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Food & Water Watch
Virtual Conference & Benefit
PROGRAM GUIDE
3:30 – 8:00 pm ET / 12:30 – 5:00 pm PT
3:30 – 4:15 pm ET Welcome Session
12:30 – 1:15pm PT The road ahead is clear: we know what policies will bring us
closer to a future with safe food, clean water and a liveable
climate. It will take all of us to get there. Hear from keynote
speaker, Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of
Democracy Now!, as we kick off Food & Water Watch’s first
virtual conference!
FEATURING
Amy Goodman
Host and Executive Producer of Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! is an award-winning news program
airing on over 1,500 public television and radio stations
worldwide. Amy was the Gold Medal recipient of the
United Nations Correspondents Association’s Global
Prize for Climate Change Coverage. Through her
reporting, Amy holds corporations and the government
accountable.
Wenonah Hauter
Founder and Executive Director,
Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action
Wenonah has three decades of experience working on
food, water, energy and environmental issues. She has
trained hundreds of organizers and activists and worked
at the national, state and local levels to develop policy
positions and field strategies to secure real wins for
communities and the environment.
4:15 – 4:30 pm ET A Conversation with Senator Merkley
1:15 – 1:30 pm PT Join a live conversation with Senator Jeff Merkley of
Oregon. Representing a state hit hard by wildfires and
other climate-related hardships, Senator Merkley is
acting with the urgency that climate change demands.
Learn how Food & Water Watch and Senator Merkley are
working together to put people before the interests of the
fossil fuel industry to ensure we have a livable climate.
Food & Water Watch Virtual Conference & Benefit • Program Guide
TIME TRACK ONE: EDUCATION TRACK TWO: WORKSHOPS
Food, Water and Climate 101 Mobilizing for the Future
4:30 – 4:50 pm ET Taking Factory Farm Social Media as a
1:30 – 1:50 pm PT Pollution to Court Tool for Activism
Decades after the enactment of our Social media is a powerful tool to
bedrock environmental laws, factory spread awareness about a cause or
farm water and air pollution remains issue. Due to the format of social
virtually unregulated. These operations content - a picture, a short video, or
dump dangerous waste into waterways a few lines of text - the art of science
and contaminate communities’ drinking communication is an important skill
water, while emitting toxic air pollutants that goes hand in hand with successful
that threaten public health and drive social media campaigns. In this
climate change. Allowed to pollute with session, you’ll learn strategies about
impunity, factory farms have rapidly how to effectively explain big, complex
expanded to take over U.S. livestock environmental issues in an accessible
production. Hear from FWW attorneys and engaging way, and how to get
leading numerous legal efforts to views on social media – whether you’re
strengthen environmental protections using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or
and hold this industry accountable as something else!
we build towards a factory farm ban. FEATURING
FEATURING Arianna Chopelas
Tarah Heinzen Social Media Manager,
Legal Director, Food & Water Watch Food & Water Watch
Emily Miller Yonit Friedman
Staff Attorney, Food & Water Watch Social Media Coordinator,
Food & Water Watch
Tyler Lobdell
Staff Attorney, Food & Water Watch
4:50 – 5:20 pm ET Building Coalitions to Fight Our Stories Hold The Power:
1:50 – 2:20 pm PT for Environmental Justice How To Tap In and
We cannot win the urgent systemic Grow Your Mission
and meaningful changes at the federal This session will give you a new
level to protect our food, water, and perspective on how to tell stories that
climate without addressing underlying will stick with your audience and move
legacies of discrimination and, them to action. Learn the art of using
most importantly, without uplifting, stories to draw people into an issue
and strengthening a broad, diverse and illustrate important takeaways. This
movement for justice. The issues we is a skill that’s increasingly important
fight for disproportionately threaten for community activists and leaders
lower income communities, in dozens looking to move people to action and
CONTINUED CONTINUED
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Food & Water Watch Virtual Conference & Benefit • Program Guide
TIME TRACK ONE: EDUCATION TRACK TWO: WORKSHOPS
Food, Water and Climate 101 Mobilizing for the Future
(BUILDING COALITIONS continued) (OUR STORIES continued)
of cities across the country. Through a get attention on their issues. Through a
conversation with our partner, Newark guided exercise, you will craft your own
Water Coalition, we’ll discuss why outline for telling a story during this
we root all our work in environmental session.
justice, and the strength that coalition FEATURING
building brings to the movement. Angie Aker
FEATURING Digital Content Manager,
Matt Smith Food & Water Watch
New Jersey State Director,
Food & Water Watch
Ally Organizations
5:20 – 5:35 pm ET Protecting Voting Rights People vs. Fossil Fuels:
2:20 – 2:35 pm PT In the past few months, we have seen Join the Action in DC
many alarming new measures that This October, thousands of people will
make it harder for people to vote. We come to DC and participate in non-
need to expand access to our political violent civil disobedience to demand
institutions, not restrict them. Our that President Biden end the fossil
voices and our votes shouldn’t be fuel era. We will take action over five
outweighed by special interests or days to highlight the damage done by
corporate money. It’s through building fossil fuels, the climate impacts we are
political power that we are able to already facing, and the need for real
mobilize at the local, state and federal solutions rooted in justice. Join this
level to take on fights for safe food, session to hear more about this historic
clean water and a livable climate. Learn action and why it’s so important for
how protecting voting rights goes hand all of us to demand bold action from
in hand with what we do. President Biden.
