Vfp Convention DVD status Report 26Aug
Day From Room Event EventTrack onDVD Status MiniDVtapeNotes
  Fri 9:45 AM Ballroom Walking to New Orleans ( Ward Reilly,Malik Rahim, Tamara Rosenleaf, Kelly Dougherty) Chapter Organization/Innovations 1 done 2A-good we have 2 copies.
11-Aug  Fri 2:00 PM 310 Establishing Successful Chapters- Sharing Experiences and Planning for the Future (Patrick McCann, Debbie Clark, Barry Riesch, Kenneth Mayers & Sharon Kufeldt) Chapter Organization/Innovations 1 done 1A and 1B good.
10-Aug  Thurs 2:30 PM 200ABC Informed Consent/Counter Recruiting (Mike Dedrick, Kathy Barker, and Todd Boyle (of WaTiR) and Liz Rivera Goldstein (of TeenPeace/NNOMY) Chapter Organization/Innovations 2 done 2B not too good/cutoff beg and end.
10-Aug  Thurs 4:00 PM 200ABC Spreading the Peace/Anti-war Movement: Why is it so White and Middle-class? (Michael McPhearson, Bob Wing, Amadee Braxton and Camilo Mejia) Chapter Organization/Innovations 2 done 3B-good..the last 10min is on 17A
10-Aug  Thurs 2:30 PM 309 Hearts and Minds:  Spiritual Activism in a Time of War (Stacy Bannerman) Communication 3 done 3A good.
10-Aug  Thurs 4:00 PM 309 Creating Safety through Connection: Nonviolent Communication (Kathleen Macferran) Communication 3 done 4A good.
11-Aug   Fri 9:45 AM 309 How to Speak the Truth in Difficult Times (Alene Moris)(building skills in adversarial discussions) Communication 4 done 4B-good and 4C-good
11-Aug  Fri 3:45 PM 310 Media (Virginia Rodino and Daniel Fearn) Communication 4 done 5A,5B,5C looks good
11-Aug  Fri 11:15 AM Auditorium Voices of Women Veterans - (Ann Wright, Eli Painted Crow, Colleen Helmstetter, Sara Rich- mother of Suzanne Swift) Communication 5 done 5e-good-is reel 2/2;mostlyQA 5F+5Gdups? 5H is reel 1/2=53min
11-Aug  Fri 2:00 PM 309 Practicing Nonviolent Communication (Bob Hendricks) Communication 5 done 6B-ok but this is a group workshop.continues on11A
11-Aug  Fri 11:15 AM 200ABC Creating a Culture of Peace (Ellen Finkelstein) Culture 6 delayed 6A - looks good/complete but is group/training
11-Aug  Fri 3:45 PM Ballroom Unity Beyond War Time (Andy Himes) Culture 6 delayed
(audio problem)
7B looks good 108mins.
11-Aug  Fri 11:15 AM 309 How Can We Avert the Converging Catastrophes of Global Climate Change, Global Oil Depletion, and the U.S. War Response to Oil? (Roland James) Environment 7 done 7A-the first 1:05 bad then good.  and 6B has the restofit
10-Aug  Thurs 4:00 PM 310 Agents of Destruction: DU and Agent Orange (David Cline, Ted Engelmann, and Jim McDermott) Environment and Culture 7 done 8A is good.
9-Aug  Wed 9:00 PM Pompeii Poetry Reading Event 8   Gary/Mary are producing.
10-Aug  Thurs 2:30 PM Ballroom A World of Hurt or Hope:  The National Security Implications of Global Warming and Abrupt Climate Change, (John Seebeth) Environment and Culture 9 done  9c is a D8 tape) we need the Quicktime video.
10-Aug  Thurs 5:30 PM Auditorium David Korten speaks on The Great Turning! Extra Event 9 done 9a + 9b good  +( 9c is a D8 tape)
11-Aug  Fri 3:45 PM Auditorium LGBT Issues (Tom Swann) Human Effects of War 10   10D is D8 tape.
10-Aug  Thurs 2:30 PM 106B Finding the Way Back Home: Readjustment and Traumatic Stress (Drs. Bridgett Cantrell, Scott Michael,and Evan Kanter) Human Effects of War 10   10A+10B good 10C is b-roll; 10a dupe has one tiny dropout at beginning.
11-Aug  Fri 9:45 AM 310 Health Consequences of War: Challenges Beyond the Battlefield (Drs. Gene Bolles and Evan Kanter) Human Effects of War 11 done 11c and 11d good
11-Aug  Fri 3:45 PM 309 Passing the Torch: Training Youth to be Peace Activists - Mike Yarrow  (Youth panel from FOR) Innovations 11 done 11A-good begins at 17:30 cutsOffat60:00 11B has the last30min
11-Aug  Fri 2:00 PM 106B Israel/Palestine (Souliman al Khatib and Assaf Oron) International Issues 12 delayed 12b and 12c  seems good
10-Aug  Thurs 4:00 PM Auditorium Dr. Charles "Chuck Overby WW2 and Korea vet and founder of the Article 9 Society to defend the ban on war in the Japanese constitution International Issues 12 delayed
(audio problem)
12a- No Sound; video ok; need the video he showed.
