9/18/2009

PEOPLES' SUMMIT
September 19, 21, and 22 – Pittsburgh, PA
www.peoplessummit.com

Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009 8 am – 6 pm ~ “Globalization & the G-20”

Twentieth Century Club, 4201 Bigelow Blvd., Pittsburgh, PA 15213
8:00 – Registration, Resource Table Set-Up, Coffee and Tea
9:00 a.m. – Welcome & Agenda for the Day
Co-Moderators (a.m.): Tim Stevens, President, Black Political Empowerment Project (BPEP), Molly Rush,
Pennsylvanians United for Single-payer Healthcare (PUSH)/Healthcare 4 All Pennsylvanians

9:10 a.m. - Welcoming remarks:

• Paul LeBlanc, Coordinator, Peoples Summit – Our Purpose and Vision
• James Ferlo, Pennsylvania State Senator
• Rashad Byrdsong, Executive Director, Community Empowerment Association, Convener, International
Peace, Justice & Empowerment Summit

9:30 a.m. Speaker: Globalization and the G-20, Walden Bello

Response Panel & Discussion:
James Quilligan, American Coordinator, Convention on the Global Common
Robert Enholm, Executive Vice-President, Citizens for Global Solutions
Anna Pinto, Secretary and Program Director of CORE (Centre for Organisation, Research and Education)

11:15 a.m. -- Lunch

Afternoon Program – Co-Moderators: Tina Astorga, Peoples Summit Coordinating Committee

Renee Carmalengo, Office of the Vice Provost of Education at Carnegie Mellon University

12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Howard Zinn, Author, A People’s History of the U.S. – Video presentation – Auditorium

1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Workshops Session I – see list below

2:30 – 3:20 p.m. Speaker: Anthony Arnove, Author, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
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, former President, University of Pittsburgh Amnesty International Chapter
DeVaughn Hopkins, Pittsburgh Teens Against Senseless Violence (TASK), Allderdice High School student
Josh Litvik, founder and former president of La Roche STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition
Diane Ghogomu, International Peace, Justice and Empowerment Summit/Community Empowerment Association
staff organizer

4:30 p.m. –BREAK

4:45 p.m. Workshops - Session II - See list below

6:00 p.m. -- Close of the day’s proceedings.

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Saturday Sept. 19, 7 – 9:45 pm ~ Cultural Program
Art and Humanity
Carnegie Mellon University, University Center, McConomy Hall, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Henry Pinnix, Master of Ceremonies
Abafasi - kelly e parker, LaVerne Baker-Hotep, Toeknee Bailey, Toni "Tilo" Lois McClendon
African American women’s performance group
Brian Francis, Spoken Word
La Roche College African Dance groups
Son of Nun, national Hip Hop artist
Brian Jones, performing Howard Zinn’s, Marx in Soho

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Monday, Sept. 21, 7 – 9:30 pm – Peoples’ Summit Session II

Ending World Poverty, Reversing Economic Decline in Our Communities
Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Sq, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
7:00 p.m. – Welcome, Highlights of Sat. 8/19 Peoples Summit, G20 Events around Pittsburgh, Theme for Evening –
Co-Moderators: Craig Stevens, Three Rivers Community Foundation Board Member
Olabukunola ‘Buky’ Williams, Global Solutions Pittsburgh

7:15 p.m. – Keynote Speaker: Privilege Hang’andu, Jubilee Zambia

7:40 – Panel of Community and Labor Leaders & Discussion:

Tim Stevens, B-PEP/Black Political Empowerment Project
Carl Redwood, Hill Consensus Group/One Hill,
John Canning, Northside United,
Molly Rush, Thomas Merton Center (TMC)and PUSH/Pennsylvanians for Single-Payer Healthcare
Maria Somma, Health Care Organizing Coordinator, United Steelworkers
9:30 p.m. Close of evening’s program, Announcements of G20 Summit Developments & Events

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Tuesday, Sept. 22 – Peoples Summit – Session III

Another World Is Possible
Twentieth Century Club, 4201 Bigelow Blvd., Pittsburgh, PA 15213

7:00 p.m. Welcome, Highlights of Peoples Summit to Date and G20 Events around Pittsburgh, Theme for Night
Co- Moderators: Paul LeBlanc and Anne Feeney
7:15 – 9:45 p.m. – Speakers:
John Tarka, Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers
Leo Gerard, President, United Steelworkers (invited)
Benedicto Martinez, National Officer, Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (FAT) or Authentic Workers' Front, Vice
President, National Union of Workers (Mexico)
Jihan Gearon, Dine (Navaho)/African American organizer, traveling with New Voices on Climate Change
speaking tour
Jeremy Scahill, Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, Author, “Blackwater: The Rise of the
World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army”

9:45 – 10:00 – Closing – Where Do We Go from Here - Reading of Vision Statement, G20 Week Announcements

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Peoples' Summit Workshops

Workshops Session I - 1 - 2:15 pm

G20 101 – What Does the G20 Mean to People

Buky Williams, Global Solutions Pittsburgh, Facilitator
Robert Enholm, National Director, Citizens for Global Solutions
James Quilligan, American coordinator, Convention on the Global Common
Understanding the role that the G20 Summit plays in shaping the global economy and what G20 Ministers
actions will mean for the world’s population from Pittsburgh to Peshwar

Role of Women in the Global Economy

Jaime Evanoski, Project to End Human Trafficking (University of Pittsburgh), Facilitator
Maria Somma, Health Care Organizing Coordinator, United Steelworkers
Ana Pinto, New Voices on Climate Change speaking tour
Workshop will explore the importance of inclusion of women and the vital role they play in supporting economies
and promoting economic development at all levels from the global to the local.

