Activism for accountability and transparency in mining development in Attawapiskat SUN 3 –

4:30PM
Jackie Hookimaw-Witt, Norbert Witt
This workshop will describe how the speakers became active in their community in response
to the development of a diamond mine in traditional, Attawapiskat First Nation territory. As women
are the Heart of the Nation and the keepers of culture, the basis for activism was the traditional role
as an Indigenous woman, having the sacred responsibility to protect the land as the basis of culture.
Participants will learn the different strategies used (music, demonstrations, public education,
videography) and examples of how videos are put together using an existing school campaign video
and a planned video on the impact of mining.

African women and girls demand a seat At the Table SAT 10AM - Noon
Canadian Crossroads International
African women and girls have no voice at international summits such as the G8 and G20.
Canadian Crossroads International (CCI) is pleased to host an interactive panel discussion on the
need for global leadership to achieve gender equality and women’s rights. The panel features
women’s rights leaders the Hon Nonhlanhla Dlamini, member of parliament Swaziland, former
Executive Director of the Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse; Shuvai Mandigo Program
Coordinator with the Girl Child Network, Zimbabwe; and Betty Plewes, International Development
consultant, former CEO Canadian Council for International Cooperation and member of the McLeod
Group. Women and girls in Swaziland and Zimbabwe live in extreme poverty. Poverty and
inequality place them at great risk for physical and sexual violence, which in turn places them at risk
for HIV infection with few prospects for treatment or care. Come hear what leading Southern
African women activists have to say to world leaders. Learn about key challenges facing women and
girls in Zimbabwe and Swaziland; innovative program responses that are making a difference; and
why international collaboration is vital in the struggle for their rights.

Against State Deception and Terror SUN 3 - 5PM

Graeme MacQueen and Barry Zwicker
The Global War on Terror, launched on the basis of the events of 9/11, has justified two hot
wars and derailed and ruined initiatives for peace, justice and environmental sustainability. Yet many
people in social movements continue to accept the official versions of 9/11 and to criticize those who
even raise questions about the official versions! In this workshop, participants will discuss the
evidence that has led us, after years of research, to conclude that the events of 9/11 and the later
anthrax mailings were domestic operations designed to frame Muslims and advance the “9/11 Wars.”

ALBA in the Eye of the Storm SUN 3 - 5PM

Coalition Venezuela We Are With You / Coalición Venezuela Estamos Contigo

Anti- Capitalism and Animal Liberation SAT 4:30 - 5:30

Canadian Animal Liberation Movement
Facilitator: Dr. Erin Skinner
This workshop examines the connections between the anti-capitalist and animal liberation
movements. Participants will examine how the capitalist system and the idea of private property
strengthens the enslavement of animals, and how this is connected to the capitalist commodification
of people, animals, and earth. Participants will also explore how the anti-capitalist and animal
liberation movements can work together to destroy the institutions that exploit and oppress both
human and nonhuman persons.

The Arctic: Climate change victim? Common ground or battleground? SUN 3 - 4:30PM
Pugwash: Science for Peace
Warplanes, nuclear submarines, missile radar stations. Climate change is creating a scramble
for new resources in the Arctic, the potential for military confrontation and competition amongst old
adversaries, and newcomers. We need an Arctic vision in which cooperation, not conflict, is the norm.

This workshop will look at the security dangers in the Arctic, and the need for a new
movement for a secure, nuclear-free Arctic.

At The Trough (documentary film) SAT 1 - 2:30PM

Facilitator: Glen Koroluk, Beyond Factory Farming
This 54-minute film gives voice to the experience of farm people, academics and community
activists and shares stories that expose the destructive nature of the global economy and in particular,
the corporate hog industry in Manitoba. The film reveals how citizens can and have fought back to
regain control of their communities and livelihoods by offering solutions to counter the industrial
agricultural model. At The Trough serves to inform the public and generate discussion across Canada
about the detrimental health, environmental and social effects of factory farming and concludes on a
hopeful note by offering sustainable alternatives, such as smaller family farm operations that raise
pigs in a way that has been practiced for centuries as part of traditional mixed farming. The film will
be followed by a discussion period facilitated by Glen Koroluk, one of the collaborators of the film
and a community organizer with Beyond Factory Farming.

The Beehive Collective presents... Art-based tools for education SAT 1 - 3PM
The Beehive Collective
The Beehive Design Collective has evolved a unique approach to 'cross-pollinating the
grassroots' by building campaigns around graphics and using them to engage audiences. The Bees
will be sharing some of the tools they have developed to use images for education and organizing. In
this workshop, participants will be introduced to strategies for collective analysis, such as mind-
mapping and drawing exercises, to illustrate why so many people are protesting the G8/20, and to
illustrate the larger context in which the G8/20 summits are taking place. Art-based education tools
shared in this workshop are meant to be useful both during and beyond the mobilizations in June.

"Behind the Rainbow" - Fifty Years After Independence in Africa SAT 1 - 3PM
Group for Reseach and Initiatives for the Liberation of Africa http://www.grila.org
Fifty years ago a majority of African countries got their independence from their former
colonial powers. This nominal independence came through a long process of resistance by African
people, with countless lives sacrificed, to put an end to over a century of colonialism and almost two
centuries of slavery that integrated Africa into the world capitalist system as a dependent entity. This
year, South Africa will be the only African country present at the G20 summit, and will be echoing
the voice of continent.

"Behind the Rainbow" is a documentary with a deep look at the post-apartheid political
economy of South Africa, blackmail of the globalized era, Debt issues, GEAR and the so-called black
empowerment program, the fierce battle within the ANC between Mbeki and Zuma’s clans,
corruption, etc...
Fifty years after independence, what are the new challenges ahead in a world dominated by
groupings such as the G8 and G20? What new political perspectives for Africa, it's people and it's
diaspora, against imperialism are available today?
The screening of the documentary will be followed by a discussion moderated by members of
GRILA.

Backyard Uprising: Gaining Food Independence, Turning Toronto into an Urban Garden, and
Instigating Emergency Measures to Combat Smog SAT 1 - 2:30PM
Gabe Nicolau, Torontonians For Breathable Air
Breathable air, drinkable water, and uncontaminated food are human rights, so long as we
fight to make them so. But the city of Toronto this summer will be facing a deadly smog crisis,
importing the majority of our food from absurdly far away, and wasting extravagant amounts of
fresh water to make grass grow two inches in order to be cut by viciously poison-spewing
lawnmowers. This seminar is designed to help lay the groundwork for a grassroots campaign to
encourage the conversion of all available lawn and rooftop space in the city to food gardens and
edible tree orchards, as well as a political campaign aimed at city council to push for the creation of
the Toronto Clean Air Act. This Act would outlaw gas lawnmowers, use of drinking water for
cosmetic/non-essential purposes, levy road tolls to discourage driving and fund the T.T.C. and bike
lanes throughout the city, and demand city council use every appropriate inch of public lands for
growing food, while encouraging and educating people throughout the city in sustainable backyard
and community gardening techniques.
Biomass, Biofuels, Biochar, Bioeconomy: False Solutions and Corporate Control of the Biosphere
SAT 1 - 3PM
Biofuel Watch, Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration

Birth of a World People's Movement for Climate Justice: The Cochabamba Conference SUN
10AM - Noon
Toronto Bolivia Solidarity
An assembly of more than 30,000 people from 100 countries, meeting in April in Cochabamba,
Bolivia, adopted an ambitious agenda to defend Mother Earth against climate change and ecological
devastation. The Cochabamba conference challenges us to join in a world people's movement to
assure the safety and protection of Mother Earth. Conference delegates will lead off discussion of this
initiative and its meaning for us.
Panel: Conference delegates: Raul Burbano, Latin American activist will show a video of the
Cochabamba experience. Kimia Ghomeshi, Campaign Director, Canadian Youth Climate Coalition;
Robert Lovelace, Algonquin First Nation.

