Eugene Run to Help Change the World
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 12:10 am
Yes, our political activism finds us again making a trip down to Eugene. Heads up locals (LiveonJG, DJEep, skindaddio). Wednesday, June 4.
The last time we paid a visit was March of 2013, to video the Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) Thomas Linzey's keynote address at the annual Public Interest Legal Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) the University of Oregon hosts.
Quite the mouthful, huh. Quite the sentence. I can pack it in.
Here's a link to the video we did of his keynote address. https://vimeo.com/channels/communityrightstv/61778883 I encourage folks to watch it and other videos we have produced on the same channel.
The "Community Rights" model he explains is and has invigorated activists working for progressive changes to the status quo with actual progress and change on many issues in many communities.
He will be in Eugene again speaking to a gathering of regional groups advocating for change under the "Community Rights" model, and we will be there again to video the event.
Community Rights Social and Meeting with Thomas Linzey
Wednesday, June 4th
The Shedd - Living Room - 868 High Street, Eugene
Light appetizers provided; No host bar
Agenda:
5:30 to 5:50 pm - Social
5:50 to 7 pm - Meeting
Introductions
Community updates - (brief; 2 mins. per community)
Discussion on state level organizing - Colorado; what it will take in Oregon
7:30 pm, Thomas Linzey
We would be thrilled to have our local Eugene friends attend and help us lug gear and witness us at work, and of course a driveway to park Bertha and us for the night to decompress and socialize a bit after the event.
It is an RSVP event, so if interested in attending and giving us a hand, let us know by pm before Wednesday, May 28.
We may be in Eugene another day to interview folks in the Lane County group who organized the event, Support Local Food Rights, http://www.localfoodrights.com.
From there we will be heading to Corvallis to interview instigators who have a citizen's initiative petition finally approved to begin gathering signatures for to put onto November's ballot that would essentially ban GMO crops from being grown in Benton County. http://bentonccrc.org
Both of these groups have embraced the Community Rights model in their efforts to enact change. With citizen initiative petitions that made the ballot and were approved by voters in this past Tuesday's Oregon primary election in Josephine and Jackson Counties banning GMO crops in those counties, it's encouraging progress.
We're planning a later trip to the Josephine and Jackson county area for more video work, as the efforts of concerned citizens over pesticides and health issues continues, http://www.freedomfrompesticidesalliance.org
in the thick of things,
neal
The last time we paid a visit was March of 2013, to video the Executive Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) Thomas Linzey's keynote address at the annual Public Interest Legal Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) the University of Oregon hosts.
Quite the mouthful, huh. Quite the sentence. I can pack it in.
Here's a link to the video we did of his keynote address. https://vimeo.com/channels/communityrightstv/61778883 I encourage folks to watch it and other videos we have produced on the same channel.
The "Community Rights" model he explains is and has invigorated activists working for progressive changes to the status quo with actual progress and change on many issues in many communities.
He will be in Eugene again speaking to a gathering of regional groups advocating for change under the "Community Rights" model, and we will be there again to video the event.
Community Rights Social and Meeting with Thomas Linzey
Wednesday, June 4th
The Shedd - Living Room - 868 High Street, Eugene
Light appetizers provided; No host bar
Agenda:
5:30 to 5:50 pm - Social
5:50 to 7 pm - Meeting
Introductions
Community updates - (brief; 2 mins. per community)
Discussion on state level organizing - Colorado; what it will take in Oregon
7:30 pm, Thomas Linzey
We would be thrilled to have our local Eugene friends attend and help us lug gear and witness us at work, and of course a driveway to park Bertha and us for the night to decompress and socialize a bit after the event.
It is an RSVP event, so if interested in attending and giving us a hand, let us know by pm before Wednesday, May 28.
We may be in Eugene another day to interview folks in the Lane County group who organized the event, Support Local Food Rights, http://www.localfoodrights.com.
From there we will be heading to Corvallis to interview instigators who have a citizen's initiative petition finally approved to begin gathering signatures for to put onto November's ballot that would essentially ban GMO crops from being grown in Benton County. http://bentonccrc.org
Both of these groups have embraced the Community Rights model in their efforts to enact change. With citizen initiative petitions that made the ballot and were approved by voters in this past Tuesday's Oregon primary election in Josephine and Jackson Counties banning GMO crops in those counties, it's encouraging progress.
We're planning a later trip to the Josephine and Jackson county area for more video work, as the efforts of concerned citizens over pesticides and health issues continues, http://www.freedomfrompesticidesalliance.org
in the thick of things,
neal