Bay Area Confluence:

Program Schedule

10:00am - 11:00am: Registration, welcome activities, introductions, and breakfast

11:00am - 1:00pm: Grounding activities, getting to know each other

1:00pm - 2:00pm: Lunch

2:00pm Panel #1: Indigenous Resistance

Joey lyolopixtli Torres - Muwekma Ohlone
Kanahus Manuel - Secwepemc Ktunana, Tiny House Warriors, Alberta Canada
Anthony Fernandes - Lower Elwha Klallum Tribe, WA
Tori Cress - Anishinaabe, Idle No More and Water is Life movements, Beausoleil First Nation, Ontario

3:30pm Panel #2: Moving Beyond Fossil Fuels

5:00pm - 7:30pm: Community Panel (open to the public)

Speakers to include:

Donald Moncayo – Ecuadorian environmental defender, president of UDAPT
Gayle McLaughlin – Former Mayor and Council member of Richmond
Kanahus Manuel - Indigenous land and water defender, founder of First Nations-led Tiny House Warriors, Canada
Win-Mon Kyi - Myanmar Student Union and All Burma Federation of Student Unions
Lujain Al’Saleh - Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC)

10:00 am Legal and Courts:

Kasey Valente - Senior Legal Project Manager, Greenpeace - Brief on their experience with SLAPP suit
Steven Donziger - Lawyer targeted by Chevron for winning $Billions for Ecuadorians
Lauren Reagan - Civil Liberties Defense Center - Risk assessment of activist repression by Big Oil

11 am Economic Strategies:

Dani Marzouca - US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, on the Boycott Chevron Campaign and Drop Sponsorships Strategy
Dr. Shiri Pasternak - Associate Professor Toronto Metropolitan U
Kyle Ferrar - Frack Tracker, also presenting on behalf of Sacred Places Institute

12pm Arts, communications, mass resistance, and direct action:

Isaac Murdoch - artist, water and land protector, organizer. Serpent River First Nation. He is of the Fish Clan and is Ojibwe.
Jackie Fawn - artist, organizer. Yurok, Washoe, Filipina
David Solnit - artist, organizer. “Activism’s creative renaissance man”

1:00pm - 2:00pm: Lunch

2:00pm - 4:00pm: Strategy development small group discussions

5:00pm - 8:00pm: Dinner and OPEN MIC at the park - Keller Beach. Seafood chowder catered by Native Fishers, vegan/GF option available.

Join us for a day of art, music, and community power!

Schedule:

11:00am - Indigenous opening ceremony at Keller Beach

12:00pm - Festival at Judge Carroll Park

1:00pm - Rolling festival march and concert

For more details, check out the festival page.