org">http://www.LibertyTreeFDR.org</a>
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