Peace, Justice &
Media Conference
Empowering the Movement for Fair, Accurate and Diverse Media
National Speakers, Free Workshops, Film Festival, Slam Poets, and a Peace Forum
October 9-12, LCC, University of Oregon
A N O VERVIEW OF THE C ONFERENCE
The role of the media will be the focus of the Peace,
Justice and Media Conference in Eugene and hosted
by the Justice Not War Coalition. Most of the
conference will take place on the University of Oregon
campus. The purpose of the conference is to educate
and empower the general public as well as advocates
and activists to question, work with and even become
the media.
Most conference events are free and include visual arts
exhibits, peace poetry, political comedy, a film festival,
a children’s program, a free speech soap box, music,
national and local speakers on panels, and a multitude of
workshops. There is a charge for evening programs, and
pre-registration is required for extended workshops such
as the “Crash Course on Media Literacy” which provides
critical thinking tools to challenge existing perceptions
of media and is ideal for teachers, parents, students,
community leaders, and religious educators.
To get more information, volunteer, pre-register for
workshops or to get tickets, contact Justice Not War at
454 Willamette, #205, ph. (541) 343-8548, or go to
www.justicenotwarcoalition.org.
N ATIONAL S PEAKERS AND P ERFORMANCES
www.justicenotwarcoalition.org
H IGHLIGHTS
Thursday,
October 9
Jim Hightower
with Slam Poet Piece
6:30 Doors open
with information
tables, premiere
showing of
“Independent Media
in a Time of War” featuring Amy Goodman of
Democracy Now 7:30 p.m. Lane Community
College, Bldg. 19
Jim Hightower
Friday, October 10
Populist radio commentator and best selling
author Jim Hightower will open the conference on
October 9.
Hightower is touring Oregon with his new book
Thieves in High Places: They’ve Stolen Our Country
and It’s Time to Take It Back. Twice elected Texas
Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that
the true spectrum is not right to left, but top to bottom,
and he has become a leading national voice for the 80
percent of the public who no longer find themselves
within shouting distance of the Washington and Wall
Street powers at the top.
Noon Rally with Slam Poet Piece, Urgent
Carnival and more (Fir Room)
Conference preview with speakers Kelly
Campbell, Paul Richards and Andrea Bufa and
music by Chico Schwall.
7:00 Doors open for San Francisco Mime
Troupe (EMU Ballroom)
9:30 Reception for the San Francisco Mime
Troupe with music by Piece, Chico Schwall and
Party Booby Trap (Agate Hall, 18th and Agate).
Tickets at the door: $5
Saturday, October 11
Others
Andrea Buffa is an anti-war activist for the Global
Exchange Peace Campaign and is on the steering
committee of the national anti-war coalition United
for Peace and Justice. She is the former executive
director of Media Alliance, a San Francisco Bay Area
media accountability group. During her time at Media
Alliance, Andrea became a nationally recognized
activist on media issues. She was a Bay Area leader
in the fight to save Pacifica Radio and recently led a
national mobilization of protest against Clear
Channel Communications and the FCC’s proposed
rule-change on media ownership.
Kelly Campbell is the sister-in-law of Craig
Amundson, who died in the Pentagon on September
11th and a founding member of September Eleventh
Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. She has been
organizing an expanding group of family members
of 9/11 victims working for peace. Her efforts to
build opposition to the war in Iraq included lobbying
Congress by day and speaking at vigils and rallies
by night and resulted in her leading a high profile
campaign of civil disobedience at the US Capitol
the week before the war began. Kelly’s essay about
the bombing of Afghanistan is featured in the new
book, September 11th Families for Peaceful
Tomorrows: Turning our Grief into Action for
Peace. Michael Moore describes the book as “a
powerful reminder that the cycle of violence and
retaliation can and must be broken.”
Noon, Gathering with Kelly Campbell of
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomor-
rows, Singers for Peace, Chico Schwall, and
Siobhan VanLanen (EMU Plaza)
4:30 p.m., Keynote panel: Media Coverage of
War since 9/11 (Fir Room)
7:00 p.m., San Francisco Mime Troupe (EMU
Ballroom)
Set in the near future, Veronique of the Mounties, finds
the US government deeply engaged in its imperialistic quest
to save the people of the world from themselves. After bring-
ing “democracy” to Iraq, Syria, and France, the U.S. turns
its gaze to the terrorist threat on its northern border,
CANADA. Fiction follows fiction until only one thing can
protect America. Come see the San Francisco Mime Troupe
October 10 or 11 to find out what.
San Francisco Mime Troupe
The nationally acclaimed political theatre group, The
San Francisco Mime Troupe, will perform a hilarious
new satire titled Veronique of the Mounties in
Operation Frozen Freedom in the Erb Ballroom. Amid
laughter and music, the play addresses issues of
militarism and empire while answering burning
questions like: Why would America turn away from
its own economic and social problems and attack the
peace-loving hockey fans in the north? Can a country
with a maple leaf as a flag truly be a terrorist threat?
Sunday, October 12
11:00 Bagels, tea and coffee with Andrea Buffa
(Fir Room) and more workshops
1:00 - 4:30 Eugene Forum for Peace Education
(Fir Room)
4:30 - 6:30 p.m. Oregon Poets for Peace
Publishing Party (EMU Fountain Patio),
Both events are free
Hightower Tickets: $5 advance, $8 at the door.
Available at: Foolscap, Bookmine (Cottage Grove),
Tsunami Books, Black Sun Books, UO Ticket office
or the Justice Not War Coalition office, 454
Willamette, #205, Eugene, OR, phone #
(541)-343-8548. A limited number of free student
tickets required for admission are available from
ASLCC Office or the UO Ticket Office.
San Francisco Mime Troupe Tickets: Advance
tickets $19 ($24 at door, $15 for students) on sale
only at the UO Ticket Office at (541)-346-4363.
Visual arts exhibit in Fir Room by New Zone Collective