2012 Local to Global Justice Teach-In

Dialogue for healing & renewal:
Of the self, in the community, for the world.

This year’s theme is intended to remind us all that we need to care for ourselves so that we may be healthy and able to make stronger linkages in our communities and more effectively work to solve our local and global struggles. We believe the best way to create a better world is to engage in dialogue with each other so we may better work together to share the work that needs to be done.

Please join us February 24th , 25th , and 26th for the 11th Annual L2GJ Teach-In!

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Friday, February 24, 2012

5:30 - 9:00 PM

FILM PREMEIRE AND BENEFIT FOR LOCAL TO GLOBAL JUSTICE & UNIDOS

Presented in partnership with the ASU School of Theatre and Film.

Light Refreshments • Live Music • Feature Documentary • Q & A with Filmmakers

Neeb Hall • ASU Tempe Campus   [+] Map

Documentary

América's Home

This year's teach-in opens with the world premiere of a film by award-winning filmmakers and ASU faculty, H.L.T. Quan and C.A. Griffith, titled América's Home The film features a home of historical significance to activists and artists in San Juan, Puerto Rico and is a narrative and metaphor about pushing back to gentrification and creating spaces for community organizing and art.

Synopsis:

AMÉRICA’S HOME is the story of América "Meca" Sorrentini-Blaut, a feisty Puerto Rican woman in her 70's, and her fight against developers intent on bulldozing her community and family's historic home. Her story is one of many tales of resistance against rampant greed taking place all across Puerto Rico and on the mainland. This inspiring documentary is as much about displacement and empire as it is about the transformative power of the cultural arts, community and belonging.

Feature Documentary – Puerto Rico/USA – 68 minutes
English & Spanish with English subtitles – August 2011

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Opening Entertainment

Artificial Red

"Artificial Red" is comprised of Native American artists Randy Kemp (Choctaw/Euchee/Muscogee Creek) performing with various Native American flutes, with accompaniment by Dean Yazzie (Dine’/Navajo) on acoustic guitar. Their music is a blend of original contemporary guitar arrangement with expressive flute responses, while intermittently fused with spoken word/poetry of Native American life, themes and views.

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

9:00 - 10:00 AM

Morning Wake-Up

• Morning Yoga, Kiirtan and Meditation
Ananda Marga with guest Dada Dharmapremananda

• Singing Spiritual Songs for Making Progress
Haryaksha of the Sri Chinmoy Center

10:00 - 11:15 AM

Workshops

• Healing Through Compassionate Communication
Sylvia M. Boutilier, J.D.

• Capital Punishment: The Ultimate Human Rights Violation
Arizona Death Penalty Forum

• Music for Every Body
Jonathan Best

• Grant Writing and Beyond: Fundraising 101
Elizabeth Venable, MA, MPA

• An Introduction to Compassionate Listening
Dave Wells, Arizona State University and Tempe Quaker Meeting

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Panel: Living Sustainably

Panel facilitation: TBA

• Health and Fitness Naturally
Sylvia M. Boutilier, J.D.

• Together We Can!
Rio Salado Permaculture Guild

• Ideation for Proper Outlook on Life
Ananda Marga

1:00 - 2:00 PM

LUNCH

• Entertainment
ASU Concert Band: Songs from Social Justice Movements

2:00 - 3:30 PM

Panel: Struggles for Human Rights in Arizona

Panel facilitation: Randall Amster, J.D., Ph.D.

• Capital Punishment: The Ultimate Human Rights Violation
Arizona Death Penalty Forum

• No More Deaths
No More Deaths

• Ending Criminalization of Homelessness
Phoenix Homeless Rising

• Worker rights are human rights
The AZ Worker Rights Center

• Human Trafficking in Arizona: Combating Modern Day Slavery
International Rescue Committee

• The Struggle for Religious Rights in the San Francisco Peaks
Save the Peaks Coalition

3:45 - 5:00 PM

Keynote: Randall Amster, J.D., Ph.D.

"Radical Empathy"

Randall Amster, professor of Peace Studies at Prescott College, holds a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and a Ph.D. in Justice Studies from Arizona State University. He publishes widely in areas including anarchism, ecology, homelessness, and social justice; writes regular op-ed columns for media outlets including the Huffington Post and Truthout; and serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the Contemporary Justice Review, the Peace Studies Journal, and the Journal of Sustainability Education.

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5:15 PM

Performance: Marcelino Quinonez

Spoken word performance by Marcelino Quinonez.

5:30 PM

Music: Sihasin

Sihasin's style encompasses traditional Native American, Punk-Rock and “Alter-Native” music and bears strong socio-political messages regarding government oppression, relocation of indigenous people, eco-cide, genocide, domestic violence and human rights.

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Sunday, February 26, 2012

9:00 - 10:00 AM

Morning Wake-Up

• Introduction to Kundalini Yoga
Sukhliv Singh

• Singing Spiritual Songs for Making Progress
Haryaksha of the Sri Chinmoy Center

10:00 - 11:00 AM

• Brian Foley
Magician

10:00 - 11:15 AM

Workshops

• A Resource Based Economy
The Zeitgeist Movement AZ Chapter

• Progressive Utilization Theory - an alternative to Capitalism and Communism
Ananda Marga, Dada Dharmapremananda

• Vegetarianism the solution for the 21st Century
Ananda Marga, presented by Brother Ajay

• Global Transition
Andrew Lenberg and Michael Brewer

• The global economy, and the unfreedom of "free trade"
Amnesty International ASU

• Constructive Listening and the Occupy! Movement
Ezra Niesen

• Kingian Nonviolence; A Courageous Way of Life and a Strategy for Change
Phoenix Nonviolence Truthforce

• TBA
Arizona Cooperative Initiative

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Youth Keynote: UNIDOS

UNIDOS is a youth-led coalition formed in January of 2011 whose purpose is to educate youth on the political circumstances surrounding their education and society. Through political analysis workshops, media training and organizing, the mission of UNIDOS is to engage youth politically and actively in their community to sustain youth-led movements.

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11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Panel: Economic Justice in Arizona

Panel facilitation: Aaron Golub, Arizona State University

• A Resource Based Economic Society
The Zeitgeist Movement AZ Chapter

• Beyond Occupy: Strategies for Continuing Resistance
Elizabeth Venable, MA, MPA

• Occupy (/Decolonize) Phoenix
Joya Scott, participant in Occupy Phoenix & theater artist

• Beating the Boss: at work and in the community
Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy

• The Liberal Constraints of Occupy:
Why We Shouldn't Be Afraid of Waging Class War from Below
Phoenix MayDay Action Committee

1:00 - 2:00 PM

LUNCH

• Entertainment
Music: DJ Stephen

2:00 - 3:30 PM

Panel: Immigration Rights in Arizona

Panel facilitation: Leah Sarat, Arizona State University

• From Myth and Stereotype to Solidarity and Alliance Building
Black Alliance for Just Immigration

• Compassionate Listening to heal the immigration divide
Arizona State University and Tempe Quaker Meeting

• Migrant rights organizing in the era of SB 1070
Puente

3:45 - 5:00 PM

Keynote: Karen Anzoategui

(Adult)

Ser: L.A. vs. B.A - Queer transnational solo show by Karen Anzoategui as she takes you on a journey throughout Los Angeles and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Karen discovers love, loss, truth and inspiration as she claims her queer identity. Told through the politics of a soccer game, her family, home and love get to play against each other to see who comes out champion.

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5:00 PM

CLOSING CEREMONY

Discussion and visioning for next year’s teach-in!

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All are invited to help us with clean up at conclusion of the event.