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It`s all alive. It`s all intelligent. It`s all connected. It`s all relatives. Great
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE We are committed to making Great Lakes Bioneers financially accessible to everyone interested in attending. Our rates reflect this. Reduced rates are available for activists, seniors, teachers and students. We have work scholarships for youth and persons with low income. Register online with payment at www.glbd.org, or complete registration form and mail with payment. Questions: (313) 717-6151. Venue: MC (Madame Cadillac) Registration, Dining area and Exhibits LA (Liberal Arts) Theatre, Learnshops and Galleries To register for the conference: fill out and mail the registration form included here or visit our web site www.glbd.org . CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES*: Early Fees Until Midnight October 21 2016 GLBD REGISTRATION FEES Friday, October 28 SATURDAY, October 29 8 to 9 am 8 to 9 am Registration/Exhibits (MC) 8:40 Orientation New Bioneers (LA Theatre) Registration (MC) CATEGORY 3 Day 2 Day 1 Day 3 Day 2 Day 1 Day 9:05 Opening and Welcome (LA Theatre) Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and Itzcuauhtli Roske-Martinez, youth activist hip-hop duo extraordinaire Regular $230 $180 $90 $250 $200 $110 9:30 to noon Tours or Film: Racing Extinction Sr/St/Act $145 $110 $55 $155 $120 $65 Teacher $135 $90 $45 $155 $110 $65 11:45 to 1pm Lunch (MC) Chaperon (Friday) Volunteer * Youth Scholarships ** Vendor Table October 22 to 25 $20 $20 $45 + 6 Hrs $35 + 4 Hrs $15 + 2 Hrs $45 + 6 Hrs $30 + 4 Hrs $15 + 2 Hrs 1 to 1:50 Plenary 1- Katsi Cook: Deepening Indigenous Women’s Networks: Embodiment, Healing and Resilience (LA Theatre) $10 $5 $15 $10 $5 1:55 to 2:20 Voices of Young Bioneers (LA Theatre) 4 Hrs 2 Hrs 6 Hrs 4 Hrs 2 Hrs 2:30 to 3:15 Plenary 2 - Will Keepin and Cynthia Brix: Transforming Patriarchy: From Gender Oppression to Beloved Community (LA Theatre) 3:15 to 4 Break/Exhibits/Networking (MC) Register and pay on line by September 30 Register and pay on line: www.glbd.org or complete form enclosed. Make check or money order payable to EcoWorks with GLBD on Memo line. Mail to: Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit 4750 Woodward Ave. #306 Detroit, MI 48201 *Registration fees include organic/locally grown lunch/coffee/snacks. Mailed registrations received after October 21 will not be confirmed by e-mail. You can continue to register online through October 25 or on site at Madame Cadillac building beginning at 8 am any day of the conference. 9:05 Welcome and sending forth (LA Theatre) Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and Itzcuauhtli Roske-Martinez, youth activist hip-hop duo extraordinaire 2:10 to 3:20 Learnshops B (LA) 3:20 to 4 Break /Exhibits/Networking October 28 - 30, 2016 SAVE THE DATE! 13th Annual Conference October 27-29, 2017 5:30 Community Reflection: Now is the Time: We Are the Ones. Closing: Tawana “Honeycomb” Petty Earth Co g n i m t a e SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30 8 to 9 am Registration/Exhibits (MC) 8:40 Orientation New Bioneers (La Theatre) 9 to 10 Opening (LA Theatre) Performer in residence: Rocket (!!!) MAN Plenary 6 -Janine Benyus: The Ultimate Symbiosis: Biomimicry as a Cooperative Inquiry Sharing our Wisdom 10:25 to 11:35 Learnshops C (LA) Lunch/Exhibits/Networking 9:30 to noon Tours 11:45 to 1pm 12 to 12:40 Lunch 12:40 to 1:40 Youth Learnshops (LA) 1:40 to 1:50 Prep for Sharing Insights 1:10 to 2 Plenary 7 – Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil: Occupy the Law: The Movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature Sharing Our Wisdom 1:55 to 2:20 Youth Presentations (LA Theatre) 2:25 Youth departure 2:10 to 3:20 Learnshops D (LA) 3:20 to 4 Break/Exhibits/Networking (MC) Now is the Time: We are the Ones 4:15 to 5:15 Plenary 8 – Bill McKibben What Winning the Climate Change Battle Looks Like Closing: Panoka Walker Cancellation & Refund Policy: Cancellations received until October 12 will be charged a 15% processing fee. Cancellations received from October 13 through 20 will be charged a 20% processing fee. Cancellations received after October 21 will not receive a refund. Speaker changes: Although all listed speakers are confirmed at the time of printing, the program is subject to change without notice. We cannot refund registrations because of program changes. A Bioneers Resilient Communities Network Event – CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Registration (MC) Lunch/ Exhibits/Networking (MC) 4:15 to 5:15 Plenary 5 – Vien Truong: Creating An Equitable Environmental Movement 5:30 to 8 pm Art Exhibit and Reception (Gallery 4th Floor) Shock and Neglect: The Works of Shana Merola and Jeana Klein 8 to 9 am 11:45 to 1pm 1:10 to 2 Plenary 4 – Ericka Huggins: The Role of Spiritual Practice in Social Justice Work Sharing Our Wisdom 4:05 to 5 Plenary 3 - Danny Kennedy: Optimizing the Energy Transition (LA Theatre) Community Reflection: Now is the time: We are the Ones. FRIDAY, YOUNG BIONEERS DAY! Youth schedule (7 - 12th grades) Learnshops A (LA) Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Conference nity Exhibitor Table $30 Register and pay on line by September 30 REGULAR: a person who can afford full payment SENIOR: 55 and over, STUDENT: enrolled for nine or more college credits. ACTIVIST: employed or volunteer for a nonprofit TEACHER: currently teaching at a public/private school CHAPERON: $20 per day. VOLUNTEER*: For more information contact Gloria Rivera [email protected] before or by October 20. YOUTH: 7th through 12th grade – if you are coming with school group for Young Bioneers Day (Friday only) contact [email protected]. If you are coming on your own, register on line. SCHOLARSHIPS** : Service exchange (19 years and older) A limited number of service scholarships are available. If interested send an e-mail to: [email protected] before or by October 20 or call (313) 717-6151. VENDOR or EXHIBITOR: Register on line or fill out and mail registration form www.glbd.org and pay by check or money order by September 30. MARYGROVE STUDENTS, FACULTY & STAFF may attend conference for free with Marygrove ID card. Help us plan by registering PRIOR to the conference. 10:25 to 11:35 The 12th Annual mu $15 6 Hrs $60 9 to 10 Opening & Speaker (LA Theatre) Monica Lewis-Patrick – Mapping Our Own Transformation It’s all alive. It’s all intelligent. It’s all connected. It’s all relatives. Co-C r CONFERENCE REGISTRATION INFORMATION Marygrove College 8425 McNichols Rd. Detroit, MI 48221 Darrell and Alaska Healthy World Fund www.glbd.org Graphic Design: cledbetterdesign.com The 12th Annual Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Conference! A Bioneers Resilient Communities Network Event October 28 - 30, 2016 Welcome! Bioneers (biological pioneers) is an annual conference, a movement and a way of life! National BIONEERS is in its 27th year and Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit (GLBD) in its 12th year! We are grateful for the ongoing growth of our relationships as Bioneers, inspired by your commitment and deeply appreciate the support of all who make this conference possible. We welcome you to this weekend together celebrating and affirming the transformative work of so many in Detroit and SE Michigan. For the past several months I have been pondering David Korten’s new book, Change the Story Change the Future. In a talk at Seattle University (5/2015) Korten suggests, “We need to come up with a new story, a sacred story, that helps us understand our origin and our purpose, one that draws from all sources: religious teaching, indigenous wisdom, scientific understanding, daily experience, and discovery.” The concept of a ‘new story’ connects to the ongoing creation of a ‘new narrative’ for Detroit, one that supports equity, opportunity, democracy, jobs, fair development, environmental justice, recycling and water as a human right. Paralleling Korten’s book, GLBD’s Local Program committee has been diligently preparing this years program. They chose Co-Creating Earth Community – Now is the Time: We are the Ones as the unifying theme. The goal is to provide a learning environment that explores and celebrates: VALUES that contribute to healthy and vibrant communities VISION that compels us to recognize and live as one human family ACTIONS that support and bring forth a sustainable Earth community. These aspirations can lead us to continue the creation of a new story, a sacred story for our city, state and Earth. Our time together will help us release good and healthy ‘emissions’ that will build this conference community and spill over beyond this space and this time. Yes, now is the time and we are the ones! Explore one of the five tours offered on Friday morning. Youth learnshops include topics about: water, environmental art, food and agriculture. Participants are encouraged to share these ideas in their schools and with their peers. Actions that witness to the truth – “We are one human family, one Earth community with a common destiny.” Twenty-three adult learnshops will feed your soul, affirm your work, evoke your passion and call you to action. You may find yourself wishing the conference would extend beyond three days. You will be invited to uproot racism and plant justice; learn about neighborhood organizing; understand water as a human right; explore transportation issues; see how you can garden with children 0 to 5 yrs. old; create a green team in your congregation or neighborhood; apply biomimicry for social innovation; focus on urban farming, food security, healthy ‘fast food’ media; respond to childhood obesity; join the freedom schools initiative; own your environmental justice story and learn about ethical finance. Nurture your heart and spirit via: awakening life energy in the present, ritual of oneness, yoga and meditation. On Saturday, Monica Lewis-Patrick will engage us in Mapping Our Own Transformation. Throughout the weekend watch eight plenary speakers from the Oct. 21-23 National Bioneers conference addressing topics of: indigenous women networking; transforming patriarchy; energy transition; role of spiritual practice; equitable environmental movement; biomimicry as cooperative inquiry; community rights and rights of nature and climate change. Exhibitors and vendors will welcome your visit to the exhibit area, meet old friends and make new ones and plan potential post-conference networking as you delight in a locally grown and prepared lunch. An art exhibit, local poets, a reflection space, a closing ritual will complement your investment these days. When people come together as a learning community that contribute to discover new sustainable ways of being and share transformative ideas for the sake of the Commons, everyone benefits. Share your values, vision and actions to the new story can indeed change our future. Thank you for being with us! Gratefully, Gloria Rivera, IHM, GLBD Coordinator and Paula Cathcart, IHM ATTENTION ! 7TH - 12TH GRADE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS Friday is Youth Day at GLBD Friday, October 28 (8 am arrival 2:25 pm departure) Take advantage of this experiential eco-learning opportunity. We welcome groups and individuals to register for the conference. Groups are usually limited to 10 students and 2 teachers/chaperons per school or youth organization. Special discount cost: $5 per student (includes tour, lunch and youth learnshop), $45 per teacher per day, $20 per chaperon per day (includes tour, lunch and afternoon program) Other teachers who wish to attend the conference are welcome at the same discount price of $45 per day. We ask you to follow the Friday conference schedule. Teachers will find the entire conference relevant to their work. Registration for Youth Day: Request a registration form from Paula Cathcart at [email protected]. Because we can only accommodate 160 students, registration will be on a first registered and paid first served basis. Detailed information will be sent with the registration form. Make checks payable to: EcoWorks with GLBD conference on memo line. Mail to: GLBD 4750 Woodward Ave. #306 Detroit, MI 48201 OR Register on line www.glbd.org Teachers need to seek parental approval and make transportation arrangements to and from the conference. Please do everything you can to have students present for the entire time. Leaving early can disrupt learnshops and student reflections that bring closure to the day. FRIDAY MORNING TOURS October 28 8 to 9 am Registration (MC) 9:05 to 9:30 (LA Theatre) Opening and sending forth Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and Itzcuauhtli Roske-Martinez —Youth activist hiphop duo extraordinaire 9:30 TO NOON TOURS Five tours will be offered Friday morning, Board buses at 9:30 and return by Noon. Tours are included in the registration fee. Space is limited and will be assigned on a first registered, first served basis. Lunch and conversation is available on your return. Film & Conversation (alternative to a tour): Racing Extinction - Director & team expose the hidden world of endangered species and the race to protect them. Shown at the LA Theatre. Tour 1 – Drew Farms: Growing Healthy Minds & Healthy Bodies Tour Leader: Monica DeGarmo, Matt Hargis and Betti Wiggins are with the Detroit Public Schools Office of School Nutrition that operates the 2 acre Drew Farm to create systemic food change, starting with youth and families. The farm in NW Detroit at Drew Transition Center is a DPS school for 18-26 year olds with physical and cognitive impairments. Over 20,000 pounds of food per year are produced for Detroit school cafeterias. This hands on experience shows DPS is committed to provide fresh, healthy food for students, nutrition education, experiential learning, and job training. Tour 2 – HOPE Village Eco-D tour Tour Leader: Debbie Fisher, Stephanie Johnson-Cobb and Judith Williams of Focus: HOPE and residents of HOPE Village. This tour will provide a preview of the work of the residents’ commitment to repurposing and reusing open space, building prosperity, renewable energy footprint, and increasing mobility and connectivity. View first-hand some of the projects related to our EcoDistrict designation, hear stories, and gain action-oriented tips for growing sustainability in their neighborhoods. Tour 3 – Growing Connected, Sustainable Communities in Detroit’s Cass Corridor Tour Leader: Tom Brennan has been involved in a deep exploration of community based sustainability in Detroit for over 10 years. He’s a member of a community of “bioneers” creating sustainability for people. Tour three “living labs” of urban sustainability in Detroit’s Cass Corridor neighborhood. The Green Garage - co-working community of 50 businesses to create new and sustainable responses in our communities. The El Moore - co-living community of over 20 long term residents and dozens of short term guests whose collective ecological footprint is about 1/5th that of usual residential buildings or hostels. El Moore Gardens - co-play community set in open air gardens with an indoor convening space to help reconnect to nature. Tour 4 - Moving beyond fossils fuels to Clean Energy. Presenter: Rhonda Anderson engaged with Sierra Club’s Environmental Justice program for over14 years. “Detroit Makes You Sick,” Newsweek’s April, 2016 cover story reports on environmental justice in 48217 and features Rhonda. This tour looks at major producers of fossils fuels and asks: How to move from fossil fuels to Clean Energy? What is health impact on communities and schools? What ideas have residents offered to change their situations? 48217 “Air Monitoring Project” residents share their work, challenges, accomplishments and recent good news! Tour 5 – Detroit is a Great Lakes City! Presenter: Melissa Damaschke is Program Officer for the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation. Previously, she was the Great Lakes Program Director for Sierra Club for over eleven years. Do you know that the Detroit River is part of the Great Lakes? Visit Detroit Riverwalk and learn how residents are designing a more sustainable future. See how Belle Isle’s habitat restoration projects are strengthening native fish populations in the river. Hear how east side residents transformed vacant lots into flower gardens to prevent polluted runoff. See Detroit Farm & Garden’s green roof and parking lot and learn about the new drainage and green credit program. Visit a water station learn about the People’s Water Board Coalition. FRIDAY LEARNSHOPS FOR YOUTH Grades 7–12 12:40 to 1:40 pm Students will participate in ONE learnshop (LA) Y1. What’s Up with Our Water? (Suggested for 7th-12th) Presenters: Anne Balzer and Brian Lewis lead the Youth Energy Squad, a program of EcoWorks. How can there be lead in Flint’s water and thousands of water shut offs in Detroit when we live in the state that has access to 30% of the world’s fresh water? Take a dive (pun intended) into these questions, and learn what you can do to advocate for healthy, accessible water for all. Y2. Splash, Spatter and Flow (Suggested for 7th-12th) Presenters: Naim Edwards and friends are dynamic, eclectic artists who use their gifts for healing and justice in Detroit and beyond. They are all trained in their fields including music, dance, poetry, and visual art production. Here’s a space to create artistic ways to promote thinking and action around water justice. Choose from painting, movement, writing, and singing to promote water justice and awareness. Y3. Two Years without Water (Suggested for 7th-12th) Presenter: Jada Patrick lives in Detroit and is a junior in high school. She is the youth coordinator for the We the People of Detroit Youth Internship program which connects teen Detroiters to the water justice struggle. Hear first-hand stories of living without water, develop a deeper understanding of water as a human right, and connect to the fight for a better future. Y4. Why I Am Vegan (Suggested for 9th-12th) Presenter: Jacob Haughton has been a vegan for three years. He wants to help you understand why someone (even you) might choose this path. Converting to a vegan lifestyle promotes animal welfare, better bodily health, and a cleaner, healthier environment. Learn how a vegan diet affects not only your body, but makes the entire world stronger and healthier. Y5. Quality foods, How Many of Us Have Them? (Suggested for 7th-12th) Presenter: Olivia Henry is the youth program coordinator for the Detroit Food Policy Council. How does where we shop for food impact not only our pocketbook, but our health? Examine the pros and cons of getting your food from farmer markets, chain grocery stores, or corner stores. Y6. The Environment and Modern Agriculture (Suggested for 9th-12th) Presenter: Priya Bramadesam’s love for animals sparked her passion for helping them and for becoming a Humane Educator. The ways we raise farmed animals and crops affect everything on our planet! Think about how humans have exploited or abused each other and other species, and learn that there are different paths we can take. Y7. Eco Warriors: Every School Needs Them (Suggested for 7th-9th) Presenters: Julie Ader and the 7th and 8th grade students of John Paul II Catholic School are founding members of Eco Warriors, the school environmental group. With limited resources and lots of ideas a group of students worked with teachers and parents to start an environmental group at their school. You can do this at your school! Learn to be an Eco Warrior. Y8. Nature is Where You FIND It! (Suggested for 7th-9th) Presenter: Dorothy McLeer is the Program Coordinator at the University of Michigan-Dearborn Environmental Interpretive Center. This learnshop, held partially outdoors, is geared toward training our powers of observation, using nearly all our senses, to rediscover our connections to the natural world all around us. Learn how to look for clues as to what animals live where YOU live! Y9. Environmental Art (Suggested for 7th – 12th) Presenter: Chair of the Art Department and Director of the Institute of Arts Infused Education at Marygrove College, Mary Lou Greene has worked as an educator and artist for over 35 years. Inspired by the work of John Dahlsen, Australian environmental artist, El Anatsui, Nigerian found object artist, and Andy Goldsworthy, British sculptor and environmentalist, participants will use the materials at hand on the grounds at Marygrove to work in groups to build their own environmental pieces which we will then photograph. Co-Creating Earth Community – Now is the Time: We are the Ones FRIDAY AFTERNOON PROGRAM 1 to 6:30 pm Includes 3 Plenaries, Sharing with Youth, Break, Networking, time for reflection and opening of Art Exhibit & reception. The plenary speakers you will hear this weekend presented at the Bioneers 27th Conference in San Rafael, CA last weekend. DVD’s were not sold onsite at national conference but people could pre-order them. DVDs are for private use only. They are usually not available to the public until a month after the National conference. Deepening Indigenous Women’s Networks: Embodiment, Healing and Resilience Legendary Mohawk midwife and environmental health researcher and advocate Katsi Cook will illuminate her dynamic new work strengthening KATSI COOK Indigenous communities and addressing the cultural and physical safety and thriving lives of Indigenous girls and women. As Program Director of NoVo Foundation’s Indigenous Communities Leadership Program for Indigenous Girls and Women, she’s building bridges across communities and existing networks to increase synergy in the protection of Indigenous girls and women from multiple forms of violence and oppression. CYNTHIA BRIX WILL KEEPIN Transforming Patriarchy: From Gender Oppression to Beloved Community The Gender Equity and Reconciliation process (GRI) seeks to heal the profound wounds around gender, sexuality, and relational intimacy. It brings together people of all sexual orientations and genders to jointly confront gender disharmony to reach healing and reconciliation. Will and Cynthia have developed the method over 24 years, introducing the practices in nine countries. Gender reconciliation’s startling successes in South Africa have played a role in transforming that country’s AIDS and HIV policies, and exciting new academic research on the program is underway at two South African universities. Optimizing the Energy Transition The great energy transition is underway. Renewable electricity build-out is outpacing dirty projects. Global greenhouse gas emissions have flatlined, but the transition isn’t happening fast enough to significantly arrest climate change. Danny Kennedy, founder of Sungevity and Managing Director of the DANNY California Clean Energy Fund, will draw from lessons KENNEDY learned over decades as an activist and entrepreneur on the frontlines of the global energy transition. He’ll illustrate his vision of how to achieve clean energy accessible to people of all classes, cultures and countries in a distributed, decentralized and democratized system. COMMUNITY REFLECTION: Now is the Time: We are the Ones Co-Creating Earth Community – Now is the Time: We are the Ones FRIDAY 5 to 8 pm OPENING ART EXHIBIT & RECEPTION LA Gallery 4th Floor Shock and Neglect: The Works of Shana Merola and Jeana Klein In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein reports “shocked societies often give up things they would otherwise fiercely protect”. Two artists’ depict in two different manners: one very disturbing and forceful; the other almost romantic and melancholic—both powerful. Detroit artist Shana Merola’s scenes in the We All Live Downwind series have been carved out of dystopian landscapes in the aftermath of shock. North Carolina artist Jeana Klein’s Abandoned House Quilts” eerily tell the visual story of a present place with imaginings of someone’s past, as if someone was there one minute and disappeared the next. Contact: Mary Lou Greene [email protected] (313) 927-1853 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29 8 am Registration and Exhibits (MC) 8:40 Orientation for those new to Bioneers (LA Theatre) 9 to10 Opening and Plenary Monica Lewis-Patrick (LA Theatre) 10:25 to 11:15 Learnshops A (LA) 11:45 to 1 pm Lunch/Exhibits/Networking OPENING Mapping Our Own Transformation Monica Lewis Patrick, M.A.L.S. is an educator, entrepreneur, and human rights activist/advocate. She is co-founder of We the People of Detroit and has served as Director of Community Outreach & Engagement since 2009 and was recently MONICA unanimously elected by the Board to become the LEWISPresident & CEO. She is an active member of the PATRICK People’s Water Board Coalition, US Human Rights Network, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights(IACHR) and was named to the World Water Justice Council in October of 2015. SATURDAY LEARNSHOPS A 10:25 to 11:35 am NOTE Presenters were requested to attend to the following in preparing their learnshop or tour. CONFERENCE FOCUS Co-Creating Earth Community – Now is the Time: We are the Ones. INTENTION Provide a community learning environment that invites all to explore and celebrate: VALUES that contribute to healthy and vibrant communities VISION that compels us to recognize and live as one human family ACTIONS that support and bring forth a sustainable Earth community. A1. Introduction to Uprooting Racism Planting Justice (Various members will also present C1 and D1.) Presenters: Shane Bernardo and Erin Shawgo are active in Uprooting Racism Planting Justice (URPJ), which strives to dismantle racial injustice in the Detroit food system through multiracial gatherings and racial caucusing. One of three related learnshops, this is an introduction to URPJ, racism, and racial justice work through dialogue and an interactive activity. Enter a space for healing, justice, and relationship building while learning about the impact of racism in our lives and across our community. SATURDAY AFTERNOON A2. How Community Can Be a Response to Childhood Obesity Presenters: Angela Newsome (Peoples Kitchen Detroit), Hanifa Adjuman (Detroit Black Community Security Network), and Lottie Spady (Just Creative) are three of the eight partners that comprise the Child Health Incubator Research Project (CHIRP). This panel will share how they created a vibrant learning community rooted in a holistic, justice-centered approach to eliminating childhood obesity in their community. They drew on members’ expertise in urban farms, cooking classes, food media workshops, outdoor family activities, garden art programs, community dinners, and in-school nutrition education and environmental classes. The renowned former Black Panther, political prisoner, human rights activist — and educator, poet, and professor of Sociology and African American ERICKA Studies at Merritt College in Oakland — has for 35 HUGGINS years advocated for “restorative justice” and the role of spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting social change. Grounded in her belief in the greatness of the human heart, Ericka says each one of us has the ability to look there for the answers to questions about the future of our world. Personal transformation is necessary to achieve social transformation. A3. Neighborhood Organizing 101 Presenter: Yusef Shakur is a father, author, educator, and neighborhood organizer. Yusef will break down the challenges of neighborhood organizing as well as provide a comprehensive framework of what neighborhood organizing is in the context of place based organizing. Participants will engage in a fun way to connect the dots and build concrete relationships. SATURDAY LEARNSHOPS – B 2:10 to 3:20 pm A.4 Clean Water Is a Human Right Presenters: Peggy Case is president of Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation (MCWC) and Michigan Stewart of All Beings Confluence. Diane Wekerle of MCWC will also present. The presenters will share new research on the threats to clean water. MCWC has been working to expose: fracking waste into injection wells, expansion of toxic waste facilities in Detroit, lead in Flint’s water, oil pipelines under the Straits of Mackinac and St. Clair River, and water shut-offs in Detroit. A.5 West Village: Our Eco-District Journey Presenters: Alessandra (Ale) Carreon is one of the founding members of Detroit’s West Village Sustainability Committee. Allison Harris is the project manager of Eco-D, a Detroit based collaborative seeking to bring EcoDistricts to the City of Detroit. This learnshop will explore one Detroit neighborhood’s journey towards a more environmentally friendly and equitable community with higher quality of life for all stakeholders. Learn how to work on an EcoDistrict Road Map for your own neighborhood. A.6 The Great Debate: How Do Improved Transportation Options Impact Our Communities and Our Environment? Presenter: Ruth Johnson of Transportation Riders United (TRU) has been fighting for more and better public transportation and mobility options in Southeast Michigan for over 16 years. She will be joined by other transit advocates from The People’s Platform. Listen to the pros and cons of different modes of transportation and their impact on community life and the environment in terms of affordability, sustainability, and equity. Learn to advocate for more and better transportation options in your community. 1:10 to 2 Plenary: Ericka Huggins 2:10 to 3:20 Learnshops B (LA) 3:20 to 4 Break/Exhibits/Networking 4:15 to 5:15 Plenary: Vien Truong COMMUNITY REFLECTION The Role of Spiritual Practice in Social Justice Work B1. Transformation: Awakening Life Energy in the Present Moment Presenters: Cass Charrette is founder of Cities of Peace Detroit, a minister, and healing practitioner. ROCKET(!!!)MAN is dedicated to heightening collective consciousness primarily through music, poetry and the arts. Jen Young volunteers with a number of organizations and initiatives with the goal of creating healthy, vibrant and sustainable communities. The presenters invite you to take a deeper look at your personal journey of transformation. This learnshop will explore how we can turn the challenges of individual transformation into an engaging, mindful, loving and supportive experience. B2. Salad Undressing: Deconstructing “Healthy” Fast Food Media Presenters: Susana Adame and Lottie Spady, Partners of Just Creative, a media-justice education and production company. An interactive presentation that questions how “The Salad” is pushed by fast food chains and media narratives as a viable alternative to high-fat food. Also learn how a small group of middle school girls in Detroit made a difference. B3. Race and Equity in Detroit’s Evolution Presenters: Julie Phenis and a team of HOPE Village Initiative members. The learnshop will address issues of race and equity in sustainable development, with a particular focus on The HOPE Village Initiative, a long term comprehensive community change and capacity building project committed to radically increasing the odds of success of residents and other stakeholders in a 107 block neighborhood near the geographic center of the city of Detroit. The focus – who is included in the “we” of “We Are the Ones.” B4. Grow With Me- Gardening with Children Ages 0-5 Presenters: Angela Lugo-Thomas is a Garden Development Specialist at Keep Growing Detroit, specifically supporting gardens in early childhood centers. Lindsay Pielack is a Co-Director of Keep Growing Detroit. Growing vegetable gardens with our youngest generation is vital to making future gardeners and farmers. Learn about simple “Grow with Me” curriculum cards for ages 0-5 that can be used in garden spaces -- even with container gardens. B5. A Ritual of Oneness Presenter: Ruby Woods is a singer, songwriter, poet and ritual performance artist. Through meditation, story sharing, movement, and song we will meet each other, fully present and authentically, and strive to reach that place where we intersect as one. B6. Creating a Green Team in your Congregation or Neighborhood Presenters: Bob Chapman, executive director of Michigan Interfaith Power & Light (MIIPL), has a thirty year history of putting sustainable ideas into practice. Peggy Garrigues, a minister, coordinates energy efficiency and sustainability programs with congregations for MIIPL. Creating a green team in a house of worship or a neighborhood can build sustainable practices into operations over the long haul. There will be local examples of working groups and their successes and information about the resources MIIPL offers. Creating An Equitable Environmental Movement Vien Truong, director of Green For All, has worked tirelessly to bring equity, social justice and climate justice to the frontlines of the environmental VIEN TRUONG movement and public policy. She has been a central force in putting environmental justice at the center of California’s groundbreaking climate policy, legislation and capand-trade funding. Vien will share her wise perspectives on how to build a new clean-energy economy that brings prosperity and justice to low-income communities and communities of color. A POET’S REFLECTION: Tawana “Honeycomb” Petty 8 to 9 am – Registration/Exhibits (MC) 8:40 – Orientation New Bioneers (LA Theatre) 9 to 10 – Performer in Residence: ROCKET (!!!) MAN - Janine Benyus 10:25 to 11:35 – Learnshops C 11:45 to 1 pm – Lunch/Exhibits/Networking The Ultimate Symbiosis: Biomimicry as a Cooperative Inquiry Our species is finally turning toward other species for their embodied wisdom, borrowing these insights to solve challenges such as delivering nutrition in a way JANINE that nourishes both planet and people. BENYUS Biomimicry author and visionary Janine Benyus will show how nature-inspired breakthroughs in agriculture are evolving from plant-focused “silver bullets” to system-savvy healing. She’ll give us a sneak preview of the amazing entries in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge in food systems. She’ll explore how the “democratization of invention” is growing more biomimetic—as teams turn to nature together, in massive parallel, to discover a multitude of wild ideas that work together as a system. Cooperation, naturally enough, is the best way to learn from Life’s genius! SUNDAY LEARNSHOPS – C 10:25 to 11:35 am C1. Racial Caucusing for Healthy Communities (See A1 and D1) Presenters: Active caucus members of Uprooting Racism Planting Justice (URPJ), which strives to dismantle racial injustice in the Detroit food system through multiracial gatherings and racial caucusing. The second of three related learnshops. Examine how racial caucusing can provide a safe space for participants to reflect with peers in self-identified racial gatherings in order to identify work specific to their racial identity. This session will include an opportunity for three caucus meet ups (Black caucus, People of Color Caucus, and White Caucus) to reflect and engage with one another on experiences in the Saturday A1 Learnshop. C2. Bio-Mimicry: Emulation for Social Innovation Presenter: Gloria Rivera is a member of the Immaculate Heart of Mary community in Monroe. She is the GLBD coordinator. Life has had 3.8 billion years to develop some very sound Life Principles. An understanding of bio-mimicry can help us tap into Life’s genius and learn how to apply this wisdom to creating alternative systems that work for good of all. C3. Food Security in Detroit Presenters: Kibibi Blount-Dorn and Amy Kuras are Program Managers at Detroit Food Policy Council. Explore some of the components of community food security, share input recently gathered in a survey of Detroit Residents, and learn some of the current priorities and strategies of the Detroit Food Policy Council and other food security organizations in Detroit. C4. Got KI? Emergency Preparedness in Southeast Michigan Presenters: Carol Izant is one of the Co-Chairs and founders of the Alliance to Halt Fermi 3 (ATHF3). Her Co-Chair, Keith Gunter, and Ethyl Rivera, Got KI? Coordinator will assist. The American Thyroid Association recommends distribution of KI (potassium iodide) to anyone living within 50 miles of a nuclear reactor. This learnshop aims to raise awareness about this critical public health issue, change the conversation and affect change. There is no better time than NOW to address the need to change to clean, safe, renewable energy in Michigan. C5. Urban Farming in Detroit: What the Media Doesn’t Say Presenters: Atieno Nyar Kasagam is a board member of the Detroit Food Policy Council. She and Lorenzo Herron are coordinators of the Detroit Urban Farmers Network. The presenters will challenge the simplistic and rosy narratives about urban farming in Detroit , and explore through statistics, anecdotes and shared experiences, the material challenges that farmers face in accessing land and resources for farming, and for making a living from farming. Co-Creating Earth Community – Now is the Time: We are the Ones SUNDAY AFTERNOON 1:10 to 2 – Plenary: Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil 2:10 to 3:20 – Learnshops D 3:20 to 4 – Break/Exhibits/Networking 4:15 to 5:15 – Plenary: Bill McKibben & Conference Closing Occupy the Law: The Movement for Community Rights and the Rights of Nature As species collapse around the world while MARI MARGIL governments still authorize fossil fuel extraction and other destructive, unsustainable activities, communities across the U.S. are rising in resistance to “occupy the law.” They’re enacting “community bills of rights” that recognize a community’s legally enforceable right to sustainability and the rights of nature. Two of its most effective path-finding national THOMAS and global leaders, Tom Linzey and Mari Margil of the LINSEY Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, will show how this movement challenges our constitutional framework in which corporate rights and the preemptive authority of state and federal governments block sustainability, environmental protection and democracy. SUNDAY LEARNSHOPS – D 2:10 to 3:20 pm D1. Taking on Racial Justice in Our Communities (See A1 and C1) Presenters: Panel of people active in Uprooting Racism Planting Justice (URPJ), which strives to dismantle racial injustice in the Detroit food system through multiracial gatherings and racial caucusing. The third of three related learnshops, this session features a panel of individuals integrating racial justice work into their community roles within Detroit to provide a practical understanding of the work, and inspiration for participants leaving the conference who hope to apply their new or increased understanding of racial justice. D2. Freedom Schools & Intergenerational Leadership: What, How, & Why? Presenter: Julia Cuneo is a member of Detroiters Resisting Emergency Management, a coalition of organizations working on the front lines of water and educational justice issues in Detroit. Freedom Schools and intergenerational leadership are powerful tools for changing systems of hierarchy and oppression in our society. Participants will be invited to explore how they might participate in intergenerational activism and how they can get involved in the Freedom Schools movement. D3. Becoming Present through Meditation Presenter: Panoka Walter is of mixed French and Anishinabek descent of the Deer Clan. She is a member of United Plant Savers, Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. Panoka invites you to unleash your creative side and see beyond chaos and fear we face as humans. Through the use of gentle meditation and the rhythm of the drum’s heartbeat you will practice silencing your mind to “Become Present”. This will allow you to see beyond human emotions and become inspired and confident. D4. Ethical Finance: The Italians are doing it. Can we? Presenter: Erica Giorda is an activist and food scholar. She has been the food coordinator for GLBD since 2010, and is part of the GLBD Vision Keepers. She was a leader in the Fair Trade Movement in Europe. Regaining power over our savings, being able to decide where to put them, and creating access to funds for those who cannot get credit through banks seems like an indispensable step for creating resilient communities. This is about reclaiming our money, and using it to create solutions, instead of problems. REGISTRATION FORM (one per person) PLEASE PRINT NEATLY D5. Swimming in the Detroit River - Owning Our Environmental Justice Story (telling) Presenters: Michelle Martinez is a Cis-hetero Mestiz and mama from southwest Detroit. She has been working for Environmental Justice in Detroit over the last decade with intersections in racial, gender and immigrant justice through creative arts, collectivismo and popular education. Marcia Lee coordinates the Office of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation for the Capuchins. This workshop will be a chance for participants, many of whom are already part of environmental justice work, to join in a collective storytelling process. It will be time to slow down, breathe, write, and reclaim the living stories. The most influential climate activist of our era, Bill McKibben, a founder of the extraordinarily effective 350.org grassroots campaign, will describe the immense groundswell of global citizen engagement BILL rising to challenge the “dirty” energy industry. Find MCKIBBEN out where we are scientifically and politically in the transformation to end our reliance on fossil fuels, while lighting the pathways toward a clean-energy future. Conference Closing: Panoka Walker PRINT ABOVE THE LINES Please circle the answers to the following two questions. Have you attended a previous GLBD Conference? Yes Can we add you to our mailing list? Yes No No So we can understand who attends the conference, we invite you to share the following information with us by circling or checking the applicable choices below: Are you? Female Male Other Age group: Under 25; 25 to 40; 41 to 54; 55+ Ethnic group (Check the most appropriate answer): African American Arab or Arab American Asian/Pacific Islander Caucasian Indigenous Hispanic/Latino Mixed Other D6. Transforming Self, Building Community: A Yoga Learnshop Presenters: Erin Shawgo and Hong Gwi-Seok are Iyengar Yoga instructors at Iyengar Yoga Detroit in Hamtramck, Michigan. We will explore how to use asana (yoga postures) for individual growth in order to sustain larger community. Participants will be guided through asana and offered opportunities for reflection. All ages, sizes and abilities are welcome. Physical limitations will be accommodated. 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