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(“Over and Over Again.” page one) ssas intnrrn t Student incidental fees fund loss than half of C ampus Re< yeling s $200,000 budget, whit h pays four full-time ( oordinalont and morn than 10 student employ nt<s University Administration, Housing and the Phssiial Plant alsti help fund tin* ns si hug pro gram HILYARD 51“"E • Fresh Sandwiches • Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl • Espresso & Gourmet Coffee • The most complete collection of Micro and Imported Beers • Convenient near campus location 500 OFF Any Regular Sandwich HILYARD 1698 Htlyard St 683 1358/683 4191 GDI: DISPLAY ADVERTISING 346-3712 Exploitation topic of conference speech Tasha Eichensehor Oregon DaJf (rrnnml The loss of indigenous Hawai ian cu1uin» on the Hawaiian islands is the result of Japan**** and American exploitation. a Hawaiian professor said Satur day. "ft is human diversity that insures biodiversity," sail! Hau iiiun-Kay Trask ”ff you destroy natives, you destroy die way that they deal with the land, therefore you destroy the land.' she said Nearly tot) people came to h«*ir Trask discus* the import am « of preserving native cultures Salur day ill tile University law Scliool Trask is the direi tor of the Cen ter for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaii in Man on. nn at imst fora native Hawaiian initiative for sovereignty and the author of three (kmAs Trask, who has teem a sotm e *’! - m li"V<-rsv II) flaw ail told the auiheiK »i not to visit her home land She dew rilied tourism as a fonn of "cultural pollution." "Don’t come, we don’t need you and we don't want you," Trask said ' i don’t want unv tourists in Hawaii ” "Hat ist While Woman.” a poem w ritten by Trask published in her new poetry txwik. /jg/it in the Crevice ,Vn et Seen, was described as bigoted and self destructive by « columnist at the University of Hawaii's « ampus mnvspujwr Iasi Oc tofair I his ( oiumi; and the i art cam that auxtmpaniud it wen>acm«'d of depicting Hawaiian culture in a negative way and illustrating a misunderstanding of the sover eignty movement in a letter to tin editor of the paper Trask did not address this i on trover*v hut did talk about the t oinpicxilv of the sovereignty movement in Hawaii Native Hawaiian* are not American or Asian, she said Haw aiian genealogy illustrate the funitameul.il differences in Hawaiian and modnm industri alized i outlines. Trask said She stressed that the land is all impor tant to the natives because that is where they came front, not God And the land is how the\ survive The conflict between Ameri cans and native Hawaiian* arise from differentes m values, Trask said t thei mother and some do not." she said "Once you introduce mon ey it is a different culture She encouraged the audience to stay in Oregon and take care of things here You don’t need to see how natives live hut rather just let them live, she said The large number of golf cours es and hotels built for tourists are ruining not only Hawaiian land hut the Hawaiian people too. she said The tourist industry exploits native traditions, such Environmental racism discussed Mar* Stint Oregon Ga»v trmmta A grassroou conlmnoi about environmental racism and justice. which differentiated between wilderness protection and environmentalism was sponsored by the Coalition Against Envi ronmental Racism in the t-aw .School over the weekend "Environmental justice and racism doesn't just refer to the polluting of rivers and the cutting of trees." said Matt Kertesz, a member of the C.AER ' The environment is not just what the conser vation groups are working to protect hut it includes work, home and social environments .” Kertesi described environmental ra< ism as. when the burden of environmental destruction is born by those who don't see it's benefits." These benefits are short-term financial ones that few people sno. Kertasz said. The conference included a keynote address by Haunam-Kay Trask, dirwrtor of the Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaii, and eight workshops Workshop topics includ ed: women in the environmental movement, environmental racism in the utitan environment, water and fishing rights, cultural perceptions of the environment, economics of rant* and the envi ronment. community organizing and native sov ereignty. cultural survival and environmental ethic* and labor exploitation and workplace haz ards "These issues effect all of us." said Vilaykone Soulhasam, a senior majoring in general science. Southasam is a Laotian immigrant who has seen the results of labor exploitation and poor work ing conditions first hand. She and her family picked berries in <iregon for five years after com ing here from Caoa. Her mother is a garment industry worker “People s.1 v. Why don't they just leave (exploitive jobs)' hut they can’t." she said. Who's going to feed the children?" These issue* are important to me because they directly afToct our family," Southasam said. fan Ward, associate director of the Northwesi Coalition Against Malicious Harassment, said during the workshop on environmental racism in the urban environment that wilderness pro to* tion is only one aspect of environmentalism He also said that although ethnic minorities bear the brunt of the continued poisoning of our envi ronment. the presence of him k people and oth er minorities in environmental groups is lacking because ihey ere, "too occupied with wars in their own neighborhoods." According to Aurora Castillo, co-founder of the Mother's of Kast Los Angeles, these) wars are hard to fight because minorities believe they can't fight governmental powers that dictate which neighborhoods will have orisons and toxic waste facilities