Redwood Sequoia Congress To Stand In Solidarity

This year\'s second annual Redwood Sequoia Congress
\"Who Owns The Energy of The Planet\" stands in
solidarity with the nonviolent protests of the
Corporate Agenda at the Washington D.C. World Bank IMF
meetings
this September. While we encourage those who can to
travel to Washington D.C. for
this important witness in the streets, the Redwood
Sequoia Congress
will concurrently hold sessions and dialogues
addressing the issues of the
privatization of the energies necessary to life.


BERKELEY CONGRESS TO EXAMINE ENERGY CRISIS, HUMAN
RIGHTS, THE
ENVIRONMENT

Famed radio-journalist, Larry Bensky, the foremost
defender and
spokesperson
for KPFA and Pacifica Radio, will open the three-day
Second Redwood
Sequoia
Congress at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian
Universalists, Friday
evening, September 28, 2001, and speak on the
privatization of the
media.

Designed as Berkeley’s human-rights and
environmental gathering of
the year,
the Congress, running from September 27 through the
30th, this year
will
examine the energy crisis in its broadest sense.

Increasingly, the energies of new ideas, of free
speech, of youth, of
labor,
and of the many natural energies which support the web
of life are
becoming
privatized. Shall these energies belong only to
corporations? Or, shall
the
access to the energies basic to existence be a human
right?

Hosted by the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian
Universalists, the
Meiklejohn
Civil Liberties Institute, The Ecology Center, the
City of Berkeley,
the
Plight Of The Redwoods Campaign, & others, the
Congress will feature
workshops, dialogue with panelists and speakers, and
strategizing
citizen
powered solutions.

Preliminary events leading up to the Congress are:
Friday Sept. 14th, Celebrating Our Power, Taking
Action Through Word,
Music &
Video. Berkeley Ecology Center San Pablo Near Dwight.
7:30-9:30p.m.Sponsored
By The Ecology Center & Plight of The Redwoods
Campaign. Donation.

Thursday, Sept. 27
Art & Revolution pre-Congress giant puppet and sign
making workshop
7p.m. to
9:30p.m. Bring Art Making supplies and small donation
for materials.
1606
Bonita at Cedar, Berkeley BFUU.

Friday, Sept. 28
The Redwood Sequoia Congress kicks off with a
pre-Congress \"People\'s
Energy
March\" with Signs and Giant Puppets and educational
leafletting. Meet
at
Berkeley\'s Martin Luther King Jr. Park at 5:00pm
Center at Martin
Luther King
Jr. Way in front of the tiled peace wall.

Saturday and Sunday\'s events feature a variety of
workshops and panels
on
\"How To Lobby & Win\", \"Food Energy Crisis\",
\"Watersheds & Forests\",
\"Taking
Back Our Power\", \"Imprisoning Human
Energies—Prisoners & Prison
Guards\",
“The Militarization of Space.