The big conference in Portland Oregon is entering its second day. Here is the schedule for today, Saturday 10/1, with a link for listening to the broadcasts.
Location: First Unitarian Church -- 1011 SW 12th Ave. (12th & Main), Portland
Saturday, October 1, 2005 (2nd day of conference)
8:30 - 10:45 AM Conference Plenary Begins Welcome Remarks - Congressman Earl Blumenauer, OR-3rd District
Corporate Ownership of Our Elections: The Threat to Our Democracy
Presenter: Thom Hartmann
Panel Discussion: Moderator: Thom Hartmann
Panelists: John Gideon, Nancy Price, and Matt Pascarella
11:00 AM -12:30 PM (3 concurrent sessions) Digital Voting Systems for Dummies-- Presenters: Kip Humphrey and Clint Curtis
Think Patriotically, Act Locally -- and NOW -- Presenter: Bernie Ellis
Building the New Generation Voting Rights Movement: A Two-Front Strategy
Presenters: Alyssa Macy, Patrick Barrett, and Nell Greenberg
2:00 - 3:15 PM - Begins with a Keynote Speech by David Cobb Lessons Learned from the 2004 Presidential Election & the Ohio Recount -- David Cobb
The Carter-Baker Commission, Voter ID, and How Ordinary Citizens Can Make a Difference -- Brad Friedman
Voter-Owned Elections -- Jo Ann Bowman
3:30 - 5:00 PM -- 3 part Panel Presentation: Verifying Election Results Mandatory Election Audit Proposal for the State of Oregon
-- Nancy Matela and Dr. Jerry Adams, Oregon Voter Rights Coalition
Parallel Elections -- Judy Alter
Exit Polls -- Thom Hartmann
Wrap Up: What Have We Learned? Where to from Here? -- Thom Hartmann and Paul Lehto
7:00 PM Evening Program Election Reform for the Long Term: Engaging the Next Generation of Activists -- Jefferson Smith
Democracy Revival -- Paul Lehto et al
Musical Entertainment -- Entertainer: Michael Olmstead
Most of the morning and afternoon sessions are expected be streaming on KPFTX at
http://www.kpftx.org/pls/kpftx8098.pls and The Saturday BradShow will be broadcasting some of it beginning at 4 PM. (all times are PDT)
People have been able to get the show easily on their PCs using RealPlayer. So my problems getting it must have been Mac specific. But I could get it by launching QuickTime and pasting the url in it and skipping my browser.
http://www.kpftx.org may work best for some.
Here is the home page for the Summit Conference where more information is available -- bios of the participants and full descriptions of the workshops and plenery sessions and such.
http://summit.oregonvrc.org