BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//69.73.141.125//NONSGML iCalcreator 2.2.6// VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Conference CONTACT:Phone:901-725-4990 Email:info@gandhikingconference.org DESCRIPTION:With the conviction that peace and active nonviolence can help improve conditions for the benefit of all humankind\, the Gandhi-King Conf erence seeks to join the insights of academics with the experience of acti vists in exploring how we can bring these ideas together in creating a via ble and sustainable community for all. \n\nThe 2008 conference is entitled \\'Continuing the Dream…Constructing the World House\\'. The conference will focus on practical ways we can each build the ‘world house’ that Dr. King referred to as the next step in creating the beloved community. \n\nOur plenary speakers include Amy Goodman of Democracy Now\, Reverend L ennox Yearwood of Hip Hop Caucus as the youth plenary\, civil rights activ ist Ruby Sales\, Gandhian scholar Michael Nagler\, and Father Roy Bourgeio s of SOA Watch. Geographical Scope: National DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081018 DTSTAMP:20081015T040509Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081017 GEO:35.133800;-90.004600 LOCATION:Christian Brothers University\, 650 East Parkway South\, Memphis\, Tennessee\, 38104\, United States SUMMARY:Gandhi-King Conference on Peacemaking UID:20081015T000509EDT-KHgu9ikCCG@69.73.141.125 URL:http://gandhikingconference.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Conference CONTACT:Phone: Email: DESCRIPTION:The Bioneers Conference is an acclaimed leading-edge forum wher e you can see tomorrow today: a future environment of hope. Social and sci entific innovators focus on breakthrough solutions inspired by nature and human ingenuity. These visionaries are already creating a healthy\, equita ble\, diverse and beautiful world\, our legacy for future generations and the web of life on which our lives depend. Here you can connect with hundr eds or thousands of engaged folks making a real difference. Geographical Scope: National DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081019 DTSTAMP:20081015T040509Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081017 GEO:0.000000;0.000000 LOCATION:San Rafael\, California\, United States SUMMARY:2008 Bioneers Conference UID:20081015T000509EDT-AVKO325krA@69.73.141.125 URL:http://www.bioneers.org/conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Day of Action CONTACT:Phone: Email:jeffpeaceandlove@gmail.com DESCRIPTION:Free Our Schools - Our Education\, Our Lives\, Our Decisions!\n \nSDS National Week of Education\nNovember 5 - 13\n\nSDS National Day of D emands\nFriday November 14th\n\n\nOn November 5\, 2008 SDS will be in soli darity with students from France\, Liberia\, Canada\, Ireland\, Germany\, and more countries participating in an international student day of action against the privatization of our schools and lives. Since in America thi s happens to be the day after the presidential election\, people will be d istracted and it\\'s not a strategic day to act. So\, instead of one day of action\, on the 5th SDS will launch a national Week of Education and ou treach\, building up to a national Day of Demands on November 14th.\n\nWee k of Education\n\nThe goals for this week are to educate\, agitate\, and o rganize. We need to GROW! This is a great chance to recruit new people t o SDS. We\\'re also mobilizing students for the national Day of Action im mediately following this week.\n\nDuring this Week of Education SDSers acr oss the country will educate ourselves and fellow students on important to pics including\, but obviously not limited to:\n\n * student debt\n * politics\n * power\n * oppression\n * social change\n * stud ent and labor movements\n * terrorism (imperialist white supremacist ca pitalist patriarchy)\n * privilege\n * war\n * poverty\n * env ironmental sustainability\n\n ... you know - all the important thin gs our schools are typically NOT teaching us or are teaching us WRONG!\n\n We will use creative and participatory education methods such as:\n\n * student-led workshops\n * teach-ins\n * street theater\n * puppe t shows\n * parades\n * panel discussions\n * movie showings\n * radical art shows\n * banner hangings/ banner drops\n * invite sp eakers (Iraq Veterans Against the War\, dissident authors)\n * interact ive games\n * political parties (as in fiestas!)