Learn the basics of full public funding of campaigns, our successes in other states, and grassroots efforts for voter owned elections. We will actively solicit ideas and suggestions that will be incorporated into our strategy.

Session: W2 1:30-3:30pm Room: VKC 261

Led by: California Clean Money Campaign

caclean.org

The workshop will reveal our struggle against campus labor outsourcing for dining and landscaping workers, as well as the importance of worker-student solidarity on campuses to combat against the contradictions of capitalist institutions.

Session: W1 9:30-11:30am Room: WPH 206

Led by: The Worker-Student Alliance of UC Irvine

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A panel of activists from various kinds of organizations (antiwar, environmental, food justice, community, revolutionary etc) will discuss issues associated with a global capitalist system whose petroleum dependency is precipitating, and colliding with, the ecological realities of diminishing fossil fuels, global warming, food crises, resource depletion/contamination (land, water), species extinction, population pressures, and escalating resource wars over a finite earth. What is the nature of this network of crises challenging the global system as we know it, and how are they systemically related? Why do we think an understanding of these connections should influence our analysis of everything from the rising cost of gas and food, to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to immigration, to disasters like Hurricane Katrina? What should activists be doing about it? Panelists invite you to join us in considering the relationships between energy, capitalism, and ecological crises, as well as the implications of these connections for other areas of activism today. We hope to share our understanding of how such crises are part of a larger, systemic problem, requiring innovative responses that move us beyond traditional boundaries of analysis, areas of activism, and solutions. One component to this workshop, therefore, is its capacity to encourage dialogue and collaboration between activists and issues previously viewed as largely independent of each other.

Session: W3 4:00-6:00pm Room: SOS B46

Led by members of: Studies for Global Justice, L.A. Post-Carbon Institute, Coalition Against Militarism in our Schools, Community Services Unlimited, Community Food Village Project, Solidarity, and the Glendale Peace Vigil.

The workshop will be "an interactive talk covering community arts, political art, radical marching bands, street theater, radical clowning, Graffiti, etc, as forms of empowerment vital to radical social change". I would like to put out a call for an interactive performance to be an integral part of the workshop. I.e., talking and then acting by doing an impromptu performance with people who have been part of the workshop (or not). PLEASE bring marching drums, horns/brass, pots and pans.

Session: W3 4:00-6:00pm Room: THH 212

Led by: LA Drumcore

The push for revolutionary and progressive change is sweeping Latin America, with workers, Indigenous peoples, the poor and political movements at the forefront. This workshop will discuss the essential roles of Cuba and Venezuela in pushing for regional unity and against U.S. imperialist threats.

Session: W3 4:00-6:00pm Room: THH 208

Led by: ANSWER & National Committee to Free the Cuban 5

answers.org

"El Salvador, Central America: Dawning of a New Era" is the name of our workshop...sponsored by CISPES and members of the Salvadoran community.

Session: W1 9:30-11:30am Room: VKC 258

Led by:Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador

cispes.org

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's "UC Nuclear Free" program has empowered hundreds of University of California students to design and implement campaigns against the UC's management of the nation's two major nuclear weapons labs. This workshop will talk about successful tactics and lessons learned from a youth movement at the forefront of demilitarization and disarmament.

Session: W3 4:00-6:00pm Room: THH 214

Led by: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

wagingpeace.org

ucnuclearfree.org

Stretch project budgets and deepen your social impact by engaging diverse social economic sectors in successful collaboration! Based on 6 key Partners In Empowerment (PIE) social and economic sectors, this collaborative project design workshop INSPIRES creative use of resources, EMPOWERS unlikely partners to advance mutual goals, INCREASES understanding across diverse groups, & PROMOTES social and economic sustainability.

Session: W2 1:30-3:30 pm RM: THH 119

Led by: Empowerment Works!

empowermentworks.com

Rather than being a separate issue climate change is instability related to many issues of injustice that faces our world today, such as famine, homelessness. This is presentation relates to increasing gas prices and economic instability.

Session: W1 9:30-11:30am Room: WPH 102 and W3 4:00-6:00pm Room: WPH 207

A growing crisis in the price of food is pushing millions of people around the world to the brink of starvation or squeezing out other essentials as working people struggle to survive...Even as everyone admits there's food enough to feed the hungry. What is behind the current food crisis and what has been the response around the world? What can activists in Los Angeles and the U.S. do to fight for a world where access to food a right for everyone?

Session: W2 1:30-3:30pm Room: WPH 205

Led by: International Socialist Organization

socialistworker.org