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Bill Moyer, Backbone Campaign (Host, Grand Strategy, Creative Tactics, Local Credit Union Organizing)

 Bill Moyer is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Backbone Campaign. Bill has been an activist for over 30 years and a percussionist for more. These intersecting paths in social movements and the arts generate a unique set of skills and insights that he employs in his movement building work. Bill's Artful Activism takes him around the country providing trainings for activists and organizers, campaign design for organizations, and strategic advice and tactical support for actions. Through these travels Bill has met many talented people whose insights he weaves into his own analysis and attempts to share their lessons with others. Yet, his home community of Vashon Island, WA is the local laboratory and foundation for his and all of Backbone Campaign's efforts, and where he shares a wooded sanctuary with his wife Esther and daughter Aziza. 

Ahern “Dreadsen”, Multi Kulti (Expanding Allies, Security Culture, Cultural Competency, Media & NVDA)

Ahern is the Direct Action trainer and Organizer of Multi Kulti in Chicago. Unity For A Change, the Activist organization of Multi Kulti, recruited him to conduct Direct Action training workshops and long-term power-building consultation with the many grassroots organizations who utilize the Co-Op. Ahern has diverse experience & accomplished a wide-range of actions from animal rescue in Hurricane Katrina, and shutting down 2 of the oldest Coal plants in Chicago with Rainforest Action Network Chicago, to long-term campaigns which have closed a corrupt police department and worked on Appalachia Rising Campaign. Ahern has worked with FIJA , "Fully Informed Jury Association" and has been deeply involved with Occupy Chicago organizing, being one of the the first two people to form their Non-Violent Direct Action Committee. He has educated women in Domestic Violence Shelters on Security Culture and currently has a new campaign aimed at Media Deception which you can find on Youtube (youtube.com/mediaskeptic) with hundreds of thousands of video views within 2 short months. Ahern's other videos which are too agitating for Youtube can be found at www.generation-x.net, an alternative site for Activists to use outside of youtube who have been banned from there and other social sites.

Kim Marks, Portland Rising Tide (Non-Violent Direct Action Trainer)

Kim Marks is a grassroots organizer with seventeen years of experience working on environmental and climate justice issues, alongside groups such as Earth First!, the longshoreman, Cascadia Forest Alliance, the steelworkers union, and more. Ms. Marks works with indigenous and front-line communities in the United States, Canada, and South America on climate justice issues, fighting the root causes of climate change.She currently works within the Rising Tide North American Collective, and has or does sit on the board of directors for The Civil Liberties Defense Center, Impact Personal Safety, ASJE, NFPA, and Bark. With a history of work on dozens of direct action campaigns across North America, Kim offers crucial tools to fellow activists through trainings such as Know Your Rights, Strategic Campaigning, Non-Violent Direct Action, False Solutions to Climate Change, Direct Action 101, and more. Organizations such as Greenpeace, Forest Ethics, and Rainforest Action Network have brought Kim in to work on campaigns and/or lead trainings for their groups.

Gedden, Earth First Climbers Guild (Climb Team & Tripod Leads)

Gedden has been climbing absurd things for well over a decade and has engaged in forest defense on multiple continents. Formed the Earth First Climbers Guild to help standardized climb safety protocols for direct action climbers and has published several texts related to direct action climbing. He has done trainings for numerous groups including Earth First, Greenpeace, and Ruckus. When not teaching others to ascend to the heavens he spends his time composing ecocentric cascadian black metal.

Susie Rosett, Northern Rockies Rising Tide (Climb Team & Tripod Leads)

Susie Rosett has been living in Missoula Montana for the past 3 years mainly working with Northern Rockies Rising Tide. She has been climbing trees for 7 years with various campaigns and groups and teaching along the way. Susie has also done grassroots organizing with groups such as Northern Rockies Rising Tide, CFD, K.S. Wild, Cascadia EF!, Seeds Of Peace, and Canyon Country Rising Tide. You can usually find her hanging from the branches or cuddled up with her dogs. Susie and Gedden will work to safely lift your body and spirit to lofty heights.

Heather Gordon & Sue Parsons of City Life/Vida Urbana: 39 Years of Putting People Before Profits (Community Organizing Workshops)

In 1973, a group of local residents and activists with roots in the civil rights, feminist and anti-Vietnam War movements founded the Jamaica Plain Tenants Action Group, now City Life/Vida Urbana (CL/VU). City Life/Vida Urbana is a grassroots community organization in Boston committed to fighting for racial, social, and economic justice and gender equality by building working class power through direct action, coalition building, education and advocacy. Through organizing poor and working class people of diverse races and nationalities; CL/VU promotes individual empowerment, develop community leaders, and build collective power to effect systemic change and transform society.

