March 1st
Schedule
Friday night, June 27th. Kickoff will be a chill evening of hanging out, with good cheap food and fun. We’ll all be hanging out from 6-8pm, eating from the awesome taco bar (brought to you by our pals at Los Gorditos). Not sure what else, but there will be words spoken from the organizers and some general meeting and greeting and networking and such. Show up early, as food will probably run out. It will be in the Smith Memorial Ballroom (SMSU 355, same building as the conference, third floor.)
Saturday & Sunday. June 28th & 29th. The “meat” of the conference. It all starts at 9am Saturday, and we rock on until 6pm. Don’t worry, there’ll be lots of great food there from Blossoming Lotus for lunch. Then we’ve got a rawkin night at Bye & Bye planned (with cheap transportation to and from the bar) but you’ll still have to make it back to the conference by 10am Sunday. Don’t whine - it’s not that early! There will be coffee. And you’re not coming to Portland (just) to stay out drinking all night, you’re coming to get busy. The conference will provide hands-on training in essential activist skills, campaign case studies, and much more. Topics will include:
- Exposing Institutionalized Cruelty
- Campaign Development, Goals, Strategy and Tactics
- Understanding Direct Action
- Exposing The Green Scare
- Striking at the Roots
- Understanding Our Audience
- Building Bridges/One Struggle
- Regional Networking
- Mentoring for new activists
- Mentoring on organizing groups
- Mentoring on legal isssues
- Break-out campaign meetings
- Inspiring plenary sessions
- HOW TO: Moving the Message
- HOW TO: Verbal Self Defense
- HOW TO: Investigations
- HOW TO: Dealing with Law Enforcement
- HOW TO: Media Training
- HOW TO: Organizing a Grassroots Group
- HOW TO: Student Activism
- HOW TO: Building a Culture of Connection
- HOW TO: Becoming the Media and Getting Creative
- HOW TO: Prisoner Support and Doing Time
- HOW TO: Researching Animal Abuse
- HOW TO: Writing for Animals
- HOW TO: Internet Activism
- HOW TO: Security Culture and Encryption
- HOW TO: Culinary Activism
- HOW TO: Solo Activism
- HOW TO: Dealing with Advanced Legal Issues
- CASE STUDY: UK-based Vivisection Campaigns
- CASE STUDY: Schumacher Furs
- CASE STUDY: Operation Biteback
- CASE STUDY: University Vivisection Campaigns
***DOWNLOAD THE DETAILED SCHEDULE HERE OR THE BASIC (NO DESCRIPTIONS) SCHEDULE HERE.***
Monday, June 30th. Details to come, but there will be independently organized demonstrations and outreach events planned for Monday. So stick around if you can!