Building Alliances SAT 3-5PM

Canadian Dimensions Magazine

Building Anti-Poverty Action Coalitions Locally SUN 10AM - Noon

The Jubilee Wedge
The workshop proposes a panel of four individuals to share their personal experience in the
context of their activism and their relationship to the vision and hopes of the “Jubilee Wedge”
community. Pedagogically, they plan to utilize the Latin American model reflected in “liberation
theology” (praxis-reflection-praxis) or the older Francophone model developed by the Jeunesse
Ouvrière Chrétienne (JOC) in the format of voir (perceive)—juger (analyze)—agir (take action).

Canada’s Role in the World: Taking our Foreign Policy back from the Conservatives SAT 3 - 5PM
New Democrats
Speakers: Paul Dewar, Olivia Chow, Linda Duncan

Canada can have a very real and very positive role on the International Stage, but our current
government has failed to show true leadership. This Panel will address the ways that the
Conservatives have tarnished Canada’s international reputation and squandered, and in some
instances outright opposed, opportunities to organize a global response to climate change and
address the inequalities of global finance. The panel will articulate a progressive vision for Canada’s
role in the world focusing on the three themes of the G8 and G20 meetings, Maternal and Child
health, Global Finance reform and the Environment.

Canadian Mining and Free Trade in Central America SUN 10AM - 12:30
Canadians Against Mining in El Salvador
Facilitators: Katherine Daly, Pedro Cabezas, Rene Guerra

Canadian mining projects in Central America are tied with profound socio-economic change
which generates deadly social conflicts in local rural communities. In many cases mining
corporations have been found directly responsible for human rights violations. Working in alliance
with local governments they sponsor forced displacement of local populations, cooption of
democratic participation, coercion and threats to personal security, repression of workers,
contamination of drinking water, and destruction of the environment. This workshop will explore
how Canada's current negotiations of a free trade agreement with Central America(CA4) threatens to
to create a socioeconomic context that further enhances the rights of international mining companies
to profit over local communities’ desire to determine their own sustainable growth.

Canadian Union of Postal Employees Public Assembly SAT 6:30 - 8:30PM

CUPW
"The "Modern Post" is aggressively underway in Canada which is merely a euphemism for
more mechanization, fewer good paying jobs, erosion of public services and eventual privatization
for profit. This is OUR public post office which is meant to serve and benefit OUR communities and
not a profit making machine for only a few. The postal assembly will bring together the public to
articulate OUR vision of the post office placing "people first" to challenge the "profit first" mentality
currectly running Canada Post. Moderator: TBA.

Can We All Get Along? Collective Poetry Writing SAT 4:30 - 5:30PM
Honey Novick
Participants are asked to offer one sentence or phrase on "Building the Movement for a Just
World' and the facilitator will collate and show how collaborative writing in the instantaneous
moment can become a viable, significant work, as long as we all work together.

Climate Emergency: Race 2 Survival -- Only Emergency Action at Emergency Speed can Confront
the Climate Crisis -- Presentation, Participation & Discussion
Glenn MacIntosh, Ecosanity.org

Climate Change through Women's Eyes SUN 1 - 2:30PM

Speakers: Anne Mitchell, Shirley Farlinger, Ramya Ramanathan
When women look at climate change they see a crisis not of their making but affecting them in
many ways: the largest proportion of refugees and of the poor, the least able to affect political change,
however there are many examples of what women are doing. This workshop will explore these
stories, and provide opportunity to add some of our own as we gather “best practices” for our own
decision-makers.

Colonialism, Capitalism, and Migration: No One is Illegal! SAT 1 - 3PM

No One Is Illegal! Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal (TBC)
Community activists from Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal examine what Canadian borders
mean for indigenous sovereignty, and reflect on how we organize around migrant justice on stolen
land. This five part panel also focuses on the realities of Canadian im/migration in relation to broader
global dynamics of free trade, the militarization of borders, the global rise of anti-migrant sentiments,
and the detention, abuse, and violence inflicted upon those who seek to cross borders in a heavily
policed yet supposedly 'globalized' world.

Communication Skills for Activists SAT 10AM - Noon

Peaceworks
Facilitator: Lyn Adamson
Ever wondered how to make your point when others don't seem to hear you? Worried when a
discussion escalates into angry debate? Come and learn some intervention skills: How to listen more
deeply, how to de-escalate an angry moment,how to clarify differences in a group andhow to get
your message heard.

Competing Paradigms of Disability: From Invisibility To Rights Holders SAT 4:30 - 5:30PM
John Rae

Disability is usually described in terms of the competing medical or social models of disability.
However, over the centuries, these are only two of many different ways by which persons with
disabilities have been depicted. This session will provide an overview of the ways in which persons
with a disability have been viewed, and have viewed themselves from ancient times to the present,
and will show how these competing ways of looking at persons with a disability compete with each
other for predominance. This presentation is particularly timely, given the number of nations,
including Canada, that have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities
(CRPD), the first new human rights treaty of the 21st century.

Creating Health for All - From the Ground Up SUN 10AM - Noon
Health for All
Despite Canada's perceived 'universal' health care system, thousands of people residing in
Canada are actively excluded from health care access on the basis of ' immigration status'. This
interactive participatory workshop facilitated by the local migrant justice group Health For All,
explores the causes of forced migration and discusses the systemic denial of healthcare access to
migrants in Canada. The workshop will highlight the many local community based campaigns, such
as Access Without Fear, are fighting back to create health for all from the ground up.

A Critical Supermarket Tour SUN 10AM - 12:30PM

CUPE Ontario
This workshop begins with a short discussion but turns into a self-directed visit to a
supermarket shortly after. Participants will be sent off to "investigate" an everyday product of their
choice: Where is it from? Who "made" it? How much do they get paid? How much do consumers pay
for it? And once everyone returns for a show-and-tell, we will conclude with a discussion about the
"free trade" deals within which such products circulate.
**This workshop runs into the lunch break, in hopes of influencing your lunch choices.

