Forest Ethics

http://forestethics.org

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More than 700 people rallied behind the Yinka Dene Alliance for a peaceful march to Enbridge’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), where shareholders gathered at the windows, looking nervously out at the huge crowd.  The air was filled with the powerful sound of the Yinka Dene Alliance drummers and chants of “We Can’t Eat Oil” and “No Pipelines, No Tankers, No Problem!”

A number of Freedom Train riders who had registered as proxy shareholders were denied entry to the meeting. Despite paper trails and timely registering, as well as a few folks traveling hundreds of kilometres on the train to speak inside, they were unable to have their say. 

Those who participated made it loud and clear that opposition is strong and resolute. Yinka Dene Alliance Chiefs asserted that First Nations opposed to the project aren’t going anywhere.

“The war is on.” Chief Martin Louie of Nadleh Whut’en declared after the meeting, where Enbridge refused to cancel Northern Gateway. “We’ve got Enbridge and the federal government after us.  But I’m not scared…We’re not going to turn back.”
Enbridge never answered his question - How far is Enbridge willing to go?

NEI’s shareholder resolution to do a report that would show the legal and financial costs associated with First Nations opposition to Northern Gateway did not pass. The company had encouraged people not to support the resolution. However, with nearly 30 per cent support, Enbridge committed to continuing dialogue with NEI about the issue.

After laying out how Enbridge will never receive social license to build this pipeline and tanker project, I asked about the political risks associated with the project. The BC New Democratic Party (BC NDP) recently submitted a long letter stating their opposition to Northern Gateway that they submitted to the Joint Review Panel (JRP) last week. They could form the next government before the JRP or ministerial decisions are made. The BC Liberal government has also not taken a position and Enbridge CEO Pat Daniel admitted that they were aware of the political risks, although refused to state whether or not they would proceed against the will of the province given Daniel’s inability to “fortune tell”.

In addition, Enbridge agreed to supply us with the amount of funds they have expended to date on PR and lobbying for Northern Gateway.

In the end, the AGM provided another opportunity for First Nations to speak to the CEO, Board and shareholders without being considered “consultation” by the company. The legal risks are very real and Enbridge has not been clear about it to shareholders, deciding to hide behind the JRP.

It also provided an opportunity to get the company on the record with various statements and to try to get clarity on their plans as to how far they are willing to put their brand and company at risk for their tar sands pipeline and tankers to Asia.

If you have yet to do so, please sign the Yinka Dene Alliance petition.

Meet community campaigners from Grassy Narrows, hear about the Enbridge pipeline opposition and other campaigns to protect the land for future generations. Music by the Flaming Trolleys, Dave Fort and Kathy Kennedy. Watch this space for more details!

The Manitoba Government has rejected the appeal of license #2954, issued to the Louisiana Pacific Swan Valley oriented strand board (OBS) plant, allowing the corporation to remove their RTO pollution controls to save money.

“Manitoba is giving the green light to multi-national corporations looking for a way to get around U.S. pollution control laws,” said Susanne McCrea of the Boreal Forest Network (BFN).

BFN and the Concerned Citizens of the Valley submitted a joint appeal of the licence, in April, 2011, when a limited CEC process failed to recommend, or even report on the extensive expert evidence submitted by the groups, at their own considerable expense.

“It’s ironic that the Filman Conservatives put the pollution controls in the original 1994 license for LP, after a considerably more extensive CEC process, that the NDP then heralded as a huge victory,” said McCrea. “We’ve worked hard to  protect public health of Manitobans and the NDP have now undone it all, allowing LP to simply report on their own emissions.”

Dr. Charles Simon, who has testified in over 100 cases that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has brought against LP, is convinced that the current license is …“a recipe for tropospheric ozone and smog. It can not and will not be avoided. That is a serious degradation of air quality permitted by this license. VOC + NOx + particulate matter + sunlight = tropospheric ozone, smog, and citizen trips to the ER.”

The huge stack that LP has been ordered to build will be designed to disperse the pollution further instead of using controls to stop much of it at the source.

“That stack will stick out like a sore thumb,” McCrea added. “It will be a monument to remind people of the large volumes of pollution coming out of it that no independent body will ever monitor.”

This decision is certainly not in keeping with the Province of Manitoba’s conservation platform on the east side of Lake Winnipeg, where they are taking every step to promote environmentalism. This whole process has taken over three years, three Conservation Ministers, one election, over $50,000 of our own money to commission independent experts that the province wouldn’t even talk to.

