Fifteenth Annual International Compassionate Living Festival 2000

Friday, Saturday and Sunday October 6-8th

Four Points Hotel Raleigh Crabtree 4501 Creedmoor Road (70 West) Raleigh, North Carolina 27612

Coordinated by Culture and Animals Foundation Schedule of Events - Registration Form

Friday Oct. 6th 7:30pm - 9:00pm		Description
	3522 Wade Avenue Ridge Rd. Shopping Center Readings and Signings	Nancy Olson's Books at Quail Ridge is Raleigh's premiere independent book store. Steve Wise and Joan Dunayer will read from their newly published works. And books by other Festival participants will be available for signing. Truly a night to remember.
Sat 7:45 - 8:45am - Registration Four Points Hotel (Crabtree), 2nd Floor
Sat. 8:45am	- Welcome & Announcements / Rondy Elliott
Saturday 9:00 - 9:50am Tom Regan "Understanding Animal Liberation"		Animal rights activists all believe in animal liberation. But not all activists understand animal liberation in the same way. Tom Regan explores the many interpretations.

Saturday 10:00 - 10:50am Matt Ouellett "Why Doesn't Everyone Agree with Me?"		Matt Ouellett is Associate Director of the Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts Amherst. An expert in moral development, he invites his listeners to ask why different people have a different sense of right and wrong.
Saturday 11:00 - 11:50am Rod Coronado "One Man's Journey"		Rod Coronado has devoted his life to working for the rights of indigenous people and nonhuman animals. A Yaqui Indian, he shares the wisdom gleaned from his years of activism-including years spent in prison for his beliefs.
12:00 - 1:00 pm	LUNCH
1:30 - 2:20 pm Steven Wise "Toward Legal Rights for Animals"		The author of the critically acclaimed Rattling the Cage: Toward Legal Rights for Animals, Steven Wise teaches Animal Rights Law at Harvard Law School. He explains how the barriers to granting legal rights to animals can be overcome by using traditional legal concepts.
2:30 - 3:20 pm Joan Dunayer "Language and Liberation"		Based on her just published book, Animal Equality: Language and Liberation, Joan Dunayer explains how speciesist language helps protect and perpetuate speciesist practices.
3:30 - 4:20 pm Heidi Prescott "Speaking for Those Who Can't"		A practitioner of direct action, Heidi Prescott is National Director of the Fund for Animals. Remember Hegins? It's gone. Forever. Heidi explains how and why animal rights activists made Hegins a thing of the past-and what we can learn from this victory.
6:15 - 7:15 pm	Vegan Dinner
7:15 - 7:50 pm	Raffle and Awards
8:00 - 9:00 pm Jenny Stein and James LaVeck "The Witness"		Award-winning videographers Jenny Stein and James LaVeck introduce us to Eddie, an activist whose tenacity and passion for justice will inspire and challenge everyone.

Sunday 9:00 - 9:50am Richard Jaffe "Buddhism and Vegetarianism in Japan"		Many people think all Buddhists are vegetarians. Yet many Buddhists today eat meat. Richard Jaffe, who teaches religious studies at North Carolina State University, explains the historical split between those Buddhists who are vegetarians, and those who are not.
10:00 - 10:50am Suzanne Havala "Food for Thought"		A licensed dietician, professional nutritional consultant, and author of (among other books) Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Vegetarian, Suzanne Havala dispels the myth that vegetarianism means bad health-and an early death.
11:00 - 11:00 am Adele Wilcox "Bridging the Great Divide"		Founder and director of Migrations, a retreat center for spiritual renewal, Adele Wilcox is a Methodist minister who has devoted her ministry to all victims of violence, including women, children, and animals. Here she explores how people with different values can work together.
Final Thoughts Jean Hollowell