Tim Merry the Slam Poet Harvester weaves the morning’s highlights into bardic verse.

Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)

Introduction by Owsley Brown, Chair, Festival of Faiths

For 45 years, Reverend Cecil Williams, founder and Minister of Liberation of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco, and its founding President Janice Mirikitani have created 87 groundbreaking programs to provide human services to some of the Bay Area's most disenfranchised communities. These renowned faith-based pathfinders share their visions and strategies to address the pollution, economic injustice, neglect and apathy that confront poor communities.  

Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)

Fourteen-year-old indigenous environmental activist and rapper Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Youth Director of Earth Guardians, has organized rallies, actions, demonstrations and events, and spoken globally. His generation is rising up to defend our future.

Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and Itzcuauhtl Roske-Martinez

Earth Guardians write and perform original message-driven eco hiphop music to inspire and educate their peers and adults into positive, creative action to protect the Earth and their Future. They have performed at universities, schools, the United Nations, conferences and high profiles events throughout the US and in other countries world wide. HBO will be releasing their new music video "Be the Change" on December 15, 2014. 

Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
 

Introduction by Travis Forgues, dairy farmer/board member, VP of Farmer Affairs, Organic Valley

In the next 20 years, farmland ownership will shift on a continental scale—400 million acres, yet 70% of American farmland is owned by people 65 and older. How can we help young, motivated agrarians survive daunting structural obstacles and become successful farmers to whom retiring organic farmers can transmit their wisdom? How can we invest in the democratization of our land base? These questions drive Agrarian Trust, started by by Greenhorns founder Severine v T Fleming, one of the most dynamic leaders in the young farmers’ movement.

Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)

Introduction by Nina Simons

Eve Ensler, playwright, performer, activist, award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues and founder of V-Day, illuminates her most recent campaign, One Billion Rising for Justice. It’s a global call to women survivors of violence and those who love them to gather safely in community in public places worldwide to end violence against women, break the silence and release their stories through art, dance, marches, ritual, song and words.

Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)

Introduction by Kenny Ausubel

In this 6^th Age of Extinctions, the biosphere’s life-support systems that have allowed humans to ascend are collapsing. Visionary mycological researcher/inventor Paul Stamets illuminates how fungi, particularly mushrooms, offer uniquely powerful, practical solutions we can implement now to boost the biosphere’s immune system and equip us with benign breakthrough mycotechnologies to accelerate the transition to a restored world. 

Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)

Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons

Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)

Opening by Kanyon Sayers-Roods (Ohlone/Chumash) and Joanne Campbell (Coast Miwok/Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria).

Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)

Deb Lane and Afia Walking Tree

Location: Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (VMA)