Environmental Justice
Ed Bortz, Green Party, Allegheny County, Facilitator
Jesse Johnson, mountain-top coal removal opponent, founding member, 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

Rebuilding Devastated Minority and Poor Communities

Craig Stevens, Black & White Reunion (Pittsburgh) Facilitator
Celeste Taylor, B-PEP/Racial Equity Monitoring Project (REMP)
Workshop will focus on the Impact of global and U.S. economic system social-economic conditions in urban
minority and rural poor U.S. communities and organizing strategies to rebuild our devastated communities.

Corporations, the G-20, and Democratic Self-Determination

Greg Coleridge, Director, Economic Justice and Empowerment Program, NE Ohio American Friends Service
Committee (AFSC)
Mike Ferner, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD)
Workshop will focus on economic and environmental justice organizing strategies and examples in challenging
the legal, political and economic power of multi-national corporations.

Food Security in an Insecure World

Larry Hollar, North Central senior regional organizer, Bread for the World (Dayton, OH)
Joyce Rothermel, Chief Executive Officer, Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
Miriam Manion, Executive Director, Grow Pittsburgh
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.

Immigrant Rights – National and Local Perspectives on Immigrant Rights

Khadra Mohammed, Executive Director, Pittsburgh Refugee Center
Emily Knarr, Pittsburgh Refugee Center
Pastor Linda Theophilus, Ambassador, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service
A panel discussion by experts on immigration and refugees rights will present and discuss the current status
of these issues in the United States. They will address the work that is being done to push immigration reform
and the resettlement of refugees in our communities.

Palestine in a Global Context

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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 Palestinian and student-led workshop focusing on Israel's occupation and apartheid policies, and the
international boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement

Workshops Session II - 4:45 – 6 p.m

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
Privilege Hang’andu, Jubilee Zambia/Jubilee USA
Ed Nusser, Activism & Lobbying Coordinator, Drop the Debt, Pittsburgh
- This workshop will provide an overview of the promises and progress, if any, made by the G20 Ministers at the
April 2009 London Summit in response to the plight of the up to 90 million people who will be forced into extreme
poverty this year due to the global financial crisis. The workshop will also provide concrete ways for concerned
citizens to advocate for debt cancellation for poor countries as a central strategy in the fight for global justice.

Health Care as a Human Right –

Sameer Dossani, Amnesty International, Director of Demand Dignity Campaign
Claudia Detwiler, Secretary, Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Single Payer Healthcare
- Member of Pennsylvanians for Single-payer Healthcare (PUSH)/Health Care 4 All Pennsylvanians affiliate.
Workshop will focus on international, national and state-wide grass roots campaigns to develop universal or
single-payer health care systems that will ensure quality, affordable, accessible healthcare for all.

US Economic Crisis: Causes, Consequences and needed Changes

Greg Coleridge, Director, Economic Justice and Empowerment Program, NE Ohio AFSC
Jessica Walker Beaumont, National Economic Justice Analyst, AFSC
- A participatory workshop examining the historical context of the current crisis, impact on personal lives and
communities, and local and national proposed solutions from the individual to collective levels. Participants will
leave the workshop with tangible ideas for what can be done now and resources to help them.

War Economy – Human and economic cost

Ed Bortz, Green Party of Allegheny County, Facilitator
Titus North, Green Party, Pitt Professor
Edith Bell, Women’s Int’l League for Peace and Freedom, G20 Women’s Tent City
- Workshop will consider and discuss U.S. government expenditures for present wars and preparation for war,
and how it affects domestic, non-military, human needs. Related topics might include the "bail-outs" and
"stimulus" packages and their possible short and long term impacts.

New Voices on Climate Change - Session II of workshops (4:45 - 6 pm)

Anne Petermann, Facilitator, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project
Anna Pinto, Secretary and Programme Director of CORE (Centre for Organisation, Research and Education)
Jihan Gearon,Native Energy Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network Diné (Navajo) and African American,
Gearon is Tódích'ií'nii (Bitter Water) clan, and her maternal grandfather is Tl'ashchí'í (Red Bottom People) clan

The National Security State and Civil Liberties

David Meieran Save Our Civil Liberties (Pittsburgh), Representative, National Lawyers Guild
- This workshop will examine the development of the National Security State in the U.S. and other nations which
threaten the exercise of civil liberties in opposition to the global economic system and particularly since the
launching of the so-called “war on terror”.

Youth/Student Activism Today – Discussion Group following Plenary Panel Presentations

Christa Cooke, Green Initiatives Coordinator, LaRoche College Student Government Assoc., Facilitator
Leia Petty, former leader, NYC Campus Antiwar Network
Janet Checkley, former President, University of Pittsburgh Amnesty International, Invisible Children
DeVaughn Hopkins, Pittsburgh Public High School Student, Teens Against Senseless Violence (TASK)
Josh Litvik, founder and former president, La Roche STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition
Diane Ghogomu, International Peace, Justice and Empowerment Summit organizer