The Boreal Forest Network is seriously unimpressed with this backward step. We suggest you contact your MLA.

Join the Boreal Forest Network, the Boreal Action Project and the Winnipeg Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement in calling for a complete boycott of all Weyerhaeuser forest products until they cease all logging and sourcing in the contested traditional territories of Grassy Narrows First Nation, or as long as there is community opposition to their operation in Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinaabek traditional territory (Grassy Narrows First Nation).

Send them the message below that you support the boycott of all their products until and unless they stop logging in Grassy territory, or as long as there is community opposition to their operation.

Grassy community members have been engaged in the longest standing blockade in Canada, since December 3, 2002, when they stood in front of logging trucks to protect their traditional lands. About 30 percent of their original lands remain today.

The community has pursued numerous avenues to stop further destruction.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently released a lengthy decision in Keewatin v. Minister of Natural Resources (Keewatin), which held that the Province of Ontario lacked authority to “take up” lands for forestry, or other activities that may significantly infringe upon First Nations’ hunting and fishing rights, with respect to certain lands under Treaty 3 (the Keewatin Lands).

The unfortunate reality is that logging could resume any day in Grassy territory.

Weyerhaeuser continues to push for access to wood from the Whiskey Jack for the Kenora, Ontario, mill, that makes Weyerhaeuser iLevel Trus Joist Timberstrand Laminated Strand Lumber (LSL).

According to the Whiskey Jack Forest management plan, 324,000 cubic meters of poplar and birch is allocated from the Whiskey Jack Forest Management Unit each year to supply the Weyerhaeuser Timberland/Trus Joist Kenora mill. This is 42 percent of the total allocated timber harvest from the Whiskey Jack and a full 50 percent of the wood supply for the mill.

Call on Weyerhaueser to join forest products companies; Boise, Abitibowater, Domtar and Ainsworth, who have already agreed not to source conflict wood from Grassy Narrows territory.

Sign the petition now!

Click on the following link to hear East Side Elder, Louis Young,  deliver a message to Occupy Winnipeg, at Memorial Park Day one.

Louis Young speaks to Occupy Winnipeg

To the Pimachiowin Aki Corporation and the governments of Manitoba, Ontario and Canada regarding the proposed Pimachiowin Aki World Heritage Site:

As scientists who have contributed to advancing conservation issues and opportunities around the world, we would like to acknowledge the globally unique cultural and ecological values of the boreal forest ecosystem on the East Side of Lake Winnipeg. To protect this region of outstanding universal value, we support the initiative of regional First Nations in partnership with the governments of Manitoba, Ontario and Canada, to create the Pimachiowin Aki UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The boreal forest region extending from the East Side of Lake Winnipeg across the border into Ontario is the homeland of First Nations and its bounty has sustained their diverse cultures for millennia. It is part of one of the largest unfragmented forest blocks on earth and supports a rich ecological community of forest birds, mammals, freshwater fish, plants, and other species.

A World Heritage Site in this region would present a globally unique opportunity to both showcase and study, from traditional knowledge and western science perspectives, a model for co-management and stewardship of a large boreal landscape well into the future. We support the Government of Manitoba’s decision to route the proposed new hydro transmission line along the more developed West Side of Lake Winnipeg, thus protecting the outstanding and unique boreal forest values of the East Side of Lake Winnipeg.

Based on our understanding of the globally significant ecological and cultural values of the East Side of Lake Winnipeg, of its rich human and biological history, of the regional First Nations’ desire to share these values with the world, we support the proposed Pimachiowin Aki World Heritage Site.

David Schindler, OC, DPhil, AOE, FRSC, FRS
Killam Memorial Chair and Professor of Ecology
University of Alberta

Micheline Manseau, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba

David C. Natcher, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean, Aboriginal Programs and Research College of Agriculture and Bioresources
University of Saskatchewan

Craig Willis Ph.D.
University of Winnipeg
Chancellor’s Research Chair

Peter Raven. Ph.D.
Home Secretary of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration, President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis

Gordon Robinson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences,
Director, Manitoba CRYSTAL
University of Manitoba

Stuart Pimm, Ph.D.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Conservation Ecology at Duke University

Danny Blair, Ph.D.
Professor of Geography
Acting Associate Dean of Science
Acting Principal, Richardson College for the Environment
University of Winnipeg

Hugh Possingham, Ph.D., FAA
Professor, The University of Queensland

Randall Mooi, Ph.D.
Curator of Zoology
The Manitoba Museum

Gordon Orians, Ph.D.
U.S. National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Washington

