Occupy Portland, Not Afghanistan--
Teach-in Sunday October 7, 2012 12-5 PM at PCC Cascade

PARKING available at all PCC Cascade lots, free
BUSES #4 or #72 to Albina and Killingsworth

  OPENING PANEL
(12:00-1:15 PM)
(Moriarty Arts Auditorium)

**End the Wars and Military Occupations--No Nukes, No Drones**

S. BRIAN WILLSON
is a Viet Nam veteran, trained lawyer and criminologist, who has been a long-time anti-war activist studying patterns of US lawlessness in foreign policy, and in its domestic criminal injustice system. An avid handcyclist, he delves in permaculture. He is the author of a psychohistorical memoir, Blood On The Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson (PM Press, Summer 2011). His web essays and blog can be found at brianwillson.com and bloodonthetracks.info. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

SABA AHMED
serves as the Co-Chair for Interfaith Council of Greater Portland is a member of Islamic Society of Greater Portland (ISGP). Saba has been lobbying against the wars in Washington DC for the last few years at the Senate and House Armed Services, Foreign Relations and Homeland Security Committees. She serves on various Afghanistan Policy workgroups and think-tanks. Saba holds her Juris Doctorate, MBA and Electrical Engineering degrees. While she strongly opposes all wars, she looks forward to keeping deployed troops safe through Islamic culture and sensitivity Trainings.

**Money for Jobs, Education, Health Care, Housing and the Environment, Not War**

SAMI ALLOY
is a longtime social justice activist who has been active with the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee, Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights, and the Portland Coalition to Defend Education. She is currently an organizer with the Oregon Working Families Party, where she is working on legislation to end student debt for students at public institutions in Oregon

**Restore Constitutional Rights**

STEVEN GOLDBERG
of the National Lawyers Guild is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and has been an attorney in Oregon since 1975. He focuses on civil litigation and the representation of labor unions and working people. Steven has also been involved in several more political cases over the years involving supporting the health of prisoners, ballot access, and military stop-loss policies. Notably, Goldberg was part of the legal team which successfully challenged the National Security Agency's warrantless electronic surveillance of an Islamic charity in southern Oregon.

**Main Street, Not Wall Street -- Power to the People**

AHJAMU UMI
is an organizer who has engaged in on the ground work for political, economic, and social justice on three continents and the Caribbean. He is the chair of the Black Working Group in Portland and the author of the social justice novel entitled "Find the Flower that Blossoms."

1. The Imposition of Order Through Violence: The U.S. in the Muslim World
(PCC Peace and Conflict Studies)
(Moriarty Arts Auditorium)

This will be an interactive workshop beginning with a presentation focusing primarily on the Middle East, in order to provide a context for understand anti-Americanism within the region and elsewhere abroad. Many basic facts are often excluded from being discussed in the U.S. The presenter will be examining how U.S. troops abroad function to create an "Order Through Violence" that benefits very few people and is contrary to promoting self-determination in the Middle East or elsewhere. This "Order" becomes manifest in military budgets that neglect U.S. funding for education, health care, and housing; produce instruments of repression like the Patriot Act and NDAA detention provisions; and reduce accountability for elected officials, bankers, and the media while devaluing both human life and the respect we should hold for religious and cultural diversity.

ELIJAH HERR, former Associated Students of Portland Community College President, recently completed M.A. in International Relations from the London School of Economics (with a BA in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley)

Facilitator: DR. MICHAEL SONNLEITNER, PCC Political Science Instructor & Chair of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at PCC.

2. Alternatives to Capitalism and War
(Freedom Socialist Party/Cascadia Chapter of the Pacific Green Party)
(Terrell Hall 122)

This workshop ties directly to the political platform "Main Street, Not Wall Street -- Power to the People". It demonstrates present examples of how the electoral arena can be used to build community and strengthen the anti-war movement to halt the war machine, raise solutions to the problems rooted in capitalism, and use the power of the vote to express our views and as a form of protest. Unrestrained capitalism has produced global markets and world war. The most capitalistic powers are the most warlike. What alternatives exist to continued capitalism and eventual self- destruction?

Presenters:
JORDANA SARDO is a socialist feminist educator and community activist, and has been active in the anti-war movement since the late 80s. She is the Portland organizer for the Freedom Socialist Party, local campaign coordinator for the Durham/Lopez "un-millionaire" presidential write-in campaign, and was a 2004 candidate for state representative.

MICHAEL MEO is a longtime Portland Public Schools teacher who retired last year. He is secretary of the Cascadia Chapter of the Pacific Green Party of Oregon and a former Green Party candidate for US Congress in 2008 and 2010.

3. Peak Oil & Empire
(KBOO)
(Terrell Hall 112)

A 500-year bubble of growth is coming to an end. Cheap oil is what allows jobs to be shipped abroad. It's the main cause of climate change. It causes and enables wars, particularly in the Middle East. It is the foundation of our debt-driven corporate structure. This workshop will describe what peak oil is all about, how it affects our economy and what life might be like on the downward slope. Conjoined with that will be a brief history of the European invasion of the Americas and the rise of capitalism. The final part will be how we can survive in a democratic and humane way, including a discussion.