built in them She said after her neigh borhood, Boyle Height*, which is a Hispanic community surrounded by six prisons, was picked to be the home of a new prison, thou sands protested. The Mothers of Kast Los Angeles went to Sacramento to voice their protests to state leg islators blit thought, “we must be out of our cot ton* picking minds to be so far out of our perimeter." Upon their arrival they were told. "Welcome to your state capital, you have n right to be here.” The Mothers of Fast Los Angeles used the judi cial process to keep the prison as well as a tox ic transfer plant and two incinerators from being built in their neighborhood A pipe that would have transported oil from Santo Barbara to Long Beach, and would have run under Castillo's neighborhood, was protested by the group. They suggested the pipe be built under the coast and wore told that if an earthquake were to rupture the pipe, all animals would die. Kertesz estimated that 2(H) people came to the conference and said most participants were attending all of the workshops, not just dropping in for one or two “We're seeing a good representation not only of the st hool but of Eugene,” he said Southasarri said she was also surprised that about l*>0 people came to the key-note address Saturday night "I'm very happy how it turned out. and I feel that our hard work has paid off," she said. The i on fere nett was intended to educate and to provide networking between organizations, students and the community. Solidary Kittibon, a sophomore majoring in political science, said she t ame to the confer ence because she was, “interested in the issue because it's never addressed in mainstream soci ety and 1 want to learn more." Chris Houston from Milwaukee said the workshops taught him. ‘ with any steps we take, wo need to he ( onsiderate of all the cultures involved and the rue iprocal relationships that result ” as hula dancing, and pushes the natives. who are Tinam lolly worse off than the non-indigo nous population), further away from the cities and places that used to Iks their homes Trask said she blames the high price of living In Hawaii now on the Japanese and American tourism industries, which man age a large part of the island, she said Ai cording to Trask, there are 900.000 people living on Oahu and seven million tourists come there each year. Jobs are being taken away from natives and given to people who can speak Japanese to the tourists However, native Hawaiian* con tinue to he friendly to tourists, she said, because it is their nature lo keep giving unlit they have nothing left lo give Her advice lo Hawaiian* is to slop smiling “We have gol to H ‘.iji *!:.,< o; : . ' Most Hawaiian* love tourists and we need to change that." She talked extensively about environmental racism towards indigenous < uitures in the Pacif ic She said a major problem is the toxic waste dumped into the Pacific Ocean by industrial pow ers Prof Trask said she believes the U.S. is storing nuclear HM|vmi at Pearl Harbor and ha* plan* to launch waste into space from Hawaiian sites This is an example of what Trask and the I niversitv groups that sponsored the "Common Realities" conference this week end call environmental rat ism, or the disproportionate impact of environ mental degradation on people of color. Kevin Chang, a member of the Asian Pot if"n -Ameru an Student Union who helped to organize onferem •• said rrask was chosen to give the keynote address because indigenous cul tures play an important role in the environmental justice move ment and lr.i*.k is a leading activist for tile sovereignty ini tiative “When dealing with environ mental issues you have to respect tile native peoples perspective t**i iiuse ihc\ know more Chang said. Women share foreign traveling experiences Jamie Pope Several aspects concerning women traveling abroad were explored last Thursday during a panel discussion in the EMU. Topics that were dis< ussed included plush al safe!v. health, cul tural differences, housing and attitudes that men in other countries have toward American women The discussion, which was sponsored by the Women's ( enter, was organized hy Devra O’ Gera. a senior University student who has traveled to Eastern Europe O’Gara said the discussion was organized to get different per spin lives from other women who have traveled outside of the Unit ed States. "I wanted to have a panel discussion in which women could share their experiem es about traveling abroad," O'Garo said. O’Gara said she wanted to find a diverse group of women for the discussion, but she could only find University students and one 15 vear-old South Eugene High S< hool student to participate in the dis cussion. Many of tin* panel members said they believed it is essential that Americans understand the culture of the country in which they are traveling to, especially women University student Colleen Polilig said she discovered when she traveled to tanzanio that one of the biggest asjiects of another coun try's culture is religion "Religion vs as (he big thing." Pohlig said. "Tanzania is a predom inately Islamic country." Many of the panel members agreed that having knowledge of the culture and religious practn es of the country before traveling abroad is advisable Another pane! memlwr said that Americans should respect the cul ture of the country in which they will In* staying She mentioned that if Americans are not going to In* respectful of another country's cul* 'are. they shouldn t espe. t the same sn return All of the panelists stressed the importance of physical safety. Many of the panel members said it was not a good idea for women to walk alone, carry cash or try to chase down a person who has robbed them while in a foreign country.