FEATURING FEATURING
Ally Organizations Thomas Meyer
National Organizing Manager,
Food & Water Watch
5:35 – 5:45 pm ET
2:35 – 2:45 pm PT BREAK BREAK
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TIME TRACK ONE: EDUCATION TRACK TWO: WORKSHOPS
Food, Water and Climate 101 Mobilizing for the Future
5:45 – 6:05 pm ET Public Water For All: The Food & Water Volunteer
2:45 – 3:05 pm PT Water Access, Public Health, Network: Building Volunteer
Environmental Protection Leaders and Political Power
Learn about our strategy to ensure The Food & Water Volunteer Network
that every person in the country has (FWVN) is our new volunteer leadership
access to safe, affordable, publicly program. FWVN aims to build teams
controlled water. This session will of volunteers across the country that
discuss our national campaign to stop work hand in hand with FWW staff to
water shutoffs during the pandemic, push forward our campaign goals at all
and our pivotal study with Cornell levels of government. The FWVN puts
University about the impact of an emphasis on training and supporting
moratoria on COVID infections and volunteers to take on leadership roles
deaths. We will then dive into recent in their communities. Hear from staff
public water victories and our plans to and volunteers on how we’re building
advance long-term solutions to bridge our political power to win the policies
the current water-funding gap through we need to protect our water, food, and
the Water Affordability, Transparency, climate.
Equity and Reliability (WATER) Act. FEATURING
FEATURING Michelle Allen
Mary Grant Southern Region Deputy Director,
Public Water for All Campaign Director, Food & Water Watch
Food & Water Watch
6:05 – 6:35 pm ET Organizing to Win Advocating to
3:05 – 3:35 pm PT a Ban on Factory Farms Elected Officials
In 2018, Food & Water Watch was the In this session, we will provide training
first national organization to call for a on how to most effectively meet with
ban on factory farms. In just a few short your elected official at any level of
years we’ve brought together a powerful government — from a local council
movement demanding a factory farm member to a Member of Congress. The
ban and we’ve helped to introduce session will explain how to demonstrate
landmark federal legislation, the Farm power to move the elected official to
System Reform Act, to accomplish support the policy solution for which
this goal. Join us to learn more about you are advocating.
our efforts to ban factory farms, how CONTINUED
we built power through hard-hitting
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You can check for and download the latest version at foodandwaterwatch.org/specialevent. 4
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TIME TRACK ONE: EDUCATION TRACK TWO: WORKSHOPS
Food, Water and Climate 101 Mobilizing for the Future
(BAN ON FACTORY FARMS continued) (ELECTED OFFICIALS continued)
state campaigns, and how you can get FEATURING
involved in helping to win a more just Jorge Aguilar
food system. Southern Region Director,
Food & Water Watch
FEATURING
Krissy Kasserman Alan Minsky
Factory Farm Organizing Director, Executive Director,
Food & Water Watch Progressive Democrats of America
Rebecca Wolf
Senior Organizer, Food & Water Watch
Amanda Starbuck
Researcher & Policy Analyst,
Food & Water Watch
6:35 – 6:50 pm ET Supply-Side Policies for a Amplifying the Message
3:35 – 3:50 pm PT Future Free from Fossil Fuels to Hold President Biden
Food & Water Watch is releasing new Accountable
research about the current and future Learn how you can amplify the message
state of fossil fuel and renewable to hold the Biden administration
energy production in the United States. accountable for campaign promises that
Encouragingly, there is substantial tackle the urgency of the climate crisis.
momentum behind new renewable With our partner, F.Y. Eye, Food & Water
energy investment. However, without Watch members helped design a Public
supply-side policies that limit the Service Announcement (PSA) media
production, use and export of fossil campaign for our Biden Climate Watch.
fuels, the world will remain on track for We’ll reveal the final collaborative product!
climate chaos. Learn about the policies Through this project — and through our
we need to fight for to create a future network of organizers, volunteers and
free from fossil fuels. supporters — we will hold the president
FEATURING and other leaders in Washington
Oakley Shelton-Thomas accountable for their promises.
Researcher, Food & Water Watch
FEATURING
Jessica Toledano
Executive Director, F.Y. Eye
Andrea Wilson
Creative Manager, F.Y. Eye
6:50 – 7:00 pm ET
3:50 – 4:00 pm PT BREAK BREAK
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7:00 – 8:00 pm ET Benefit
4:00 – 5:00 pm PT Join us for a celebration featuring special guests, music and more!
FEATURING
Ed Begley, Jr. Rep. Nanette Rep. Brenda Rep. Jamie
Actor and Barragán Lawrence Raskin
environmentalist (CA-44) (MI-14) (MD-12)
Our Sponsors
Food & Water Watch doesn’t take corporate funding, so everything we do is thanks to the generous
support of people like you. Your support makes this conference — and all our work to protect our food,
water and climate — possible. We can’t thank you enough.
LEAD SPONSORS
Marilyn and Don Allan
Karen and Dr Alan Warren
BENEFACTORS
Lynne and Karen Azarchi
Beth and Mike Kelley
CHAIRS
Craig Merrilees
Alan T. Messer
COMMITTEE
Arden Down, Nancy Bernstein, Susan E. Gladstone, Carol A. Kurtz,
Ann H. Logan, Susan Weltan and Steve Jervis, Amy Wolf, Elsa Wood
ACTIVISTS
Kathy E. Sykes
DEFENDERS
Ken Dolsky, Bill Gee, Dr. Judy Kramer, Natalie Pien, Donna Skibbe,
Carol Soderholm, Jennifer Watts, Elaine Weir
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You can check for and download the latest version at foodandwaterwatch.org/specialevent. 6
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