FRIDAY NIGHT
7:00 Welcome and Keynote Address
Emira Woods, Co-Director of Foreign Policy In Focus and Liberian Activist
8:15 African Dance Performance and Lessons, followed by World Dance Party*
*Featuring family-friendly dance music from all over the world
SATURDAY (9am-5:15pm)
8:00-9:00 Breakfast and Registration
9-9:30 Welcome
9:30-10:45 Plenary Session: The Global Debt Movement
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:15 Workshop Session I
- Debt 101
- Debt 201
- Odious Debt
- Robbing the Poor: Strategies to End Vulture Funds
- Debt to Health: Connecting Debt & Global AIDS
- Stand Against Poverty: How Can We Reach the MDGs?
12:15-1:10 Lunch
1:10-2:45 CORE GROUP TRAINING SESSION
- Local Group Training
- Jubilee Congregation Training
- Campaign ’08 Outreach Training
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:10 Plenary: Jubilee and the Movement to End Extreme Poverty
4:10-5:10 Workshop Session III
- Case Studies: Haiti and Zambia
- Meeting Your MOC: Grassroots Lobbying and Advocacy
- The Inside Story: Doing Effective Grassroots Media
- Taking it Home! Starting a Local Group or JC
- Understanding IMF, World Bank and Conditionality
- Campaign 2008: Putting Debt on the Agenda
- Debt and the Diaspora: Economic justice and immigration
- Just Generosity: How Faith Funds Community Renewal
- Predatory Lending: In Ohio and Around the Globe
5:10pm Dinner (On your own)
6:30pm World Refugee Day Film Festival at OSU campus
SUNDAY (1pm-4pm)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:10-2:30 Workshop Session IV
- How a Bill Becomes a Law
- North-South Solidarity: Building a Global Movement for Economic Justice
- Making Trade Fair
- Art & Resistance
- Pedagogies of Change: Organizing Teach-ins and House Parties
- Creating Community Wealth
- Fueling a Movement: Tips for Grassroots Fundraising
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-4:00 Final Plenary: 2008 and Beyond: Strategies to Promote the Jubilee Act
