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Our conference brochure for WDN's 2011 Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado.
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WDN ANNuAl CoNfereNCe
Challenging Corporate power & Forging a progressive agenda
A SolutioNS-BASeD CoNfereNCe
NovemBer 3 –6, 2011 / DeNver, ColorADo
Challenging Corporate Power & forging a Progressive Agendaa solutions-Based ConFerenCe
Why “Challenging
Corporate poWer & Forging
a progressive agenda”?
It has become increasingly clear that the corporate
stranglehold on our economy and our democracy
is a root cause of most of the major challenges we
face today. Corporate power currently has one aim —
maximizing profit — and its undue influence on our
government and our politics has corrupted and gravely
threatens the long-term health of our free society.
In every realm — whether it’s climate change and our
addiction to oil, or tax policy that is allowing the richest
1% of Americans to hoard resources while women,
children, and families struggle to survive — we can
see the results of corporate power and political power
working together. While it’s important to get to a shared
analysis of the problem, what’s even more critical is to
go beyond what’s wrong and identify the solutions and
opportunities for collective action that could build a new
power base — one that puts people, the planet, and
community at its center. During this year’s conference,
we will analyze corporate power and the progressive
agenda we need to build in a series of all-group
sessions focused on larger issues of the economy, as
well as through two issue-specific tracks:
1 Have an opportunity to engage in systems thinking and explore the
interconnection among issues to find just solutions.
2 Analyze the power we have and the power we need to make
transformational social change.
3 Have adequate time to engage, connect, learn, and reflect together.
4 learn about catalytic philanthropy that can lead to social and economic justice.
5 leave the conference with a plan for collective action.
tHe eNviroNmeNt
Today’s headlines are stark reminders of the influence
of corporate power in blocking real climate and energy
policy changes. Even in the face of the worst economic
crisis in almost 100 years, we are unable to dismantle
oil company subsidies or regulate energy development.
From the horrific oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, to tar
sands production and transport, to stalled climate change
negotiations, it’s clear that we must challenge the myriad
ways in which profit is valued over the environment and
look for sustainable, community-led solutions.
tHe meDiA
As we embrace the new digital frontier, we have the
potential to democratize information and empower
communities. We have access to game-changing tools
that allow us to tell stories in authentic voices, advocate
for those who have been marginalized, and organize
ourselves more quickly and more effectively. However,
corporate interests are threatening to limit access to
information and make it more difficult for those who
challenge their power and their ideas. In the world of
new media, we have an opportunity to confront the
mistakes of our past and build a reality where all voices
can be heard.
a diFFerent Kind oF ConFerenCe
Our conference in Philadelphia last year activated our
collective creativity. The significant feedback we got
was, “Thanks for the great information, but what do
we do with it?” Hence, this year’s conference is a
“solutions-based” conference. We will hear from some
inspiring speakers, participate in important skills-
building workshops, and learn from each other.
However, we will go farther than just learning about
critical issues and strategic initiatives. Our goal this year
is to leave the conference with an action plan in hand.
To facilitate this, we have re-imagined the entire
conference structure. We will explore the conference
theme Challenging Corporate Power & Forging a
Progressive Agenda by:
Breaking into two issue-based tracks for extensive
analysis, learning, and strategizing.
Offering a range of workshops that give you an
opportunity to hear information that is both introductory
and more in-depth.
Weaving gender and the economy and the role of
money and politics throughout the conference as major
strands of examination for our theme.
Allowing significant time for connecting, learning,
and strategizing together — in structured and
unstructured ways.
Providing time for reflection and joint action planning.
Offering more choices for programs and social activities.
As with all WDN programming, the Conference will
use the intersecting lenses of race, gender, class, and
sexual orientation throughout the convening.
We are so excited about this year’s conference, and we
look forward to being together in November! Come and
enjoy being in the company of so many like-minded
friends, learning alongside some of our brightest minds,
and strategizing ways to increase our collective impact
and forge a new progressive agenda.
