Schedule and Workshop Descriptions

Friday, November 11th
Scripps College Campus

1:00pm-5:00pm Feminist Leadership Institute
Humanities Auditorium

5:00pm-6:30pm Registration
Mary Wig Johnson Courtyard, Scripps College
Dinner on own

6:30pm-7:30pm Networking Reception
Mary Wig Johnson Courtyard, Scripps College
Registration continues

7:30pm-10:00pm
Opening Plenary
Humanities Auditorium, Scripps College

Part I: Organizing Worldwide for Women’s Rights, Reproductive Rights, Human Rights, Economic Justice, and the Environment

Welcome: duVergne Gaines & Sue Castagnetto

Video: The Global Majority . . . Again

Report from the Frontlines - Rwanda: Rebuilding civil society; Botswana: The great diamond heist
Lorraine Sheinberg, Feminist Majority Foundation board member and filmmaker of The Global Majority . . . Again

Trafficking Women: Sweatshops in the U.S.
Julie Su, Asian Pacific American Legal Center
Co-Founder of Sweatshop Watch

Keynote Speech - Women’s Rights are Human Rights: Organizing to Save Women’s Lives
Dolores Huerta, Founder Dolores Huerta Foundation, Co-Founder of United Farm Workers

Question and Answer - Lorraine Sheinberg, Julie Su, and Dolores Huerta

Saturday, November 12th
Pomona College Campus
Smith Campus Center

8:30am-9:30am Continental Breakfast

9:30am-11:30am
Morning Plenary
Rose Hills Theater, Pomona College

Part II: Organizing Worldwide for Women’s Rights, Reproductive Rights, Human Rights, Economic Justice, and the Environment

Connecting the Issues
Katherine Spillar, Executive Vice President, FMF

Panel - The War on Women: Devastating impacts of US policies on women worldwide
Magalay Oliveira Marques, Pacific Institute for Women’s Health
Deni Robey, Americans for the UNFPA

Question and Answer - Katherine Spillar, Magalay Oliveira Marquez, and Deni Robey

The Impact of US Trade Agreements: Saving the women of Juarez
The Honorable Hilda Solis, United States Congress

The Hope of Women in Afghanistan (15-20 minutes)
Mavis Leno, Chair of FMF campaign for women and girls in Afghanistan

Question and Answer - Hilda Solis, and Mavis Leno

11:45am-1:00pm
Workshop Session I

Transforming the Debate: Abortion and birth control as a human right
Smith Campus Center, Room 208, Pomona College

• Katherine Hall Martinez, Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
• Magalay Oliveira Marquez, Pacific Institute for Women's Health

The Price of Oil: Women, Environment, and Peace
Smith Campus Center, Room 20, Pomona College

• Robert Benson, International Human Rights &Environmental Law
• Dr. Zayn R. Kassam, Pomona College, expert on Women and Islam
• Candice Schermerhorn, Environmental activist/documentary filmmaker
• Huma Rahimi, Afghan Scholarship recipient
• Student Groups on Darfur, UCLA and Claremont

1:00pm-2:15pm Lunch
Gold Student Center Main Room, Pitzer College

2:15pm-3:30pm
Workshop Session II
Pitzer College Campus
Gold Student Center

Trading women’s lives: sweatshops and globalization
Gold Student Center Room #204, Pitzer College

• Dr. Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Author: Desert Blood
• Dr. Maria Christina Morales, UNLV
• Nohelia Canales, Ms. Advisory Board; anti-Walmart campaigns
• United Students Against Sweatshops

Globalization and the Growing Crisis of Trafficking in Women and Girls
Gold Student Center Room #205, Pitzer College

• Kay Buck, Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking
• Prapti Upadhyay, trafficking in Nepal and South Asia
• Vivian Rothstein, UNITE Here's Housekeeper Campaign
• Martha Barcenas, CGU – trafficking of women in Mexico

AIDS has a woman’s face: Stopping AIDS and saving women’s lives
Gold Student Center Room #206, Pitzer College

• Beatrice Were, Action Aid for Uganda , on why ABC doesn't work
• Jonathan Cohen, Human Rights Watch
• Martell Randolph, AIDS Research Alliance
• Deni Robey, Americans for the UNFPA

3:45pm-5:30pm
Closing Plenary
Gold Student Center Main Room, Pitzer College

Acting Beyond Borders: Mobilizing Young People for Positive U.S. Foreign Policy

Special Presentation: AIDS in Africa
Beatrice Were, Action Aid for Uganda, AIDS activist
Jonathan Cohen, Human Rights Watch

Question and Answer - Beatrice Were, and Jonathan Cohen

A Call to Action: Five things you can do to save women’s lives worldwide
Feminist Majority Foundation Campus Organizers
Student Activists and Organizations