congressionally). It is an attempt to shore up U.S., Canadian, and Mexico’s economic power by more voraciously and efficiently extracting and transporting key resources, meaning quicker environmental destruction, lower wages and more flexible labor, and further externalization of costs onto the public while profit is being internalized.

Intro to Liquefied Natural Gas proposals in Oregon
Olivia Schmidt, Columbia River Clean Energy Coalition (John’s Cove)
There are currently three proposals for Liquefied Natural Gas import terminals in Oregon and over 500 miles of proposed pipeline infrastructure to connect those terminals to the Northwest market. These proposals signify further dependence on foreign fossil fuel and would directly impact communities on the Lower Columbia River, people living in the Coos Bay area, and thousands of landowners throughout Oregon and Southern Washington as well as furthering abuses in areas where this resource is extracted. Come learn more about these proposals, how you can get involved in the movement for green energy in Oregon and how we will stop these projects from ever being built.

Internet Organizing
Robin Beck, Rainforest Action Network     (Jellyfish)    The internet is dehumanizing and mechanical. But if you believe that the issues we face are truly urgent and massive in scale then the internet can be an amazing resource for compelling more people to take bolder action for change. In this non-technical training and we will focus on practicing how we can best communicate our deepest values and our passion clearly and powerfully.

The Climate Impacts of Industrial Agriculture
Brihannala Morgan (GeoDome)
An interactive, on your feet workshop exploring climate impacts of international industrial Ag, and searching for solutions. While the focus will be around the expansion of palm oil plantations into endangered forests in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the subject matter will be globally relevant.

Thursday 2:00-4:00

Greenscare Workshop
Jim Flynn (GeoDome)

Taking Down Corporations
Kim Marks (Workshop 2)

Climate Change Science
Dr. Alder Fuller    (Filberta)
Understand the climate crisis with systems sciences, find evidence that climate change is accelerating, relevant principles of systems sciences, computer models, and the role of skeptics in this lecture by Dr. Fuller of Euglena Academy.
Western Oregon Plan Revision (WOPR)
Josh Loughlin/Cascadia Wild (John’s Cove)
Cascadia Wildlands Project’s Josh Laughlin will present on the Western Oregon Plan Revision (WOPR), a sweetheart settlement agreement between the old-growth logging industry and Bush administration. The WOPR would open up old-growth reserves in western Oregon that were set aside to halt species extinction. The logging plan would also contribute immensely to carbon pollution in the atmosphere. The workshop hopes to generate conversation about forest protection and stopping the WOPR.

So You Want to be a Radical Cheerleader?
Radical Cheerleaders for Animal Rights    (Shady Field)

Thursday Keynote 4:30-5:30

Energy Issues & Justice in Mexico
Jorge Vargas

Friday 10:30-12:30
Global Impacts of LNG
Rory Cox, Pacific Environment & Dan Serres, Columbia Riverkeeper and Friends of Living Oregon Waters (Filberta)
Speakers will discuss environmental, human rights, and labor issues with the global LNG market.  We will discuss some specific cases, and also invite discussion on how to increase awareness of the upsteam impacts of LNG. Research and information from participants welcome!

Place-based Organizing and Campaigning
Amy Harwood, Program Director, Bark    (Workshop 2)
Many organizers get started working campaigns in the metropolis or from a town center. However, as the environmental movement continues to respond to the degradation of wild places, it is becoming increasingly important to incorporate site-specific organizing in the places we are trying to protect. While this has huge media and education potential, it also requires adaptation. We will discuss the ins and outs of taking your movement into the wild!

Losing Your Activist Ego
Ant, RTNA (Jellyfish)
An open discussion centered around the rippling affects our Activist “Egos” can have on the community around us, the limits that can occur when we think of ourselves as activists, and the benefit of casting these notions aside. The facilitator will bring up these perspectives but the discussion is open
for all to create.

Living Electricity Free
Rob Miller (Shady Field)
Rob will discuss the practical, social, spiritual and emotional benefits and challenges of our family’s quest to live an indefinitely sustainable, electricity-free life. We’ll touch on how it affects the ‘world’, and more importantly - that great motivator - how if affects ME! Additional topics: Empowering yourself while dis-empowering the system; Tools v. Technologies; Practical tips for living beyond civilization; sustainable and indefinitely sustainable.

Communitization
Gordon    (GeoDome)
Friday 2:00-4:00

Environmental Impacts of Animal Agriculture
Gedden    (Jellyfish)

Preparing for Climate Change
Dr. Alder Fuller    (Shady Field)
What will we need to adapt to climate change and meet basic human needs during large-scale, long-term climate change? Learn about water, food, shelter, energy, community redesign, security; changes in social, economic & political systems; philosophies & psychologies of adaptation.

Know Your Rights
Kenneth (Filberta)
Learn how to interact with police and not get burned. This time around we’ll quickly go over the basics and focus on some advanced topics — protecting yourself during interrogation, dealing with search warrants, and a look at potential proactive avenues of relief.  We can also play ask a lawyer hypotheticals that bear a striking resemblance to “that one time, when a friend of mine was stopped by the police and the the cops did…..”

