We attended the April 15th, 2011 Peace Symposium at Lane Community College.
http://lanecc.edu/peacecenter/
Rainbeau Wulf and Dave Herries Petitioning
The Lane Peace Center’s fourth annual peace symposium, “Water for Life, Not for Profit”, was on Friday, April 15, 2011. The symposium was at the new Longhouse on the Lane Community College Main Campus. This event was free and open to the public.
There werethree sessions:
10-11:30 AM – ‘Water and Indigenous Rights’, doors open at 9:30 AM
1:00-2:30 PM – ‘Water Justice: Local and Regional’, doors opened at noon.
6:00-9:30 PM – ‘Water for Life, Not for Profit’, is the main session, doors open at 5:30 PM.
The symposium featured Winnemem Wintu tribal chief Caleen Sisk-Franco and headman Mark Franco – indian activists working to protect their homelands and return the Winnemem’s sacred salmon to the McCloud River.
Other keynoters included:
Agnes Baker Pilgrim, Takelma Indian Elder, member of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers on the ‘Sacredness of Water’
Debbie Davis, Policy Director of the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water in Oakland California on ‘Water Privatization, the Bottled Water Battle, and Water as a Social Justice Issue’
Teresa Huntsinger, Clean Rivers Program Director of the Oregon Environmental Council on ‘Water and Justice in Oregon’.
Mayor Kitty Piercy of Eugene, on ‘Water Issues in Eugene and Lane County’
The symposium also featured an art exhibit by activist artist Janet Essley entitled ‘Daughters of the Earth’
Complete information available online at: http://www.lanecc.edu/peacecenter/
Contact: Stan Taylor, Lane Peace Center, 541 463-5820 or taylors@lanecc.edu
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