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Friday, March
14
12:00 - 4:30pm: Tour of Grayson, CA
and its blooming almond orchards. RSVP
required.
4:30 - 6:30pm: Registration/Reception
5:00 - 6:00pm: Introduction to Pesticides
6:00 - 6:50pm
Reception/Welcome
6:50 - 7:20pm The Arctic Paradox - Marla
Cone
7:20 - 7:30pm Introduction - Paul
Saoke
7:30 - 9:00pm:
A
Sense of Wonder performance by Kaiulani
Lee
9:00 - 11:00pm: Reception/Booksigning
Saturday,
March 15
8:00 - 8:40am: Continental Breakfast/Registration
8:45 - 9:15am: Welcome
9:15 - 10:45am: Poisoning Our Future - Tyrone
Hayes, James
Roberts, Ted Schettler,
Paul Saoke
11:00 - 11:30am: Pesticides and the Secret History of the
War on Cancer - Devra
Davis
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
8:30 - 8:50am: Continental Breakfast
9:00 -10:30am: Food, Justice & Political Change
- Jim Riddle, María
Elena Martinez, Craig Vicenec
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