PREVIOUS EMAILS HAD THE TYPO THAT PROPOSALS WERE DUE NOV. 18, 2006. IT IS NOV. 18, 2005!!!!! FOR EXTENSIONS, IF NEEDED, EMAIL EMMA ROSENTHAL AT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Call for Workshop Proposals The theme of the 2005/2006 Human Rights Committee Annual Conference, is Human Rights and the Environment. The Conference is scheduled to coincide with Earth Day. The UTLA (United Teachers' Los Angeles) Human Rights Committee extends a call for proposals for 1 1/4 hour workshops as well as films and plenary topics, to be presented at its conference on April 21 and 22, 2006. All workshops will be conducted on Saturday April 21. Films and plenaries will be conducted both days. Over the course of the weekend the conference will explore the connection of environmental policy and devastation with human rights. Suggested topics include: environmental racism (in LAUSD, in our communities, around the nation, around the world,) water wars, depleted uranium, gmo's, Katrina, mining, industrial waste, urban planning, privatization and the environment. colonialism, global warming, organic gardening, living in our environment, art and the environment, human culture and the environment, population management and eugenics, reproductive rights and health, nutrition and fast foods, agribusiness, pesticides and workers rights, keeping healthy, health care, long term effects of environmental disasters (Bhopal, 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, Love Canal, Exxon Valdez), Community and student empowerment, activism, awareness, mobilization. Workshop proposals must include a workshop title, description including targeted grade level/s and subject/s, bio, resume or curriculum vitae of the proposed workshop presenter, materials needed, contact information (email, school, phone number), workshop content and strategies, how the workshop applies to the theme, and where it may have been presented previously. Submit proposals byNovember 18, 2005, to Emma Rosenthal, UTLA Human Rights Committee Conference Sub-Committee Chair at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or UTLA Human Rights Committee 3303 Wilshire Blvd, 10th floor. Los Angeles, Ca 90010. For more information and applications go to: http://home.earthlink.net/~utlahrc APPLICATION UTLA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS To be presented at the UTLA HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE April 21-22, 2006 Application deadline: November 18, 2005. Applications must be received by this date! THEME: Human Rights and the Environment. Name of presenter ________________________________ School or organization____________ Phone number____________________________ Email address_________________________ Title of workshop_______________________________________________________________ How does this workshop apply to the theme of the conference? Outline of workshop: Materials needed: Has this workshop been presented before? Where? Please include a presenter's bio, resume or curriculum vitae, a description of the workshop, and any materials, texts or graphics that will be included in the workshop presentation. Submit proposals by November 18, 2005, to Emma Rosenthal, Conference Sub-Committee Chair, UTLA Human Rights Committee at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or UTLA Human Rights Committee 3303 Wilshire Blvd, 10th floor. Los Angeles, Ca 90010. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/7gSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