Fikret Berkes, Ph.D.
Distinguised Professor, Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, and Canada Research Chair in Community-based Resource Management

James Hare, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Head
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Manitoba

Terry Root, Ph.D.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author and Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Stanford University

Pascal Badiou, Ph.D. 
Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research
Oak Hammock Marsh Conservation Centre, Manitoba

John Jacobs, Ph.D.
Departments of Geography and Environmental Science at the Memorial University of Newfoundland

Dawn Sutherland, Ph.D.
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Science Education
University of Winnipeg

Isobel Waters, Ph.D.
Dept of Biological Sciences
University of Manitoba

Jeremy Kerr, Ph.D.
Department of Biology at the University of Ottawa

James Duncan, Ph.D.
Manager, Biodiversity, Habitat and Endangered Species Section,
Wildlife and Ecosystem Protection Branch, Manitoba Conservation

Nigel Roulet, Ph.D. 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Scientist, Professor of Geography and past Director of the Center for Climate and Global Change Research at the McGill School of Environment

Spencer Sealy, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus,
Department of Biological Sciences,
University of Manitoba

James Schaefer, Ph.D. 
Department of Biology
Trent University

Christian Artuso, Ph.D.
Bird Studies Canada – Manitoba Program Manager

Bridget Stutchbury, Ph.D.
Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology
York University

Renée Douville, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Microbiology
Department of Biology
University of Winnipeg

Raimo Virkkala, Ph.D.
Finnish Environment Institute

Bruce Ford, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Curator, University of Manitoba Herbarium
University of Manitoba

Jim Strittholt, Ph.D.
President and Executive Director of the Conservation Biology Institute.

Stéphane McLachlan, Ph.D.
Professor, Environmental Conservation Lab
Department of Environment and Geography
University of Manitoba

Nancy Turner, Ph.D. 
Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria

Eva Pip, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Winnipeg

Andrew Weaver, Ph.D. 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead author, U.S. National Academy of Science Climate Research Committee, Royal Society of Canada, and Professor and Canada Research Chair in Atmospheric Science in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria.

Jill Oakes, Ph.D.
Professor, Centre for Earth Observation Science
University of Manitoba

John Pastor, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Biology
University of Minnesota Duluth

Jennifer Shay, OC, Ph.D., 
Professor Emerita, University of Manitoba

Fiona Schmiegelow, Ph.D.
Professor & Director, Northern ENCS Program Dept Renewable Resources, University of Alberta c/o Yukon College

Jacques Tardif, Ph.D.
Canada Research Chair in Dendrochronology
Centre for Forest Interdisciplinary Research (C-FIR)
University of Winnipeg

Reed Noss, Ph.D.
Davis-Shine Professor of Conservation Biology
University of Central Florida

C. Thomas Shay, Ph.D.
Senior Scholar, University of Manitoba

Russell Greenberg, Ph.D.
Head, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
National Zoological Park

Andy Park, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Centre for Forest Interdisciplinary Research (CFIR)
University of Winnipeg

F. Stuart Chapin III, Ph.D.
U.S. National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

Robert Foster, Ph.D.
Principal, Northern Bioscience
Thunder Bay, Ontario

Iain Stenhouse, Ph.D.
Director – Marine Bird Program
Biodiversity Research Institute

Stephen Bocking, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Environmental and Resource Science/Studies Program
Trent University

Kenneth Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Cornell University

Faisal Moola, Ph.D.
Director, Terrestrial Conservation and Science Program
David Suzuki Foundation
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto

Robert Baldwin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Conservation Biology/GIS
School of Agricultural, Forest, and Environmental Sciences
Clemson University

Deborah McGregor, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Geography & Planning
University of Toronto

John Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Cornell University

Shawn Leroux, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
University of Ottawa

Malcolm Hunter, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Wildlife Ecology
University of Maine

John Sinclair, Ph.D.
Professor, Natural Resources Institute
University of Manitoba

Jeffrey Wells, Ph.D.
Science and Policy Director
Boreal Songbird Initiative and Visiting Fellow, Cornell University

David Punter, Ph.D.
Senior Scholar, Department of Biological Sciences
University of Manitoba

Rebecca Holberton, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Avian Biology
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
University of Maine

Frank F. Mallory, Ph.D.
Professor and Past Chair
Department of Biology
Laurentian University

