Contents

General:

General Information

Conference Agenda

Conference Program (PDF)

Conference Objectives

Conference Resource 2007

Goods Movement 101

Conference Sponsors, Co-Sponsors and Community Partners

Venue:

Directions, Travel, Hotel Information

Flyers:

Conference Flyer (PDF)

Marque su calendario (PDF)

Flyer with Sponsors and Community Partners Listed (PDF)

Background:

History of Past Town Hall Meetings

Day 1: Friday, November 30, 2007

Themes: Health Concerns, Latest Research Findings, and Successes/Challenges for Protecting Health

Day 1 was sponsored by the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center (SCEHSC), supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS); the Children’s Environmental Health Center, supported by NIEHS and the U.S. Environmental   Protection Agency (U.S. EPA); the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (UCLA); the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; the South Coast Air Quality Management District; the Panta Rhea Foundation; and the Trade, Health & Environment Impact Project, supported by The California Endowment. 

Day 2: Saturday, December 1, 2007

Themes: Defining solutions and strategies for change, drafting a platform for action, next steps

Day 2 was sponsored by the Trade, Health & Environment Impact Project, supported by The California Endowment; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; the Panta Rhea Foundation; and the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

Agenda: Day 1, Fri., Nov. 30, 2007

7:30am: Registration, light breakfast and coffee (Atrium)

8:00am: Welcome and Introduction (Community Hall)

• Welcome to the Conference, Frank Gilliland, USC
• Introductions, Andrea Hricko, USC
• The global dimensions of goods movement and health (PDF), Andrea Hricko, USC
• Saving Lives Campaign and a Welcome from Labor, Joe Radisich, ILWU
• Life in a goods movement corridor (PDF), Angelo Logan, EYCEJ
• Mapping communities along goods movement corridors (PDF), Andrea Hricko, USC, and Angelo Logan, EYCEJ

9:00am: Latest Health Research Findings (Community Hall)

An opportunity to learn about current research findings on the health impacts of air pollution— scientists from SCEHSC

• Moderator: Ingrid Lobet, “Living on Earth” reporter
• Port and goods movement emissions (PDF), Ed Avol, USC
• Overview of health impacts (PDF), John Peters, USC
• Diesel and ultrafine particle exposures (PDF), John Froines, UCLA

Resource Scientists: Rob McConnell, USC, Kiros Berhane, USC, Nino Kunzli, CREAL, USC, Bill Hinds, UCLA, Tracy de Villiers, USC, Beate Ritz, UCLA, Jim Gauderman, USC, Scott Fruin, USC, Edith Parker, U. Michigan,  Carrie Breton, USC, Alison Geyh, Johns Hopkins, Elinor Fanning, UCLA       

10:15am: Community and Labor Perspectives on Health (Community Hall)

Why we are here; building a network

• Moderator:  Ingrid Lobet, “Living on Earth” reporter

11:30am: Lunch (Served in Atrium)

12:15pm: Successes and Challenges Panel (Community Hall)

Speakers will discuss their organizations’ successes and challenges in addressing the impacts of goods movement.  Themes: community mobilization, law and policy, use of research findings, coalition building, and community-academic partnerships. 

• Moderator: Luke Cole, Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment

Panelists:

• Partnerships: LBACA, THE Impact Project, and the Port Working Group of Green L.A. (PDF), Elina Green, LBACA
• Creating buffers between homes and development (PDF), Karen Bradford, HOME
• Reducing port diesel emissions (PDF), Margaret Gordon, Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative
• The China Shipping lawsuit and its impact on clean air advances (PDF), Janet Gunter, San Pedro,
• The China Shipping lawsuit and its impact on clean air advances (PDF), Melissa Lin-Perrella, NRDC
• I-710 Freeway Expansion: the process (PDF), Yuki Kidokoro, CEHAJ

1:15pm: Open Microphone: Successes and Challenges (Community Hall)

Open microphone: conference participants invited to share their successes and challenges

• Moderator: Luke Cole, CRPE

1:45pm: Break

2:00pm: Afternoon Breakout Sessions: (Attend one session)

Sharing Worker and Community Concerns and Strategies: An opportunity to meet and discuss goods movement issues by type of community or concern with other participants from around the globe. 

• Goods Movement 101 (Community Hall)

Designed to provide an introduction to issues surrounding ports, the movement of cargo, and health.

Agenda: Day 2, Sat., Dec. 1, 2007

8:30am: Registration, light breakfast and coffee (Atrium)

9:00am: Welcome (Community Hall)

• Bob Gottlieb, Oxy

9:30am: Globalization Impacts: Economic andCommunity Issues (Community Hall)

Issues to be addressed: 1) Globalization impacts on regional and     national economies, labor, and communities; 2) The health, environmental, community and employment impacts not ordinarily   associated with the economic costs of globalization; and 3) Potential alternatives.

• Moderator and opening comments: Penny Newman, CCAEJ
• Global economy impacts on industries in LA and nationally, job loss, economic restructuring, Goetz Wolff, UCLA
• Jobs in the goods movement sector (PDF), Jon Haveman, Beacon Economics
• American Imports, Chinese Deaths (PDF), Loretta Tofani, Journalist

10:30am: Morning Workshops: (Attend one session)

Developing skills and building movements for change

• Mobilizing for action: know who the players are (Room 107AB)

Workshop will show participants how to conduct a ports and goods movement power analysis to identify key stakeholders

• Workshop Leaders: Martha Matsuoka, Oxy, and Jennifer Ito, SCOPE
• Mobilizing for Action Presentation (PDF)
• Resource Person: Rick Worthington, Pomona College

• Challenges and opportunities for labor, community, and environmental alliances
(Adult Activity Room)

• Facilitator: Sabrina Smith, SCOPE
• Panelists: Manuel Roman, Change to Win, Penny Newman, CCAEJ, Patricia Castellanos, LAANE, Bill Gallegos, CBE, Adriano Martinez, NRDC, Jerilyn Lopez-Mendoza, Env. Defense, Dave Arian, Harry Bridges Inst.                     

• Globalization Issues: Food and Imported Goods (Room 209)

• Globalization and food issues, Mark Vallianatos, Oxy, and Andy Fisher, Community Food Security Coalition

• Worker and community health: exposures, your right to know, and strategies (Room 111)

• Facilitator: Timothy Grabiel, NRDC
• Workshop Leaders: Linda Delp, UCLA-LOSH, and Ingrid Zubieta, UCLA-LOSH
• Resource Persons: Swati Prakash, Pacific Institute, Gary Quick, BLET, Khadeeja Abdullah, UCLA-LOSH, Jesse Marquez, CFASE, Danielle Lucido, Worksafe, Eugene Banday, ILWU Local 94
• Gary Quick, BLET. Worker and Community Right to Know (PDF)
• Community Right to Know Act, 1986 (PDF)