\n\n ... and m ore!\n\nTry and have a daily presence on your campus! Be creative and fun with your outreach! \n\nLet\\'s remember everyone\\'s minds will be on th e election results\, so be relevant and talk about those results! Everyth ing discussed during the Week of Education should be connected to our role as students and the need for us to organize ourselves for social change!\ n\nLet us know what you do. Let\\'s share ideas to make this successful. If this week\\'s done right it could mean that our 2009 national conventi on will have to be held in a STADIUM!\n\nChange comes from US\, not THEM!\ n\nWhich leads us to our...\n\nDay of Demands\n\nOn November 14th we will take a step toward transforming the movements for student power and access ible education that we\\'re building in schools around the country into a Student Movement that can and will make demands at the level necessary to transform the entire educational system. We will\, with much fanfare and merrymaking\, publicly make our demands to the people and institutions tha t control our education system\; the Department of Education\, our school Administrations\, Student Loan Companies\, and the rest of the unaccountab le folks who ignore our needs and profit from our exploitation.\n\nThe goa l of this Day of Demands is to announce the arrival of a militant\, radica l\, and dedicated student movement and make public our vision for a democr atic\, liberatory\, and accessible education system. It is to take the po wer we have been building at our schools and in our communities\, and by m obilizing collectively allow ourselves to make demands more sweeping and m ore far reaching than anything we can accomplish at our individual schools .\n\nOn the Day of Demands SDS chapters from across the country will organ ize marches\, rallies\, and parades that will end in public presentations of both our local and national demands to the targets chosen by local chap ters. Media teams will make sure the whole world hears us.\n\nThe Departm ent of Education has 10 regional offices in cities across the country whic h we suggest chapters target if they\\'re close enough. Office locations are:\n\n * Boston\, MA\n * New York\, NY\n * Philadelphia\, PA\n * Atlanta\, GA\n * Chicago\, IL\n * Dallas\, TX\n * Kansas Cit y\, MO\n * Denver\, CO\n * San Francisco\, CA\n * Seattle\, WA\n\ nSpecific addresses and contacts for each regional office\, along with the states they represent can be found here: http://www.ed.gov/about/contacts /gen/regions.html.\n\nOf course\, their headquarters is in Washington DC.\ n\nMost of the student debt in this country is through federal loans from the Department of Education. Not to mention all the horrible policies the y\\'re responsible for (standardized testing\, No Child Left Behind\, fund ing public schools according to property values\, etc.)\n\nWe need your he lp to make the Week of Education and Day of Demands possible and successfu l! Get on the calls and chats. Play a role in this historic moment. Seri ously... we need your help. With materials and ideas and other stuff. Pl ease.\n\nTalk to your chapters and start planning. Let\\'s build this mov ement and make SDS huge!\n\nPeace\,\nJeff Rousset (Philly SDS/ Drexel SDS) \nMike da Cruz (Brown SDS/ Providence SDS)\n Geographical Scope: National DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081114 DTSTAMP:20081015T040509Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081105 GEO:0.000000;0.000000 LOCATION:Everywhere!\, United States SUMMARY:SDS National Week of Education UID:20081015T000509EDT-WVJ4epdNIi@69.73.141.125 URL:http://newsds.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Conference CONTACT:Phone:202-481-8220 Email:info@standnow.org DESCRIPTION:Register now for STAND\\'s 2008 national student anti- genocide conference! \n\nThe conference will equip you with brand-new tools to fig ht genocide\, like fundraising\, online organizing tools\, and more. Also \, you\\'ll hear from the experts about the conflicts in the Democratic Re public of the Congo and Burma and get an update on the situation on the gr ound in Sudan. Most importantly\, you\\'ll start to see the connections b etween all the conflicts and understand why we have to advocate to end all of them. After the conference\, you\\'ll be completely ready to fight ge nocide in the next year\, wherever and whenever it occurs.