Cutting Ties with Israel: A Workshop on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign SAT 3
- 4:30PM
Students Against Israeli Apartheid- University of Toronto (SAIA-UofT), Students Against Israeli Apartheid-
York University (SAIA-York), Ontario Public Interest Research Group-Toronto (OPIRG-TO)
This workshop will outline what activists, academics, labour unions and other concerned
people can do to cut ties with Israel and support the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
campaign. We will connect the discussion to the G8/G20 summit by outlining the complicity of
member nations in Israeli apartheid. The workshop will cater to different learning styles and, along
with a carefully prepared PowerPoint, we will have other audio/video aids and spaces for group
discussions.

Decolonizing the Heart SAT 10AM – Noon

Confirmed Speakers: Victoria Freeman (Artist, Activist, Author - Distant Relations: How my
Ancestors Colonized North America); Judy Rebick; Bob Lovelace
Moderator: D.M. Marchand (Artist, Activist, Author, Lawyer)
Building a movement of allies and not just coming together over issues requires the personal
work of de-colonization. As colonization is written large and small it requires large and small
solutions. According to Gita Badiyan and Heidi Last social action devoid of a well-developed inner
life can easily result in frustrated activism just as a well-developed inner-life that is not concerned for
or involved in social action can degenerate into futile pious worship. In other words we must
decolonize ourselves in order to build decolonized communities and from there we can begin to
decolonize the state.
Decolonizing the Heart will present examples and successful strategies for social action that
take into account this dual role. Through the experiences of the speakers we will have the
opportunity to understand how personal decolonization can allow people to transcend socially
constructed differences and come together to fight a common harm. The plenary provides, through
the examination and telling of personal stories, some of the challenges and moments of truth that
settler and Indigenous peoples have faced in working towards the decolonization of their vision of
self and “other” in the capitalist imperialist state.

Digitally-mediated surveillance: Rights and resistance SUN 1 - 3PM

TAO Communications, Toronto Public Space Committee, The New Transparency and the Identity, Privacy &
Security Institute, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Speakers: Andrew Clement, Jonathan Goldsbie, Kate Milberry, Justin Saunders
Digitally mediated surveillance is an increasingly prevalent, but still largely invisible, aspect of
everyday life. As we work, play and negotiate public spaces, online and off, we produce a growing
stream of personal digital data of interest to unseen others. Activists and political dissents are
particularly vulnerable to state monitoring. How can we better understand (and avoid) digitally
mediated surveillance practices?. How can we make surveillance more publicly visible and
democratically accountable? What strategies and technologies of resistance can we employ? This
panel addresses these and other important issues erupting at the intersection of our rights - to free
speech, movement, association and assembly – and state/corporate sponsored surveillance.

Direct Action Trainings (same workshop offered twice) SAT 1 - 3PM; SUN 10AM - Noon
The Toronto Community Mobilization Network Actions Committee
Facilitators: Andrea Hatala and Terry Douglas.
These sessions are intended to prepare and empower folks who are expecting to participate in
some or all of the events planned for June 21-27, 2010. Topics covered may include preparing for a
demo/action, common police tactics, basic legal briefing, working in affinity groups, etc. The sessions
will consist of interactive discussions, roleplay, and possibly other approaches.

Direct-Action Anti-poverty Organizing: OCAP, a case study SAT 1 - 3PM

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty has fought for justice and dignity for poor people for 20
years. This workshop is aimed at inspiring people to fight back in poor and marginalized
communities and present a model of organizing that has been tremendously effective in our
communities.
Through a mixture of mini-lecture, interactive discussion, and film we will explore effective
models for fighting back against the harsh ways that neoliberal capitalism plays out in the lives of
poor and working class people. Having set the scene, we will focus on developing meaningful
grassroots responses that achieve real victories and work towards building strong and sustainable
poor people’s movements. How do daily struggles for housing and food relate to the policies of
global capitalism? What are our most pressing demands? How can we force those with the cash and
political power to listen to the voices of poor people? We will examine possibilities for resistance
offered by direct action casework, economic disruption, and solidarity across movements.
Diversity of Tactics: What Does it Mean? SUN 10 - Noon
New Tactics In Human Rights
Philippe Duhamel, trainer, organizer, writer
http://www.intertactica.org
When different groups of people come together for social action, their values, priorities, goals
and tactics need to be discussed thoughtfully and respectfully. But surely, that should not mean
sweeping vital issues and burning disagreements under the rug. Can all tactics really work together?
What tactics are we talking about? What are the real-life implications of various movement tactics in
a moment like the upcoming G20/G8 summit? The purpose of this workshop is to advance a more
serious, authentic debate around what has been called "Respect for a Diversity of Tactics" from the
perspective of a radical, nonviolent trainer and organizer.

Disability, human rights, discrimination and international development SUN 1 - 2:30PM

Ethno-Racial People with Disabilities Coalition of Ontario, Canadian Network on Disability and Development
The workshop will provide participants with information about intersectional discrimination,
disability as a human rights issue and the importance of including disability in international
development programs. There will be a discussion on the intersections of race, disability and gender
and how it creates multiples grounds for discrimination. Further explanation will be provided on the
United Nations Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its relevance to the
Millennium Development Goals and the impact the Convention has on disability issues within
Canada.

Do-It-Yourself Bicycle Maintenance for Beginners SAT 1-3PM

Facilitated by Ainsley and Jean from Bikes Not Bombs Toronto
Riding your bike is one of the most sustainable, economical, and empowering ways to get
around. Walking into a bike shop when something goes wrong, however, can be both
disempowering and expensive.
This workshop will give you some basic skills to help maintain your bicycle so trips to the bike
shop are less frequent. It will also help you learn to talk about your bike and problems you are
having with it so that you’re more comfortable and confident talking to bike mechanics. Please bring
your bike! You’ll be getting up close and personal with it!

Economics For People SAT 3 - 5PM

CUPE Ontario
In this participatory workshop, participants will be invited walk through increasing economic
inequality in Canada. There will be activities that graphically demonstrate how the divide between
rich and poor in Canada has been growing over the past three decades. After a couple of short
exercises, there is be room for round-table discussions of alternatives.

Ellen Gabriel: Oka Plus 20

Emancipatory Healthcare: Local Resistance to Global Neoliberalism SUN 1 - 3PM
Health Providers Against Poverty, Justicia For Migrant Workers, Health For All and Students for Medicare
This panel explores the ground level impact of neoliberal economics on the health of
communities within this country. From moves to privatization of medicare, to cuts in the Special Diet
Allowance in Ontario, to the systemic denial of healthcare access to migrants- the deep and broad
undermining of public services to further profit motives is being met by significant resistance from an
emerging radical left health sector within Canada. Join local organizations- Health Providers Against
Poverty, Justicia For Migrant Workers and Health For All and Students For Medicare in a discussion
on local community resistance against neoliberal attacks on health.