ProgrAm ADviSory Committee
Cathy Carlson Lenore Hanisch Lizzi Juda Trish Weber Mary Willis
loCAl ADviSory Committee
Cynda Collins Arsenault Cathy Carlson Lori Colina-Lee Helen Gemmill
Margery Goldman Lynda Goldstein Ann Lederer Linda Shoemaker Carolan Stiles
DoNNA P. HAll
President & CEO
ConFerenCe attendees will
Conference HighlightsthursdaY, noveMBer 3
lAte AfterNooN (starting at 4:00 pm)
REGISTRATION
WELCOME RECEPTION
eveNiNg
DINNER
KEyNOTE ADDRESS By NAOMI KLEIN
Challenging Corporate Power
Naomi Klein, the award-winning journalist, syndicated
columnist, and author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise
of Disaster Capitalism, will share her insights and stories
of resilience and resistance.
DESSERTS AND DISCOuRSES
Select a small-group discussion based on your interest
(and mood!) and enjoy dessert over a lively conversation.
FridaY, noveMBer 4
morNiNg
MORNING ExERCISE
BREAKFAST AND CIRCLE MEETINGS
MORNING SESSION
Systems Thinking, Dismantling Corporate
Personhood, Building a New Balance of Power
Professor john a. powell, preeminent authority in the
area of civil rights and Executive Director of the Kirwan
Institute, will construct the frame for our conference
and expose the powerful history and assumptions behind
Pre-ConferenceCritiCal ConneCtions: developing a shared FraMework For raCe and gender JustiCe
Join us for this day-long “deep dive” into the
intersecting issues of race, gender, class, and sexual
orientation. This is an opportunity to spend some
time thinking critically about these issues, as well as
learning how to use these important lenses to make
our philanthropic and activist work more strategic and
effective. This program will be comprised of riveting
presentations, interactive workshop sessions, and time
for joint reflection and planning.
Thanks to the generous support of our Maximizing
Impact Campaign donors, we are pleased to be able
to offer this superb program at a heavily discounted
rate, with an even further discount for early registrants.
We will hear from leading scholars, thought leaders,
practitioners, and organizers in the field. Our list of
distinguished speakers includes:
J. Bob Alotta (invited), Executive Director /
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Linda Burnham, Co-founder & former Executive
Director / Women of Color Resource Center
Vanessa Daniel, Executive Director / Groundswell Fund
Mia Herndon, Executive Director / Third Wave Foundation
Alexis McGill Johnson, Executive Director /
The American Values Institute
corporate political systems and economic policies,
while also sharing a clear vision for “good” corporate
citizenship.
BREAK INTO ISSuE-BASED TRACKS
LuNCH AND FREE TIME
AfterNooN
MEDIA TRAINING
Presence & Authenticity:
The Key to Becoming a Media Star
Media appearances are performances. To be a good
performer, one needs tools and techniques. This session
will teach the tools and techniques used by professional
actors to create star presence through an interactive
master class with Joel Silberman, New york theatrical
director and media trainer to performers and successful
progressive candidates, leaders, and media personalities.
COOKIES AND CONVERSATIONS
Structured and unstructured conversations over sweet
treats and coffee.
AFTERNOON SESSION
Pursuit of Happiness: Women Driving a New Economy
As the country’s economic woes continue to grow,
scant attention is given to the impact of these economic
challenges on women, and the power that women
could have as advocates for a new kind of economy.
Speakers: Ellen Bravo, Director of Family Values @Work
Consortium; Eveline Shen, Executive Director of Asian
Communities for Reproductive Justice; Anat Shenker-
Osorio, an accomplished linguist specializing in the
application of cognition to political discourse.
DAte
Thursday, November 3
time
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
loCAtioN
Four Seasons Hotel Denver
CoSt
$100 if registration is received
before September 30, or $150
thereafter. Includes light
breakfast and lunch. Sign up on
the enclosed registration card.
