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area. • LCC’s Students for a Democratic Society and the Civil Liberties Defense Center are organizing a forum on the civil rights movement starting at 3 pm Thursday, March 6 at the LCC Building 17, rooms 308/309. Discussion will focus on the Black Panthers, and police torture and other government repression against civil rights activists. For info, email yogameg@gmail. com • Ron Palmquist, northwest regional organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops, will be speaking at 5 pm Thursday, March 6, in the UO’s PLC 180 on Kincaid Street. USAS founded the Worker Rights Consortium, spotlighting abusive working conditions in U.S. garment and shoe factories in third-world countries. • A rally against the Western Oregon Plan Revision is planned for 11:30 am Thursday, March 7, the UO EMU. The group plans to march at noon to the U.S. Courthouse to regroup and deliver petitions opposing the WOPR to Sen. Wyden and Congressman DeFazio. Participating will be OSPIRG, UO students, ELAW, Sierra Club, Native Forest Council, Pitchfork Rebellion and numerous other environmental groups and community members. For info, email mlagattu@uoregon.edu • Corvallis CODE PINK Community WWW.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM • BLOGS.EUGENEWEEKLY.COM Action Center is sponsoring a Regional Activist Training and Community Action Networking event beginning at 10 am Saturday, March 8, at the Oddfellows North Hall, 223 2nd Ave. Suggested donation is $20, but no one will be turned away. The event continues Sunday afternoon. Presenters include Rural Organizing Project, Veterans for Peace, Oregon Toxics Alliance, Corvallis HOURS Exchange, Oregon Community for War Tax Resistance, Food Not Bombs, Corvallis Earth Institute, Corvallis Counter-Recruitment Committee, Nonviolent Peaceforce, Bike4Peace, Students for a Democratic Society and the UO Student Insurgent. EUGENE WEEKLY MARCH 6, 2008 13
