9/12: Human Agenda Roundtable

HUMAN
AGENDA
ROUNDTABLE



DATE: Monday, September 12, 2005
TIME: 6:15–8:30 PM
PLACE: Northside Community Center

488 North 6th Street, San Jose -- Park on the Street



WHAT:

Vision in Practice

1. The California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE)

Hear the pros and cons of the CAHSEE and its effect on immigrant, disabled, low income, and minority students. Entering seniors for the first time this year need to pass the exam to graduate.

Should we support AB 1531? Representative from Californians for Justice

2. Dilemmas for Farmworker Education

The Human Agenda farmworker trip to migrant labor camps in July revealed that parents cannot expect their K-12 children to enjoy a consistent education at a single school due to federal migrant housing laws. Come discuss what we can do to address farmworker education. Testimony from Farmworker Parent from Buena Vista Migrant Camp

3. Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts Franci Collins, Red Cross Veteran & Volunteer

Networking, Dessert & Drinks Meet, greet, discuss, enjoy
Staying Sane & Humane

4. Take Back Your Time

Hear a brief report from the National TBYT conference in Seattle, Washington on how to create activist, conscious work-life balance TBYT National Board Member Richard Hobbs

5. Four Windows of Time

Human Agenda joins organizations in dozens of cities across the U.S. in identifying 4 windows of time between Labor Day and TBYT Day (Oct. 24). Participants commit to four actions during that time period to create work-life balance in personally and socially meaningful ways.



Human Agenda is a vision and practice 501c3 committed to love and loving relationships using knowledge and social justice to meet our human needs within balanced lives. With Vision in Practice Human Agenda focuses in 2005 on 7 areas within a human needs vision: sustainable wages, housing, globalization, campaign reform, universal health care, education reform, and food security. With Sane & Humane, Human Agenda works to sustain our humanity and our activism through an ethic of love, balanced lives, conscious consumption and living, and new indicators of individual and social success.

For More Information Call Richard Hobbs at 408-460-2999