\n\nThe conferen ce is open to students from colleges and high school throughout the countr y. Visit STAND\\'s website for more info. Geographical Scope: National DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081109 DTSTAMP:20081015T040509Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081107 GEO:38.904500;-77.030900 LOCATION:Washington\, District Of Columbia\, 20005\, United States SUMMARY:STAND Out Loud: National Student Conference 2008 UID:20081015T000509EDT-JbjvO3stuf@69.73.141.125 URL:http://www.standnow.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Conference CONTACT:Phone: Email: DESCRIPTION:Keynotes speakers this year include the following engaging and widely acclaimed speakers: \nLester R. Brown\nVan Jones\nPeter Senge\nVan dana Shiva \n\nOther highlights include:\n• Two-day \\'Sustainable S olutions Expo: Green Solutions for Campuses\, Businesses\, and Institution s\,\\' in partnership with Sustainable North Carolina\n• A Government Plenary featuring local and national public officials addressing the post -election legislative landscape \n• Sustainability Career Fair \n• Events focused on implementing the American College & University Presid ents’ Climate Commitment\n• Awards banquet featuring AASHE leadersh ip awards and other honors \n• Pre-conference workshops for faculty\, sustainability officers and others \n• Pre-conference Student Summi t\n• Pre and post-conference tours of our host campuses - Duke Univer sity\, University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University\n A \\'green\\' and socially responsible conference\n \n Geographical Scope: National DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081111 DTSTAMP:20081015T040509Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081109 GEO:0.000000;0.000000 LOCATION:Raleigh\, North Carolina\, United States SUMMARY:AASHE 2008: Working Together for Sustainability – On Campus and B eyond UID:20081015T000509EDT-nmAgaJIROn@69.73.141.125 URL:http://www.aashe.org/conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Conference CONTACT:Phone: Email: DESCRIPTION:Dear Friends:\n\n Every two years at this time I write an inspi rational letter of greeting for this conference announcement. This year th e letter writes itself. The Seventh National Harm Reduction Conference is taking place within 9 days of the national elections. There is reason for optimism. With some mobilization\, the purveyors of eight long years of li es\, corruption\, hypocrisy\, destruction\, nepotism\, greed\, callousness \, con-passion\, and debt creation will be shuttled off into a deep\, dark \, disused uranium mine. We will have an end to the worst presidency in ou r history. The characters that have lurked\, like Harry Potter’s death-e ating foes\, in the White House will be no more (although we all know that people like Cheney exhibit a Voldemort-like quality of never quite going away).\n\n A Democrat in the White House will not guarantee that a change is going to come in any significant fashion. But taking a harm reduction a pproach of “meeting politicians where they are” and embracing any posi tive change\, what can we reasonably expect? An end to the morale-crushing \, exodus-inducing politicization of institutions such as the CDC\, NIDA a nd SAMSHA should be on the score sheet. An open dialog with the scientific community about harm reduction-based interventions\, such as naloxone and syringe exchange\, could be held without the straitjacket of censorship. Local authorities would actually be encouraged to start and expand syringe exchange. A new administration might work with Congress to increase fundi ng for viral hepatitis\, eliminate racialized sentencing disparities for c rack cocaine\, direct SAMSHA to launch a national overdose prevention stra tegy\, and formulate goals to make drug treatment on demand ―including b uprenorphine for those at the margins of the health care system―a realit y. Global AIDS funding through PEPFAR would be expanded for countries with injection-related HIV epidemics and restrictions on abortion providers\, abstinence requirements in HIV prevention\, and anti-prostitution “pledg es” would be eliminated. Communities and health officials could pursue e stablishing safe injection spaces and heroin prescription without having t o look quite as rigorously over their shoulders for the goon squad to come beating down the doors. And the federal ban on the funding of syringe exc hange will ultimately become a footnote in the history of failed governanc e. Maybe by the year 2013\, the feds will actually provide some money for syringe access. We’ve done the groundwork and the evidence exists to sup port our efforts\, but we will not have an easy path\, no matter who is in Congress or the White House.