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Global Social Responsibility Conference*
October 22 – 25, 2012 (10/13/2012 update)
Program available online via www.stcloudstate.edu
Amy Goodman, Keynote Speaker
7:00 pm in Ritsche Auditorium - Wednesday, Oct 17
Award-winning journalist, host and executive producer of Democracy NOW!
2012 SPONSORS: SCSU Social Responsibility Program in collaboration with SCSU Women’s Center,
SCSU University Programming Board, the St. Cloud Technical & Community College and the SCSU School of Education
Thanks to our 2012 Co-Sponsors for making this event possible: Asian Students in Action, Anna Marie’s Alliance, Ethnic and Women’s
Studies, Environmental and Technological Studies, Global Studies, Human Relations, Mass Communication, Multicultural Resource
Center, Multicultural Student Services, Sociology, and Theatre and Film Studies.
Monday, October 22, 2012
10:00 - 10:50 Deconstructing Race, Power and Disparity in the Food System Atwood Theater
Autumn Brown, Common Fire Foundation, Organizer, Theologian, and Artist
10:00 - 10:50 Conversion of Local Knowledge and Global Social Responsibility Alumni Room
Dr. Waruingi, Ustawi Research Institute
Global agencies and multinational corporations are exploiting the knowledge of indigenous peoples in
complete disregard of local knowledge to the detriment of local people.
11:00 - 11:50 Film: Not Just a Game: Power, Politics, and American Sports Atwood Theater
American sports have been at the center of some major political debates and struggles. Zirin traces how
American sports have glamorized militarism, racism, sexism, and homophobia, then excavates a forgotten
history of rebel athletes who stood up to power and fought for social justice beyond the field of play.
11:00 - 11:50 The Impact of the Anti-Marriage Amendment on LGBT People and Their Families Alumni Room
Denny Smith, Training and Development, PFLAG
Designed to stress the importance of defeating the proposal to place a ban on same-gender marriage into
the constitution, learn to discuss this highly divisive issue in a calm and persuasive manner.
12:00 - 1:15 Film: Kepstono Rotwo (Abandon the Knife) Atwood Theater
Angelina Lokere, and others; Dr. Mumbi Mwangi, facilitator
A powerful film of girls and women challenging female genital mutilation in Kenya, and of men who are
evolving to support girls and women.
1:00 - 1:50 Film: Hot Coffee Alumni Room
Corporations are eroding civil rights through manipulation of state supreme court elections, requiring
mandatory arbitration, and putting caps on damages.
2:00 - 2:50 Brother Time: Ethnic Conflict in Kenya Atwood Theater
Film and Discussion by Godfrey Mganya, Social Responsibility Program
Students Organized for Change (SOC) Club
2:00 - 3:15 The End of Speciesism, Capitalism and Environmental Destruction Alumni Room
Dr. Anthony Nocella and Kim Socha, Institute for Critical Animal Studies
An examination of how speciesism underpins human oppression, capitalism and environmental
destruction and how all these elements intertwine to create a culture based upon the exploitation of other
living beings. What are the alternatives?
If special accommodations are needed to attend any of these events, please call 308-3124 by October 17, 2012
For information on the Social Responsibility Masters Program, see www.stcloudstate.edu/socialresponsibility
3:00 - 4:15 Voter ID: Restricting Voting Rights – How we got there and where we need to go
Keesha Gaskins, Senior Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice, NYC, SCSU Alum Atwood Theater
A critical look at the new voter ID constitution amendment that will keep the young, elderly, minorities,
and the poor from exercising one of the most fundamental American rights. The amendment will make
drastic changes to the way we vote nationally and specifically here in Minnesota.
4:00 - 4:50 Do it Yourself! Save the Environment and Your Pocketbook Alumni Room
Rebecca Bates, Advocates for Animals and the Environment
5:00 - 6:30 Positively Pro-Choice Alumni Room
Students for Choice panel on Reproductive Rights
5:00 - 6:30 Climate Change: Moving Beyond Coal to Clean Energy, Increasing Solar in Minnesota
Jessica Tatro, Sierra Club Atwood Theater
Global Climate Change is real and largely caused by human behavior. Temperatures are rising and are
already having impacts across the globe. Pollution from energy sources such as coal plants is a huge
contributor to global climate change. We can continue to invest in dirty fossil fuels that pollute our air,
water and change our climate, or we can invest in a clean energy future. Learn how to turn things around.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
9:30 - 10:45 Consequences of Sexism and Racism at SCSU: Women of Color Discuss Solutions Atwood Theater
Panelists: Dia Yang, Marqueda Ratliff, Kristine Silapheth, Veronica Mora
There are many empowering and strong women of color that attend SCSU, but how do they get there?
