Events in April 2022
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Fossil Free Eugene: Online public testimony training Fossil Free Eugene: Online public testimony training
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April 5, 2022Make your voice heard and help shape Eugene's just transition! Fossil Free Eugene will be offering a public testimony training via zoom with Dylan Plummer, Senior Campaign Representative for Building Electrification at Sierra Club.We need your support now more than ever. We need as many diverse voices as possible to testify on April 11 leading up to a city council vote on a draft ordinance to mandate the electrification of new buildings in Eugene on April 13th. A vote for electrification would be a huge win for the Fossil Free Eugene campaign and our climate. Speak out for health, safety, and for our collective future.Speak out for health, safety, and for our collective future!Prefer in-person events? Join us for a testimony training outdoors at Oakshire: https://fb.me/e/54Vv38RuN -
Save the Urban Farm: ASUO Senate hearing Save the Urban Farm: ASUO Senate hearing
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April 6, 2022The ASUO Senate Hearing will include the presentation of a resolution about the Urban Farm. Please join us in the Miller Room on the 2nd floor of the EMU. Discussion about this is estimated to start ~7:30 PM
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Fossil Free Eugene: Public testimony training in person Fossil Free Eugene: Public testimony training in person
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April 10, 2022Make your voice heard and help shape Eugene's just transition! Fossil Free Eugene will be offering public testimony training at Oakshire with:- Bethany Cotton (conservation director Cascadia Wildlands)
-Eloise Navarro (Environmental Climate Justice Coordinator NAACP)
- Aya Cockram (Fossil Free Eugene Coordinator)It will take place during Oakshire's "Drink and Draw" where you get $1 off pints after 5 PM, there is also Kombucha and other non-alcoholic beverages available, all ages welcome! Bring paper or a computer to workshop your testimony after the short presentation —scratch paper, and writing implements will also be provided.We need your support now more than ever. We need as many diverse voices as possible to testify on April 11 leading up to a city council vote on a draft ordinance to mandate the electrification of new buildings in Eugene on April 13th. A vote for electrification would be a huge win for the Fossil Free Eugene campaign and our climate. Speak out for health, safety, and for our collective future.Prefer online events? Join us for a testimony training via Zoom instead: https://fb.me/e/1iGfdjYONOakShire Brewing -
Save the Urban Farm: Student forum on Urban Farm Save the Urban Farm: Student forum on Urban Farm
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April 20, 2022We will be discussing next steps and upcoming actions. All students welcome to attend if you'd like to learn more and get involved
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Cinder: Non-profits and public policy as tools of white supremacy Cinder: Non-profits and public policy as tools of white supremacy
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April 21, 2022Meet Marcus, Amanda, and Shannon, panelists for the PPPM Equity Initiative event with CINDER, happening on April 20th in the Crater Lake North room of the EMU.
Marcus is the facilitator of the PPPM Equity Initiative x CINDER Panel. He is the Director of Social Equity at Cinder and an experienced community organizer, dedicated to transforming the cultural, material, and systemic conditions of our workplace and society.
Amanda is NYC born, raised part time in Puerto Rico and found her way to Portland in 2011. She can’t live without a comfy chair and a knitting project, and feels a deep passion and commitment to humanizing the social services world for marginalized folks.
Shannon is a queer Chicana single mother of two, a community organizer, and deeply rooted in mutual aid. She identifies as a transracial adoptee from México who is working for a world without cages, directing her energy to honoring and uplifting self determination, personal histories, and lived experiences. Shannon focuses her work in creative writing, art, queer radical parenting, healing, and agitation.
Sign up to hear a discussion on white supremacy in the nonprofit and public sectors. Link in the @uo_pppm bio.
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350 Eug: Climate Town Hall #5 350 Eug: Climate Town Hall #5
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April 24, 2022Join us for our fifth Climate Town Hall! There will be exciting outdoor displays of EVs, cars & bikes (including Arcimoto Fun Utility Vehicles); Special Keynote Speaker, Aimée Okotie-Oyekan (climate justice activist); short rotating teach-ins with experts on electrification - Juan Munoz (EWEB), Dylan Plummer (Sierra Club) and Danny Noonan (Breach Collective); musical entertainment with Ratie D (Zimbabwean singer-songwriter) & Eugene Raging Grannies and movers and shakers tabling from local organizations. Join your peeps in the local climate movement. Bring a friend!Free, family friendly and fun! Our first in-person indoor event in two years. Please exercise personal COVID precautions.