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9/18/20091
PEOPLES' SUMMITSeptember 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,PA15213
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, InternationalPeace, Justice & Empowerment Summit
9:30 a.m. Speaker:
Globalization and the G-20,
Walden BelloResponse 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. -- LunchAfternoon 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 Associationstaff 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.**************************************************************************************************
 
9/18/20092
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 groupsSon 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
 
*******************************************************************************************
 
Tuesday, Sept. 22 – Peoples Summit – Session III
Another World Is Possible 
 Twentieth Century Club, 4201 Bigelow Blvd.,Pittsburgh,PA15213
7:00 p.m. Welcome, Highlights of Peoples Summit to Date and G20 Events around Pittsburgh, Theme for NightCo- 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 Changespeaking 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
*******************************************************************************************
 
9/18/20093
Peoples' Summit Workshops
Workshops Session I
- 1 - 2:15 pm
 G20 101 – What Does the G20 Mean to PeopleBuky 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 Ministersactions will mean for the world’s population from Pittsburgh to Peshwar
Role of Women in the Global EconomyJaime 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 tourWorkshop will explore the importance of inclusion of women and the vital role they play in supporting economiesand 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
: Din
é
(Navajo) and African American environmental justice organizer; New Voices on ClimateChange speaking tour
Raina Rippel
, Executive Director, Center for Coalfield Justice, Washington, PennsylvaniaImpact on local populations and the environment of extractive energy operations such as mountain-top coalremoval, long-wall coal mining, and various energy/resource issues on Indigenous Peoples' lands in theSouthwestern U.S. and peoples struggles for environmental justice
Rebuilding Devastated Minority and Poor CommunitiesCraig 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 urbanminority and rural poor U.S. communities and organizing strategies to rebuild our devastated communities.
 
Corporations, the G-20, and Democratic Self-DeterminationGreg Coleridge
, Director, Economic Justice and Empowerment Program, NE Ohio American Friends ServiceCommittee (AFSC)
Mike Ferner
, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD)Workshop will focus on economic and environmental justice organizing strategies and examples in challengingthe legal, political and economic power of multi-national corporations.
 
Food Security in an Insecure WorldLarry Hollar,
North Central senior regional organizer, Bread for the World (Dayton, OH)
Joyce Rothermel, C
hief Executive Officer, Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
 Miriam Manion, E
xecutive Director, Grow Pittsburgh
 
Workshop will examine ways, both locally and internationally, that people are working to ensure that adequatefood is on the table, so all may eat, even in tough economic times. Both G-8/G-20 initiatives, as well as actions inPA 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 statusof these issues in the United States. They will address the work that is being done to push immigration reformand the resettlement of refugees in our communities.
Palestine in a Global ContextFayyad Sbaihat
, Palestinian student and activist|
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