Empowering Women Activists in Liberation Movements SUN 3 - 4PM

Facilitator: Dr. Erin Skinner
This workshop examines how we can help foster the growth of women to become strong and
empowered activists. Participants will look at how sexism and sexual violence within and outside of
liberation movements disempowers women and divides our movements. We will then look at how
we can create empowering spaces for women and why this will strengthen the fight for liberation for
all.

Feminism: The Other F Word? SUN 1 - 3PM

Amethyst Women’s Centre
As employees of a feminist agency, we have always struggled with implications of explicitly
identifying as such. We have also struggled with the understanding that feminism means various
things to various people, and therefore, it is often a difficult and murky area from which to offer
service. As a result, we have embarked on a process of community discussions about the “f” word, in
an attempt to tease out meanings, discomforts, misunderstandings, and relevancies. This workshop
then will offer a public space in which we can dialogue respectfully about this other “f” word, and
hope that people will agree that dialogue in and of itself, as it relates to feminism is an imperative
outcome.

Food Sovereignty Challenges and Realities from Latin America and Senegal SUN 1 - 2:30PM
Development and Peace

From Copenhagen, to Cochabamba, Toronto and Cancun: Building the movement for climate
justice in Canada SAT 10AM - Noon
KAIROS, Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign, Council of Canadians, Pacific Council of Churches, the
Association for Community Development and Promotion in Guatemala
 This two-part workshop will start with a discussion on climate justice led by panelists
speaking to indigenous rights, impacts of the climate crisis in the global South and recent
developments of the growing international movement for climate justice (including outcomes from
the people’s climate conference in Cochabamba Bolivia, April 2010). There will be dynamic strategy
sessions with break out groups identifying tactics and opportunities for mobilization in Canada. The
workshop will be facilitated by Dorothy McDougall, Ecological Justice Program Coordinator with
KAIROS. Speakers include: Clayton Thomas-Muller, of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation and
Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign, Andrea Harden-Donahue, Energy Campaigner for the
Council of Canadians, Francois Pihaatae from Tahiti, the Ecumenical Animator on Climate Change
for the Pacific Council of Churches, Naty Atz Sunc, General Coordinator of CEIBA, the Association
for Community Development and Promotion in Guatemala.

Geoengineering or Geopiracy: Why proposals to 'Hack the planet' threaten biodiversity, peace,
livelihoods and justice (SUN 3 - 5PM)
ETC Group or Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration
As multilateral climate negotiations falter, wealthy countries are actively considering a plan B:
large scale plans to intentionally modify the climate -- including the oceans, land, and atmosphere --
by extreme technological means. Techniques such as shooting sulphates and aluminium into the
stratosphere, fertilization of the oceans to grow plankton blooms, whitening the clouds or turning
plantations into charcoal are receiving increasing attention in some capitals and major corporations
and funders (like Bill Gates and Richard Branson) are involved. The dangers of these technologies
and their potential for devastating unilateral deployment need to be more broadly known. That is
why over 100 civil society groups and many high profile activists are backing the HOME campaign:
Hands off Mother Earth - Our home is not a laboratory -- see www.handsoffmotherearth.org . ETC
Group and Biofuelwatch are the leading civil society organizations monitoring this field of scientific
and industrial activity and will offer a full briefing at this workshop: what are the technologies, who
is backing them, how are they related to climate change negotiations, why do they threaten our
future and what can we do to about them. The workshop will be informative and action oriented.
Additional background information available at http://www.etcgroup.org/en/issues/geoengineering.

Facilitated by Jim Thomas, Molly Kane and Rachel Smolker.

Getting to Yes and The Game SAT 1 - 4:30PM

Presenter: D.M. Marchand (Certified Negotiation Specialist, Roger Fisher Negotiation Award
recipient)
Facilitator: Bob Lovelace

“Getting To Yes” is the title of the ground breaking work of Roger Fisher and William Ury,
founders of the Harvard Negotiation Project. It is a straightforward guide to coming to mutually
acceptable agreements and is used by a diverse field of organizations from St. Stephen’s Community
house to the United Nations. Marchand will briefly take us on a quick tour of 7 steps to effective
principled negotiation which may be useful to prospective “Game” players.

“The Game” (50-60 people activity, sign-up in the morning) is a role playing exercise involving
federal, provincial, municipal, governments, First Nations, colonial and traditional models. Groups of
people have to figure out how they are a community, what is important to them and how they can
work together around issues. The “Participants” win tokens entitling them to exploit natural
resources. The object of the game is paradoxical; this is what you have to work out. This exercise will
illustrate government tactics to divide and conquer different groups that are working on the same
issue. This will be an in-depth and intense exercise in negotiating and negotiating a common interest.

Global Hypocrisy: International Financial Institutions and their Path of Destruction in Haiti, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, the Alberta Tar Sands SUN 10AM – 12:30PM
Science For Peace
The panel will look at the impact of international banking and multinational corporations,
profits from debt, structural adjustment, and connections with the military in four
countries: Haiti, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Colombia, and the Alberta Tar Sands in
Canada. A short skit at the beginning will dramatize how debt is created and how the
rich get richer. A short skit at the end will dramatize “great transformations” -- this will not be
utopian but will name the institutional, regulatory, and legal changes that are
essential to reclaim the commons. The overall context will be the pressing time frame imposed by
climate change.

Hands On Arts! Drop in all day!

Toronto Community Mobilization Network

Housing in a capitalist economy--where Market Failure is the normal state of affairs

Parkdale Club of the Communist Party of Canada
Facilitator: Howard Tessler, a tenant advocate with almost 20 years experience of working with both
social housing and private market tenants in Toronto.
This workshop will be focused on the lack of political will on the part of the Canadian state (all
levels of government) to provide affordable housing for all. Although it will use a popular education
format that the facilitator has developed through hundreds of tenant workshops and organizing
meetings (hey you live here, I don't--so you're the experts) it will provide basic legal, political and
historical information that workshop participants can take back to their buildings and communities
to use.
It's very much a hands-on workshop that hopes to see participants understanding more of the
dynamics of tenant rights. It will discuss methods of organizing in buildings where there is a
diversity of ages, ethnic and cultural groups, as well as family formations.

Participants will be provided with an information package at the end of workshop.

Home Safe Toronto SUN 1-3

Award-winning filmmaker Laura Sky presents a facilitated screening of HOME SAFE
TORONTO, second in a series of SkyWorks documentaries exploring how families in Canada are
living with the threat and the experience of homelessness. This installment reveals how the housing
crisis in Canada is an expression of the increasing economic and job insecurity that has devastated the
manufacturing sector in the Greater Toronto Area and throughout southern Ontario. The film shows
the consequences of this “new economy,” where families surviving on low wages with no benefits, or
on dwindling social assistance, are faced with the terrible choice between keeping a roof over their
heads or putting food on the table.