Climate Change and Globalization
Brian RTNA (GeoDome)
A survey of the global resistance to fossil fuel development and climate change featuring photos, artwork, stories and music from 18 countries on each of the world’s inhabited continents, combined with a telling of the story of fossil fuel colonialism in Latin America through the Beehive Collective’s epic Plan Colombia “graphic campaign”. Inspiring tales of how everyday people from around the world have taken on the fossil fuel empire in their communities and an overview of the wide range of issues related to climate change and fossil fuel development. A great and enriching presentation for people just getting involved in the movement!

Understanding and Organizing Against FERC
Regina Chichizola,Director of the  Klamath Riverkeeper and Georgianna Myers, Director of the Tribal Peoples Empowerment Project of the Klamath Riverkeeper and a Yurok Tribal member (Workshop 2)
FERC is an agency that responsive to industry instead of the public,  yet they have the power over all the energy related processes that impact our lives.  However, there are many legal and political  pressure points in a FERC process, and many organizing strategies  that communities can use to work against harmful FERC proposals. Find out how the Klamath River Tribes, Klamath Riverkeeper, and our communities are using all available tools to beat FERC and Warren Buffett’s PacifiCorp on the Klamath River.   This will be not only a  legal workshop, but also will deal with cross-culture and labor organizing.
Friday Keynote 4:30-5:30

Strategies to Stop Natural Gas Development
Jane Williams
Jane Williams serves as the Executive Director of California Communities Against Toxics (CCAT). A network of local environmental justice groups in California, CCAT works to protect communities from industrial pollutants. Jane carries on the tradition of her mother, environmentalist Norma “Stormy” Gail Williams, working to protect the health of people and the environment as a common cause. Her mother, Norma, had launched a campaign that sought to identify toxins causing a brain cancer cluster among children in her small town of Rosamond, California.  Jane has organized dozens of communities to successfully fight the building of facilities that would pollute their environment, such as incinerators, landfills, nuclear waste dumps, and industrial plants.  Jane has also served on a number of federal and state advisory committees that study the effects of toxic chemicals on children and public health western climate initiative, natural gas power plants in cali, and rps standards.

Saturday 10:30-12:30

Sharing the Story of Change
Liz Kimmerly    (GeoDome)
Liz Kimmerly has spent 12 years dedicating her career to the art of storytelling through a broad range of media and has used her skills to tell the story of a changing planet; from the building of environmental and social justice movements here in the US and in many countries around Asia (mostly in East Timor, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Cambodia).  She has also taught others the art of effective story telling and community organization with a specific focus in online social media. Liz will use this workshop to share her journey and will offer workshop participants solutions to getting their own stories of individual and collective change out there, on the Internet and beyond.

Tripod, Bipod, and Mono Pools
Cascadia EF!    (North Field)

Eco Logical Culture Change in Suburbia
Jan Spencer (Jellyfish)    This workshop will look at practical, economic and cultural aspects of eco culture change in suburbia. Topics will include concrete removal, water catchment, passive solar design and grass to garden.  Also covered will be home economics - taking care of more needs closer to home while connecting with what it means to take care of our human needs. Also, turning a suburban property into a community asset for eco culture change and expanding eco culture change into the community.  Finally, what are several of the basic elements of eco culture change, including human potential, faith communities and neighborhood organizations.

Non-Violent Direct Action
Kim Marks/Brian RTNA (Shady Field)
Direct actions to stop climate chaos — which may include sit-ins and civil disobedience — seek to stop or disrupt those who would see the planet burn in their tracks, even if it means breaking social norms or laws. Direct actions can also include creative activities that break from the established means of addressing climate change, such as community run and controlled health clinics, food systems and even bike shops. Direct Actions can be tricky and intimidating to pull off, but with a little bit of experience with planning and training anyone can do it! This training provides an introduction to pulling off direct actions, explores what makes an action effective, how to work as a group in a direct action context, action preparation and roles, and features many interactive role plays based on real life scenarios.

Supporting Resistance
Black Mesa Indigenous Support (Workshop 2)

Liquefied Forests –  the Truth Behind Wildfire, Current Thinning Legislation, and Forest Biomass Extraction in Oregon
Shannon Wilson and Samantha Chirillo, Co-Directors of Cascadia’s Ecosystem Advocates (Filberta)

Saturday 2:00-4:00

Resisting Political Repression
Tim Hitchins & Steph Boston (GeoDome)

Alliance Building
Samantha Chirillo (John’s Cove)
We all have favorite issues, which some of us are already heavily engaged in.  Corporations and government keep us so busy.  Some of us are often too swamped to think of lending a hand, and the fundraising game fosters isolationism.  Some of us feel jaded by previous attempts at coalition-building.  Let’s take a step back and look at the tools and advantages we have if we can plan ahead and adopt a more flexible design — an alliance in which we can strategically help each other out as needed, lending support at just the right time to take effective action.

