Saturday Session I/II 10:15-11:45, 1:45-3:15

Fair Trade 101 Andrew Kohan, National USFT Coordinator; Zachary Ray, Oxfam CHANGE Leader New to the Fair Trade movement? Learn and discuss what the movement is all about! Fair Trade is a trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency and respect, that seeks greater equity in international trade. We will explore the problems with global trade that necessitate Fair Trade and how Fair Trade can help through empowering alternatives, and where the movement is headed. Food Systems 101 Amie Frisch, CSSC Foods Initiative (session 1); Maren Poitras, CSSC Foods Initiative (session 2) Come engage with the core tenants of a sustainable food system: social justice, economic viability, and environmental sustainability. Do you ever wonder where your food comes from and how it might affect the environment, your community, the global South, or your health? Do you want to be a more informed, and therefore more effective activist? In this workshop we will explore our current food system as a whole, and learn how colleges and universities fit into the big picture. We will also explore some exciting new developments as well as visions for the future. Potential, Pitfalls, & Paradoxes in Fair Trade: 40 Years of History Christopher Bacon, CAN Researcher This workshop will start with a short review of the fair trade movement and its convergence with sustainable coffee partnerships. We will focus on the how this connects to student & youth organizing efforts in the USA. I will draw from a recently published book to provide a concise yet comprehensive assessment of the effects of fair trade coffee. We will identify the transformative potential, daunting pitfalls and paradoxes that organizers must carry as they cultivate social justice and sustainability in our food systems. Labor, Fair Trade, and Justice in our Food Systems Sandy Brown UC Berkeley/Swanton Berry Farms This session will use the experience of a local unionized, organic farm and its work with both the United Farm Workers Union and the Domestic Fair Trade Association as a point of departure for exploring different strategies for promoting worker justice in agro-food systems. Trade unions and third party certification systems like Fair Trade provide different models for promoting fair labor practices and solidarity. We will examine the effectiveness of these models and consider how they might work together to achieve their mutual goals. Fair Trade and Youth Empowerment for High School Students Hope Bidga-Peyton, United Students for Fair Trade Learn best practices and next steps in bringing Fair Trade products into a secondary school setting. Come learn and share how to inspire dialogue, find solutions, and build lasting connections. Making Connections and Deepening the Debate: Immigration, Food Polices and (Un)Just Trade Brian Emerson, UCSC Cooperative Development: Change Rooted in the Soil Kate Curnow, student; Pachamama The facilitators will provide a small background on the fundamentals of cooperative based development, and on their own experience working with a cooperative. Then they'll open it up and discuss the group's personal experiences with cooperatives of all kinds, and discuss what involvement with different cooperatives would entail (as well as the responsibilities that an organizer/activist would have within the cooperative setting). This workshop is ideal for anyone looking to enrich their experience with the FT world, as direct involvement and connection to a cooperative can increase the understanding and love of FT, PopEd, and the Cooperative movement. As a group we can talk out what each is looking for in a coop experience, as well as what can happen with a coop that would never be expected. Alternate Trade & Making the Movement Meaningful for Producers Tim Galarneau, Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Saturday Session III 3:30 - 5:00

Real Food Challenge: Are You Up For It? Anim Steel, The Food Project; Amie Frisch, CSSC Foods Initiative The Real Food Challenge is an up-and-coming national campaign that unites and empowers students and their allies to create a food system that truly nourishes people, communities, and the earth. At hundreds of different schools, students are already standing up and taking back the food system. We are reclaiming land for gardens and farms; we are raising awareness of the injustices done to farmers abroad; we are demanding a change in the business of dining halls and food procurement. And this is just the beginning… In this workshop you will learn how YOU can take part in the Real Food Challenge. Confronting Oppression in the Food Justice Movement Karie Boone, CAN; Jessica Bell, CFJC; Nikki Henderson, CSSC/Green for All This workshop will