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National Health Freedom Coalition Presents 2016 United States Health Freedom Congress A Gathering of State and National Health Freedom Organizations and Leaders Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association Keynote Speaker July 31, August 1 & 2, 2016 St. Olaf College Buntrock Commons 1520 St. Olaf Ave, Northfield, Minnesota National Health Freedom Coalition presents Monday Evening Program 2016 United States 5:30-6:30pm: Dinner 8:15-10:00pm Health Freedom Congress Organic Buffet Supper Movie: VAXXED—St. Olaf St. Olaf College, Black Ballroom College Viking Theatre A Gathering of State and National Health Freedom Organizations and Leaders 6:30-8:00pm: Workshop Followed by Q&A with Director, July 31, August 1 & 2, 2016 Geo-Engineering: The Daily Andrew Wakefield and Producers, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN Assault on the Health Freedom Del Bigtree and Polly Tommey Buntrock Commons Movement by Clifford Carnicom 1520 St. Olaf Avenue SCHEDULE TUESDAY, AUGUST 2 SUNDAY, JULY 31 4:00-4:40pm Morning Program Reconvening Health 4:00-7:00pm Freedom Congress and St. Olaf Dorm check-in & Congress registration (Ytterboe Hall) 8:30-9:00am Voting Member Circle Breakfast 7:00-9:00pm Voting Member Session (Coffee, Tea, Organic Oatmeal, 2016 Health Freedom Meet & Greet Networking 4:40-5:00pm (Beverages and Hors d’Ouevres Provided) Fruit, and Yogurt) Closing Circle Location: Kings’ Dining Room, 1520 St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN Speakers: Attorney Judith McGeary of Farm and Ranch Alliance (TX) 9:00-11:30am Regi Haslett-Marroquin—Main Street Project 6:30pm Open Space Work Session Health Freedom Awards Banquet MONDAY, AUGUST 1 11:30am-12:00pm Awardee Presentations Health Freedom Story of and Keynote Speech 9:50-11:30am Courage: Abdirizak Jama with Ronnie Cummins Morning Program Voting Member Organiza- “Food Freedom, Health Free- tions convene—US Health dom, Building the Movement” Sit-Down Organic Dinner Freedom Congress circle and Afternoon Program 8:00-9:00am Buntrock Commons Sun Ballroom Registration and Breakfast business 12:00-1:15pm: Lunch (Coffee, Tea, Organic Oatmeal, Outdoor Bonfire with Mu- Kings’ Dining Room - Organic Fruit, and Yogurt provided at 11:30-12:15 sic/Indoor Reception Food Bar Available 8:30am) Introduction to Open Space (10:00pm-Midnight) Members and Public At- 9:00-9:10am tendees 1:15pm-4:00pm Beverages, cash bar and Open Space Work Sessions Welcome by Marianne Lon- “Crafting the question that wants snacks—bring your instruments and CLOSE of Open Space and join us (inside if raining) ergan Curtis, President, NHFC to be answered.” 9:10-9:20am Reading of International Afternoon Program Congress Purpose declaration of Health Free- dom and opening remarks To bring together key organizations and leaders in the United States 12:15-1:15pm: Lunch Health Freedom movement; by Diane Miller, JD, Director of Lunch in Kings’ Dining Room— To experience an egalitarian gathering of autonomous and diverse Law and Public Policy, NHFC/ Organic Food Bar available NHFA leaders, where leaders communicate face-to-face in a large round (Congress-style format); 1:15-5:30pm To increase collaboration and inspire each other to unity and soli- 9:20-9:30am Open Space Instructions darity; Sponsorship Appreciation followed by Open Space To identify top health freedom issues and topics that are impacting by Jerri Johnson, President, Marketplace. health freedom; NHFA Do your utmost “presencing” - To find areas of common ground and pass resolutions; listening—allowing—and To work together to identify strategies for enhanced health freedom; 9:30-9:50am and Health Freedom Story of notetaking. Freeform discus- To celebrate the health freedom movement and give awards honor- Courage: Tim Welsh sions, people move freely be- ing successful leaders. tween groups. Voting Members About the Congress American Herbalist Guild The 2016 United States Health Freedom Congress Carnicom Institute is the 11th national health freedom gathering host- Citizens for Health ed by NHFC. (National Health Freedom Coalition). DAMS, Inc. (Dental Amalgam Mercury Solutions) It brings together health freedom leaders from across the country, individuals and organizations ElectromagneticHealth.org alike to strengthen and articulate the health free- Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance dom movement. The public is welcome. Voting Focus for Health Foundation Member organizations have a brief time on the first Foundation for Alternative & Integrative Medicine day where they re-convene the Congress and sit "in Gary Null & Associates the round" to share their campaigns, and to strate- Health Choice gize ways to work together, strengthening the health HealthKeepers Alliance freedom movement through unity and solidarity. IAACN (Int’l and American