Friday, January 23

12:30 – 2:00             Registration (Fir Room, EMU)

2:15 – 3:30              NIMBY: National /International Implications

3:45 – 5:00               Farmworkers and Pesticides

6:00 – 8:00               Opening Keynote               

                                * Robin Morris Collin         

                                * Bob Collin

                                * Shelly Vendiola              

                                *Reverend Damu Smith

Saturday, January 24

8:00 – 9:30               Free breakfast served, lunch pick up at Wesley Foundation Center *

9:00 – 10:00             Registration (Fir Room)

10:00 – 11:15           Institutionalized Racism (Fir Room)

11:30 – 12:45           Inclusion or Tokenism Discussion

                                University Discussion (Fir Room)

                                Envtl. Organization Discussion (Linder Room)

12:45 – 2:00             Lunch Keynote

                                * Veronica Eady

                                * Dean Stiffarm

2:15 – 3:30              Klamath Basin Water and Tribal Rights (Fir Room)

                                Community Organization (Linder Room)

3:45 – 5:00               Groundwater Pollution (Fir Room)

                                Community Action (Linder Room)

6:30 – 8:00               Reception (Gerlinger Lounge)

8:00 – 10:00             Poetry Slam Featuring Turiya Autry

Sunday, January 25

8:00 – 9:30               Free breakfast served, lunch pick up at Wesley Foundation Center *

9:00 – 10:00             Registration (Fir Room)

10:00 – 11:15           Brownfields (Fir Room)

                                Building Cross-Cultural Trust (Linder Room)

11:30 – 12:45           Railroad Pollution Coalition (Fir Room)

                                Mining on Tribal Lands (Linder Room)

12:45                        Closing Remarks

                                * Robin Morris Collin         

                                * Joy Moore

Free breakfast and lunch will be served Saturday and Sunday morning from 8:00 – 9:30 at the United Methodist Campus Ministry located at 1236 Kincaid, please bring something to pack your lunch in!

 

What is Environmental Racism?

Poor communities, who have the smallest portion of America ’s wealth, suffer the brunt of the country’s pollution and waste.  People of color often make up these communities.  This is, essentially, the problem of environmental racism. 

The Environmental Justice (EJ) Movement has responded to this problem by empowering individuals and communities to gain access to their right to be involved in environmental policy making and enforcement.

The Coalition Against Environmental Racism (CAER) is a student coalition at the University of Oregon .  We are an organization bringing together graduate and undergraduate students to provide a forum to address environmental racism.
We have two main goals: to educate the community about the connection between environmental problems and social inequalities; and to bring activists together in order to combine efforts in the struggle for environmental justice.

For more information, please contact: caer@gladstone.uoregon.edu.

Visit our website at: http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~caer.

 

* Housing: Check out Hostel availability at www.hostels.com.  We will do our best to provide other affordable or free lodging.

* Tables: If you are interested in reserving a table for your organization to distribute information, you must RSVP by January 12, 2004 .

*  Spanish Interpretation and Sign Language upon request.

*  Food may be available throughout the conference.

* Green and Blue long-sleeve t-shirts available for $18.

Please contact caer@gladstone.uoregon.edu if you are interested in any of the above.

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Cosponsored by Willamette University ’s

Center for Public Policy Research

 

Art donated by Dylan Freeman and www.dirtline.com.