4th Annual
Grassroots Environmental Justice Conference


January 16-17th, 1998
University of Oregon Law School

sponsored by the
coalition Against Environmental Racism



Friday, January 16th, 1998
Keynote Speaker:
Carl Anthony
8:00pm in Room 129, Grayson Hall

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.



Saturday, January 17th, 1998

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.



Mid-Day Discussion:
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Room 129
Tom Goldtooth:  National organizer for the
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), veteran of the
Environmental Justice Movement for the past 20 years.
Topic of discussion:  First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit.


Panel Session II
2:45 pm - 4:30 pm

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.



Panel Session III
4:45 pm - 6:30 pm

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.



Closing Keynote Address:
8:15 pm, Room 129
Pamela Chiang:
Asian Pacific Environmental Network  (APEN)
Pamela Chiang speaks on race, class, and gender, and immigrant oppression as they relate to environmental justice and economic globalization.  The 1997 recipient for the Charles Bannerman Memorial Fellowship for Young Organizers for her work in building the environmental and economic justice movement.


For More information about the Annual Environmental Justice Conferences or the
Coalition Against Environmental Racism (CAER), please contact:

Coalition Against Environmental Racism
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University of Oregon
Eugene, OR  97403

phone:  (541)346-4356
fax:  (541)346-0620
email:  caer@gladstone.uoregon.edu
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