2013
WEDNESDAY: July 24
4 pm: Early birds welcome.
6:30: DINNER. Meet and greet. Followed by Yoga and meditations on Gaia with Genevieve Jacobs. Bring a yoga mat! Check out her website at www.wateranddreams.com.
THURSDAY: July 25
8-9 am: BREAKFAST
9 am: More Yoga with Genevieve
11am New Developments in Prison reform with Vt. State rep. Suzi Wizowaty
12:30 Lunch
2 pm: Discussion with Peggy Luhrs, Joan Ecklein and members of FedUp /Occupy of Burlington: Feminism 2013
4 pm Paki Wieland: Drone and anti-drone legislation. Plus: report from Pakistan.
6 pm: Dinner
7 pm: Denise Dunbar: Racism Continues. Denise is an educator in Reading to End Racism and author of a new book: “Black Males in the Green Mountains: Color-blindness and Cultural Competence in Vermont Public Schools.” See http://thecitizenvt.com/?p=15266. She will be joined by Paij Wadley Bailey.
FRIDAY: July 26
8-9 am: BREAKFAST
9:30 am: Ann Braden, co-founder of Gun Sense Vermont, will speak about citizen efforts to pass sensible gun control in Vermont. Also the UN Arms Trade Treaty will be discussed.
11 am: Sandy Baird: the militarization of America
12 Noon: lunch
2 pm: Andrea Stander, director of Rural Vermont: struggle against corporate industrial agriculture – GMO labeling, hemp, etc. Connections will be made to WILPF’s Earth Democracy issue committee. With Laurie Larsen
4 pm: Monetary policy: movement towards a State Bank and other issues. Katherine ‘Max’ Vose.
6 pm: DINNER
7 pm: Ria Kulenovic and Barbara Soros reporting on their recent trips to Sarejevo.
SATURDAY: July 27
SATURDAY: July 28
8-9:30 am: Special pancake breakfast
10 am: Evaluation of weekend: ideas for next year
11:30 Plant walk and herbal lunch with herbalist Amy Goodman Kiefer.
2:30 pm Clean up and goodbye!!!
2013 Gathering Schedule July 24 - 28
8-9 am: BREAKFAST
9 am: Learning from our Ancestors: family history research becomes a gateway for empowering communities and supporting social change. With Dorie Wilsnack
12 noon: LUNCH
2 pm: Plans for the 100th Anniversary with Laura Roskos, Cheryl Diersch, Charlotte Dennett, and Robin Lloyd
4 pm: Continuation…?
6 pm: DINNER
7:00: The effects of Uranium Mining on Indigenous peoples: with Ellen Thomas, Crystal Zevon and Hattie Nestel