These women regularly face racism because of their skin and their cultures. The panel of SCSU students
would like to share their stories of discrimination, empowerment, and activism.
9:30 - 10:45 “Common Possession” Alumni Room
Andrew Nordby, Mass Communications
11:00 - 12:15 Crime After Crime Atwood Theater
Anna Marie’s Alliance, Film and Discussion
Deborah Peagler, a woman brutally abused by her boyfriend, was sentenced to 25 years-to-life for her
connection to his murder. Twenty years later a law allowing incarcerated domestic-violence survivors to
reopen their cases was passed. A pair of attorneys was convinced they could free Deborah in a matter of
months. They didn’t know of the depth of corruption and politically driven resistance they’d encounter.
11:00 - 12:15 Land Grabs in Africa and Latin America Alumni Room
Dennis Keeney, Senior Fellow, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
12:30 - 1:45 Over There is Over Here – Warfare’s Environmental Devastation Comes Alumni Room
Larry Johnson, President of Minnesota Veterans for Peace
Looking at war-related environmental stressors such as agent orange, depleted uranium, PTSD, et al; how
the tragic effects linger during deployment, but how they also return home to affect soldiers’ families and
future generations. We will explore how to protect ourselves through local and national discourse.
12:30 - 1:45 Film: We’re Not Broke Atwood Theater
We’re Not Broke documents how U.S. corporations have been able to hide over a trillion dollars from
Uncle Sam, and how a growing number of Americans, as they struggle to survive, are taking to the
streets, demanding that corporations pay their fair share. Corporations – with intimate ties to our political
leaders – are concealing colossal profits overseas to avoid paying U.S. income tax.
2:00 - 3:15 The Voter ID Amendment: What You Should Know Alumni Room
Kathy Bonnifield and Kenza Hadj-Moussa, Citizens for Election Integrity
“Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to require all voters to present valid photo identification to
vote and to require the state to provide free identification to eligible voters, effective July 1, 2013?” The
question fails to mention that if this passes, provisional ballots—something we don’t have in Minnesota—
would also be placed in the Minnesota Constitution while same day voter registration will be in jeopardy.
2:00 - 3:15 Film: How to Start a Revolution Atwood Theater
Gene Sharp, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and leading expert on non-violent revolution, reveals how his
work has given a new generation of revolutionary leaders the weapons needed to overthrow dictators.
Gene’s 198 steps to non-violent regime change has spread across the globe in an unstoppable wave of
profound democratic change. This is the story of the power of people to change their world.
3:30 - 4:45 The 6th Mass Extinction, Saving Endangered Species, and the Minnesota Wolf Hunt
Collette Adkins Giese, Staff Attorney, Center for Biological Diversity Atwood Theater
Animals and plants are interconnected with the survival of human beings. Ms. Giese is a biologist, an
attorney, and has worked on issues relating to wolves including a recently filed a lawsuit to put an
injunction on this year's wolf hunt in Minnesota. She will address the 6th mass extinction of species, the
Center's work for endangered species, and the recent lawsuit to save the wolves of Minnesota.
3:30 - 4:45 Stop Police Brutality! Constituent-led Organizing to Challenge Police Misconduct Alumni Room
Citizens United Against Police Brutality
This presentation provides information on the use of constituent-led organizing as an effective model to
empower the community and address a form of state-sponsored oppression.
5:00 - 6:30 Identity Prism Workshop: Celebrating and Embracing All Our Identities Alumni Room
Asian Students in Action
Along with the growth in the population, we need to embrace the diversity that is amongst us and
celebrate each of our identities as we continue to grow individually and as a community. We will host
discussion on levels of identity and what this identity means to you as an individual and as a community.
Find out how your community feels about their identities and where you stand within your community.
5:00 - 6:15 Working for People and the Earth: Urgent Issues in Minnesota Atwood Theater
Minnesota Senator Patricia Torres Ray
Description to be published in the next update…
7:00 - 9:00 Film: Miss Representation Atwood Theater
Jenna Stammen, Women’s Action
The film explores how the media’s misrepresentations of women have led to the underrepresentation of
women in positions of power and influence.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
9:00 - 9:50 Sentient and Silent: A Call to Protect Atwood Theater
Christine Coughlin, Minnesota Voters for Animal Protection
Animals are capable of experiencing pain, and uniquely unable to protect themselves from suffering
caused by humans. Individual acts of animal cruelty upset us, but there is also a need to address unseen
cruelty to animals. Learn to be an effective force to prevent animal suffering by impacting public policy.
