MAKE PEACE A PRIORITY IN 2008 AND BEYOND

Workshops & Training Sessions

SCHEDUAL

Issue Workshops
• Stopping War Where it Starts: The Militarization of the Schools, Targeting Kids, and What We Can Do About It.
• Unlikely Allies: How to Work with Conservative Churches, Rotarians and Reaganites to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
• The Way Forward in Iraq: Reconstruction, Recovery, Relief and Development
[Looking past withdrawal to reconciliation, peace building, reconstruction, multi-lateral diplomacy and aid]
• Turning the Tables on US-Iran Relations: Policy, Divestment, and Diplomacy
• The Contractor/Corporate Connection: Consider the ways this war is different from past U.S. wars in its use of out-sourcing what has typically been provided directly by government and the implications of this for activism.

Skill-Building Workshops
• Non-Violent Direct Action: What It Is and How to Do It
• Successful Media Campaigns, Incorporating Technology: Some Examples to Show How it Can Work
• Energizing Youth: How to Interest Young People in Peace
• Fundraising as an Organizing Tool

Peace Voter Workshops
• Creating an Election Dialogue: Help voters decide how they will vote by providing facts (voter guides, endorsements)
• Get Out the Vote Campaigns: How to Successfully Mobilize your electorate
• Clarify candidates’ stands: Using bird dogging and forums to enhance your election related messaging.
• Candidate Briefings: How to utilize this unique opportunity to move the candidates with information and logic.
• Organizing for Peace in Election Times:

o Third party candidates: What’s in it for the Peace Movement?
o Obama/Clinton Mania
o Other issues