Teach-In: Day 2

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11:00 - Opening Speaker TBA                 
11:30 - 1:00 - Organizing and Civil Disobedience Panel:

  • Madeline Janis - Executive Director of LAANE
  • Kent Wong - Director of the Center for Labor and Research at UCLA
  • Erick Huerte - Organizer at Dream Team Los Angeles
  • Peggy Mears - Organizer of the Home Defenders program for ACCE, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
  • Jill Furillo - California Nurses Association, National Nurses United Union
  • Peter Drier - Chair of the Urban and Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College - Moderator

1:00 - Lunch
1:30 - Sustainable Living Panel

  • Frank Tamborello - Hunger Action LA
  • Autumn Rooney - Echo Park Time Bank
  • South Central Farms
  • Open Neighborhoods
  • Joan Stevens - Los Angeles Permaculture Guild and the NELA Permaculture Guild, Organizer of the West Coast Women's Permaculture
  • Gatherings and the 2011 SoCal Permaculture convergence - moderator

3:00 - American Civil Liberties Union  - speaker TBA
3:15 - Iraq Veterans Against the War - speaker TBA
3:30 - 5:00 - Corporatocracy Panel

  • Axel Caballero - Brave New Foundation
  • Tracy Rosenberg - president, Media Alliance
  • Mary Beth Fielder - Organizer Move to Amend
  • Derek Cressman - Common Cause, director of Campaign to Reverse Citizens United
  • Lauren Steiner - Local political activist, - Moderator

5:00 - Jim Lafferty of National Lawyers Guild
5:15 - David DeGraw - Organizer at Occupy Wall Street, publisher of ampedstatus.org

Additional speakers/updates to be announced.


The Occupy LA Education and People's University will also be holding workshops at various times of the day to discuss some of the topics addressed for those who are interested. http://goog_925843868/

Date: 

Sunday, November 6, 2011 (All day)

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