Professional Documents
Culture Documents
12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Howard Zinn – special video presentation for the Peoples’ Summit
2:30 – 3:20 p.m. Speaker: Anthony Arnove, Author: War, Occupations and the G20
3:30 p.m. Panel: Student and Youth Activism: Christa Cooke, Facilitator, Green Initiatives Coordinator,
LaRoche College Student Government Association, Leia Petty, former leader, NYC Campus Antiwar
Network: Janet Checkley, Invisible Children, Pitt Grad ’09, former President, University of Pittsburgh
Amnesty International chapter, DeVaughn Hopkins, Pittsburgh Teens Against Senseless Violence
(TASK), Pittsburgh Public Schools High; Josh Litvik, founder and former president of La Roche
STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition.
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All Workshops will be held on Saturday August 19, 2009 at the Twentieth Century Club.
3. Environmental Justice
Ed Bortz, Green Party, Allegheny County, Facilitator
Jesse Johnson, anti-mountain top coal removal organizer, founder West Virginia Mountain Party
Jihan Gearon: Diné (Navajo) and African American environmental justice organizer; New Voices on
Climate Change speaking tour
Raina Rippel, Executive Director, Center for Coalfield Justice, Washington, Pennsylvania
Impact on local populations and the environment of extractive energy operations such as mountain-
top coal removal, long-wall coal mining, and various energy/resource issues on Indigenous Peoples'
lands in the Southwestern U.S. and peoples struggles for environmental justice
5. Human Rights and Civil Liberties from Guantanamo to the Pittsburgh G20 Summit
7. Bread for the World Workshop – Session I – Food Security in an Insecure World
Larry Hollar, N. Central Senior Regional Organizer (Dayton OH)
Others
Workshop will examine ways, both locally and internationally, that people are working to ensure that
adequate food is on the table, so all may eat, even in tough economic times. Both G-8/G-20
initiatives, as well as actions in PA and the Pittsburgh area, will be discussed. Bring your own ideas
and plans for a more food-secure future.
8. Palestine in a Global Context
Fayyad Sbaihat, Palestinian student and activist;
Jonas Moffat, local activist who spent 1.5 years in the Occupied West Bank, President of Pitt
Students for Justice in Palestine;
Sarah Moawad, Egyptian-American student/activist, Vice President of Pitt Students for Justice in
Palestine.
A student and Palestinian-led workshop focusing on Israel's occupation and apartheid policies, and
the international boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement
9. Report Card for the G-20: Is the G-20 Making Good on its Promises to the World’s Poor?
Melinda St. Louis, Jubilee USA
The United Nations estimates that up to 90 million will be forced into extreme poverty this year due
to the global financial crisis not of their making. In April 2009, the G-20 met in London to address
the effects of the global financial crisis, and at that summit they made some promises to help lowest
income countries weather the crisis. This workshop will provide an overview of what those
promises were and will track the progress the G20 has made on its own promises, as well as
discuss some additional urgent actions the G-20 must take if they are indeed serious about helping
the world’s poor. The workshop will also provide concrete ways for concerned citizens to advocate
for debt cancellation for poor countries.