PER FAGERENG has been at KBOO as a commentator and host for 25 plus years. His
show, Fight The Empire, focuses a lot on energy and the imperial economy. He's now writing a novel on the next 80 years in the life of America.

4. War Tax Resistance 101
(War Resisters League)
(Terrell Hall 100)

You can go to a rally and march for a few hours one day. You can actively resist war and support human needs every day when you redirect your federal taxes. War tax Resistance is a type of non- violent resistance that can be practiced in many different ways, with accompanying levels of risk. Emphasis will be placed on exploring individual motivation, the difference between civil disobedience vs tax evasion, knowing and accepting the possible consequences, and the importance of community.

PAM ALLEE or the War Resisters League/Oregon Community for War Tax Resisters grew up on Strategic Air Force Bases within and without the US, post WWII; began questioning Pax Americana and Class in grade school and never quit. "Many hands make light(er) work."

JOHN GRUESCHOW of the War Resisters League/Military and Draft Counseling project, has doggedly kept doing counseling work since the war against Viet Nam. He worked to open PPS high schools to counter-recruiters and now organizes with parents and veterans to bring counter- recruitment to students.

5. Where's the Money?
(Occupy Portland/People's Budget Project)
(Terrell Hall 101)

Where's the Money is a review of current funding issues in the Austerity era. A short presentation will lead to discussion. Austerity as a political tactic is focused only on social spending. Austerity politics is the constant refrain we hear from politicians. What they don't say is that the allocation of resources in our economy and country is what is causing the need for cuts. We say No Cuts. The politicians fund wars and give tax cuts to the wealthy, but want us to pay for their largess with social service cuts. Learn facts on Wealth, Income, Taxes and Debt.

Presenters include:
MICHAEL WADE of People's Budget Project.

1. End Wars and Occupations-- No Nukes! No Drones!
(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)
(Moriarty Arts Auditorium)

This will be a participatory workshop with four sections: Consideration of the revolution in the US ways of war fighting; a look in more detail at nukes, satellites and weapons guidance, drones and other "robotics," and "intelligence" collecting; American occupations around the world in terms of military bases, particularly in Asia; and what can we do to support movement away from militarism in each of these areas?

CAROL URNER was among the Portland women in 1961 who jump started the international Women Strike for Peace movement that helped get the nuclear atmospheric test ban treaty, gave birth to Portland WILPF and contributed to the demilitarization of Oregon. In 1966 the Urners moved overseas for 35 years where she worked with the poorest in six different countries and was so dismayed by U.S. militaristic and exploitative policies that, when her husband was killed in 2000, she returned to this nation determined to work for demilitarization, human rights and human security here and in the world...

2. To Defend Afghan Women, End the War
(Radical Women)
(Terrell Hall 122)

Brief presentation followed by discussion on the role U.S. imperialism plays in the oppression of women in Afghanistan. Will also discuss how to stand in solidarity to help liberate women in that country, and the need for an anti-war movement that puts the issues of the most oppressed including women and people of color front and center. One of the reasons for fighting in Afghanistan was the pretense that the U.S. could liberate women in that country, but the conditions and oppression of women have only worsened.

EMMA ALLEN is the Portland Area Coordinator for Radical Women.

3. The Surveillance Security State
(KBOO)
(Terrell Hall 112)

The workshop will cover the variety of ways that the US Government has to conduct surveillance of people in the United States and the laws related to the explosion of the Security State. The workshop will include information about the use of license plate readers in Oregon as well as information about the state's two Fusion Centers. These centers facilitate the coordination and dissemination of "intelligence" between all levels and types of law enforcement from local through national agencies. Learn how to spot new surveillance cameras going up in the Portland area and how to report them to a Nationwide web site. The new Security State is a real threat to all activists and needs to be understood if activism is to survive.

LINDA OLSON-OSTERLUND is a lifelong Oregonian and a self described anti-imperialist. She's been a program host and investigative journalist with KBOO Community Radio for more than 5 years. On her program A Deeper Look she has covered the explosive growth of government Surveillance since 9/11. Most recently she uncovered the existence of a secret Government Surveillance center located on the Clackamas Community College Campus in Wilsonville.

4. Non-Violent Conflict Resolution/Building an Anti-war Curriculum
(American Friends Service Committee)
(Terrell Hall 100)

The "Strategic Non-Violent Action" workshop uses multi-media and is interactive. Participants will learn history, techniques and will have a chance to reflect on how to peacefully de-escalate conflict using an intergenerational non-racist lens. In order to resolve difficult situations, we need tools. These skills are valuable for organizers, activists and all people who work to create peaceful change.

MIREAYA MEDINA is Peace Building and Conflict Resolution Director for the Portland Area American Friends Service Committee.

GREGORY SOTIR will co-present.

5. Cascadia Bioregion/Free Cascadia
(Cascadia -- Occupy Portland)
(Terrell Hall 101)

Several speakers will be talking about Cascadia as a bioregion, the Cascadian movement, issues of water, ecological issues, economics and the anti war elements in the Cascadian movement.

Presenters include:
ALEXANDER BARETICH, Occupy Portland

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