Training Schedule
Daily schedule: (times are estimates and times and content subject to change)
8-10 am: breakfast and morning circle
10-12 am: zegg forum
12-6 pm: climb trainings
6-8 pm: dinner and evening circle
Special events:
Sept 4: Interrupting Racism & Oppression workshop
Sept 7: Non-Violent Direct Action w/ Portland Rising Tide
Sept 8: Forest Carbon Science Workshop and History of the Forest Defense Movement in the Pacific Northwest
Topics for facilitated conversations and/or covered in workshops:
- Antiracism and indigenous relations
- Trainings:
- Indigenous sovereignty (ie. treaty rights, government-to-government relations, legal processes, suggested protocols, diversity of sovereign structures, complexity of tribal governments and relations with traditional bodies, etc.)
- Antiracism (ie. broader anti-colonial perspective, unsettling whiteness, making our internal organizing more accessible to black/brown/indigenous participants, interrupting racism at our events, etc.)
- Environmental Justice 101 (ie. ecological damage disproportionately impacts POCs, shift in perspective to center POC needs, problems with urban liberal white environmentalism, etc.)
- Working with Warm Springs specifically
- Reminder that confederation of Wasco (Upper Chinookan speakers), Warm Springs (Sahaptin speakers), and N. Paiute tribes.
- Trainings:
- Consent culture/antipatriarchy
- Nonviolent Direct Action (NVDA)
- Climb trainings
- Blockades
- Know Your Rights (KYR)
- How to not talk to cops
- How to talk to cops once in the system?
- Much larger issue: jail solidarity
- Some background links: midnight special manual; an ethnography; wikipedia
- Strategic training in the theory and practical roleplays
- Security culture
- Forests, climate, and fire
- Science backgrounder
- Consensus, decision-making, facilitation
- History of forest defense movement in Pacific NW
- Deeper spirit connections
- Plant walks
- Grief work
- Spiritual practices that have helped long-term activists
- Energetic roles
- How to help people appreciate the diversity of skills/ways that people bring to organizing. Esp. extroverts to appreciate quieter ways.