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Message boards: Your forum for dialogue on topics from student government to entertainment. WWW.ddifyemerald.com HRC forum continued from page 1 ferring to thelack of Eugene police officers at the forum. “We need to ask them the question, ‘What do you need to have your voice heard?’ “We are still polarized and nothing has changed because of this meeting. All of the work is ahead of us,” he said. Several participants at the two hour session repeated earlier claims by Eugene residents that they were unfairly swept up and roughed up that weekend in an excessive show of police force. Eugene Police Chief Jim Hill has denied that any of his officers used excessive force during arrest procedures, a response that didn’t sit well with a few speakers. “The police in this community scare me because they’ve never had to deal with a riot that they didn’t instigate,” said Will Winget, who was arrested June 18. 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I 1 [ From the creators or SOUTH PARKI1! g CANNIBAL: TMf MVSKAL "roopJ AH linningl All dandngH AJ FWv—tingltl ROAD TRIP 11 b timidation [by police at the protest] ... but I saw no overbear ing violence,” observer Jason The len said. He was arrested June 17 on a charge of disorderly conduct, after he and others walked to the Lane County Jail following the presentation of a pro-anarchist video at Prince Lucien Campbell Hall. Thelen was eventually re leased to his parents’ custody be cause he is 17 years-old. Thelen said police in riot gear surrounded protesters at the jail, sometimes using bicycles as tools to keep the crowd at bay, and left them few alternatives to comply with police orders to disperse. City Councilor David Kelly used a portion of his allotted time to dispel any notions that he is “pro-anarchist.” Kelly said his earlier criticisms of certain police actions during the weekend protest were misconstrued. He also said that one of the most im portant issues surrounding the city’s discord is to communicate, because the facts likely won’t change anytime soon. “Some folks in this town want the protesters to vanish, some folks in this town want the police to vanish,” Kelly said. “In my best guess, that’s not going to happen.” Edwin Coleman, a former Uni versity English professor who re tired in June 1998, spoke as a neu tral observer and said he objects to the protesters implying that they are following in the footsteps of civil rights’ protesters during the 1960s. “That’s bunk,” said Coleman, who has received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Lifetime Achieve ment Award from the city of Eu gene. The deceased civil rights leader “would turn over in his grave if he saw some of the shenanigans and machinations being carried out in his name.” Rikhoff said that all comments he heard at the forum Eire going to be useful in designing a more widely-accepted neutral observer program and to also raise the dis cussions to the next level. “It’s up to the Human Rights Commission — how do we take this divisiveness and turn it into a dialogue?” he said. The Eugene Police Commis sion, another group designed to foster better communication and interaction between the commu nity and police, meets today at 5 p.m. in the McNutt Room of City Hall, 777 Pearl Street, to discuss recent protest activity. The public is welcome to at tend, but no public testimony will be heard. Eugene PeaceWorks, a local ac tivist group, has also set up a legal defense fund for Jeffrey “Free” Michael Luers and Craig “Critter” Andrew Marshall, who were ar rested June 16 on charges of two counts of first-degree arson, first degree criminal mischief, two counts ofboth unlawful manufac ture and possession of a bomb, two counts of attempted arson, and attempted first-degree crimi nal mischief. They have pleaded not guilty and contributions to help pay their legal fees can be made to the “Free Free and Critter Legal De fense Fund,” c/o the O.U.R. Credit Union, 715 Lincoln Street. For more information, contact Phil Weaver at 343-8548. Speaker draws connection between race and health By Kristy Hessman Oregon Daily Emerald Environmental racism, treat ment of Mexican-American mi grant workers and correlations be tween toxic waste and race are just a few of the topics to be discussed tonight during an ecological pub lic talk and discussion. The Ecological Conservation, a Rockefeller Foundation Resident Fellowship Program, which deals with gender, science and the sa cred, features Kamala Platt, a resi dent fellow at the Center for the Study of Women in Society. “This is the fifth Rockefeller speaker we have had on campus,” said Lynne Fessenden, the CSWS program manager. Platt will discuss her research on the poetics of environmental justice, focusing on environmen tal racism in the Willamette Valley. “The definition of environmen tal justice is basically where we live and where we go for vaca tion,” Platt said. “I am studying the effects on human communities and health.” Her research on environmental racism has particularly focused on ■•migrant workers. “I am working a lot with Latina women with a Mexican-American background,” Platt said. “It is a comparative study which looks at places like Texas and near the Northeast Mexican border where there is about a 90 percent Mexi can-American population.” From her studies she has found the danger that resides among farm workers from the use of pesticides. “Workers are finding that the pesticides are hazardous to their health and to their families, yet their employers are blackmailing them with deportation” if they question the practices, Platt said. The conference is at the Cesar Chavez House on 1672 E. 17th Ave. “We thought that since the talk focused a lot on the community, the Chavez House would be a good ptece for it,” Platt said. “A lpt of people on campus don’t even know that it exists.” For more information, call Fes senden at 346-5399.
