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Date: April 21, 2012 – April 22, 2012
Location: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

“A Meeting of Minds”–CNN

The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world’s largest global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference. This must-attend, thought-leading conference annually convenes 2,200 leaders, changemakers, students, and professionals from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship.

The conference’s confirmed speakers to date include:
Keynote Addresses
• Sasha Dichter, Director of Business Development, Acumen Fund
• Seth Goldman, President and TeaEO of Honest Tea
• Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
• Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Director of Health, Millennium Village Project, Earth Institute at Columbia University

For registration, abstract submission and further information on speakers, please visit the Web site.

http://johnmuir.ucdavis.edu/events/1791/global-health-innovation-conference-2012

WASHINGTON — The Oakland Police Department fired tear gas on Occupy Oakland demonstrators Tuesday night as they marched through downtown, determined to reclaim the camp that officers destroyed that morning. As the marchers zigged and zagged in search of safe ground, authorities bombarded and barricaded the activists into a drawn-out stalemate that resulted in further arrests.

The local police’s use of force seriously injured an Occupy activist and Iraq War veteran.

Scott Olsen, 24, remains sedated on a respirator, in stable but critical condition at Oakland’s Highland Hospital after being hit in the head with a police projectile.

Olsen’s roommate, Keith Shannon, 24, told The Huffington Post that Olsen is still in the emergency room.

To watch the video and read the full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/26/iraq-vet-oakland-police-tear-gas_n_1033159.html

Food Day is a national celebration that seeks to bring together Americans from all walks of life—parents, teachers, and students; health professionals, community organizers, and local officials; chefs, school lunch providers, and eaters of all stripes—to push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way.

Next Monday there will be several events on campus to celebrate, educate and bring people together over good food.

SSA, Flatland food collective, the CoHo, EPPC and CSSC have worked together to put together a night of events, hosted in the CoHo.

6:30-7:30 Mingle: Samples of local foods from local farms, Flatland food collective and their bike powered blender, and tables set up for various enviro/food clubs, ie. project compost, SSA, CCE. We will also be putting together a photo petition to send to the chancellor requesting that UCD sign a campus commitment to Real Food. Students can take photos to send to the chancellor that say stuff like I love real food, or with whiteboards that they can write their own message on.

7:30-8:00 Ryan Galt will be speaking on Real Food

8:00-9:30 We will screen the documentary the Greenhorns

Nonviolent protestors have been occupying Wall Street since September 2011. This is a proposal to Occupy Davis in solidarity with the Wall Street protesters, as other cities are doing. There are now events planned in roughly 1,500 cities (See http://www.occupytogether.org/). Sacramento has its own group which started its occupation of Caesar Chavez Park on October 6, 2011.

Round-the-clock occupation of Central Park will begin Saturday, October 15 at 10:30 AM

To learn more visit: http://daviswiki.org/Occupy_Davis
… or visit the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Davis/200166466723441

The CSSC Fall Convergence will be held November 4^th to 6^th by the Associated Students at CSU Chico.
Join hundreds of students from across CA to build community, share resources, plan action, attend workshops, and celebrate.

Keynote is Josh Fox, director and producer of the documentary GASLAND. Student keynote Tony Gamboa, aka Morgoth to spread the word of Ubuntu.

Registration now open! – Check out our website at www.sustainabilitycoalition.org and register RIGHT NOW!!!

Students from UC’s, CSUs, Community Colleges, Private Universities and high schools are encouraged to attend. We also invite community members and others to attend. Attendees will find opportunities to hear inspiring speakers, exchange ideas in workshops, and to celebrate our collective successes.

To sign up, learn more or submit a workshop visit http://www.sustainabilitycoalition.org/fall-convergence-2