Redwood Sequoia Congress 2003


CONFRONTING EMPIRE

FOURTH REDWOOD SEQUOIA CONGRESS 2003

Presents

keynote speaker

CYNTHIA McKINNEY

ðÊ former Congresswoman, 4th District of Georgia

ðÊ legislative leader for human rights, demilitarization, and economic justice

ðÊ unstoppable critic who asked, ãWhat did Bush know before 9/11?ä

ðÊ a voice for the voiceless

in conversation with

Gus Newport, KPFA station manager, former mayor of Berkeley

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 8PM

Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School

1781 Rose Street, Berkeley, CA

For the full program of speakers and panels read below, or for more information about the Fourth Redwood Sequoia Congress, call (510) 527-7543

A benefit for the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists

1924 Cedar St. @ Bonita, Berkeley CA 94709

Co-sponsored by the Middle East Childrenâs Alliance and KPFA

Agenda of the 4th REDWOOD SEQUOIA CONGRESS

Opens Friday, Oct. 24, at Fellowship Hall (Cedar and Bonita in Berkeley) with panels on:

6:00pm ö panel on ãThe Precautionary Principleä

with Kriss Worthington, Berkeley City Council Member

8:00pm ö panel on "Disabling Democracy: Coups against the People"

with MICHAEL RUPPERT and CAROL BROUILLET

Saturday, October 25 (at Fellowship Hall ö Cedar and Bonita in Berkeley)

4:00pm ö panel on the ãPrison-Industrial Complexä

with Cynthia McKinney

6:00pm ö Cynthia McKinney press conference (public invited)

Saturday, October 25 at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School (on Rose Street near Martin Luther King, Jr Way)

8:00pm ö Cynthia McKinney keynote address with Gus Newport.

Tickets are available in advance at SF and East Bay bookstores, at BFUU, and at the door if available.Ê

$15 includes the whole Redwood Sequoia Congress.

--ASL interpreted--

Sunday, October 26

10:30am: BFUU's traditional "Green Sunday" service with lunch at 12 noon.

1:00pm ö panel on "Strategies for Peace"

3:00pm ö panel on "Strategies for Sustainability"

5:00pm ö panel on "Confronting Corporate Rule"

with David Cobb, Kirsten Lambersten, and Ted Nace

7:00pm ö Title panel, "Confronting Empire"

Note:

All events other than Cynthia McKinney's keynote address will be held at 1924 Cedar Street at Bonita. $10 suggested.Ê No one turned away. All events are wheelchair accessible

Further information:

(510) 841-4824

(510) 527-7543

Presented by the Social Justice Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists.Ê

Endorsed by Middle East Children's Alliance and KPFA.

CONFRONTING CORPORATE RULE (Panel)

Sunday,Ê Oct 26Ê 5:00 pm

1924 Cedar Street @ Bonita

Corporations are the dominant force in modern life, surpassing church and state. The largest are richer than entire nations. They have more legal rights than people. ÊMost Americans think corporate power is out of control. Business Week/Harris poll 9/'02: 82 %Ê of those surveyed agreed, ãbusiness has too much power over too many aspects of our lives.ä ÊCorporate scandals and political influence are alarming, usurping democracy.

Panel Discussion with:

David Cobb, Kirsten Lambersten, Ted Nace

Bios:

David Cobb, Esq.

Campaigns Director, ReclaimDemocracy.org

Steering Committee, Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County (DUHC) Lawyer for the Green Party and potential Green Presidential candidate

Ted Nace worked for the U.S. Forest Service in high school.Ê He majored in economics.Ê During graduate school, he worked as a researcher on electric utility policy for the Environmental Defense Fund and as staff director of the Dakota Resource Council, a grassroots group seeking to protect farms and ranches from strip mines and other energy projects. In 1985, he founded Peachpit Press, the worldâs leading publisher of books on computer graphics and desktop publishing. After selling Peachpit Press to British publishing conglomerate Pearson, Nace felt driven to understand the historical roots of corporate political power. Gangs of America, the result of that quest, has just been published.Ê Naceâs viewpoint is complex, that of a writer, businessman, activist, and parent.

Kirsten Lambertsen is a member of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, and she is on the leadership team of its Challenge Corporate Power/Assert the People's Rights campaign. She is the organizer of Persons, Inc., a San Francisco campaign to pass an anti-corporate personhood resolution at the San Francisco board of supervisors. The group can currently be found at www.sfpersonhood.org. She lives, works and runs her own small business in San Francisco with her husband,Ê Bruce, and their dog, Pepe.