How to line a birdcage and other creative things you can do with the Canada-Europe Free Trade
Agreement (that would be more useful than signing it) SAT 3 - 4:30PM
The Trade Justice Network/Reseau pour le commerce juste, War on Want (UK)
Canadian and European trade justice activists have publicly released a leaked copy of the
Canada-EU free trade agreement that governments on both sides of the Atlantic wanted kept secret.
At 366 pages, it’s the biggest trade agreement either country/region has ever signed, and would go
much further than NAFTA or the WTO in putting hard limits on the kinds of things governments can
do to protect the environment, create jobs, foster local cultures and generally act democratically in the
interest of communities. It is also the first FTA between G8 partners, and is designed to break new
ground on corporate rights at a time when the 'free trade' agenda is severely challenged by reality.

Workshop participants will be walked through the agreement while we think of creative things to do
with it that would not include signing it. Exercises may or may not include wrapping fish, lining bird
cages, making paper airplanes, and how to load a printer with scrap paper to help save trees.

Influencing political and public opinion through letters-to-the-editor SUN 10AM - Noon
RESULTS Canada
Letters-to-the-editor is the most read section of Canadian newspapers. It is a democratic portal
that gives the average person a free soapbox to express their opinion to thousands. It is tracked
through media monitoring by policy makers who assume the concerns of one letter writer are shared
by many. RESULTS Canada volunteers across the country have over 500 letters-to-the-editor
published a year which create political will for investments in cost-effective proven solutions to
poverty in the South. In this skill building workshop you will learn the top tips for writing a
persuasive letter-to-the-editor and getting it published. The workshop will be framed around the
urgent need for advocacy to increase Canada’s investment in the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB
and Malaria.

Integrating local-global social movements: A participatory workshop on building a critical

appraisal model for enhancing socio-economic justice movement SUN 1 - 4:30PM
Hisham Mubarak Law Center, Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights, The Committee of Solidarity
with Egyptian farmers of Agrarian reform
Facilitators: Dr. Eshrak Zaky, Dr. Anthony J. Hall
This workshop aims at enhancing the success of the socio-economic justice/rights movements
aiming for change by collectively building a critical appraisal guiding model to strengthen their
working mechanisms. The workshop participants will be asked to list/select the name of the
movements in which they are involved or knowledgeable about, then they will be divided into small
groups according to their selected movements. With the help of some provided guiding questions,
participants will be asked to extract the best successful practices that enhance the success of these
movements, as well as the worst that represent obstacles or threats to their continuity/success in four
main areas of focus.

The Interdisciplinary Actualization of the Definition of Domestication SAT 3 - 4PM

Facilitator: Oscar Carvajal
This workshop redefines the notion of domestication to its basic; namely, the influence of the
built environment (constructions). It helps us to better understand the relationship between our
sedentary-life infrastructure and our social and ecological crises. This awareness assists the work for
social and ecological justice.

Iran: From Military Threat to Revolution SAT 4:30 - 5:30PM

Afghan-Iranian Youth Network, Fightback, Marxist voice of labour and youth
For the past few years, people of Iran have had to live under constant threat of miltary attacks
from United States and Israeli Imperialists. Meanwhile, they've been suffering the severe
consequences of criminal economic sanctions, approved by the Security Council of United Nations.
The new waves of a revolutionary movement that has started in Iran since last summer can disrupt
the plans of reactionary Mullahs and the Imperialists. Come and listen to Arash Azizi and Farshad
Azadian, co-founders of Aghan-Iranian Youth Network in Ontario, discuss the perspectives for an
anti-war movement that stands firmly opposed to military threats of US and company in G8 against
Iran while also giving support to movement of people in Iran.

Islamophobia and the Fight for Civil Liberties in Canada SUN 10AM - Noon
Canadian Peace Alliance, Muslim Unity Group, Independent Jewish Voices
From the ban on George Galloway to the attacks on Israeli Apartheid Week, free speech in
Canada is under attack. The Harper government has pursued unprecedented attacks on any group
or individual that does not share their views on the world. How do we bring groups and individuals
together to fight for the common cause of free speech?

Western governments are doing all they can to make Islamophobia acceptable to the mainstream,
banning Muslim practices and creating a climate of hatred toward Islam. This session confronts the
media distortions of Islam and argues that the fight against Islamophobia needs to be a central call for
anyone campaigning for peace and justice.

Keeping the lights on in the climate century SAT 3 - 4:30PM

Ontario Clean Air Alliance
What are the lowest cost and cleanest options to keeping our lights on and our computers
charged? Three panellists will address the end of coal, the true costs of nuclear energy, and the
renewable energy revolution

Knowing the Land is Resistance SAT 4:30 - 5:30PM

The destruction of wild lands is done in a thousand tiny cuts, each too easily unnoticed or
forgotten. By cultivating a deep knowledge of wild spaces in our home communities, we become
better able to protect the land and our communities from futher violence by the capitalist system. By
knowing the land and letting it guide our resistance, we act in solidarity with communities of
resistance around the world. Join us for a thought-experiment workshop, where we will learn
routines to strengthen our connections to the cycles, interdependancies, histories, and healing of
natural spaces. By drawing on what we already know about our respective landbases and on the
activism work we already do, we will explore ways to merge those two spheres in order to
strengthen both.

Know Your Rights Workshops (same workshop offered twice) SAT 3 - 5PM; SUN 10 - Noon
The Movement Legal Defense Committee
Members of the Summit Legal Support Project will prepare people for participation in the
protests during the summits of the G8 and G20 in Huntsville and Toronto later in June. People will be
informed of what their legal rights are, what preparations have been made for legal support during
the demonstrations and what happens if one is arrested at a protest.

Latin America Challenges the G8: Danger of new conflicts SAT 10AM - Noon
While the G8 promotes the interests of Western corporations, the people of Latin America are
fighting back. Movements in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and other countries are taking control of
their natural resources for the benefit of the people. In response, the Western powers are militarizing
Colombia and have re-launched the 4th Fleet. They also initiated a right-wing coup in Honduras. The
Canadian government is playing a terrible role in the region by legitimizing the Honduran coup and
promoting “free trade” with Colombia, despite the murder of dozens of trade unionists every year.
Join this round-table discussion to learn about the threat of a new Western-backed conflict in Latin
America, to organize opposition to Canada-Colombia free trade, and to hear about the positive
alternative to the G8 agenda being promoted by the people of the region.

Localizing Resistance to Trade Agreements Past and Present SUN 10AM - Noon
Council of Canadians
Facilitators: Scott Harris (Prairies Regional Organizer, Council of Canadians) & Harjap Grewal (BC-
Yukon Regional Organizer, Council of Canadians).
Facilitators will be conducting an interactive workshop on developing new strategies to
challenge neo-liberal trade agreements that have been signed and that are being proposed. New
strategies are aimed to empower local community based organizing against trade agreements,
something that is often difficult for campaigns that focus on the decisions of national or provincial
governments. The current economic crisis and increasing public awareness of environmental and
climate concerns provides an opportunity to re-examine campaigns against trade agreements.
A Look Ahead at the Week of Action with the Toronto Community Mobilization Network SUN 3
- 5PM
Toronto Community Mobilization Network
Following the People's Summit, a series of forums, creative actions, protests and
demonstrations will take place, June 21-27, 2010 in support of indigenous sovereignty and self-
determination; migrant justice and an end to war and occupation; income equity and community
control over resources; environmental and climate justice; gender justice, and queer and disability
rights. Join TCMN members and organizers of events during the week of action so you know what to
expect as you take to the streets!

