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reporting, data updates and data queries
by students and former students.
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Conference educates
on issues of minorities
This weekend^ eighth annual
Women of Color Conference
brings to light the issues that
minority women face
Andrew Shipley
Freelance Reporter
The eighth annual Women of Col
or Conference begins at 3 p.m. today
on the EMU’s East Lawn. The goal of
the conference, which is organized
by the Women’s Center, is to expose
University students to issues affect
ing women of color.
“It’s really our event to educate
people on issues that women of color
face daily,” conference coordinator
and University junior Andrea Old
Coyote said.
The conference, which continues
through Sunday, focuses on personal
strength and development for mi
nority women with workshops rang
ing from parenting to time manage
ment, interracial relationships to
self-defense. This year’s theme is
“Self-care and Empowerment,” with
19 workshops and forums scheduled
for the three-day event.
Among other highlights are pre
sentations by Dona Irene Alvarez, a
Mexican medicine woman from
Oaxaca, who will lead a number of
workshops concerning inner healing
and wellness. Accompanying Al
varez is Eugene midwife Anita Rojas,
also originally from Mexico, who will
act as a translator.
Alvarez’s presentations include a
“Traditional Healing Methods”
workshop that touches on person
al healing practices and the “Reme
dios Caseros” (Home Remedy)
workshop, which focuses on natu
ral ways to build the immune sys
tem and stay healthy. A complete
schedule of events can be found in
the Women’s Center.
“The reminder here for this con
ference is that we are powerful
working people in a working
whole,” conference volunteer and
event organizer Darlene Dadras
said. “We start at home so that we
may support and recognize the
struggles we experience.”
Dadras, a senior, will be facilitat
ing the “Privileged Language” work
shop, which deals with how different
privileges work in the oppression of
women of color.
She said the conference was not
just for women or just people of
color. There is also a men’s forum
from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. today in the
EMU’s Metrolius Room to discuss
how men can contribute to the self
care and empowerment of women.
Dadras said everyone is welcome at
the conference.
“Students, professors, midwives,
day caregivers — they are in the
home space, too,” Dadras said. “This
conference reminds us of the rela
tionships with one another.”
Freshman Kalesha Wiley said she
is interested in going to the confer
ence to learn about the issues.
“There are some issues that I
think black students face that others
don’t,” she said.
The conference is free and will
end on Sunday with dinner and
keynote speeches from Alvarez and
Susan Masten, the former presi
dent of the National Congress of
Native Americans. More than 400
students attended the conference
last year, and increased participa
tion is encouraged.
“This year’s conference may re
mind us to take part — we are al
ways busy — but empowerment of
one’s own health and healing is a
community effort,” said Dadras.
Andrew Shipley is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
Pulse brief
NYU professor to show
her ‘toxic’ film
A toxic weekend is in store for the
University, when New York Universi
ty adjunct professor Judith Helfand
brings her film, “Blue Vinyl” to 180
PLG at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The
screening will also include a discus
sion with pollution expert and Univer
sity ecology and evolutionary biology
Assistant Professor Joe Thornton.
The film, a “’toxic comedy’ for the
whole family” explores Helfand’s re
search on the manufacture of
polyvinyl chloride and its health and
environmental impacts. The docu
mentary received the Excellence in
Cinematography Award at the 2002
Sundance Film Festival, the first
prize for best documentary at the
2002 Bermuda International Film
Festival and three other intemation
al film festival awards.
Helfand will also present a lec
ture, “Women in Danger: Toxics
and Women’s Health,” at noon Fri
day in 330 Hendricks. She will also
be a guest speaker on KLCC’s radio
show at noon Sunday. In addition,
Helfand will present her film a sec
ond time at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at
the Churchill High School Audito
rium, located at 1850 Bailey Hill
Road. Donations are suggested.
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