Thank you to everyone who attended Reclaiming Our Healthy Future: Political change to protect the next generation, the 26th National Pesticide Forum, and helped make it such a great success! Powerpoint presenations (in Adobe Acrobat format) are available for download below. DVD and VHS recordings will be available by mid-April. If you attended, please consider completing the Forum evaluation form.
Friday, March
14
12:00 - 4:30pm: Tour of Grayson, CA
and its blooming almond orchards.
5:00 - 6:00pm: Introduction to Pesticides
6:00 - 6:50pm
Welcome & Dragonfly Award presented to Shelley Davis
(read
acceptance speech)
6:50 - 7:20pm The Arctic Paradox - Marla
Cone (download
PPT)
7:20 - 7:30pm Introduction - Paul
Saoke (download
PPT)
7:30 - 9:00pm:
A
Sense of Wonder performance by Kaiulani
Lee (info
on film)
9:00 - 11:00pm: Reception/Booksigning
Saturday,
March 15
8:45 - 9:15am: Welcome
9:15 - 10:45am: Poisoning Our Future - Tyrone
Hayes (download
PPT), James
Roberts, Ted Schettler
(download
PPT), Paul
Saoke (download
PPT)
11:00 - 11:30am: Pesticides and the Secret History of the
War on Cancer - Devra
Davis (download
PPT)
11:30am -12:00pm: Farmworker Justice and Our Healthy Future
- Arturo Rodriguez
12:00 - 1:20pm: Lunch (with Driftcatcher demonstration & Farmworker
advocacy training)
1:30 - 3:00pm: Workshop Block I
----- Preventing
Worker Exposure to Pesticides
----- Poisoning Our Future Follow-Up
----- Healthy Indoor Environments
----- Skills Training: Building Power & Moving Leaders into Advocacy
----- Controlling Malaria Without DDT
3:15 - 4:15pm: Building
a Stronger Movement - Paul
Kivel
4:30 - 6:00pm: Workshop Block II
----- Taking the Lead at the Local Level
----- New Tools help communities prove pesticide exposure
----- Critiquing Solutions to the Climate Crisis: The pesticide perspective
----- Advancing Meaningful Change
----- Learning from Innovative Partnerships with Health Professionals
6:15 - 6:30pm: Wrap-up, Art In Action report-back
6:30 - 7:00pm: CPR Gathering
7:15pm: Breast Cancer
Roundtable dinner discussion with Tyrone
Hayes
Sunday, March
16
9:00 -10:30am: Food, Justice & Political Change
- Jim Riddle (download
PPT), María
Elena Martinez (download
PPT), Craig
Vicenec (download
PPT)
10:45am -12:15pm Workshop Block III
----- Protecting People from Pesticide Drift
----- Catalyzing transitions to safe and sustainable agriculture
----- Global Pesticide Politics & Priorities
----- Skills Training: Using Science and Research in Your Struggles
----- Healthy, Holistic Land Care and Landscape Management
12:15 - 1:45pm Lunch
2:00pm - 3:30pm Workshop Block IV
----- Threatened Waters: Turning the tide on pesticide contamination
----- Picking Your Poison: Making decisions if and when pesticides are
used
----- Building Bridges to Support Agricultural Transitions
----- Taking Advantage of political change
3:30pm - 4:00pm Closing
This event was convened by Beyond Pesticides, Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR) and Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA).
Presentations from our 25th National Pesticide Forum in Chicago are available here.
THANK YOU! The generosity of our sponsors helps make the conference a great event year after year. The sponsors listed below contributed to the National Pesticide Forum scholarship fund, making it possible for people from around the country to participate in one of the most important grassroots pesticide meetings of the year. Learn more about becoming a sponsor. Click on the logos for more information.
Information from the 25th National Pesticide Forum, Changing Course in
a Changing Climate, held June 1-3, 2007 in Chicago, is available here.