\n\n The Seventh National Harm Reduction Conf erence will have an eye firmly on the national scene. There is no reason w hy compassion\, science and common sense cannot prevail\, nor any reason w hy the United States could not adopt a harm reduction framework to address drug and alcohol problems. Join us in Miami and be part of the direction\ , planning and brainstorming.\n\n See you there.\n\nAllan Clear\n\nExecuti ve Director Geographical Scope: National DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081116 DTSTAMP:20081015T040509Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081113 GEO:0.000000;0.000000 LOCATION:Hilton Hotel\, Miamia\, Florida\, United States SUMMARY:7th National Harm Reduction Conference: Towards A National Policy UID:20081015T000509EDT-pSIvSzbvT7@69.73.141.125 URL:http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?list=type&type=60 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Other CONTACT:Phone:312-427-2304 Email:mwacademy1@aol.com DESCRIPTION:This is Midwest Academy’s signature program – progressives from a wide variety of organizations and varying years of experience atten d “Organizing for Social Change” trainings and it changes their lives. They live and work together for five days and walk away with a new under standing of how to win power. Midwest Academy goes beyond teaching the ha rd skills and actually teaches progressives how to think strategically and organizationally. Geographical Scope: National DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081121 DTSTAMP:20081015T040509Z DTSTART:20081117T090000 GEO:39.209500;-76.661800 LOCATION:Baltimore / Washington DC\, District Of Columbia\, 21090\, United States SUMMARY: \\'Organizing for Social Change\\' Training (Midwest Academy) - DC UID:20081015T000509EDT-axfaND86ft@69.73.141.125 URL:http://www.midwestacademy.com/training_DC_nov08.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Convergence CONTACT:Phone: Email: DESCRIPTION:The annual November vigil to close the School of the Americas a t the gates of Fort Benning will follow the presidential election by two w eeks. It will be an opportunity for the progressive movement to push for t he closure of the SOA/WHINSEC and to set an agenda against oppressive U.S. foreign policy\, whatever the result of that election is Geographical Sc ope: National DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081123 DTSTAMP:20081015T040509Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081121 GEO:0.000000;0.000000 LOCATION:Ft. Benning\, Georgia\, United States SUMMARY:School of Americas Watch 2008 Convergence UID:20081015T000509EDT-2h3un3ruWu@69.73.141.125 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Conference CONTACT:Phone:765-658-4865 Email:vrudolph@depauw.edu DESCRIPTION:The Power\, Privilege and Oppression Social Justice Conference is for any person who cares passionately about human rights\, social injus tice and oppression. Individuals with an interest in activism and social i nequalities who wish to share and further their knowledge and ideas as\n\n A major goal of the conference is to exchange ideas and methods in motivat ing and encouraging activism and change on individual campuses. The confer ence aims to provide a forum for thought provoking discussion\, ideas of a ctivism and an encouraging learning space for anyone looking to increase t heir knowledge about power\, privilege and oppression.\n\nPresentations wi ll be given by both faculty and students but specifically by activists and anyone with a vested interest in social change.\n\nThe 1st annual social justice conference is put on by The Compton Center for Peace & Justice at Depauw University in Greencastle\, Indiana. Geographical Scope: National DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090228 DTSTAMP:20081015T040509Z DTSTART:20090227T173000 GEO:39.652400;-86.873600 LOCATION:Compton Center For Peace And Justice\, 500 East Seminary Street\, Greencastle\, Indiana\, 46135\, United States SUMMARY:Power\, Privilege and Oppression Conference UID:20081015T000509EDT-c4xx3pFKUi@69.73.141.125 URL:http://www.depauw.edu/univ/compton/conference/stub.asp END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR