CYNTHIA McKINNEY & the 4th REDWOOD SEQUOIA CONGRESS - final list of presenters for weekend

CYNTHIA McKINNEY & the 4th
REDWOOD SEQUOIA CONGRESS
"CONFRONTING EMPIRE" October 24th-26th

Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall
1924 Cedar St. @ Bonita, Berkeley CA 94709
http://www.bfuu.org/rscongress

Friday, Oct 24, 6PM - Opening remarks, music:
Wally Johnson-Native American flute.

Fri, 6:30 PM - The PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE
– Panelists: Tom and Jane Kelley, Berkeley City
Councilmember Kris Worthington, Jean Reinhardt
Reiss of the Breast Cancer Fund. Discussing
the power in a principle that has taken root all over
Europe and will be voted on in the City of Berkeley Oct 18.

Fri, 8PM - The DISABLING of DEMOCRACY:
Coups Against the People – Panelists: Mike Ruppert,
editor and publisher of From the Wilderness
http://www.copvcia.com discussing 9-11 and the Coup Against
the Constitution; Tara Treasurefield discussing The
Electronic Voting Machine Scandal, Fred Burks discussing
Mind Control/ Media Control/ Societal Control, plus
Carol Brouillet, joining a panel discussion,
later including the audience, of the big picture,
relationships between these topics, and positive potentials.

Saturday, Oct 25, 4PM – The PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
- Panelists: Former Democratic Congresswoman
Cynthia McKinney of GA, Davida Coady, M.D. of the San
Carlos Foundation, Dorsey Nunn on Prisoners With Children,
and Meredith Maran, author of New York Times bestseller,
"Dirty".

Saturday, Oct 25, 6PM -- press conference with
The Honorable Cynthia McKinney
open to public that has attended preceding panel discussion
http://www.cynthia2002.com/

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SATURDAY, OCT 25, 8PM
Excongresswoman CYNTHIA MCKINNEY's KEYNOTE ADDRESS
with Gus Newport of KPFA
music: Erika Luckett,
MLK Jr. Middle School, 1781 Rose St, 2 blocks west of MLK Way
Tickets at SF and East Bay bookstores and at BFUU.
$15 includes the entire Congress.
Note different (larger) location for this one event.

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Sunday, Oct 26, 10:30AM Service, back at BFUU, Cedar at Bonita
GREEN SUNDAY: The Way of Life, presenting the great
Sherry Glaser, star of longest running off-Broadway solo show.
"Oh My Goddess!" (Gaia awakens after 5000 year nap.)

Sunday, Oct 26, 1PM - STRATEGIES for PEACE and JUSTICE
- Panelists/Facilitator: Patricia Ellsberg (opening, meditation);
Pierre Labossiere of the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant Haiti Support
Group; Mickey Huff, History Prof. on Media & Critical Thinking;
Kellia Ramirez, independent journalist and reporter with
Free Speech Radio News; Carolyna Marks, writer,
educator; Lee Lawrence, UU Social Justice Coordinator, Psychologist;
Duncan Murphy with Veterans for Peace; Rachel Bruhnke of Global
Exchange and Cuba Alliance.
Gael Alcock's cello with Adam David Miller's poetry.

Sunday, Oct 26, 3PM – STRATEGIES for SUSTAINABILITY
- Panelists: Greg Schneider of the Regional
Parks Association Board of Directors, David Seaborg,
evolutionary biologist connected with the Children of
Manhattan Project; Kirk Lumpkin (Ecology Center,
Farmers Market) and Antonia Juhasz of the International
Forum on Globalization.
Music by Hali Hammer: well-known song-writer, public school teacher.

Sunday, Oct 26, 5PM - CONFRONTING CORPORATE RULE
- Panelists: David Cobb, General Counsel for the
Green Party, running for President in 2004, facilitates "Rethinking
Corporations/ Rethinking Democracy" workshops across
the US; Ted Nace, author of Gangs of America: The Rise of
Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy
http://www.gangsofamerica.com ; and Kirstin Lambertsen
of WILPF, working to pass an anti-corporate
personhood resolution in San Francisco.
http://www.sfpersonhood.org
Improv music by Nicole Milner's piano with Edie Hartshorne's koto
and Jeremy Sorgen's saxophone.

Sunday, Oct 26, 7PM - CONFRONTING EMPIRE
- Panelists: Mary Bull of Save the Redwoods/Boycott the GAP;
Grey Brechin-author, UCB Professor;
Ignacio Chapela- UCB Professor, researcher, author, activist
Don Paul-author of "Facing our Fascist State".


(510) 841-4824 or (510) 527-7543
http://www.bfuu.org/rscongress
All events, other than Cynthia McKinney's keynote Sat PM,
will take place at 1924 Cedar Street at Bonita.
$10 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds.
All events are wheelchair accessible

Presented by the Social Justice Committee
of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists.
Endorsed by Middle East Children's Alliance and KPFA