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Workshops offered at the Convergence
The following list was updated Tuesday July 24th. More workshops are being submitted each day. We also expect to have numerous presentations and discussions that come together at the convergence itself.
- See something missing that you can present on? Please offer a workshop.
- Some featured presentations and performers are listed here.
You can expect a finalized schedule to be posted here on August 1st. Some of the titles below are subject to change.
The workshops we currently have confirmed include:
- Action Planning and tactics
- Art in Organizing and Action
- Basic Medical Skills
- Bike Repair and Maintenance
- Bird Identification
- Blockades
- Breakdancing foundations for Beginners
- Building broad public interest alliances and coalitions
- Building Sustainable Communities
- Carbon Trading/International Climate Politics
- Climb Training's
- Coalition Building
- Columbia River Tours
- Community opposition to Liquefied Natural Gas on the Columbia River
- Consensus Meetings and Facilitation
- Creative Resistance
- Disaster Response, Preparing for the Worst
- Energy Justice issues on the Klamath River
- Food Systems & Climate Change
- Fundraising 101
- Gaia Cycles
- Greywater 101
- History of fishing on the Columbia River
- Home Solar Installations
- Introduction to Rising Tide North America
- Jail Support
- Know Your Rights
- Liquefied Natural Gas 101
- Losing Your Activist Ego
- Mapping the Climate Fight
- Militarization of Borders/No Border Camp
- Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining
- Mycorestoration
- Natural History and Culture of Lower Columbia
- Natural Medicine for self/community sufficiency and mutual aid
- Nonviolent Direct Action Planning
- Organic Gardening in the Pacific NW
- Organizing outside-the-box events
- Permaculture
- Pesticide Issues on the Lower Columbia
- Police liaison training
- Politics and Economics of Liquefied Natural Gas
- Practicing decentralized coherent movement building
- Resistance to coal mining at Black Mesa (a recorded statement will be read)
- Rocket Stoves 101
- Spruce, folk musician
- Strategy Session: Youth organizing on climate and energy
- Street Theatre
- Student Organizing 101
- The Beehive Design Collective’s “Plan Columbia”, a picture lecture
- The Clown House: Clowns on Bikes!
- The East Valley Liberation Army
- Training: Youth organizing on climate and energy
- Visions for the future from Tryon Life Community Farm
- Water Catchment 101
- Working with the Media
The following presenters and performers are not yet confirmed:
- Dr. Robert Pyle, founder the Xerces Society, co-author of “The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies” and author of “Wintergreen”, “Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide” and numerous other works.
- Jan Lundberg, Folk musician and organizer.
- Jim Page, Folk musician and organizer.
- Lloyd Marbet and Dan Meek, leaders of the successful effort to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant.
- US Energy Industry overview
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