Making Musical Instruments SUN 10AM - Noon

The Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble
This is a hands-on workshop for people of all ages. Participants will make simple musical
instruments out of vegetables and play together. The objective of the workshop is to open up
possibilities for people to create instruments out of everyday objects to make music accessible to
everyone. We also want to encourage creative expression and musical fun!

Making Polluters Pay and Ensuring Equity when Tackling Global Warming SUN 3-5PM
The David Suzuki Foundation
This panel discussion, to be followed by a dialogue with audience members, will explore the
benefits and potential pitfalls of policies that ensure that polluters pay for their greenhouse gas
pollution. Panelists will compare and contrast the use of a carbon tax vs. implementing a cap-and-
trade system, discuss the use of carbon offsets, and explore important equity issues that arise when
using such instruments.

Panelists:
Dale Marshall, David Suzuki Foundation
Keith Stewart, climate change activist
Daphne Wysham, Institute for Policy Studies

Mastering Google and Going Deeper: Web research skills for activists and independent
journalists SAT 1 - 3PM
Toronto Media Co-op, Facilitator: Tim Groves
This workshop presents the skills and techniques that investigative journalists and private-
eyes use to do deep digging research on the Internet. It show people how to use google in ways most
people are unaware of and how to access the wealth on information on the internet that Google can't
find. Jammed packed from edge to edge, this session will be a chance for novice and expert
researchers alike to pick up skills they can use everyday.

Maternal Mortality and the MDGs: What do human rights have to do with it? SAT 10AM - Noon
Amnesty International
This workshop covers the relationship between a human rights framework and the effectiveness of
the Millennium Development Goals, with a particular focus on maternal mortality (MDG 5). A case
study of the human rights violations underlying maternal mortality will provide a concrete
understanding of the human rights violations that increase the risk of maternal mortality and
morbidity. A speaker from Amnesty International will also share A.I. campaigning experiences to
end maternal mortality and the role that the international community must now play in this struggle.

The Money Project SAT 3 - 4:30PM

The Money Project takes the form of collaborative production of short video works authored
by individuals and presented together. In its process it seeks out egalitarian relationships of shared
power, voice, and decision-making. Its intention is to engage people willing to participate in
discussion, production, the organizing of public screenings, and outreach to groups with interest
around the world. We hope that our organizing principle reaches outside of the determinations of
capitalist relationships and social structures to operate with a contemplative and open-ended set of
priorities based in our desires as social beings.

Members of the Money Project will give an introduction before the screening, and a short
presentation about cultural production as a contestation to Capitalism after the screening, and
facilitate a discussion and feedback with the audience.

Music for Social Justice SUN 3 - 4PM

The Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble
This workshop features an in-depth discussion of the role of music and the performing arts in
supporting struggles for social justice. Participants will explore different issues faced by radical
artistic groups (ranging from internal organization to financial support). Participants will also
discuss the variety of ways in which music can support social justice struggles, and which strategies
are most effective. Through this workshop we hope to create a space in which people currently
engaged in music-based activism can share ideas and create networks.

Nonviolent Social Transformation SAT 1 - 4PM

Peaceworks
Facilitator: Lyn Adamson
This Direct Action Workshop will include discussion of why and how direct action works,
emotional and physical preparation required for direct action, and role-play practice, as well as how
to decide on the role you want to play - in the action or as support. Lyn Adamson is an experienced
trainer in conflict resolution with St. Stephen's Conflict Resolution Service., and is a trainer with
Nonviolent Peaceforce Canada.

On the Road To A Green Economy SAT 6 - 8PM

Canadian Youth Climate Coalition and the Polaris Institute
It is time to publicly debunk the notion that economic stability and success is at odds with
environmental sustainability. The “On the Road to a Green Economy: G20 Speaking Tour” across
Southwestern Ontario culminates in Toronto and wants to hear from you. Join the panel of Green
Economy Thinkers—Tony Clark (Polaris Institute), Sarah Jane Saska (CYCC Green Jobs) and Ken
Bondy (CAW)—for an interactive session that will highlight the consequence of Canada’s regressive
environmental policies on building a sustainable labour force. The evening will conclude with a Slam
Poetry session and “speaker’s corner” where participants have the opportunity to contribute their
thoughts to a national documentary being filmed.

Our Nuclear Future SUN 1 - 3PM

Ontario Clean Air Alliance
What is the connection between nuclear power and nuclear weapons – can we have one
without the other? What is Canada’s role in global weapons proliferation? Will nuclear technology
save or doom us? Three panellists respond.

People Power and the Ballot: Why Canada’s electoral system isn’t democractic, and what we can
do about it SAT 10AM - Noon
Fair Vote Canada fairvote.ca

Politics of the G8 and G20: Toronto, Ottawa and the Planet SAT 10AM - Noon
Greenpeace Canada

Possibilities for Transforming our Destructive Money System into a Creative Force for Needed
Social and Environmental Change SAT 4:30 - 5:30PM
George Crowell
 Our money system has enormous, pervasive, damaging impact on our lives, and yet, few of
us, even among social activists, are aware of its impact. Understanding this system so we can work
to transform it is crucial in our work for social justice and environmental well-being. Central to
understanding of this system are the fascinating dynamics involved in the creation of money out of
nothing!

A Public Debate on The Robin Hood Tax - An Idea Whose Time Has Come SUN 10 - Noon
The Robin Hood Tax Coalition
www.robinhoodtax.ca
Presenters:
Rodney Schmidt, Economist, FTT Expert (TBC)
Fraser Reilly-King, Halifax Initiative
Thomas Coutrot, Attac France (TBC)
Is a tiny tax of 0.05% on financial activities by bankers and traders through the stock exchange,
that would raise hundreds of billions for fighting poverty and climate change at home and abroad, a
good idea? We think so, and so do a growing number of politicians, civil society organizations,
economists and some financiers. Since last September, when the Group of Twenty (G-20) met in
Pittsburgh, the idea of implementing a global financial transactions tax (FTT) or “Robin Hood Tax” as
it is being called in many quarters, has been gaining increasing momentum. Come listen to a lively
public debate on the merits and critiques of the Robin Hood Tax.

Public Health Care As A Global Right SAT 10AM - Noon

The Ontario Health Coalition, The Canadian Health Coalition, Students for Medicare

Resisting the G-20: Creating an Anti-Capitalist Agenda SUN 10 - Noon

Toronto Workers Assembly
Resisting the G-20, a workshop organized by the Toronto Workers Assembly, will examine
who the G-20 is; how they seek to shape the way societies around the world restructure themselves in
the wake of the crisis; what this means for working people, the poor, people of colour, women in
Canada; and some of the ways we are and can both resist and build towards anti-capitalist
alternatives. The session will include a panel (including activists who participate in the Toronto
Workers Assembly) and a series of collective discussions.

