Schedule at a Glance

Please note: Schedule and offerings are subject to change.

For session details, please see "Friday's Sessions" and Saturday's Sessions" tabs above.

2:00 p.m. – Registration Opens

3:30 p.m. – Showing of At the Death House Door a film by Kartemquin Films

3:30 to 5:30 p.m. – NCADP Affiliate Meeting (open to NCADP Affiliates Leadership only)

6:00 p.m. – Networking / Dinner on Your Own

7:00 p.m. – Execute Art, Not People!

Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Benefit Coffeehouse in Harrisburg

Friday, January 23, 2009

7:30 to 8:30 a.m. – Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. – Legal Training (separate registration required)

8:30 a.m. – Plenary

10:10 to 11:10 a.m. – Workshop Session Group One

11:20 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. – Workshop Session Group Two

12:30 to 1:30 p.m. – Lunch with Speaker

1:45 to 2:45 p.m. – Workshop Session Group Three

3:00 to 4:15 p.m. – Plenary 

4:30 to 5:30 p.m. – Special Topics Sessions

5:30 to 8:30 p.m. – Networking / Dinner on Your Own

9:00 to 11:00 p.m. – Film Premiere of Juan Melendez-6446

Hosted by the Coalicion Puertorriquena contra la Pena de Muerte

Saturday, January 24, 2009

7:30 to 8:30 a.m. – Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. – Legal Training (separate registration required)

8:30 to 10:00 a.m. – Conference Keynote Address:

Benjamin T. Jealous, NAACP President and CEO

10:15 to 10:45 a.m. – Quick Shops Group One

11:00 to 11:30 a.m. – Quick Shops Group Two

11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. – Quick Shops Group Three

12:30 to 1:30 p.m. – Lunch with Speaker

1:45 to 2:45 p.m. – Workshop Session Group Four

3:00 to 4:15 p.m. – Plenary 

4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Caucuses and Group Meetings

6:00 to 7:00 p.m. – Cocktail Reception

7:00 to 10:00 p.m. – NCADP Annual Awards Dinner

                                    Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, celebrated author and spiritual advisor

Sunday, January 25, 2009

8:30 to 9:30 a.m. – Continental Breakfast

9:30 to 11:30 a.m. – Plenary

11:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. – NCADP Board of Directors Meeting (Open to Board Members only)

Please Note: Schedule and offerings are subject to change.

Topics at a Glance

A complete agenda will be posted six weeks before the conference.

Plenary Sessions:

• New Research New Reasons to be Against the Death Penalty
  
• Community Reactions in the Wake of Murder
  
• Building Our Movement with Keynote Speaker Benjamin Todd Jealous
• Building our Movement by Organizing in Spanish Speaking Communities
• Religion and the Death Penalty

Workshop Sessions:

• Executive Directors Facilitated Round Table
• Board of Directors Facilitated Round Table
• Communications Training: Cultivating Your Elevator Speech
• Death Penalty Overview and Update
• Resolutions as an Organizing Tool
• Membership Building Through Event Planning
• Recruiting and Mobilizing Grasstops
• Programming to Effectively Mobilize Volunteers and New Members
• Organizing Law Enforcement
• Planning a Campaign to End the Death Penalty
• Letters to the Editor: Working with the Campaign
• Media Training
• Organizing a Speaking Tour with Voices of Experience
• Working with Murder Victim Family Members
• Working with Death Row Family Members
• Power of Innocence
• Reducing Death Sentences Strategy Update
• Racism and the Death Penalty in Pennsylvania
• Changing the Conversation on Crime and Abolition: How to Engage and Support the Stakeholders
• Death Penalty in the Caribbean
• Film Premier:  Juan Melendez-6446
• Advanced Fund Raising
• Practical Advice on Individual Death Row Cases
• Murder Victim Family Member Intensive Training (Open to Murder Victim Family Members only)
• Basic Overview on the Death Penalty
• On-line Social Networking and E-advocacy
• How to Organize a Race to Heal: Supporting Local Anti-Death Penalty Campaign
• What to do if You are in a Non-Death Penalty State
• The Bible and Contemporary US Death Penalty Law
• Utilizing Databases
• Effective Tabling and Outreach
• Lobbying Rules and Reporting
• Basic Overview on the Death Penalty
• Anatomy of a Clemency Campaign:  A New Model
• Communications 201
• Using Visibility Actions to Support Your State Campaigns
• Working at the Local Level in Support of Your State Strategy
• Organizing in Communities of Faith
• Using the Arts to Affect Change

Please Note: Schedule and offerings are subject to change.