Assoc. of Cl. Nutritionists) For the rest of the two-day event all attendees par- ticipate together in Open Space sessions vigorously Mercola.com dialoguing and discerning next steps for the health Minnesota Natural Health Coalition freedom movement and participating in all addition- Moms Across America al special events during the Congress. National Health Federation National Health Freedom Action 2016 Health Freedom Congress Staff National Health Freedom Coalition Congress Moderators Diane Miller, JD National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) Marianne Longergan Curtis, Pres. NHFC North American Society of Homeopaths (NASH) Parliamentarian Anne Gillum, JD Oklahoma Health Freedom Action Network Open Space Moderator Denise Lewis-Premschak, Voice Organic Consumers Association for HOPE ParentalRights.org Sponsorship Jerri Johnson, Public Relations NHFC Sunshine Health Freedom Foundation Congress Planner and Texas Health Freedom Coalition Registrar Judy Buroker The Robert Scott Bell Show Congress Planner Asst. Kathy Schuurman Voice for HOPE - Healers Of Planet Earth Congress Assistants Gayle Bowler, Barbara Brockway, Weston A. Price Foundation Sylvia Knutson, Sue Kraemer, Mary Malone, Karen Stene-Finch, Wisconsin Health Freedom Coalition Deborah Tenner, Barbara Vaile, Patti Wilder Keynote Monday Evening Workshop Monday Evening Workshop (6:30-8:00pm) Keynote Speech with Ronnie Cummins Geoengineering: The Daily “Food Freedom, Health Freedom, Assault on the Health Freedom Movement Building the Movement” Clifford Carnicom, Founder and President Ronnie Cummins is the Co-founder and International Director of the Organic of Carnicom Institute, has spent nearly two Consumers Association (OCA) and its Mexico affiliate Via Organica. decades as a scientist studying the composition and eventual harmful effects of airborne contaminants, and educating the public on this Ronnie Cummins has been active as a threat to our soils, our foods and our health. Carnicom will give an writer and activist since the 1960s, with extensive experience in public education, historical overview of this practice of engineering our environment. grassroots mobilization, and marketplace He will present his discoveries regarding the relationship between pressure campaigns. Over the past two the increased toxicity of the environment and the rising incidence of decades he has served as director of US common ailments and new diseases. Carnicom will also emphasize and international campaigns dealing with the problem of informed consent, as well as the broad array of hu- sustainable agriculture issues including man rights violations which this practice constitutes. He will appeal food safety, genetic engineering, factory to the need for professional involvement and the importance of farming, and global warming. many health freedom groups to let their voices be heard in unity. From 1992-98 Cummins served as a campaign director for the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C. In 1998, Cummins co-founded the Organic Consumers Open Space Association, the largest network of organic Ronnie Cummins consumers in the USA. In Meeting in OPEN SPACE 2009 Cummins founded Via Keynote Speaker Our focus as Health Freedom activists and leaders will be Organica, a network of & Health Freedom Awardee strengthened by tapping into the vision and experience of this year’s organic consumers and participants — as well as building on our last 4 years of insights and farmers based in Mexico shared purpose. City and San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. Cummins is a frequent lecturer, both in the US and abroad as well as a regular contributor to Open Space is a meeting technology used by organizations all over online publications such as Organic Bytes, Common Dreams, Truthout, Huffington Post, and Nation of Change. Cummins has published hundreds the world to bring diverse individuals together in a self-ordered of articles in the alternative and mainstream press. He is also the author of environment that fosters creativity, empowers collaboration, and a series of children’s books called Children of the World, as well as the creates meaningful outcomes. book Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers (Second Revised Edition Marlowe & Company 2004). Cummins lives with At Congress, Open Space is a container for connecting with his wife and 18 year-old son in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Please Join Us in important allies to construct and expand future action, enrich our honoring Ronnie Cummins, Health Freedom Hero. ongoing work, and regenerate our spirits. 2016 Health Freedom Awardee: Facilitator: Denise Lewis Premschak is a facilitator of AWARDED for his over 50 years of work to bring the conversation personal growth, leader awareness, and collaborative surrounding food quality into the consciousness of