Seize the Moment: Make 2010 a Turning Point for the Millennium Development Goals
What’s next after the G8 and G20 Summits?
Make Poverty History
Speakers/Facilitators: Jennifer de Vries, Public Engagement Coordinator, Dennis Howlett, National
Coordinator, Make Poverty History, Lysa John, GCAP, Evelyn Cubelo, CUSO-VSO Volunteer, Make
Poverty History
 This presentation will look at how we can continue together to build a movement for a just
world in 2010 beyond the G8 and G20 summits in June. This presentation and small group
discussion style workshop will especially look at the Stand Up Global Days of Action on September
17, 18 and 19 and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Review Summit to be held in
New York September 20 -22, 2010. Updates on the global civil society campaign focused on the UN
MDG Summit will be shared and opportunities for engagement will be explored. Looking at the
connection between the G8/G20 summits and the UN MDG Summit, the workshop will look at
Canada’s contribution to the Millennium Development Goals to date and what more still needs to be
done to do our part to ensure the Goals are achieved by the 2015 deadline date. The emphasis will
be on action, network building and collaboration.

Songs of the Struggle – Nurturing the Heart and Soul to Carry On SAT 4 - 5PM
Spirituals, protest songs, peace songs – music is an integral part of the struggle for justice.
Through songs we tell our stories, encourage our movements and restore our souls. Come and sing
and share the stories and songs from social justice movements around the world.
Facilitators:
Brian is a UC minister/singer/hymnist with lots of experience in social justice movements in Canada,
among aboriginal, peace, poverty, and other groups
Susie is an ecumenical liturgist/activist/justice staff with experience in local and global struggles for
human rights and justice.
Becca Whitla is the Music Coordinator at the Anglican Church of the Holy Trinity in downtown
Toronto. An experienced community musician, Becca has founded and directed community choirs
and travelled and taught internationally. She is a gifted community song leader who brings together
diverse traditions and justice-seeking faith.

Spiritually Non-specific Unity, Prayer and Meditation SUN 1 - 3PM

Facilitator: Ian Stumpf
This workshop will explore spirituality in the context of social justice pursuits. Participants
will develop methods of unifying in spiritual disciplines in ways that are respectful of each
individual's path. Participants will also become familiar with the healing, regenerative qualities of
prayer and solitude, while pondering the possibility of using spiritual energy as an effective force for
changing our world. Appropriate for the seeker, those with no spiritual identity and those on a path.
All spirituality, from atheist to religious, intellectual through mystical will be celebrated in this safe,
healthy and life-giving space.

Street Medics Workshop and Skills Practice SAT 10AM-5 PM

10-12:30: Street Medics 101

1:00-3:00: Skills Practice
 Toronto Street Medics was established in the 90s as a collective of persons with various types
of health care experience who used their skills to support their communities in protest for many
different convergences. Dormant for the last few years, the arrival of the G20 in Toronto is inspiring a
second coming and cause for questions about what the G8/G20 means for the health of people in this
city and around the world, what radical health(and care) is and could be, and what the role of street
medics could be during and beyond the G20.
This workshop will present a mix of didactic and hands on learning opportunities related to
the provision of (health) care in convergence settings. We invite people with the full range of health
care provision experience (from none to lots!) and welcome people from all backgrounds- holistic,
allopathic, traditional and beyond. We hope that it will be very participatory, with something new
to learn for everyone-from the crustiest summit hopper to the medical school keener.

Workshop Learning Objectives:

1) An orientation to what/who street medics are, medic history/roots
2) Discussion on the connections between the G8/G20 and health, health care provision
3) Review police weapons, convergence 101, considerations for health of
demonstrators/medics/crowds in convergence settings,
4) Teach, learn, practice specific street medic skills (assessment, triage, extracation, transport, eye
flushing, decontamination, communication, (sexual) assault policy/procedure/counselling,
spiritual/mental wellness tactics....

A Sustainable Food System: From Toronto to Planet Earth SAT 3 - 4:30PM

Greenpeace Canada

Take your place at the table for lunch with our G8 Leaders (SUN 12 - 1PM)
Make Poverty History and AT THE TABLE
Facilitated by Dennis Howlett, MPH, Bill Hynd, Oxfam Canada (TBC), Lysa John, GCAP
This action-oriented AT THE TABLE (www.atthetable2010.org) lunch will be an opportunity
to discuss G8 and G20 issues and send a message to G8 leaders through a photo petition. Participants
will be accompanied by AT THE TABLE G8 flat leaders. Lunch will be provided (donations
appreciated).

Tar Sands 101 SUN 1 - 3:30PM

Rainforest Action Network Toronto (RANT)
Ten characters (listed below) will engage in an 'environmental assessment' process with the
Government of Alberta/Canada (roles played by facilitators). The assessment if for a proposed
(fictional in the game, but all too real) Syncrude project in the Tar Sands. The aim of the role playing
game is to have folks understand the complex social perspectives surrounding tar sands in order to
catalyze a more conscious tar sands movement.
Roles: urban activist; syncrude executive; councilor of affected community; grassroots community
activist; mayor of Fort McMurray; migrant labourer; Gord Nixon - CEO of RBC; RBC shareholder;
farmer activist; environmental activist.

Tar Sands Expansion Through Local Struggles SAT 3 - 4:30PM

Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, Climate Justice Montreal, Montreal Contre les Sable Bitumineux
Facilitators: Harjap Grewal & Cameron Fenton
Over the next 15 years the Tar Sands are slated to expand 5 times their current size. A
continental web of pipelines is currently under construction to send liquified tar sands bitumen (the
dirtiest energy source on the planet) across Canada, the United States and around the world. As this
dirty oil crosses farms, un-ceded indigenous territories, mountains, rivers, forest, lakes and streams it
will be endangering human and ecological health, all while facilitating the expansion of the largest,
and most destructive industrial project on the planet. Stopping these pipelines will cut off the means
for the tar sands to move their increased extraction to refineries across the globe. By linking local
struggles against these expansion projects with the resistance of downstream communities we can
start to roll back the destruction.

Representatives of groups currently organizing resistance to the Enbridge Northern Gateway and
Trailbreaker projects will present case studies about campaigns in B.C. in Quebec, including plans for
action camps this summer.

Tax Matters: No, It really does SAT 10AM - Noon

Halifax Initiative and InterPares
Presenters:
Speaker, Global Financial Integrity (TBC)
Fraser Reilly-King, Halifax Initiative
Third speaker TBC
Over $600 billion, or nearly three times the current levels of external debt of sub-Saharan
Africa, has leaked from the continent in illicit financial flows since 1975. Globally, US$500-800 billion
of illicit flows exit developing and transitional economies every year. While the G20 has begun to
address the issue of tax havens, their approach is greatly flawed. Come learn about tax justice and
how this important issue affects developing countries. The call for tax justice is ripe in Europe, isn’t it
time we did the same in Canada?

