Six Eugene-area peace activists have
announced they are flying to Washington,
D.C., Thursday and will join the Saturday
march through the streets of the Capitol.
They will be participating in teach-ins and
lobbying Sunday and Monday and will re-
turn Tuesday.
Eugene activists Pam Garrison, Doe
Tabor, Karla Cohen, Rich Klopfer,
Michael Carrigan and Aria Seligmann will
be representing Oregon Women’s Action
for New Directions (WAND), Eugene
Code Pink, Justice Not War and CALC’s
Progressive Responses.
“Now that peace is within reach, the
Democrats not only need our support, but
also our encouragement,” reads a state-
ment from the group. “By marching in the
streets and lobbying, we are showing that
we hold the people we elect accountable.”
The group adds that they want to “put
pressure on our elected officials to move
them to actually do something that’s defin-
itive and binding.”
Speakers slated at the pre-march rally
include Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky
Anderson, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr.; Rep.
Dennis Kucinich; Rep. Maxine Waters;
Bob Watada, father of Lt. Watada; and sev-
eral Iraq veterans.
For more information on the weekend
events, visit www.unitedforpeace.org
GOOD EARTH
HOME SHOW
Want to make your home more eco-
friendly? Want more birds and butterflies
in your backyard? Want to make a fortune
providing green products and services?
Want to restore a vintage trailer house?
There’s a bit of something for everybody at
this weekend’s Good Earth Home, Garden
& Living Show at the Lane County
Fairgrounds.
The show, unique in the U.S., begins at
5 pm Friday and runs from 11 am to 8 pm
Saturday and 11 am to 5 pm Sunday.
Admission is free.
More than 250 environmentally
friendly businesses are displaying their
goods and services, 40 seminars and work-
shops are planned and nationally known
designers and authors will be presenting.
Among the speakers are Rebekah
Green, an expert on the design and con-
struction of modern green buildings and
passive solar homes. Julie Lewis, president
of Jade Planet, Inc., will talk about venture
capital in eco-entrepreneurship. Marc
Vassalo will talk about his book, The
Barefoot Home & the New Informality.
Other authors include Barbara Ashmum,
Kris Wetherbee, Elizabeth Grossman,
Heather Flores, Harry Wiland and William
Sullivan.
See www.EugeneHomeShow.com for
details or call 484-9247.
REY HERE
FOR FORUM
ON WORKERS
Federal officials including Mark Rey,
USDA undersecretary for Natural
Resources and the Environment and Alex
Passantino, deputy administrator of the
U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and
Hour Division, will be in Eugene
Wednesday, Jan. 31, to discuss new efforts
to protect the health and safety of contract
workers on national forest lands. The offi-
cials will hear comments from the public.
The forum will be held from 1:30 to 5
pm Jan. 31 in the Pittman Room at the Len
Casanova Center, Martin Luther King Jr.
Boulevard, near Autzen Stadium.
Sustainable Northwest, the UO-Ecosystem
Workforce Program, Watershed Research
and Training Center, Communities
Committee, Alliance of Forest Workers
and Harvesters and the UO are sponsoring
the event with participation from the
Forest Service and the Department of
Labor.
The Forest Service has made changes in
contracting rules for seasonal workers who
perform various tasks on national forest
BY PAUL NEEVEL
GUADALUPE MORENO,
RENEE DAMON, AND
NANCY BRAY
As a kid growing up in
Lane County, Nancy Bray
earned summer spending
money picking beans in
area farm fields. “I
became aware that there
were families out there
picking for their basic
needs,” she says. Bray
volunteered with the
Migrant Ministry while in
high school. Later, at the
UO, she boycotted the EMU for serving non-UFW union lettuce. Since graduation, she
has taught in Springfield schools for 30 years. When she began teaching English
Language Learners in the mid-’90s, one of her first bilingual assistants was
Guadalupe Moreno, recently arrived from Baja California. “I had two years of English
classes at LCC,” says Moreno. “I was lucky to get the job and help the Latino commu-
nity.” Since 2003, Bray and Moreno have worked together as director and coodinator
of the Lane Education Service District’s Migrant Education Program, providing educa-
tional and social service support to children of migrant workers. A native of Winston,
Ore., Renee Damon has served seven years as program assistant for the MEP, man-
aging the paperwork to satisfy state and federal regulations.
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