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2nd Annual Peace Summit: Organizing Towards Peace, Justice, and Conflict Resolution
Sat May 22, 2021 @ 10:00 am - Sun May 23, 2021 @ 2:00 pm EDT
A Virtual Conference for Peace
Saturday, May 22nd & Sunday, May 23rd
9am— 12pm & 10am— 1pm CST
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
We are excited to host Margaret Flowers as our keynote speaker, the co-director of Popular Resistance, an online publication for movement news and resources. Register today to attend her keynote address!
Organizing is a beautiful, and critical, act. It is an altruistic effort to gather community members, to educate them on important issues, and most importantly, to collectively move humanity towards a more just future.
Chicago Area Peace Action’s Student Network is dedicating their yearly Peace Summit to Organizing Towards Peace, Justice, and Conflict Resolution. Activists, organizers, and community members of all backgrounds and experience levels are invited to join and grow together to strengthen our movements. Join us to forge and reconnect relationships, increase the skills in your toolbox for change, and find inspiration to continue this important work.
A special thank you to the Peace, Justice & Conflict Studies program at Loyola University for supporting the Peace Summit!
10:10- 10:30 Keynote Address from Margaret Flowers of Popular Resistance
10:30- 11:15 Media Strategy for Organizers Panel
Featured panelists include:
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- Jerome McDonnell– Environmental Reporter, former host of Worldview with WBEZ
- Leonna McAfee– News Reporter for Medill News Service
- Hassan El-Tayyab— Lead Lobbyist on Middle East Policy at FCNL
- Chris Geovanis- Communications Director for Chicago Teachers Union
11:20 – 11:40 Peace Connect Rooms
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- Breakout rooms for attendees to discuss what they’ve learned and meet other activists. Think of it like chatting in the lobby between sessions at an in person event!
11:50- 12:00 BREAK
12:00- 12:45 Breakout Sessions #1
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- Activism 101 with Danaka Katovich
- Unarmed Civilian Protection Tactics with Nonviolent Peaceforce
- Lobby Visit Training w/ Hassan El-Tayyab of FCNL and Lizzie Turner of CAPA
- Building a Local Peace Economy with Kelly Curry
- Panel on Transformative Justice
12:45- 1:00 PM Closing remarks
Don’t miss out on this program! Register today for the 2021 Peace Summit!
11:00 Day 2 of Peace Summit Begins
11:10- 11:55 Antiracism in Organizing Workshop with Beautiful Trouble
12:00- 12:10 BREAK
12:10- 12:55 Breakout Session #2
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- Kingian Nonviolence Principles with Chicago’s Addie Wyatt Center
- Beautiful Trouble Strategic Campaign Design Workshop
- Department of Peacebuilding Campaign Presentation
- Creating Organizing Spaces that Don’t Lead to Burnout Panel with Kathleen Dillon, Ebony Deberry of One Northside,Nancy Bartekian of SWANA Chicago, and Leah Bae of The Burnout Project.
- CAPA’s Palestine Campaign Presentation
1:00- 1:45 Breakout Session #3
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- Activism Through Pop Culture with Frank Dorrel, the publisher of Addicted to War, and Emily Dorrel, CODEPINK’s Social Media and Communications Director.
- Community Organizing Workshop with Vincent Emanuele of PARC- Politics Art Roots Culture
- CAPA’s Defund the Pentagon Campaign Presentation
- Moving Beyond an Us vs Them Perspective with Peace Journalist Robert C Koehler
- Kathy Kelly on Why We Need to Ban Ban Killer Drones
1:45- 2:00 PM Closing remarks
Don’t miss out on this program! Register today for the 2021 Peace Summit!