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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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. -
CSWS: Balancing Work and Caregiving: A Best Practices Teach-In CSWS: Balancing Work and Caregiving: A Best Practices Teach-In
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April 27, 2022On April 27, the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) and United Academics (UA) will host “Balancing Work and Caregiving: A Best Practices Teach-In.”
Both CSWS and UA have been advocating for caregivers in the University of Oregon community since the start of the pandemic. CSWS launched the Caregiver Campaignspecial project, advocating for greater flexibility and support in administrative policies, while UA has developed a Caregiving article for collective bargaining this year. This teach-in is designed to complement those efforts.
The event will draw upon faculty experiences during the pandemic to suggest best practices for being a care ally, drawing on creative solutions that come from the bottom up—often at the department, program, or unit level. Through providing real-life examples, event organizers aim to help UO community members who are caregivers themselves and/or want to be care allies to come up with concrete plans and at least two practices they may implement with others in their unit. By the end of the session, attendees will have a better idea of how to navigate common caregiving challenges in the academic setting, advocate for their needs, and support their caregiving colleagues.
In addition, the teach-in will allow caregivers and caregiving allies to identify other colleagues in different schools and departments who share an interest in issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion at UO. Because engagement with caregiving issues has become so critical during the pandemic, a time when social isolation was the norm, many individual efforts have largely grown in isolation. This teach-in provides an opportunity to identify a caregiving and caregiver-ally community in our institution.
Event panelists include Maria Fernanda Escallón, Anthropology; Lynn Fujiwara, Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies; Melissa Graboyes, History; Deborah Green, Religious Studies; and Lynn Stephen, Anthropology.
The teach-in will be held Wednesday, April 27, from 12-2 p.m. on Zoom. The meeting link is https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/95457778614?pwd=Z2pqSGo5TXhFY3ZrTXpadndjOU4xQT09.