Trans-Atlantic perspectives on fighting free trade and neoliberalism: Mexico, U.S., Canada,
Europe SAT 1 - 3PM
Common Frontiers, RMALC, Public Citizen, War on Want, Council of Canadians
The economic and financial crisis has laid bare the reality that neoliberalism – the doctrine of
small government and open markets – does not produce wealth and development but inequality and
polarization between classes and countries. This is partly why the G20 is meeting, and yet G20
countries are aggressively pursuing free trade agreements against all evidence showing they can only
worsen poverty and ecological damage while disempowering local communities. Trade justice
activists from these four countries will discuss their local trade struggles, the effects of agreements
such as the EU-Mexico FTA, NAFTA and the Global Europe-era of European bilateral with
developing and developed countries, followed by a group discussion with workshop participants on
how we can be more effective in resisting the ongoing free trade agenda at home and in solidarity
with others.
Participants: Alberto Arroyo Pickard, Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC); John Dillon,
Kairos; James Ploeser, Public Citizen (U.S.); Dave Tucker, War on Want (UK), and possibly others.

Ulysses Crewmen SUN 1 - 3PM

Insurgent Theatre
Ulysses' Crewmen, is a radical interactive play exploring themes of resistance and struggle
against global capitalism from within empire: A militant dissenter abuses her hostage from the US
delegation while faintly aware of the audience surrounding her. This claustrophobic scene creates a
space for radical introspection, defiant theatre and tactical conversations. With only a few props, two
actors, one of who is bound and gagged, and a serious commitment to DIY politics, Insurgent Theatre
refutes ancient dogmas found in Homer's Odyssey and examines the psychosexual underpinnings of
empire and rebellion.

Understanding Global Injustice Through the Lens of the Canada/Israel Partnership SAT 10 - Noon
Independent Jewish Voices (the national organization and the Toronto chapter)
Not In Our Name (NION)
Holy Land Awareness and Action Task Group (United Church)
The Canada/Israel partnership is forged through a free-trade agreement, shared security
arrangements, a weapons and surveillance trade, and through innumerable political interventions
that go back to the beginnings of early Zionism. Yves Engler, Ali Mallah, and Alan Sears will discuss,
respectively: corporate and military ties between Israel and Canada, and Christian Zionism; the role
of labour union activism in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanction campaign; and strategies for
confronting the silencing campaign aimed at suppressing Palestine Solidarity.

Video-activism 101 SAT 3 - 5PM

Paul Manly Tor Sandberg
paul@manlymedia.com tor@rabble.ca
www.manlymedia.com rabble.ca

How can activists utilize the powerful medium of video to tell their stories?
This workshop will provide basic knowledge and skills for activists documenting protests and
actions with video and still cameras, while discussing some of the leading trends and technologies in
video-production and distribution.
Topics to be covered:
• Know you rights – how to deal with police and security officials
• Video-making basics: Shooting, composition, working with available light, focus and shooting on
the run.
• Uploading on location and livestreaming.
• Distribution: Getting your video seen.

Ways Out From the Crisis SUN 1 - 4PM

ATTAC Europe and ATTAC Quebec
The aim of this seminar in the framework of the Peoples Global Summit is to inform about the
Association pour la taxation des transactions pour l'Aide aux citoyens (Association for the Taxation of
Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens, ATTAC) movement in Europe, to present the basic
ideas of the analysis and the alternatives developed by the European Attac Network in its common
document from June 2008. This systemic crisis needs systemic changes and alternatives. Could we
expect that the G20 will do such changes?

The seminar will discuss the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) in the context of the International
Campaign that is pressing G20 leaders to impose such a tax rapidly. The FTT is one of the important
tools, among others, promoted by ATTAC since its foundation, for fighting crisis and break the
dominance of the financial markets.
Organised in collaboration with ATTAC Québec

What is Climate Justice? SAT 1 - 3PM

The Climate Action Network

Why NATO won't bring peace to Afghanistan SAT 10AM - Noon

The Canadian Peace Alliance
This session will explore the history and politics of Afghanistan, and cut through the lies about
Canada’s role in the war. It will address the crucial questions about the nature of the current Afghan
government and the real motives for NATO’s involvement in Central Asia. We will hear from people
of Afghan and Pakistani descent who are shut out of the debate about the region’s future. The
session will provide an interactive look at the situation in Afghanistan and the implications military
spending in Canada.

Women in Politics: A Must Have for Social, Environmental and Economic Justice SUN 3 - 4:30PM
Facilitator: Tisha Kalmanovitch
 At the end of this highly interactive, mulit-media delivered workshop, participants will have
gained insight and understanding about: Why 50/50 gender parity in politics is critical to driving
forward social, environmental and economic justice; and why we need to develop an ethical
framework by which to guide the kind of policies and practices that will ensure such justice is
realized

World Economic Disorder and the G20 Summit SUN 3 - 5PM

Socialist Action
Facilitator: Barry Weisleder
The purpose of this workshop is to raise awareness about the economic and environmental
stakes in the present global crisis, and to promote mass working class political action against the
prevailing injustices and the system responsible for them.

Youth AT THE TABLE for social justice! SUN 1 - 2:30PM

Oxfam Quebec
This workshop will be led by young Oxfam-Québec campaigners and will address some of the
key issues surrounding the “At the Table” campaign (climate change, global economy, poverty and
inequalities). Moreover, they will highlight Oxfam’s work for social change: explaining their role as
young campaigners and the power of popular mobilization.

Open Spaces at the People's Summit

Throughout the weekend, space will be offered for anyone to create or participate in open space
sessions on the key issues being explored at the People's Summit. From these sessions, strategies,
actions, networks, initiatives, declarations, catharsis, and self-expression may emerge. Open spaces
are what you make of them.

Environment and Climate Change SAT 11AM - Noon, and 2:30 - 3:30PM
Economic Justice SAT 1 - 2:30PM
Global Justice SAT 3:30 - 5PM
Human Rights and Civil Liberties SUN 1 - 3PM
Holding Canada Accountable - the "Canadian" social Justice Movement SUN 3 - 4:30PM
Moving Forward - Final Reflections from the 2010 People's Summit SUN 4:30 - 6PM

Open Space Workshops are based on seven basic principles:

1) Whoever comes are always the right people
2) Whatever happens is for the good
3) Conditions should be taken for what they are
4) The composition of the group is determined by chance5) Everyone may start whenever they feel
like it
6) Everyone may stop whenever they think it is time to
7) Everyone is free to move around as they like

Common Threads Community Chorus SUN 4:30PM

To open up the final reflections from the People’s Summit, Common Threads Community Chorus
will share songs of inspiration and struggle.

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Le Jeu Des Independences

"The Role for Protective Accompaniment"
struggles in hope: radical visions from the margins
HIV AIDS– a film screening and discussion
SEW FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
Canadian Campaign for Free Burma (CC4FB)
Human Rights and Fire Arm Control
HAITI
Maggies