Kalpana Krishnamurthy, Director / Gender Justice
Program and RACE Program / Western States Center
Eveline Shen, Executive Director /
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice
Jose Antonio Vargas, Co-founder / Define American
eveNiNg
DINNER AT THE HOTEL
AFTER-DINNER HAPPENINGS
you can choose to stay in or go out!
Movies at the Four Seasons Hotel
Enjoy an evening of engaging documentaries.
Denver After Dark
Explore nightlife in downtown Denver.
saturdaY, noveMBer 5
morNiNg
MORNING ExERCISE
BREAKFAST AND CIRCLE MEETINGS
Our Network: WDN in a Year of Growth
Come get a special sneak peek of WDN’s new website,
our 2012 plans, and hear about all the ways in which
WDN is innovating progressive philanthropy and
creating impact.
BREAK INTO ISSuE-BASED TRACKS
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised…
But It May Be Tweeted!
Join us for important skills-building workshops and learn
how to use social media and messaging to organize
and advocate for progressive social and environmental
change.
LuNCH AND FREE TIME
AfterNooN
What Winning Looks Like
Hear and learn from success stories presented by some
of the most talented environmental and social justice
organizers who have out-strategized and out-organized
corporate interests.
Change Takes Courage, and Money
Learn about and be inspired by catalytic philanthropic
investments and action from a panel of donor activists.
BREAK INTO ISSuE-BASED TRACKS
Transforming Our Knowledge into Action
Join in a facilitated group discussion that will bring
together all of our learning, new ideas, and energy to
begin laying out a collective blueprint for action.
Forging a Progressive Agenda: What Will It Take?
Maya Wiley, renowned civil rights attorney, policy
advocate, and Executive Director of the Center for
Social Inclusion, will share her innovative vision around
forging a truly progressive agenda, weaving in threads
of discussion, learning, and skills-building from the
previous days of programming.
eveNiNg
COCKTAILS AND CONVERSATIONS
Structured and unstructured conversations over drinks
and hors d’oeuvres.
DINNER/PARTy
Great food and lively entertainment!
sundaY, noveMBer 6
morNiNg
BREAKFAST
WDNCamp: Our First “Un-Conference”
This is where the official agenda ends, and you are
charged with making one up! Got a great idea that you
want to share? An issue or strategy you are dying to
discuss that didn’t get covered at the conference?
Find your way to the communal white board and
announce your own conference session on the fly, or
just browse the topics that emerge and see what
looks most interesting to you.
CIRCLE MEETINGS (OPTIONAL)
uRBAN WALK (OPTIONAL)
BOxED LuNCHES
FAREWELL
Naomi KleinKeynote speaKer
thursday, november 3
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist,
syndicated columnist and author of the New york Times
and #1 international best-seller, The Shock Doctrine:
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide
in 2007, The Shock Doctrine is being translated in over
25 languages and has over a million copies in print.
It appeared on multiple ‘best of year’ lists including as
a New york Times Critics’ Pick of the year. Rachel
Maddow called The Shock Doctrine, “The only book of
the last few years in American publishing that I would
describe as a mandatory must-read.”
Naomi Klein’s first book No Logo: Taking Aim at the
Brand Bullies was also an international best-seller,
translated into over 25 languages with more than a
million copies in print. The New York Times called it
“a movement bible.” A tenth anniversary edition of
No Logo was published worldwide in 2009. The Literary
Review of Canada has named it one of the hundred
most important Canadian books ever published.
A collection of her writing, Fences and Windows:
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization
Debate was published in 2002.
In 2007, the six-minute companion film to The Shock
Doctrine, created by Alfonso Cuaron, acclaimed
director of Children of Men, was an Official Selection
of the Venice Biennale, San Sebastien and Toronto
International Film Festivals. The Shock Doctrine was
also adapted into a feature length documentary by
award winning director Michael Winterbottom and
premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010.