Heather Gordon from Boston is of caribbean heritage namely Jamaica, who migrated to and has lived in this country for over 42 years. She has successfully defeated 2 evictions from her own home where she currently resides and is a organizer in a leadership role with CL/VU. Sue Parsons has been committed to social justice political work for over 30 through labor organizing, civil disobedience, direct action and legislation. A member of CL/VU, Sue currently works on foreclosure prevention legislation as an organizer with the MA Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL). City Life along with other anti-foreclosure advocacy groups in MA, formed MAAPL to coordinate their actions and especially local and state legislative efforts, at the height of the foreclosure crisis. While accompanying City Life families to the State House to speak with State Legislators about their foreclosures, Sue has found that their stories move people more effectively than her own advocacy or any literature.

Kyle Tanner, Itinerant Agitational Organizer (Organizing Spiral, Earned Media, IAF Honest Conversations, Fundraising: Hard & Soft Money)

Kyle Tanner is a professional organizer and consultant residing in the South Puget Sound. Kyle has been working with Backbone to develop a Community Supported Organizer program. His work has spanned electoral politics, organized labor, environmental and healthcare advocacy. He believes in fair play, immutable human dignity and agitational organizing. He is the owner of Honest Organizing, which he founded in 2010. Prior to that he owned True Blue Innovation (2008–10); was a public policy/organizing consultant for SEIU 1199NW (2008); was the executive director of Citizens Alliance of Central Washington (2005–2008); and held director or coordinator roles for SEIU 49 (2004–2005), Washington Citizen Action (2004), Premera Watch Coalition (2002–2004), and Washington Conservation Voters (2000–2002).

Chris Lutter, Puppet Farm Arts and Backbone Campaign allied Artist (3D Image Builder/Artist conducting Artful Activism Workshops)

Christopher Lutter-Gardella has been making masks, puppets, costumes, sets, floats and various theatrical accoutrements out of waste materials for over ten years. He has taught the process of transforming trash into imaginative art to communities throughout the upper mid-west and beyond.

Tom Kertes, United Workers of Baltimore (Long Term Strategy & Organizing to Build Power)

Tom Kertes is a social movement organizer based in Vancouver, BC and currently organizes child care workers to transform how BC's children are cared for and BC's families are supported. Tom was an organizer with the United Workers, a Baltimore based human rights organization of low-wage workers, consulted for the Toronto and York Region Labour Council and has worked on media projects ranging from Emmy-winning educational children's television to grassroots independent media viewed by millions of online viewers. Tom also conducts workshops as a member of the Toolbox Collective, a new initiative that's focused on providing practical tools for social movement, community and labour organizers dedicated to social and economic justice for everyone, everywhere.

John Sellers, Other 98% & Ruckus Society (Action Planning, Design & Messaging)

John Sellers organizes organizers. He activates activists. John Sellers is co-founder of The Other 98%, a founding partner of Agit-Pop Communications, and President of the Ruckus Society. Ruckus first entered the national spotlight during the Battle of Seattle and was recently instrumental in planning protests at the Philadelphia and Los Angeles conventions. Sellers, who cut his activist teeth at Greenpeace in the early '90s, is a career thorn in the side of the establishment. He has had the great fortune to be integrally involved in powerful peaceful actions all over the world: from the high seas with the Rainbow Warrior to the streets of Seattle in the uprising against the WTO. He works from his home-office on a sleepy little island in the Puget Sound where he and his wife Genevieve homeschool their twins Sam and Hazel. And he can out "apple-pie" your run-of-the-mill flag waving Tea-Bagger any day of the week.

Scott Silber, National Intervention (12 Step Counselor for Kicking the Corporate Habit)

Scott Silber is the founder and director of National Intervention and author of “True Recovery, Deep Democracy: The 12-Step Guide to Freedom from Addiction to Corporate Power & Money in Politics,” out in Fall, 2012. Since 1994, Silber has served as a multi-lingual labor and community organizer in social, environmental, and economic justice campaigns throughout the US, Latin America, Africa and Europe. In over 30 states and nearly every continent, he has campaigned alongside workers in a dozen industries organizing for deep justice and regenerative sustainability. Much of his international work has been in the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development’s Youth Organizing Institute.

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