Eduardo Inigo-Elias, Ph.D.
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

Susan Elbin, Ph.D.
Director of Conservation and Science
New York City Audubon

Bruce Robertson, Ph.D.
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Migratory Bird Center
National Zoological Park

Henry Huntington, Ph.D.
Arctic Science Director
Pew Environment Group

Herb Wilson, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Colby College

Gary Langham, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist
National Audubon Society

John Fanshawe, Ph.D. 
Senior Strategy Adviser
BirdLife International

Erin Bayne, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Alberta

David Wilcove, Ph.D.
Professor of Ecology, Evolutionary Biology & Public Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University

Nathaniel Wheelwright, Ph.D.
Bass Professor of Natural Sciences
Bowdoin College

Barry Traill, Ph.D.
Australian Director
Pew Environment Group

Terrell Rich, Ph.D.
Partners in Flight National Coordinator (USA)

Brett Sandercock, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Division of Biology
Kansas State University

Frederic Reid, Ph.D.
Director of Conservation Planning
Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
Rancho Cordova, CA, USA

David Mizrahi, Ph.D.
VP for Research and Monitoring
New Jersey Audubon Society

Floyd Hayes, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Pacific Union College

Daniel Buckley, Ph.D.
Chair, Division of Natural Sciences
University of Maine Farmington

David Haskell, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
University of the South

Fred Adler, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology and Mathematics
University of Utah

Dolph Schluter, Ph.D.
Zoology Department and Biodiversity Research Centre
University of British Columbia

 see the story in the Globe and Mail, September 30, 2011

 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/environmental-scientists-join-bid-to-protect-part-of-boreal-forest/article2185825/

Announcing the Making an Ethical Living Workshop Series

September 22-25, 2011

At the A-Zone, 91 Albert Street, in Winnipeg

September 16, 2011

Do you love your work as an activist, musician, artist or green business owner, but need to increase your income?

The Boreal Forest Network, Marketing for Hippies and the A-Zone present fours days of development workshops geared especially for activists, green and holistic businesses, artists and musicians.

Tad Hargrave takes the sleeze out of marketing for people who don’t like the usual sales gimmicks. He makes his living with his travelling series Marketing for Hippies and personal consultations with alternative minded business owners. His visionary presentations help take us out of the usual sales mindset and find honest ways to connect with people who will benefit from what we have to offer.

Susanne McCrea, from the Boreal Forest Network, came to activism from a media, promotions and marketing background, so it was a natural for the two to team up for this series of workshops.

“I’ve been making a living through non-profit fundraising for twenty years,” said Susanne. “The

marketing principals I apply are the same ones Tad teaches. We can’t be afraid to talk about money and we should be able to make a living doing what we do best for our community.”

Circle discussions are ongoing all weekend, with sessions on writing promo materials, direct action, DIY know your house, community building, self-care with yogi and kirtan musician, Beth Martens and a Saturday afternoon panel discussion called “Surviving and Thriving in an Alternative World.”

Attendance is pay as you can $1 – $40 a session.

Thanks to Mondragon and Tall Grass Prairie Bakery for soup and bread service at event

See borealforestnetwork.com for full program

RSVP to borealaction@gmail.com

(204) 297-0321

Community Directed Development Workshops

for Activists and Green and Holistic businesses

shifting the paradigm while making an ethical living

Thank-you to all concerned. Participants who signed up will soon be emailed a short feedback survey designed to direct our next steps toward community building workshops

(scroll down to the program)

RSVP at borealaction@gmail.com

September 22 – 25^th, 2011

at the A-Zone

91 Albert Street

Winnipeg, Manitoba

presented by The Boreal Forest Network, Marketing for Hippies and the A-Zone

 We recognize that it can be difficult to approach the marketing and “business” side of shifting the capitalist paradigm while we still have to make a living.

 These workshops will offer an opportunity to shift our attitudes about promoting our campaigns, services and products in an a way that doesn’t offend our ethics, targets the right people and gets results.

 The principals are the same, whether you are an activist or an alternative business person with a vision. There are many links that can be made between us to the benefit of all.

 The Boreal Forest Network has always enjoyed creating and nourishing collaboration. We have hosted annual capacity building development workshops, with a cross cultural activists focus, in Hollow Water First Nation, since 2005. This year we agreed to expand our approach to include alternative, green, locally owned small businesses, such as our fellow A-Zone co-op members, at Mondragon (worker owned, vegan restaurant, radical book store and organic grocery) the bike courier business we share space with and other like minded community members.

 Our approach is to share what we`ve learned through experience with a participatory, peer skill share approach.

