8:30 - 9am     Registration & Coffee

9:00 - 9:45am       Opening Plenary

• Welcome - David Ives, Director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute
• Introduced by Alfred Marder, Chair of the New Haven Peace Commission
• Introduction to the UDHR - James J. Silk, Director of the Schell Center for Human Rights at Yale
• Introduced by Henry Lowendorf, Chair of the Greater New Haven Peace Council

9:45 - 10:00am    Coffee Break

10:00 - 11:30am  Concurrent Morning Workshops

       "Connecting Human Rights to a Living Wage"

•               John Olsen, AFL-CIO of CT
•               Tom Swan, Health Care for America NOW
•               Carol Walter, CT Coalition to End Homelessness
•               Phil Apruzzese, Connecticut Education Association
•               Nancy Carrington, CT Food Bank
•               Ashaki Binte, UE Local 222 & Jobs with Justice

      "The Peace Economy-The Key to Sustainability"

•               Marie Lausch, UE Local 222
•               Dan Olson, Merrill Lynch Social Investing
•               Mark Mitchell, CT Coalition for Environmental Justice
•               Anat Belitzki, Albert Schweitzer Institute & Tel Aviv University
•               Joel Rinebold, CT Center for Advanced Technology

      "We Won't Go Back!" - Dismantling the Land Mines of Political Injustice

•               Teresa Younger, CT Permanent Commission Status on Women
•               Joan Chrisler, National Organization for Women
•               Andrew Schneider, American Civil Liberties Union of CT
•               Kathy Maskell, Love 146
•               Edward Alwood, Associate Professor of Journalism, Quinnipiac University

11:30 - 12:30am        Keynote Address

          U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr.

•                Introduced by Connecticut State Senator Toni Harp

12:30 - 1:15pm        Lunch

 1:20 - 2:45pm        Concurrent Afternoon Workshops

      "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor - the Universal Right to Cross Borders"

•               Michael Wishnie, Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School
•               Virginia Carstens, lawyer
•               Art Perry, SEIU BJ 32
•               Chris George, Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services

      "Bold Connecticut Experiments -

       Using the UDHR in the Fight for Social and Economic Justice"

•               Henry Lowendorf, Greater New Haven Peace Council
•               Lucy Nolan, End Hunger Connecticut
•               Andrea van den Heever, CT Center for a New Economy
•               Jamey Bell, CT Voices for Children
•               Luz Santana, Vecinos Unidos

      "Humanizing the United States Justice System with the UDHR"

•               Sherwood Anderson, CT Bar Association
•               Robert Nave, CNADP & Anmesty International
•               Barbara Fair, People Against Injustice
•               CT State Senator Toni Harp
•               Karen Goodrow, CT Innocence Project

2:45 - 3:00pm        Break

3:00 - 4:00pm        Closing Plenary

      "Where do we go from here?"

4:00pm                Reception