9:00 - 9:50 NGATHA International: Advancing the “Common Good” for Women and Children in Africa
Njeri Clement, NGATHA International Alumni Room
NGATHA International makes efforts to engage our shared responsibilities and commitment to advancing
the common good for the people of Africa through HIV/Aids initiatives.
10:00 - 10:50 School of the Americas Protest at Ft. Benning, GA Alumni Room
Amnesty International – CSB/SJU (Rachel Ziegler, Ann Rogosheske)
10:00 – 10:50 Challenging the Minnesota Marriage Amendment Atwood Theater
Justin Michael, Minnesotans United for All Families
11:00 - 11:50 “SCRAPEthePAINT” Alumni Room
Marissa Newton-Denila, SCSU Alum (Attendance is limited)
SCRAPEthePAINT is a project to encourage women to begin to look at themselves and their bodies with
a new set of lenses. Participants are photographed in their natural form, free of makeup or photo-
retouching. Each woman’s portrait functions as an individual challenge to the US standards of beauty.
11:00 - 11:50 Film: Two Spirits Atwood Theater
Scott Nelson, LGBTQ activist, U of W, Superior, Sociology and First Nations Studies
Richard LaFortune, who worked on the documentary Two Spirits, was just invited with his colleagues to
the White House to be recognized by President Obama for his work with Native American two-spirited
peoples or the GLBT community. In the film Richard gives the best definition of gender in the pre-Euro
invasion. The film surrounds the murder of a young two-spirited man who was killed for his identity.
12:00 - 12:50 First Amendment Rights on Campus Alumni Room
Teresa Tompkins, Social Responsibility Program
12:00 - 12:50 Maintaining a Strong Violence Against Women Act Atwood Theater
Donna Dunn and Rebekah Moses, Women on Wednesdays, Women’s Center
The Violence Against Women Act first passed in 1994, but the U.S. House of Representatives has since
passed a version opposed by sexual assault and domestic violence advocates due to exclusionary
language. The National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women has been
urging Congress to pass a new Violence Against Women Act that includes all victims.
1:00 - 1:50 Climate Change: From Local to Global Alumni Room
Autumn Hamberg, Advocates for Animals and the Environment
1:00 - 2:45 Film: Greening the Revolution Atwood Theater
Using food as a symbol of inequality, we explain and expose the corrupt cycle of globalization that
perpetuates systems of poverty and oppressive social control. We present the roots of food injustice,
tactics of resistance, and how grassroots survival can create communities of health and equality.
2:00 - 2:50 Talking About Red Flags in Relationships, the Red Flag Campaign, and the Alumni Room
Mentors Against Violence Prevention
Social Justice and Diversity Committee, Vanessa Burggraff, Katie Good
3:00 - 3:50 Consequences of Early Marriages of Maasai Women: Education and Beyond Alumni Room
Rebecca Matinda, SR Graduate, PhD Candidate, UND, and Ciru Mugo, Social Responsibility
A feminist analysis of how early marriage of Maasai girls impacts education, health, and livelihood.
3:00 - 3:50 9th Annual Ridenhour Awards 2012 Atwood Theater
Danielle Olson, Social Responsibility Program
Ron Ridenhour was the whistleblower who exposed the My Lai massacres in Vietnam. This videotape of
the 9th Annual Awards session introduces five whistleblowers and activists who have come forward in
spite of serious consequences to themselves to witness truth to power and expose wrongdoing in
corporations, government, and the military.
4:00 - 4:50 Gambella Land Grab Issue Alumni Room
Obuuy Omot
Foreign investors are grabbing land throughout the African countries. In the Western part of Ethiopia,
Indigenous people have been driven out by Ethiopian government in order to make a way for foreign
investors to buy land for farming.
4:00 - 4:50 Film: With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence Atwood Theater
Beliefs about manhood that allow men to exploit and use violence against women are ingrained in our
culture. With Impunity engages the thinking of leading historians, sociologists and practitioners to
examine our past, cultural realities and the options for ending gender-based violence.
