2011 Congress: WILPF Works To End War: LOCAL 2 GLOBAL

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3:00-3:20 p.m.: Facilitators’ orientation (mandatory for all facilitators)

4:30-4:50 p.m.: Facilitators’ orientation (mandatory for all facilitators)

7:00 p.m.: Opening Plenary
Welcome and introduction of the Congress organizing theme: End War.

8:30-11:30 AM: Plenary: Setting the Stage Beijing +15 and Commission on Status of Women reports; Res. 1325 and Gender Equity.

2:00-5:00 PM.: Plenary: Moving from Democracy in Crisis to Democracy by the People

Please Note: Thursday evening is unscheduled time. Attendees will be able to sign up for or post meetings, caucuses, and other discussions at will. They can visit displays on branch activities or view videos, etc.

8:30-11:30 AM: Plenary: Action and Impact:Sharpen your Skills and Strengthen WILPF’s Advocacy

Noon-1:30 PM.: Lunch: Kathy Kelly on Afghanistan

2:00-3:30 PM.: Workshop round #1

• Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan: Ending These Wars
• Cuba’s Solidarity with the Peoples of the World - Literacy and Healthcare for All!
• End War against Workers, Public Employees, and Labor Unions
• Building the Beloved Communitiy: Realizing Racial Justice
• Water for Life, Not for Profit

3:45-5:15 PM.: Workshop round #2

• Truth and Reconciliation
• Nuclear Free Future Part I - Energy
• Difference Matters
• Security Council Resolution 1325 and The Whistleblower: Making the Connections
• Striving to End Wars and Injustice as an Activist Membership-Driven Organization

7:00 PM.: Plenary (Free and Open to the Public)  Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, NAACP NC President, “The Long March to Freedom, Equality and Justice: Building the Beloved Community of Faith, Labor and Civil Rights.”

8:30-10:00 AM.: Workshop round #3

• Nuclear Free Future Part 2 - Weapons
• Corporations v Democracy: Strategies & Actions
• Anti-Racism Work in the Age of Barack Obama
• Good Leadership: What is it?  How do we encourage and support it in WILPF?
• Getting Serions:100 Sponsors for100 Years of WILPF

10:15-11:45 AM.: Workshop round #4

• Getting our Work Done: Fair, Fun, and Productive Meetings
• The Audacity of Hope in the Middle East: Advancing Peace & Human Rights
• Telling Our Stories-Supporting Our Mission
• Passionate Writing to End War: A Poetry Dive

1:45 PM.: Taking it to the Streets:
Local action

6:00 PM.: Gala dinner/reception and film
premier: The Whistleblower, with remarks
by Madeleine Rees, WILPF Secretary-
General

• Resolutions
• Our Future: Whither WILPF? with Madeleine Rees
• Changing of the Leadership ceremony
• Commitments for branch work from attendees [large sheets of paper where participants can commit in writing to at least one action they will work on with their branch]

Afternoon: Board, committee, issue committee meetings as scheduled.