Dear Friends and Comrades,
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Please post this far and wide. Read below for finalized
list of panels and events for the entire weekend. Please check out this
link if you can volunteer:
https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?pli=1&hl=en&key=tRW3mFQT7WLD4ZFTfPGGpyw&authkey=CMDQvqEK&hl=en&userstoinvite=markgarcia90%40gmail.com#gid=0
STUDENTS
FOR UNITY AND OREGON JERICHO PRESENT
The Second Annual Law & Disorder Conference
Portland State University: Smith Memorial Building-3rd Floor
April 15-17th 2011
Friday(6pm-10pm), Saturday(9am-10pm), Sunday(9am-6pm)
*Free, open to the public and disability affirmative!
*This is a low impact conference- bring reusable cups, bowls and eating
utensils!
*Safe Space Zone and childcare provided!
FEATURED PRESENTERS
Ashanti Omowali Alston- The Jericho Movement
Chrystos- Native poet
Right 2 Survive
Evan Greer- Riot Folk
Kristian Williams- Local Author
Claude Marks- Freedom Archives
Jeff “Free” Luers – Former Eco-Political Prisoner
Lauren Regan- Civil Liberties Defense Center
Tre Arrow- Former Eco-Political Prisoner
People, movements, organizations and collectives will present alternative
accounts to the political dimensions of civic engagement, mutual aid and
revolution as they relate to economics, politics, invention, technology,
work, artistic and cultural production, the body, pedagogy and social
change. The conference promises to create a provocative space for
comparative critical dialogue between activists, revolutionaries, educators,
artists, musicians, scholars, dancers, actors and writers. The conference
will have panels and workshops on all aspects of social change from the
revolutionary to the academic.
Co-sponsors
Students for Unity, Student Animal Liberation Coalition, Pan American
Solidarity Organization, NW Student Coalition, The Jericho Movement, Connect
the Dots, Cascadia Rising Tide, Portland Animal Defense League, Safe
Communities,
Civil Liberties Defense Center
For more information, please visit the conference website:
http://lawandisorder.wordpress.com/
E-mail: lawandisorder@gmail.com
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*Friday April 15th 2011*
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*5:30-8:00 Registration & Tabling (Vanport Room 338) *
*5:30-8:00 Political Prisoner Letter Writing (326)*
*5:30-10:00 Child Care (333) *
*5:30-8:00 Safe Space room (323)*
*8:00-9:00 Antonis Vradis and Dimitris Dalakoglou are editors of the
anarchist journal and blog Occupied London and members of the
antagonist movement in Greece and the UK. (327)*
*9:00-2:00 Afterparty at the Variant (4810 NE Garfield-Off NE
MLK:Wygant&Alberta) Performances by Holy!Holy!Holy!, Mic Crenshaw and
others....*
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*Saturday April 16th 2011*
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*10:30-11:45 Panels 1, 2 & 3 (327, 328 & 329)*
*Panel 1 (327)*
*Trauma, Inside and Out: Prison Life, Losing Friends, Police Abuse and *
Snitches
Tre Arrow- Former Eco Political Prisoner
Jeff “Free” Luers- Former Eco Political Prisoner
Josh Harper (Pre-recorded lecture)- Former SHAC 7 animal rights Political
Prisoner
Lauren Regan- Director, Civil Liberties Defense Center
*Panel 2 (328)*
*Police Accountability and Police Abolition: Dilemmas, Paradoxes, and
Strategies*
Kristian Williams- Author of *Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in
America and American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination*. Member
of Rose City Copwatch, in Portland.
*Panel 3 (329)*
*Climate Justice: “Who has the power, who has the solutions?”*
Kim Marks, Rising Tide, Kari Koch, Climate Justice Portland, and special
guests.
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*1:00-2:30 Workshops 1, 2 & 3 (327, 328 & 329)*
*Workshop 1 (327)*
**The Art of Dismantling: Revolutionary Creativity for the Movement
Chrystos- Native, Queer, Poet
Jeff Campbell-Apostle, vocalist and community organizer, Denver CO
Mic Crenshaw- Emcee and community organizer
Chris Richards- Autonomous Music
Johnny Correa-Visual artist, queer activist
Roger Peet-Visual artist, printmaker, Justseeds Cooperative member
*Workshop 2 (328)*
*Political Prisoner Support and the Jericho Movement*
Ed Mead- Seattle Jericho and former Political Prisoner
Mark Cook- Seattle Jericho and former Political Prisoner
Larry Giddings- Seattle Jericho and former Political Prisoner
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*Workshop 3 (329)*
*Everyone's Doing It, It's Cool Right? Right?; or, should I go to law school
to become a "radical" lawyer or to school to become a "radical" legal
worker?*
Kenneth A. Kreuscher- Local movement attorney and member of the Portland Law
Collective and the National Lawyers Guild.