5:00 - 6:30 Asian Pacific Islanders Identity Panel Alumni Room
Panelists: Jennifer Henry, Cheekue Lee, Amee Vang, Brian Domingo
5:00 - 6:45 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Don’t Be the Last to Know Atwood Theater
Lessons from a Reluctant 9/11 Whistleblower
Richard Gage, AIA, Founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Richard Gage is the architect who assembled a force of 1,700 architects and engineers to challenge the
official reports and common understanding of the events of 9/11/01 at the World Trade Center.
7:00 - 9:30 Film: Q"u¹ils Reposent en Révolte" (May They Rest in Revolt) Atwood Theater
(France, 2010, 154 min.) French with English subtitles
The film is a way of reminding us that there can be no civilization or personal histories without the notion
of movement, travel, emigration and that perhaps the immigrants, in their dispossession, are the carriers
of a truth that is likely to wake the West up very suddenly one day.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
9:30 - 10:45 What Does it Mean to Dismantle Racism in Higher Education? Alumni Room
Debra Leigh, Community Anti Racism Education Initiative
How do systems and institutions perpetuate racism? How can systemic racism be dismantled? The
CARE team is changes systemic practices, examines the need for common language and an analysis of
systemic racism, and provides examples of how systemic racism operates on college campuses.
11:00 - 12:15 Film and Discussion: Living Downstream Alumni Room
Kim LaBo, Clean Water Action
Cancer affects us all. Preventing cancer helps us all. Learn about a growing environmental human rights
movement to reduce our dependency on toxic chemicals. Living Downstream examines the health of our
bodies and the health of our air, land and water. (discussion of chemical policies will follow the film)
11:00 - 12:15 Film: Semper Fi, Always Faithful Atwood Theater
Semper Fi: Always Faithful follows Sgt. Jerry Ensminger’s mission to expose the Marine Corps after his
daughter’s death from leukemia and force them to live up to their motto to the thousands of soldiers and
their families exposed to toxic chemicals. His fight reveals a looming environmental crisis at military
sites across the country. The Department of Defense is the United States' largest polluter.
12:30 - 1:45 Worker’s Rights in Columbia and Human Effects of Trade Agreements Alumni Room
Jessica Hayssen, Gerardo Cajamarca, Mary Bellman; AFL-CIO and Witness for Peace
Colombian trade unionist Gerardo Cajamarca and other labor activists on the over-arching effects of Free
Trade Agreements on working people abroad and in the U.S.
12:30 - 1:45 Film: Open Season Atwood Theater
Chee Ku Lee, Hmong Student Organization (discussion)
A Hmong immigrant is convicted of killing six white hunters in a violent confrontation during the 2004
deer hunting season in Wisconsin. Was it a racial incident? Was it the random act of a madman? Did it
happen because urban development has diminished the woods, leaving hunters to battle over limited
territory? Realize the racial, cultural, and economic tensions that lurk in America's heartland.
2:00 - 3:15 The Oromo/Oromia Nation’s Misery Atwood Theater
Ifaa Bakuto, Social Responsibility Program
The Oromians’ culture, language, religion, economy, and socio-political system were completely
destroyed by the invasion of the Abyssinians during the late 19th century. The European and Western
countries’ blind support for the Empire of Ethiopia is the main force behind their genocide, loss of land,
and identity. Many survived to become refugees and escaped execution.
2:00 - 3:15 Calming the Storm: Ignorance and Responsibility Alumni Room
Tamara Gray, Muslim Student Association
The issue of ignorance in the Muslim world and the problem of ignorance in the non-Muslim world and
how it causes fear and small mindedness
3:30 - 4:45 End Israeli Apartheid: The Case for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Alumni Room
Amber Michel, SCSU alum, Students for a Free Palestine
Understanding the reality of life under Israeli Apartheid and how each of us has the power to help end it.
3:30 - 5:45 Film: The Invisible War (Counselor will debrief film afterwards) Atwood Theater
A female soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by
enemy fire, with hundreds of thousands of assaults in the last decade. Find out the conditions that exist
for rape in the military, history of its concealment, and what can be done to bring about change.
5:00 - 7:00 Film: Saving Face Alumni Room
A Chinese-American surgeon in Manhattan, is shocked when her single mother shows up on her doorstep
pregnant. To help her mom avoid the taboo in the Chinese community of an unmarried woman pregnant,
the doctor helps her mom find Mr. Right. Cultures clash in this film that explores culture shock.
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