sponsored
by the
coalition
Against Environmental Racism
Carl Anthony is
an African American urban planner, architect, and environmental justice
organizer. He is president of the Earth Island Institute and Director
of its Urban Habitat Program. He speaks on race, place, and sustainability
as essential to protecting our environment.
Panel
Session I
10:45
am - 12:30 pm
Hawaiian
Sovereignty,
History
and Roots of the Indigenous Hawaiian People.
Room 125
Jon Osorio
- Professor at the Univ. of Hawaii,
citizen of Ka
Lahui, the largest Hawaiian Sovereignty group.
Kanaulu Terry
Young - Professor at the Univ. of Hawaii;
citizen, activist,
and organizer of the Ka Lahui Sovereign Group.
Dennis "Bumpy"
Kanehele - Honolulu, HI. Political
activist,
Head of the State
of Hawaii Sovereign Group.
Renard James
Strickland - Dean of the Univ. of Oregon
Law School.
Reknowned scholar
on Native American sovereign law and
independent nations
within the United States.
Urban
Struggle in Environmental Justice
Room 221
Angela Wilson
- Portland, OR.
Cofounder and
Head of the Environmental Justice Action Group (EJAG).
Carl Anthony
- President of the Earth Island Institute
and Director
of its Urban Habitat Program.
Robert Collin
- Environmental Studies Professor at the University of Oregon
and environmental
justice litigator in urban environmental toxic pollution.
Robin Cannon
- Los Angeles, CA. Co-founder of the
Concerned Citizens
of South Central Los Angeles and former co-chair of the
Southwest Network
for Environmental and Economic Justice.
U.S.
Mexico, Environmental and Economic Issues on the Border
Room 229
Betsy Gedautis
- El Paso, TX. Organizer for the La Mujer Obrera,
a worker's justice
group in El Paso.
Michael Dreiling
- Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Oregon.
Academic expertise
in political economy, NAFTA,
social movements,
and the environment.
Trim Bissell
- National Organizer for the Campaign for Labor Rights.
Jose Bravo
- San Diego, CA. Member of the Southwest Network for
Environmental
and Economic Justice (SNEEJ) and the
Environmental
Health Coalition.
The
Native American Environmental Justice Struggle
Room 221
Tom Goldtooth
- Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
J. R. Wilkingson
- Umatilla, OR. Special Sciences and Resource manager
for the Department
of Natural Resources of the
Confederated
Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservations.
Jackie Warledo
- Tulsa, Oklahoma. Founder of the Indigenous Environmental Network
(IEN) office in Oklahoma, also involved with
Greenpeace in
the USA Toxic Campaign Native Lands Project.
The
Environmental Protection Agency
Room 125
Monica Kirk
- Portland, OR.
Special Counsel
to the Regional Administrator for the EPA.
Joyce Kelly
- Seattle, WA.
Environmental
Justice Director for the Region 10 office of the EPA.
Annabelle Jaramillo
- Portland, OR. Seerves as Governor Kitzhaber's Citizen Representative,
member of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee.
Robin Morris
Collin - Eugene, OR. Professor of Law,
Univ. of Oregon. Expert on environmental law and sustainability,
serves on the advisory committee for the US EPA.
Democracy
and Political Change; A Bigger Picture
Room 229
Gary Kutcher
- Eugene, OR. Advocate for the OLIFE initiative.
Crusader for
grassroots politics and third party representatives.
Harry Lonsdale
- Eugene, OR. Involved in the Campaign for Democracy,
advocate for
campaign finance reform.
Floyd Prozansky
- Oregon State Representative District 40,
serving second
term, attourney with speciality in municipal prosecution.
Hawaiian
Sovereignty II - Current Politics of the Sovereignty Movement
Room 125
See Hawaiian
Sovereignty I - Panel Session I
Toxics
Right to Know as a Movement
Room 221
Robert O'Brien
- Eugene, OR. Professor and Head of the Sociology Department
at the University
of Oregon. Activist and organizer for the passage of
Eugene's Toxic
Right to Know Law.
Charles Tibbut
- Eugene, OR. Attorny at the Western Environmental Law Center,
experienced litigator
in toxic pollution cases.
J.R. Wilkingson
- Umatill, OR. Special Sciences and Resource manager for the
Dept. of Natural
Resources of the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservations.
Robin Cannon
- Los Angeles, CA. Co-founder of the
Concerned Citizens
of South Central Los Angeles and former co-chair of the
Southwest Network
for Environmental and Economic Justice.
Women
in the Enviornmental Justice Movement
Room 221
Pamela Chiang
- San Francisco, CA. Co-founder of the
Asian Pacific
Enviornmental Network (APEN).
Jackie Warledo
- Tulsa, Oklahoma. Founder of the Indigenous Environmental Network
(IEN) office in Oklahoma, also involved with
Greenpeace in
the USA Toxic Campaign Native Lands Project.
Nina La Boy
- Seattle, WA. Founding member of the National Congress for
Puerto Rican
Rights and South Bronx Clean Air Coalition, board member of the
Community Coalition
for Environmental Justice (CCEJ) in Seattle, WA.
Robin Morris
Collin - Eugene, OR. Professor of Law,
Univ. of Oregon. Expert on environmental law and sustainability,
serves on the advisory committee for the US EPA.
Workshop:
Multicultural and Environmental Education
Running Grass
- San Francisco, CA.
Founder of Non-Profit
Organization called Three Circles.
For More information
about the Annual Environmental Justice Conferences or the
Coalition Against
Environmental Racism (CAER), please contact:
Coalition Against
Environmental Racism
Suite 4, EMU
University of
Oregon
Eugene, OR
97403
phone: (541)346-4356
fax: (541)346-0620
email:
caer@gladstone.uoregon.edu
web: http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~caer