Non-Violent Direct Action (con’d)
Kim Marks/Brian RTNA (Shady Field)

Native Ecosystems and the Magic of Birding
Wildflower Nate from ECA (Jellyfish)
Includes native and non-native plant ID, Bird ID by sight and sound and the importance of healthy functional native ecosystems
Fruits and Vegetables Year Around
Carol Carver & Barb (Workshop 2)
Growing vegies year around, and learning how to “put them up.” Winter gardening, water bath and pressure canning,drying,and freezing tips.

Fundraising for Grassroots Groups
Robin Beck, Rainforest Action Network     (Filberta)        Money usually scares our movement. This workshop will explore issues of wealth, privilege, and the role of money with an eye towards developing skills for moving beyond feelings of anger, guilt, and fear when it comes to leveraging financial resources for systemic change. The goal is to build both practical skills for finding, leveraging, and sharing funding and to help us think more creatively and constructively about what role money can and should play in our movement.

Saturday Keynote 4:30-5:30

Black Mesa Indigenous Resistance
Louise Benally

Sunday 10:30-12:30

Consensus, Climate Change, & Co-ops
Thomas (Jellyfish)
If we don’t like hierarchical decision making based on property, power and police, what should we put in its place? If we don’t like waged labor, consumerism or green capitalism what should we put in its place? This presentation proposes a “how to” workshop on two practices crucial to making a  more socially and ecologically sustainable world possible: consensus based decision-making and cooperative economics.

Direct Action: Lockdowns
EF! Climbers Guild (Shady Field)

What We Need: Community Dialogue on Desired & Existing Healthcare Resources
Racoon/Jonathan (GeoDome)
Healthcare is a difficult, but necessary resource to us all. Unfortunately, many of us lack access to the allopathic (conventional) & alternative/traditional medicine we need.  This
is an open-ended discussion & sharing of how/where to go for help, and what we can do to bring these resources to our communities.

Strategic Campaign Planning    (45 min.)
Karen Coulter (Filberta)    12:15 - 1pm        Karen Coulter has been an activist since 1980, in the field of environment and social justice.  She has worked with Earth First! and Greenpeace International as a campaigner on ozone depletion and acid rain and as a researcher on climate changes for the American Friends Service Committee.  She has also been active with Citizen Alert, against the MX missile.  Karen is currently Director of the Blue Mountain Biodiversity Project, as well as the principal activist for POCLAD.”

Reaching Mainstream & Alternative Media
Jen Angel (Workshop 2)

Sunday 4:30-5:30

Rule of Property/Property rights & Climate Impact
Karen Coulter (Shady Field)

Radical Eco-Feminism and Environmental Ethics
Steph Boston, Inde Scys     (Jellyfish)

DIY Bio-Methanol
Jay (Workshop 2)
Methanol: The People’s Fuel Explore the cutting edge of old technology from the wood stove to the Mahajan catalyst. Small-scale processor design that combines heat, power, fertilizer and fuel from local trash and waste biomass.

Edible Forest Garden Project
Pat Rasmussen, World Temperate Rainforest Network        (John’s Cove)

Greenscare
Kenneth & Jim Flynn (GeoDome)
Let’s gather around and reflect on the US government’s current prosecutions against radical environmentalists.  We’ll focus on lessons learned about security culture, a discussion about folks’ plea deals and resultant ethical considerations, and an update about the recent Midwest cases.

Strategies for Protecting the Public Resources Held Hostage within West Coast Industrial Forests
Roy Keene (Filberta)
Our current form of the proposed harvest tax initiative is Harvest Equity and Accountability Tax, HEAT. It would, if passed and enforced, tax the clearcut logging of immature trees (less than 75-85 years old) and doubly tax riparian logging. The net effect would encourage true thinnings, more riparian cover, and the growing of older trees. All vital elements in optimum forest carbon sequestering.

Sunday Keynote 4:30-5:30

Environmental Justice & the I-5 expansion (Columbia River Crossing)
Jeri Williams
This talk will discuss the topic of environmental justice and the part it plays in the decision-making of government processes specifically the I-5 Columbia river Crossing project between Vancouver and Portland. Jeri Williams has been a community activist in N/NE Portland for the last 14 years. She first learned about EJ as a hotel worker exposed to toxic chemicals. She has worked on some of the most exciting and victorious campaigns in Portland including the “No more lanes” campaign which defeated the expansion if the I-5 freeway, created the first EJ workgroup for ODOT and brought a million dollar community enhancement fund to the community.She also co-founded the Urban Workers Union which won a union contract for Diamond Parking lot workers in 2001who affiliated with Teamsters 206. She currently is the program manager for the Office of Neighborhood Involvement where she manages the contract for the Diversity and Civic Leadership projects which fund organizations of color and immigrant refugee groups to teach their constituencies organizing  and Civic Engagement with the City of Portland. She is a member of the Klamath tribe, a mother and a grandmother.

MONDAY ACTION