Summit Schedule 2006

• Equal Access for All: Making the DREAM Act a Reality
• Environmental Justice: The Struggle to End Environmental and Economic Racism
• Youth in the System
• Establishing IndyMedia in Orange County: An Outlet for Social Change
• How to Make Your Campus Sweat-shop Free
• Prison Industrial Complex
• Labor Solidarity and Unionizing
• Global Women's Strike: Investing in Caring not Killing

• Human Trafficking: A Modern Form of Slavery
• AmeriCorps and Social Justice
• Murder and Mayhem: the Women of Juarez
• Military-Free Schools: Is it Possible?
• Engaging the Media: Getting Your Message Out
• The "Unrecognized Worker:" Mobilizing and Organizing Service Workers
• How You Can Change the World with Your Morning Cup of Coffee

A Mic & Dim Lights in alliance with The Human Writes Project presents:

Afro-Latinoguistics: Where Black is Brown, which brings together HBO Def Poets and Hip Hop Theatre artists of African, Latino, and Korean descent to poetically address and extinguish inter-ethnic violence by reshaping communal attitudes towards the other. The purpose of this presentation is to use spoken word, Hip Hop Theatre and performance to unearth communal emotions regarding race and gender, the historical roots of such emotions, and the development of solutions as well as address the lack of equality and social justice that plagues various cultures.

BESSKEPP, MARK GONZALES, GABRIELLA GARCIA MEDINA, JADE ROSS, AND SARAH KIM (SKIM) will be performing a series of pieces that articulate the reality of growing up in Modern America. A Q&A facilitated by the performers will follow the performance.