The below conference is located in Charlotte, NC which is only 2 1/2 hours from
Danville, VA. For more information on the conference, contact A Call to Men at
845-354-2556.

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A CALL TO MEN
National Association of Men and Women Committed to Ending Violence Against Women

Second Annual Conference:
Becoming Part of the Solution to End Violence Against Women

Hilton Charlotte University Place, Charlotte, North Carolina
September 20-22, 2006

Register on line! www.acalltomen.org

Conference Sponsors:
North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence
North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault
Lead Corporate Sponsorship: Altria Group, Inc.

A Call To Men is a leading national men's organization addressing men's violence
against women, and the eradication of sexism, while maintaining strong
coalitions with women's organizations already doing this important work. We help
to organize communities in order to raise awareness and get men involved in
ending violence against women.

DAY ONE
Wednesday Evening, September 20, 2006
(Early Registration 6:30 pm)

7:30 pm Welcome & Opening Session: Men as Allies in the Movement to End Violence
Against Women

Lorien Castelle, New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence with
Sherelle Hessell, Associate Director, Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault;
Rob Okun, Men's Resource Center for Change with Ulester Douglas, Men Stopping
Violence.

In the opening session men and women will meet separately to discuss the
issue of men as allies in the movement to end violence against women. Both
sessions will include pros and cons, i.e. risk factors, benefits, history of
movement related to men as allies, future of movement with men as allies,
responsibility and accountability of men, etc.

9 pm Reception ( Refreshments and networking)


DAY TWO
Thursday September 21, 2006

8 am Registration & Continental Breakfast

9 am Welcoming Remarks: Gwen Wright, A Call To Men Board President and Director
of Training and Policy Development, New York State Office for the Prevention of
Domestic Violence with Monika Johnson Hosler, North Carolina Coalition Against
Sexual Assault. Karen Parker Thompson, United Family Services

9:30 am Keynote Part 1: "The Man Box": Challenging the Traditional Images of
Manhood. Tony Porter, Co founder; A Call To Men

11:00 am Keynote Part 2: Men Taking a Stand: Are we ready to partner with women
in the movement and if so what is required?
Ted Bunch, Co Founder; A Call To Men and Bill Schaefer, Core Trainer; A Call To
Men

Lunch Break 12:30 - 1:30 pm

1:30 pm: Men's Accountability
The voices of Survivors, Lavon Morris Grant and Joi Falana

2 pm Keynote: The Politics of Oppression. Suzanne Pharr, founder of " The
Women's Project", Author & Activist

The Violence Against Women movement began analyzing the connection of
oppressions in the 1980s. We now recognize that this analysis is critical as we
watch the Right use oppressions to wedge people apart. This talk will discuss
the development of the contemporary Right, its use of "oppression politics," and
the effect on the movement to end violence against women.

3:15 pm : Building Coalitions: A Picture of Coalition Work in North Carolina.
Tracy Wright, North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault with April
Burgess-Johnson, North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

This session will provide a snapshot of ongoing Coalition work in North Carolina
aimed at addressing sexual and domestic violence. Representatives from the NC
Coalition Against Sexual Assault and the N.C. Coalition Against Domestic
Violence will detail the work currently underway in their state, and will give
participants information about how to become involved in various projects with
these two Coalitions. Participants from outside of North Carolina are
encouraged to attend in order to become acquainted with the multiple aspects of
state domestic violence/sexual assault coalition work so that they may become
equipped to participate in parallel projects in their home states.

4:15 pm Closing Remarks: Gwen Wright

5 pm Organizandonos: Organizing within the Latino Community to End Violence
against Women.
Co-facilitated by Ivonne Ortiz, North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic
Violence and Ronaldo Figueroa, Rockland County Immigration Commission

More and more communities and change initiatives are realizing the importance of
involving the Latino community in designing and supporting the programs that
impact them, this workshop will focus on identifying and strengthening
leadership and advocacy skills in participants as they practice grassroots
methods of community canvassing, building, organizing and mobilizing. In this
session the participants will have the opportunity to share their experiences
and what their communities have done to successfully gain community interest and
involvement in the violence against women movement.

Organizandonos: Organizando adentro de la comunidad Latina para acabar con la
violencia contra las mujeres.
Fue ayudado por la Senorita Ivonne Ortiz y el Senor Rinaldo Figueroa.

Mas y mas comunidades se estan dando cuenta de la importancia de involucrar a la
comunidad Latina en el diseno y apoyo de programas que los pueda impactar, este
taller se enfocara en identificar y reforzar destrezas de liderazgo y abogacia
en los participantes mientras practican nuevos mŽtodos para trabajo en la
comunidad como tambien creacion, organizacion y movilizacion comunitaria. En
este taller los participantes tendran la oportunidad de compartir sus
experiencias y logros de sus comunidades para ganar interes y participacion en
la lucha en erradicar la violencia contra la mujer.

5pm: Ben Atherton-Zeman: Actor, Comedian, Feminist and Husband
Presents a One-Man Play: Voices of Men
This 50-minute, multi-media play deals with several important issues:
Sexual assault and consent
Dating violence & domestic violence
Sexual harassment & objectification
This play uses humor and celebrity male voice impressions to bring these topics
to audiences in a way that minimizes male defensiveness. Each male character in
the play is forced to deal with one of the issues listed above - in doing so,
they come to the realization that they are, in fact, both part of the problem
and part of the solution. The process each male character goes through has led
many boys and men to become involved in both self-reflection and in violence
prevention efforts.