provide an overview of anti-oppression theories and how it relates to you, other participants, and the growing food justice movement. This workshop will be composed of a series of interactive and thought provoking exercises, including theater of the oppressed techniques. Be prepared to challenge yourself, learn and have fun! Rice: Call For Linking Fair Trade, Local, and Indigenous People Mike Aguilar, Chris Westcott, Craig Madsen, ENGAGE As an activist/foodie/ethical consumer should I support fair trade, local/organic food, indigenous food or just whatever’s cheap? Come to this interactive workshop and discuss when and why we should support fair trade vs. local vs. indigenous foods. Also, come discuss with how we can get our universities to source fair trade/local/indigenous foods that go beyond just fair trade coffee. Lastly come enjoy a multimedia presentation that shares producer’s perspectives. Youth Empowerment, Food Systems, and Label Reading Doron Comerchero, Food What?! at Life Lab This workshop will be all hands on, interactive, and geared toward a high school audience, but all are welcome to attend/contribute. We will trace the journey of a local and global strawberry to help define and then discuss what a just and economically viable food system is. Using the most popular drinks today, we will then look at how to empower yourself in your food purchasing through label reading. We will discuss youth dollar power and one successful technique of advocacy. Strawberry smoothies will be integrated as a "case study." Get Clean and Have a Clean Conscience Adam Eidinger and Ariel Vegosen, Dr. Bronners Did you know that Dr. Bronner’s is Fair Trade and Organic?! Come find out how and why we went Fair Trade, with a special highlight on our Holy Land olive oil project. Adam Eidinger has just returned from a trip to Palestine and Israel where we are sourcing 80 metric tons of olive oil annually. Hear Adam speak about his West Bank experience, where we get our olive oil from Canaan Fair Trade. It is important to note that doing business in the occupied territories during a conflict takes courage and determination. The 647 farmers participating in this program are an example of non-violent resistance to war and occupation. Dr. Bronner's Fair Trade olive oil project is increasing both Palestinian and Israeli livelihoods and peace. We will show a DVD on Fair Trade and facilitate an open conversation around Fair Trade. Dr. Bronner’s Fair Trade and organic products include liquid soap, bar soap, body balms, lotion, lip balm, and 19 new Fair Trade products coming out this March! Find out all about it at our workshop! Calling All Chocolate Lovers! Global Exchange Calling all Chocolate Lovers! In this fun, interactive, multimedia presentation, learn the story of chocolate and how you can protect the planet, support the efforts of cocoa farmers to build a bright future for their children, and help bring an end to abusive child labor in the cocoa fields! Sweet! Sustainability 201: Building Bridges and Strengthening Alliances Crystal Durham, CSSC; Todd McPherson, USFT The intention of this workshop is to foster dialogue that explores the interconnections and roots of many unsustainable practices that permeate our world, and to begin thinking strategically about how we can transcend the complex challenges we now face. Through collective examination of these roots and interconnections, we aim to reshape contemporary approaches to environmental and social justice work, encouraging those in this burgeoning movement to broaden their perspectives and strategies to more effectively facilitate systemic transformation and long lasting change. While campaigning for green technologies, waste reduction, local sourcing, and fair trade (both international and domestic) are all important pieces of the puzzle, it is important to remember the interconnections between these things and to synergize our work through creative, collaborative, outside-the-box strategies. Networks for such collaboration now exist and are stronger than ever, and now is the time to start talking and thinking about how we can build the bridges that will allow us to work together towards the sustainable future we all envision. Community Empowerment Through Garden Education Program In Community and Agroecology hosts Slow Food USA on Your Campus Cecily Upton, Slow Food in Schools Coordinator, Slow Food USA What is Slow Food? How can the principles of Slow Food help youth create a more just and sustainable food system? How can we use the pleasures of the table to motivate action? This workshop will explore Slow Food--the idea and the organization--and offer students concrete opportunities for connecting their work to a local, national, and international movement.