 We are delighted to welcome “Marketing for Hippies“ guru, Tad Hargrave, to Winnipeg to share his extensive knowledge about green and holistic marketing. He, not only, knows his subject, his presentation untangles much of the mystery of marketing and takes the sleaze out of money making.

 We are learning from each other in this setting and the networking opportunities will be invaluable.

Project Background

The local activist community has identified a need to build capacity through skill sharing and development workshops on effective outreach and marketing tactics, media and communications strategies, fundraising and development. Much of the content translates to the goals of green, alternative businesses who share many of our goals and philosophies.

The Boreal Forest Network (BFN) has an extensive, long term, campaign background and experience in the delivery of workshops on these subjects. We are planning this series of workshops to meet the expressed needs of the Winnipeg based collective, the A-Zone, which will be open to local groups, alternative businesses. musicians, artists and individual activists. Most of these sessions will be offered free of charge, with some pay as you can workshops. No one will be excluded.

BFN joined the Albert Street Autonomous Zone Co-Op, when we moved into the collective space, in the fall of 2010. It is through meetings of the member groups that we identified this community need and agreed to adapt our summer program to meet it.

We have modified our plan for the annual Camp Manitowabi, usually held at Raven’s Creek, in Hollow Water First Nation to include a two part program, consisting of one evening and three days of open programs at the A-Zone, 91 Albert Street, in downtown Winnipeg.

Our project was originally developed to build capacity and skill sharing between activists and Indigenous communities. Our goal is to include this element in this urban workshop series.

The Albert Street Autonomous Zone

The Albert Street Autonomous Zone (or A-Zone) was founded in the Fall of 1995, in a three-story heritage building at 91 Albert Street in the Exchange District of Winnipeg.

In 1995, the A-Zone was founded with the express purpose of bringing together a diverse, but inter-connected array of people and organizations committed in very broad terms to social justice — whether this be feminist organizations, indigenous organizations, grassroots solidarity and human rights groups, anarchist book clubs, prisoner solidarity groups, or alternative worker-run businesses.

The A-Zone membership has changed over the years. but the principles underlying the building and space remain the same. In particular, the A-Zone is committed to helping build left leaning, community, and worker-run organizations — in order to contribute to the growth of self-sustaining infrastructure for the activist community, and for future generations. A critical component of this is supporting organizations that consciously attempt to eliminate hierarchies and divisions of labour based on, among other things, colour, class, gender, and knowledge — regardless of the particular focus and emphasis of the group. The A-Zone has invested directly in such community economic development and radical infrastructure by offering massively-subsidized rents to fledgling organizations committed to participatory economic and revolutionary principles — at least, long enough to help such organizations or workers’ collectives get started. Organizations such as Mondragón Bookstore & Coffeehouse, Arbeiter Ring Publishing, G-7 Welcoming Committee, Natural Cycle, and Dada World DataProductions have all benefited from initial A-Zone subsidy in this respect, particularly in their early months and years. For the most part, these organizations have also remained core members, comrades, and allies of the A-Zone going into its second decade of existence.

About the Boreal Forest Network

The Boreal Forest Network is a non-profit environment and social justice campaigning organization. We have a mandate to work to support Indigenous Peoples community led campaigns to protect their traditional territories. BFN is a grassroots group with a long standing relationship with the international, pan-boreal, Taiga Rescue Network, which is made up of campaigning organizations across the northern boreal forest region.

BFN director, Susanne McCrea, comes to activism from a media background where she worked both as a reporter and in advertising. It was this that drove her to activism, in fact. She felt there must be a better way to use her skills. She offered them to the media savoy Greenpeace Canada, where she spent ten years publicizing campaigns, working on media for direct action and assisting with development workshops for national staff. She, also, raised an annual budget of about $300,000, entirely in donations from individuals.

She has done promotions for touring arts groups, like the National Ballet and the Peking Opera. freelance advertising (back in the pre-activist days), has taught communications at Red River College and assisted with the Shaking the Tree activists program at the University of Manitoba.

She has been a campaigner with BFN for ten years and has worked to build community coalitions throughout the last twenty.

She is excited to pass along skills that will benefit her community and to further build networking opportunities among like minded folks.

Marketing for Hippies

Tad Hargrave is a hippy who developed a knack for marketing.

Despite years in the non-profit and activist world, he finally had to admit he was a marketing nerd and, in the end, he became a marketing coach for hippies. Maybe it was because he couldn’t stand seeing his hippy friends struggle to promote their amazing, green and holistic projects. Maybe it was because he couldn’t keep a 9-5 job to save his life.