DAY THREE
Friday September 22, 2006

9 am Welcoming Remarks: Gwen Wright

Summary of Latin Community Organizing Meeting: Ivonne Ortiz and Ronaldo Figueroa

9:15am: Keynote: Men as Allies: Ending Violence Against Women
Lydia Walker, Nationally known Author, Speaker & Trainer

This presentation will review the history of men's work as allies in the
movement to end the oppression of women. Success and com-mon struggles in the
anti-violence movement will be discussed as well as suggestions for individual
and organizational change.

11:00 am: Keynote: Working Together: Overcoming Boundaries in order to Increase
Efficacy in Our Work
Beth E. Richie, Associate Professor, Departments of Criminal Justice/Gender and
Women's Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Anti-violence activists and advocates are increasingly challenged to work across
differences to build a strong and enduring movement to end violence against
women. Whether it is called collaboration, coalition-building or
cross-community organization, the barriers to working collectively towards the
goal of ending violence against women can be overcome by developing strategies
considering the role that power, structural inequality and privilege play in
working across differences. This presentation will identify some of the
challenges and present ideas about effective strategies for more respectful and
therefore more effective social justice work.

2:15 pm Conference Closing: Tony Porter and Ted Bunch Co-founders: A Call To Men

Last Words: Gwen Wright with Monika Johnson Hosler, North Carolina Coalition
Against Sexual Assault and Karen Parker Thompson, United Family Service

2-4 pm Networking Session: Men working to end violence against women; bringing
it home to your state
Facilitator: Sherry Frohman, Executive Director, New York State Office for the
Prevention of Domestic Violence, A Call To Men Board Member

This session will provide participants with the opportunity to discuss concrete
strategies for bringing A CALL TO MEN home. Attendees will discuss ways to
identify traditional and non traditional leaders in communities and address
strategies to laying the foundation in any community for mobilizing men to end
violence against women.

Times may change slightly.
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Meet This Year's Featured Presenters & Speakers:

DR. BETH E. RICHIE
Assistant Professor, Depts. of Criminal Justice/Gender and Women's Studies,
University of Illinois at Chicago

Dr. Beth E. Richie is Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice Department and
the Women's Studies Program at UIC. Under a multi-million dollar grant from the
Robert Wood Johnson, Dr. Richie is researching women and youth issues at Rikers
Island Correctional Facility. She is the recipient of three major awards: the
National Advocacy Award by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office
of Violence Prevention; the Audre Lorde Legacy Award of the Union Institute
stemming from her work with the National Network for Women in Prison; and the
Visionary Award of the Violence Intervention Project. With Nicholas Freudenberg,
Dr. Richie is the co-author of "Linking Women In Jail To Community Services:
Factors Associated With Re-arrest and Retention of Drug-Using Women Following
Release From Jail" in the Journal of American Women's Medical Association. In
addition, she is the author of Compelled to Crime: the Gender Entrapment of
Black Battered Women. Dr. Richie has also published in Signs: Journal of Women
in Culture and Society and Health Education & Behavior as well as contributing
"Exploring the Link Between Violence Against Women and Women's Involvement in
Illegal Activity" to Plenary Papers of the 1999 Conference on Criminal Justice
Research and Evaluation - Enhancing Policy and Practice Through Research. Dr.
Richie holds a Master's of Social Work Degree from Washington University in St.
Louis and a Ph.D. in Sociology, with a Certificate in Women's Studies, from City
University of New York.


SUZANNE PHARR
Organizer, Strategist, Educator, Author and Political Handywoman

Suzanne Pharr, In 1981, Suzanne founded the Women's Project in Arkansas and was
on the staff for 18 years. Its mission is to eliminate sexism and racism,
working specifically on economics and violence, and through connecting all
oppressions and oppressed groups. From 1999-2004, she was the first woman
director of the historic Highlander Research and Education Center. Its primary
work for 73 years has been centered on workers' rights, Civil Rights,
environmental justice, immigrant rights, and the leadership of grassroots
community people, including youth. Suzanne is the author of Homophobia: A Weapon
of Sexism and In the Time of the Right: Reflections on Liberation.
Her life's work has been focused on building a multi-racial, multi-issued
movement for social and economic justice.

LYDIA WALKER
National Speaker, Trainer & Author

Lydia Walker has worked in the Battered Women's Movement since 1981 and is
nationally known as a speaker, trainer, and author. Former Steering Committee
member of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (1983-1987), she
served on the Executive Committee for two years and was co-chair of both the
Child Advocate and Rural Task Forces. She is author of Reaching Rural Battered
Women and contributing author to Then We Went to A Safe Place and Naming the
Violence. Some of her handouts such as "Signs of a Battering Personality" are
extensively used across the United States. With a Master's Degree in clinical
psychology, she is well known for her humor and down to earth training style.
An outstanding speaker, she is hired again and again by groups who have heard
her presentations.

GWEN WRIGHT: Conference Moderator
Board President, A Call To Men. Director Training and Policy Development, NYS
Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence

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