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February 19, 2008
MAJOR PEACE AND DEMOCRACY CONFERENCE AT LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
EUGENE - The Lane Peace Center's first annual Peace & Democracy Conference will be held February 29 and March 1 at the Lane Community College Center for Meeting and Learning, building 19, main campus in Eugene, 4000 E. 30th Avenue. Participants may register for both days, one day, or the keynote address only. Complete program and ticket purchase information is available at http://2011sitearchive.lanecc.edu/peacecenter
Keynote speakers are Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK and Global Exchange, and Bob Wing of United for Peace & Justice. The conference will bring together educators, students, community members, activists, spiritual leaders, and political leaders dedicated to building a peaceful society and nation. Workshops at the conference draw from presenters locally and from the Northwest. Reflecting the Lane Peace Center's recognition that peace is rooted in social, economic, political, racial and environmental justice, breakout sessions at the conference will reflect this diversity of perspectives.
Breakout sessions include:
- Mary Wood, University of Oregon law professor, speaking on environmental justice
- Gary Baran, former executive director of the Center for Non-violent Communication, providing training on non-violent communication
- The Olympia/Tacoma port resistance group, detailing their resistance to weapons entering back into the USA
- Lane Interfaith Alliance, presentation on how spiritual traditions are essential to peace
- Guadalupe Quinn of CALC (Community Alliance of Lane County), speaking on immigration
Keynote speaker Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace, a group that has been organizing creative actions against the war in Iraq. She is the founding director of Global Exchange and a leader in United for Peace & Justice. Medea has traveled several times to Iraq and helped establish the Occupation Watch International Center in Baghdad.
Keynote speaker Bob Wing has been an activist, writer and editor in national and international struggles, especially racial struggles, since 1968. He is a leader in United for Peace & Justice. He currently works with the Community Coalition, a black-Latino grassroots organization in South Central Los Angeles. Wing was founding editor of the antiwar newspaper War Times/Tiempo de Guerras and ColorLines, a national magazine of race, culture and organizing.
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PIO: Joan Aschim, (541) 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
Media contact: Stan Taylor, Lane Peace Center, 463-5820
