7:30 - 8:15 am Yoga

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8:00 - 9:00 am Breakfast

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9:00 - 11:00 am with Nancy Price and others: militarism, creating a peace economy, the F35

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11:15 - 12:30 pm Sas Carey, report on her recent trip to Mongolia

12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch. Check out ongoing solar cooker demonstration — Darien De Lu, long-time solar cooker, will offer  guidance and Q&A at random times.

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2:00 pm Transgender issues: Burlington WILPF has recently become embroiled in a controversy over the rights of Transgender people and the rights of feminists.  One of our members, Peggy Luhrs, has alerted us to what she sees as growing intolerance toward radical feminism and women’s rights. She reports that feminists have been attacked by some radical trans-women for being trans-phobic, when in fact, she claims, their attacks are on women’s rights like the right of women to be housed separately, the right of women to compete with women who have similar hormone levels and not be taken over by high tetestorone transwomen, and data collection on sexual-bias in different institutions. This came to a head when Burlington’s Peace and Justice Center sought to prevent Luhrs from giving a talk to WILPF members about her concerns,  and weeks later called the police to prevent Luhrs from attending the annual meeting of the PJC.  What’s this all about? Charlotte Dennett will moderate the discussion, and Peggy Luhrs will respond to questions.

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4:30 pm Climate walk to erosion on the West Branch of the White River, with reports of the climate crisis from participating members, and Joanne Andrews, manager of Wing Farm. To be held in the Bone and Rag Shop Studio in the small barn.

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6:30 - 7:30 pm Dinner

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8:00 pm Discussion with Gwendolyn Hallsmith of Vermonters for A New Economy and the Vermont Green New Deal, and Rickey Gard Diamond, author of Screwnomics: How the Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change:  How can we connect our daily economic struggles to a larger system that imposes poverty and austerity for most, while enriching CEOs and military-industrial corruption at taxpayer expense? How do we link the personal with the political AND the economic?