In 2004, Naomi Klein wrote The Take, a feature
documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories
co-produced with director Avi Lewis. The film was
an Official Selection of the Venice Biennale and won
the Best Documentary Jury Prize at the American Film
Institute’s Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Naomi Klein is a contributing editor for Harper’s and
reporter for Rolling Stone, and writes a regular column
for The Nation and The Guardian that is syndicated
internationally by The New york Times Syndicate.
In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s won the
James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.
Additionally, her writing has appeared in The New York
Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Los
Angeles Times, The Globe and Mail, El Pais, L’Espresso
and The New Statesman, among many other publications.
She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School
of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil
Laws from the university of King’s College, Nova Scotia.
For more information on this speaker please visit
www.apbspeakers.com
ellen bravo the former director of 9to5, now
heads the Family Values @ Work Consortium, a network
of 15 state coalitions working for policies such as paid
sick days and family leave insurance. Her most recent
book is Taking on the Big Boys, or Why Feminism is
Good for Families, Business and the Nation. A business
editor once described her talks as “moving, witty and
sometimes bawdy.” Ellen has served on several state
and federal commissions, including the Congressional
Commission on Leave appointed to study the impact
of the Family and Medical Leave Act. Among her
commendations is a Ford Foundation Visionary award
and a Woman of Vision award from the Ms. Foundation.
Ellen lives in Milwaukee with her husband; they have two
adult sons.
proFessor john a. powell is an
internationally recognized authority in the areas of civil
rights and civil liberties and a wide range of issues
including race, structural racism, ethnicity, housing,
poverty and democracy. He is Executive Director of the
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at
The Ohio State university and he holds the Gregory
H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at the
Moritz College of Law.
eveline shen is the Executive Director of
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice. under
her leadership, ACRJ has become widely recognized
for its innovative leadership in the Reproductive Justice
Movement in working with grassroots communities,
providing thought leadership, developing effective
tools and resources for evaluation, training and
documentation, and organizing for long-term systemic
change. ACRJ leads the Strong Families Initiative,
which is changing the way we think, feel and act in
support of families, gender and race. Eveline serves
on the board of the Reproductive Health Technologies
Project and Movement Strategy Center. She has
also served as Principal Investigator for two National
Institutes of Healthgrants that explore the intersection
between environmental justice and reproductive justice.
Eveline was recently named by Women’s eNews as one
of the 21 leaders for the 21st Century. She is a 2009
Gerbode Fellow and holds a Masters in Public Health
from uC Berkeley in Community Health Education.
Joel silberman is the Founder and
President of Media Talent 2.0 Inc. Joel comes to political
communications from a disciplined theatrical and musical
career and is now a widely respected media strategist /
trainer for progressive organizations, online activists and
candidates. Some of his past and present clients include:
People for the American Way Foundation, the young
Elected Officials Network, Media Matters for America,
the New Organizing Institute, the Gay and Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation, the National Women’s Law
Center, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights,
Markos Moulitsas (DailyKos.com), Nate Silver, Mike Lux,
Lt. Dan Choi, GetEQuAL, Our Time (OurTime.org), and
numerous federal, state, and local elected officials.
anat shenKer-osorio combines
research in cognition and lingustics with practical
communication savvy — making sure messages come
through loudly and clear. As a strategic communications
consultant, she conducted multiple studies on how
people reason about the economy, inequality and the
crisis, presenting her findings as a keynote speaker
at Netroots Nation, at Center for American Progress
among dozens of venues. She consults regularly for
the Congressional Progressive Caucus, MoveOn /
Van Jones Rebuild the Dream project and the Department
of Education. Previously, Anat helped found Real
Reason, offering communication solutions to the ACLu,
Ford Foundation, Berkeley Media Studies Group and
the Center for Reproductive Rights, to name a few.