Hudson Munoz- Local legal worker with the Portland Law Collective.
Logan Perkins- Law student and activist in environmental direct-action
activism and in rural organizing.
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*3:00-4:15 Panels 3, 4, 5 & 6 (327, 328, 329 & Ballroom)*
*Panel 3 (327)*
***Religious Repression and the Struggle for Native Culture in Prison*
**Paulette Dauteuil- Co-chair of the Jericho Movement
Chrystos- Native Queer Poet
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*Panel 4 (328)*
*The Practical is Radical: Subverting the Dominant Paradigm through
Fertility Awareness, Acupressure and Organizing a Women’s Health Collective*
Corinne Wolcott- Chinese Medicine practitioner, PDX IWW
Samantha Zipporah-Professional birth doula
*Panel 5 (329) *
*COINing Repression: The History and Politics of Counterinsurgency***
Will Munger- Senior in anthropology at Reed College. His research attempts
to unpack history and theory while clarifying the politics behind the
domestic application of counterinsurgency.
*Panel 6 (Ballroom)*
*The Freedom Archives*
Claude Marks- Director of the Freedom Archives and former Political Prisoner
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*4:30-5:45 Panels 7, 8, 9 & 10 (327, 328, 329 & Ballroom)*
*Panel 7 (327)*
*Political Prisoners in Colombia in U.S. Built Prisons***
Bruce Wilkinson is Project Coordinator and board member for Media Island
International a 501c3 nonprofit in Olympia, WA.
*Panel 8 (328)*
**Sex Worker Politics and Repression
Stephanie Boston- Portland Animal Defense League/Cascadia Rising Tide
*Panel 9 (329)*
**Patriarchy and the Prison Industrial Complex
Evan Greer- Riot Folk
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*Panel 10 (Ballroom)*
*“Green is the new red!”: Updates on Earth and Animal Liberation Political
Prisoners*
Lauren Regan- Civil Liberties Defense Center
*6:30-7:00 Performance: Chrystos *
*7:00-8:00 Keynote speaker- Ashanti Omowali Austin (Ballroom)*
*8:30-10:00 COINTELPRO 101 Film Screening (5th Avenue Cinema)*
*8:00-2:00 Afterparty at the Variant (4810 NE Garfield-Off NE
MLK:Wygant&Alberta)*
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*Sunday April 17th 2011*
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*10:30-11:45 Panels 1, 2, 3 & 4 (327, 328, 329 & Ballroom)*
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*Panel 1 (327) *
*Revolutionary Environmentalism*
Dillon Thomson- Lead lecturer and archivist for Fertile Ground
*Panel 2 (328)*
**Local Animal Rights Activism
Portland Animal Defense League
*Panel 3 (329)*
**Participatory Economics and Latin American Politics
Peter Bohmer- Activist scholar (Evergreen College)
*Panel 4 (Ballroom)*
*Alternatives to EMS/Police*
Rosehip Medic Collective and Rosecity Copwatch
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*1:00-2:30 Workshops 1, 2 & 3 (327, 328 & 329)*
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*Workshop 1 (327)*
*Connect the Dots 101: White Supremacy and the Prison Industrial Complex*
The Committee to Connect the Dots- Local collective
*Workshop 2 (328)*
*Community Alternatives to the Police*
Community Alternatives to the Police- Local collective
*Workshop 3 (329)*
**Criminalization of Survival
Right 2 Survive- Local organization of homeless people of circumstances, the
formerly homeless, and their allies.
*2:45-4:00 Panels 5, 6, 7 & 8 (327, 328, 329 & Ballroom)*
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*Panel 5 (327)*
*Repression and Hope in Honduras *
Gerardo Torres- Spokesperson for the US and Canada of the International
Commission of the National Front of Popular Resistance, Coordinator of
Political Education of the National Front of Youth Movements in Resistance
of Honduras.
*Panel 6 (328)*
**Addicted to Failure: US Drug War Policy in the Americas
Sanho Tree- Internationally acclaimed human rights advocate and drug war
policy analyst.
*Panel 7 (329)*
*GI Rights Movement and Resistance: From Past to Present*
Veterans for Peace Chapter 72 and Iraq Veterans Against War
*Panel 8 (Ballroom) *
*Striking Based Self Defense***
Anthony Patch- Local Muay Thai instructor
*4:00-6:00 Closing Planery Session (Ballroom)*
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