Sunday Leadership Session IV 10:15 - 11:45

Organizing 101 Crystal Durham, CSSC Fair Trade and Beyond Todd McPherson, USFT West Coast Coordinator; CAN representative This workshop is premised on the idea that fair trade as it currently exists is not an end in itself but a beginning, a good first step. We will begin with an exploration of current ideas of fair trade followed by a discussion of existing problems within the system such as North/South power dynamics, working w/in an exploitive international trade system, and limits to consumer choice based change. We will conclude by creatively discussing ways through these challenges, available alternatives, where we would like to see fair trade in ten years and how we can make these changes a reality. Campus Leadership in Food Systems Tim Galarneau, CSSC Foods Initiative; Grace Voorheis, CAN What are values that make you think of leaders? Not happy with your schools choices in food/beverage purchasing? Come learn, engage and share in this workshop focused how to encourage your campus to make positive changes in their food systems. We'll also discuss what inspires us to be activists and what values we want to see in our movement's leadership. Together, we can create a vision for the future of our campus food system and work on next steps to ensure we are part of that transformation. Student Farm & Garden Leadership Amy Rhine, UC Santa Cruz; Amie Frisch, San Jose State University Come spend the morning with friends in the Kresge Garden, a collectively managed campus garden space tucked beside an oak grove and a beautiful meadow. We'll hear the story of the garden, learn of its recent revival, and plant an apple tree together dedicated to the positive future of food and justice. A major focus of this participatory workshop is to provide a space to share our own unique stories, successes, and challenges for starting garden projects, and share tangible next steps for getting projects off the ground (or is it in the ground?). How to Establish an "Official" Education that Integrates Sustainable Ag and Food Systems Damian Parr, UC Davis The university is first and foremost an educational institution, so let's discuss success stories and strategies for how students work with staff, faculty, and administrators to establish instructional student farms, sustainable ag. and food systems classes, curricula, and majors! Let's transform dinning options and purchasing policy by transforming the way formal EDUCATION, CLASSES and MAJORS are designed! We can be a part of creating official degree granting programs that are action-oriented in their study of sustainable ag., fair trade, organic farming, etc. in the classroom and in the field! Bringing It Back: Experiential Learning in a Field Study Jack Odell, Sarah Tiffany, CAN Are you interested in studying abroad in Central America, living in rural farming communities, learning where coffee is grown, harvested, and processed? Come listen and participate with experienced interns to discuss advantages/challenges of living and learning in a rural farming community and discovering first hand the realities of global trade. Topics such as globalization, urbanization, confronting cultural differences, and cross-cultural communication will be tied into first hand experiences. This multi-media presentation will illustrate hands-on project opportunities taking place in a small Costa Rican community. Become an active part in a global farmers market! Steps for Funding Campus Movements Aurora Winslade, Sustainability Co-Coordinator at UCSC; Rachel Barge, Patrick Ford, TGIF at UC Berkeley Students throughout the country are passing student fee referendums to support campus sustainability efforts. UC Santa Cruz & UC Berkeley will share how they campaigned for and have operating student-funded green Initiatives on their campus to forward the movement! Leadership Training: Direct Action Jessica Bell, California Food & Justice Coalition Non-Violent Direct Action Tactics. Direct action campaigning underpins countless successful movement efforts, from the civil rights struggle in the '60s to the Florida Immokalee workers campaign for decent wages. This workshop provides an introductory overview of why, how and when we use direct action in a campaign. Leadership Training: Media Strategy Heather Fenney, California Food & Justice Coalition “Winning the Battle of the Story" Every day we are bombarded by sophisticated stories that try to sell us lousy products, bad policies and phony politicians. How can we intervene in this toxic media scape and move new ideas that shift the culture towards sustainability and justice? Learn how to integrate messaging and storytelling into your campaign so that your campaign is better received by the media, allies and the public. This workshop is based upon trainings designed by Smart Meme.