She writes for the Huffington Post, Reproductive Health
Reality Check and the Christian Science Monitor.
maya Wiley is the founder and Executive
Director of the Center for Social Inclusion, a policy
strategy intermediary organization which works to
unite public policy research and grassroots advocacy
to transform structural inequity and exclusion into
structural fairness and inclusion. A civil rights attorney
and policy advocate since 1989, Maya has worked for
the ACLu, NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Open
Society Institute. She was a contributing author to the
National urban League’s 2006 State of Black America,
and authored a chapter on race, equity, and land
use planning in Columbia, South Carolina published
in Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities,
Environmental Justice and Regional Equity, R. Bullard,
ed. (2007). She was named a New York Moves
Magazine 2009 Power Woman.
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For online reservations, visit www.fourseasons.com/
denver and enter group code WDN1111. Room
cancellation charges may apply, at WDN’s discretion, in
the event that the cancellation of your room reservation
causes our group to fall below our contractual minimum.
ADDitioNAl DetAilS
Dress is informal, from jeans to casual. November in
Denver can be chilly. Please refrain from the use of
scented products.
CANCellAtioN AND fee refuND PoliCy
The conference package fee of $690, as well as $350 of
the $750 registration fee for prospective members, will
be refunded if notice of cancellation is provided to WDN
by October 17, 2011.
AtteNDANCe
Because we are a relatively small group, it is important
that you plan on arriving in time for the conference
opening and plan to stay through the end of the
conference on Sunday.
resourCe rooM
We encourage you to bring materials that reflect your
practices as a funder, social networker, or activist.
Space is limited, and you are responsible for taking
home any leftover materials, including books, at the
conclusion of the conference. Please be mindful of our
carbon footprint when distributing printed resources.
The sale of goods is not permitted.
If you would like assistance with planning or need
further information, contact Kathleen Andreson at
415.814.1333 or [email protected].
information &AccommodationsFour seasons hotel denver
1111 14th Street
Denver, CO 80202
303.389.3000
www.fourseasons.com/denver
Four Seasons Hotel Denver is situated in the heart of
lively downtown Denver with the stunning backdrop of
Rocky Mountain views.
Dining options include a wide array of organic, locally
grown fare and cater to our commitment to providing
healthy, seasonal choices for our conference participants.
The hotel’s spa offers an array of pure and organic
Colorado-based products and treatments and an
urban sanctuary for conference participants.
WDN’s designated floor of meeting rooms offers
ample space for panel presentations and small-group
discussions, all on one floor.
Wireless access is available throughout the hotel.
These key features made this hotel the ideal location
for our 2011 annual conference.
room rAteS
King or Double Room: $220*
*plus applicable city and state taxes of 14.85%
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WDN CoNfereNCe PoliCieS
Registration for the conference is open to WDN
members and prospective members. All sessions and
meals are limited to registered conference participants
or invited conference contributors. Please respect
WDN’s non-solicitation policy.
CoNfereNCe CoStS
Registration Fees
The registration fee for existing members is included in
annual membership. The registration fee for prospective
members is $750 if received by October 7, 2011, or
$800 thereafter.
Additional Conference Expenses To Be Paid
By All Attendees:
Conference Package for meals, snacks, beverages,
Saturday evening party, etc. $690
The Conference Package begins with an opening
reception on Thursday afternoon, November 3rd, and
covers all meals and beverages through lunch on Sunday,
November 6th, with the exception of Friday and
Saturday’s lunches on the town. Please note that these
two lunches are not included and are the responsibility
of each conference attendee.
Critical Connections, Pre-Conference Program
(optional activity):
$100 if registration is received by September 30, 2011,
or $150 thereafter. Includes light breakfast and lunch.
Sign up on the enclosed registration card. Payment
must be received at WDN by October 7th. WDN accepts
checks or credit cards.
ACCommoDAtioNS
To reserve your lodging at the Four Seasons Hotel
Denver, please contact the hotel directly at
303.389.3000. Make your reservation by October 7th
and refer to the WDN Annual Conference to receive the
discounted conference rate, subject to room availability.
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