"Inspiring Action for Nuclear Abolition"
National Grassroots Conference - August 14-17, 2008
MIT, Boston MA

Schedule of Activities

Last updated: July 23, 2008
Additional details are added periodically as they are confirmed.

Wednesday, 13 August

7:30pm: Facilitator Meeting

Thursday, 14 August - "Where do I fit into it? Personal connections to the nuclear weapons complex"

9am-9:45: Welcoming/Breakfast
10am-11:00: TOTB Welcoming cont.

    1. Who People are? Where are people from?
    2. Ice Breaker
    3. Introduce the MAP
    4. Early logistical lightning round

11:00am-12:30pm: Panel -- Finding Your Personal Connection to Militarism and Nuclear Weapons

Zia Mian: Thinking Outside the Bomb
Joe Gerson: Empire and the Bomb
Ray Acheson: Gender and Militarism
Ester Ceja: Placing yourself in the nuclear weapons complex

12:30pm-1:30: Lunch, logistics cont.
1:45pm-2:15: Energizer, icebreaker pt. 2
2:30-4:00pm: Panel -- The broader context of the Nuclear Complex ( an overview of weapons, power, and policy)

Arjun Makhijani: Carbon Free Nuclear Free,
Subrata Ghoshroy: US India Deal -- Why is Nuclear Power deal effecting nuclear proliferation?
Jackie Cabasso: The hidden architecture of US Militarism – Putting Nuclear Weapons in Context
John Burroughs: International Law and Good Faith

4:30-6:00: “Disorientation” tour of the military-industrial complex at MIT.
6:00: Dinner
6:30-8:30: Evening Discussion with speakers and social time


Friday, 15 August - Connecting communities: Local struggles, Environmental Racism and Indigenous Impacts

9am-10am: Breakfast
10am-12:30pm: Panel --Environmental Racism and Indigenous Impacts through history

    Leimomi Kamiya - Nuclear Colonialism in the Marshall Islands
    Mary Dixon - Downwinders
    TBA - Boston BSL-4 laboratory resistance
    Iraq Veterans Against the War

12:30pm-1:30: Lunch
1:30 pm-2:30: Sharing Current Campaigns
3:00pm-4:00: Skills Training Workshops #1
4:00pm-5:00: Free time: Choice between More multimedia on nuclear colonialism, more action plan brainstorming and writing, various discussions, etc.
5:15pm-6:30pm: tour/lecture of biolab area
6:30: Dinner
Evening Breakout: Movie screening and other social activities


Saturday, 16 August: Organizing and resisting: Strategies, lessons, and opportunities

9am-10am: Breakfast
10:00am-11:00: Skills Training Workshops #2
11:00am-12:00pm: Regional Breakout Groups
12:30pm: Lunch
1:30: Afternoon Case Studies: Clamshell Alliance
2:30: Learning from past movements -- Consensus workshop
3:30: Action Planning
Afternoon: TBA
6:30: BBQ Dinner
Evening: Strategy and organizing


Sunday, 17 August
- A Personal Disarmament: Living Lives of Change

9am-10: Breakfast
10am-11:30: Morning Panel: A Personal Disarmament – Living Lives of Change
Speakers: TBA
11:30-12:30: Finish evaluations & finalize action plans
12-1: Lunch
Afternoon: Present action plans
Evening: Closing ceremony