Whatever the reason, for almost a decade, he`s been touring his marketing for hippies workshops around Canada bringing his refreshing and unorthodox ideas to conscious entrepreneurs and green businesses to help them grow their organizations and businesses without selling their souls. Over the years, he has become recognized as a leader in the wider movement towards green and local economies.

This all feels like a minor miracle as Tad spent his early marketing days learning and applying some very inauthentic, high pressure, extremely gross and pushy marketing approaches. This has made him suuuuper allergic to these kinds of approaches because he discovered they made him feel slimy (even in personal friendships), he didn’t sleep well and he’s very sorry to all those people he spoke with back in the day. After a decade of unlearning and unpacking that whole scene – he now feels ready and able to help other people find ways to market that feel wonderful.

He’s also considered a pioneer and leading thinker in the field of `Hub Marketing` and is puttering on a book about it’).

 RSVP appreciated so we can plan for room set up and meals

Program

Evening of Thursday September 22 – 7-10pm (come early for free soup and bread from Mondragon)

Tad Hargrave Marketing for Hippies 

pay as you can (really) Suggested fee $1 – $40 you decide what it’s worth and what you can afford at the end – no pressure, no strings attached.

September 23, Friday Day 1-4pm

Marketing Session with Tad and Susanne – also pay as you can suggested $1 – $40 at the end. 

geared toward activists but drawing the parallels between activist fundraising and marketing a business,(product or service) – open to activists, alternative businesses, musicians, artists

Presentation followed by break-out sessions and report back.

soup and bread by Mondragon by donation – 5-6pm

Building community facilitated by the A-Zone collective  - 6-8pm

free. donations accepted

Saturday, September 24  10am-12pm

open circle

Direct Action, facilitated by activist Dave Nickarz, Sea Shepards

Dave speaks from personal experience and shares some great video footage of actions on the high seas.

free, donations accepted.

Soup and bread by Mondragon by donation – 12-1pm

Surviving and Thriving in an Alternative World Panel 1-4pm

Kristen Andrews from Ragpickers Anti-fashion Emporium. the Flaming Trolleys, Murder City Roller Derby Queen and community events organizer, Jaclyn Marquis of Arbutus Clothing, Jesse Green, musician who recently toured with Buffy St. Marie and StrongFront Productions, Eton Harris, Mondragon, Susanne McCrea , twenty one years of activism, and Nathan Zahn of the Boreal Forest Network.

circle format

Long timers tell their stories followed by discussion.

If you have a product to sell – cd – or campaign material to share you are encouraged to bring it.

Child care will be available for this session (BorealKids art session in the building). Please RSVP

free, or by donation

Sunday, September 25

Come early and enjoy a fabulous vegan brunch at Mondragon – fundraiser for the A-Zone

circle discussion Self Care for Activists and Alternative Minded People, facilitated by Shannon (Mondragon) 11am-12:30pm

who cares for the caregivers

Beth Martens, and others tba

free, donations accepted.

Concurrent Workshops 1-5pm

DIY Know Your House 1-5pm

aka Where does my water – electricity – heat – come from….how do I fix it…when do I bring in an expert – Dave Nickarz, handy man to the environment, Sea Shepards ship fix it man, facilitating.

Tour of the A-Zone building, 91 Albert,  for illustration.

free, or by donation.

Writing and Messaging Workshop 1-5pm

Campaign messaging and writing for the media/psa’s/press releases/backgrounders/promotional materials, etc.

You are encouraged to bring something you are working on. If you have a laptop bring it. Or bring materials in print format.

Susanne McCrea facilitating. Susanne comes from a broadcast media backgound.  She`s worked in several radio stations and as a freelance writer. marketing specialist and arts publicist. She is a Journalism grad from Creative Communications at RRC where she has, also, taught communications. Susanne has conducted communications sessions as a quest at U. of M., and in her role as ED of the Boreal Forest Network at the annual capacity building Camp Manitowabi, in Hollow Water First Nation.

Special guest, cutting edge new media genius, Meg Rabbit,  artistic director and partner at Po Mo.

Check her out at  http://www.PO-MO.com

suggested $1-40

Finale networking soup and bread at Mondragon 5-6:30pm

Proposal Writing Mentoring Program or on camera media spokesperson training  will be announced here and held by pay as you can – sign up in advance – at a later date.

Thanks to Tall Grass Prairie Bakery for the generous bread donation!