11-Aug  Fri 2:00 PM Ballroom Eliminating Weapons of Terror from U.S. Foreign Policy (Carol Reilley Urner and Jackie Cabasso) Issues of War 13 done 13B is a D8 tape)
11-Aug  Fri 11:15 AM Ballroom Structural Causes of War - The Oil Industry, the Arms Industry, and the New Military-Industrial Complex (Antonia Juhasz & Todd Boyle) Issues of War 13 done 13a is a D8 tape)
11-Aug  Fri 3:45 PM 106B Axis of Evil v. Great Satan (Bert Sacks, Abdi Sami, John Kim and Keith Leitich) Issues of War 14   14A is good whole 75minutes.   14B also clean; seems to be the starting point.
11-Aug  Fri 9:45 AM Auditorium The Politics of Obedience:  Breaking the Habit of Voluntary Servitude (Brian Willson) Issues of War 14   14c is a D8 tape)
11-Aug  Fri 2:00 PM Auditorium A Practical Activist's Guide to Making Impeachment a Reality (David Swanson, Bill Moyer) Issues of War 15  in process 15B ok.  
10-Aug  Thurs 2:30 PM Auditorium War profiteering and U.S. Strategic Goals in the Middle East (Dahr Jamail) Issues of War 15  in process 15A good
10-Aug  Thurs 4:00 PM Ballroom Lies, Secrecy and Lawlessness - How to Stop the Coming Police State and Protect Yourself along the Way (Ray McGovern and Ed Hein) Issues of War 16 done 16c is D8. 16B -good enough but not hi-quality video NOR sound, no feed.
11-Aug  Fri 9:45 AM 200ABC Department of Peace (Judith Shattuck) and Publicly Financed Campaigns (Bill Nerin) Veteran Support 16 done 16a-good
10-Aug  Thurs 7:00 PM Ballroom Diane Benson, Ann Wright, and Doris Kent will speak.  Doris will show The Corporals Boots.  Tom Chelston has written a song for this evening! Bubba Cook will also sing! Plenary Thursday evening 17   17b+17c are complete. another cpy 17A-music+speechs also has 10min end of 3B  (+17d+17e are D8 tape)
11-Aug  Fri 7:00 PM Ballroom John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hit Man) Malik Rahim Plenary-Friday Evening 18 done 18b-Perkins 18c-PerkinsQA (+18d is a D8 tape)
11-Aug  Fri 8:00 AM Ballroom US Rep. Jim McDermott, Michael McPhearson, Speakers: Simona Sharoni and Anthony Arnove and open mike, then McDermott 15min Plenary-Friday Morning 19 done 19a-good
10-Aug  Thurs 1:00 PM Ballroom Opening Ceremony hosted by Michael McPhearson, VFP E.D., speakers Camilo Mejia and Monica Benderman and Dahr Jamail Plenary-Opening 19 done 20A-beg.Mcpherson.
12-Aug  Sat 1:30 PM Auditorium Business meeting and Vets Speak Out (continues) Business Meeting 20   29A,29B,29C has VfpED+some speeches+all speakouts
11-Aug  Fri 3:45 PM 200ABC GI Rights and GI Advocacy (Steve Morse) Veteran Support 21   21B is good
11-Aug  Fri 2:00 PM 200ABC Resisting in the US and Canada (Gerry Condon, Fernando De Solar, Sara Rich, Jeff Paterson) Veteran Support 21   21A is good; we have 2 copies
11-Aug  Fri 11:15 AM 310 Treatment Alternatives for PTSD with Eye Movement Therapy and Immune System Support (Lynn Fitz-Hugh and Dan Kenner) Veteran Support 22 done 22c + 22d ok
10-Aug  Thurs 2:30 PM 310 Vets4Vets, Peer Support and Empowerment Groups for Iraq-era Veterans (Jim Driscoll. Kelly Dougherty, Garett Reppenhagen) Veteran Support 22 done 22A+22B rough need editing
12 aug  Sat 3:00 PM SAUW 2F lounge Suzanne Swift; IVAW and other women against rape in the military Press Conferences 23   23A is good.
10-Aug  Thurs 4:00 PM 106B MFSO Military Families Speak Out roundtable (Nancy Lessin and Charley Richardson, Co-founders, Military Families Speak Out, et al) Veteran Support 23   0 nobody shot
11-Aug  Fri 6:15 PM outside Taiko drummers Extra Event 24   24A is good
12-Aug  Sat. 7:00 PM Ballroom Taiko Drumers, Jim Page, Jim Hinde, McPhearson, Ehren, Watada, Abe Osheroff, Marjorie Cohn, Sam Hamill Plenary-Saturday Eve 24   24A-TaikoDrumOnly; 24b + 24c have the speeches D8 only
11-Aug  Fri 9:00 AM West Lawn Press Conference-Cindy Sheehan Thursday and Refusing-Ricky Clousing Friday Press Conference 25   25A and 25B ok
10-Aug  Thurs 7:00 AM 304F Video interview Room and Hallways Randy will many Quicktime files Extra Event 26    
13-Aug  Sun 8:00 AM outdoors Post-Convention Action - Meeting with War Resisters at the Canadian Border Extra Event 26    
11-Aug  Fri 6:30 PM Ballroom Seattle Peace Chorus Extra Event 28   28a reasonably good stereo audio