SPECIAL GUESTS
Keynote Speakers:
WALT BRESETTE, Founder, Lake Superior Green Party.
DAVID BROWER, the inspiration behind the environmental protection
movement in the U.S.
DAVE FOREMAN, Co-Founder, Earth First!
SARA JAMES, Chair, Gwich'in Steering Committee.
RIGOBERTA MENCHU (Invited), 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner. OREN
LYONS, Chief and spiritual leader, Onondaga Iroquois Nation (New
York).
ANDERSON MUTANG, Founder, Sarawak Indigenous Peoples' Alliance.
DR. GEORGE SCHALLER, Director, Wildlife Conservation
International.
MILILANI B. TRASK, Kia'aina, Ka Lahui Hawai'i (Governor,
Sovereign Nation of Hawai'i).
* Phil Keisling, Secretary of State of Oregon.
* Jim Jontz, U.S. Representative, D-Indiana, 1987-92.
* Peter DeFazio, U.S. Representative, D-Oregon.
* Jim Hester, U.S. Agency for International Development.
* Alan Thein Durning, Worldwatch Institute.
* Terry Tempest Williams, author, "Refuge."
* Dr. Garrett Hardin, author, "Tragedy of the Commons."
* Ola Cassadore Davis, San Carlos Apache; daughter of late Clan
Chief Cassadore and blood relative of Geronimo and Apache Kid.
* Al Smith, Klamath Nation; defendant in U.S. Supreme Court case
in which the High Court held Smith's ceremonial use of peyote
was not protected by the freedom of religion clause of the
First Amendment.
* Raymond Yowell, Chief, Western Shoshone National Council
(invited).
* Ted Strong, Yakima Nation; Executive Director of Columbia River
Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.
* Grace Thorpe, Sac and Fox Nations, Oklahoma; daughter of Jim
Thorpe.
* Calvin Hecocta, Paiute; Founder, Willamette Valley (Oregon)
Sacred Sites Preservation Committee.
And many, many more! (Please see brochure.)
With over 75 Native American and other indigenous leaders
worldwide set to appear, including five internationally renowned
keynote speakers, the 1993 Public Interest Environmental Law
Conference is ready to convene, March 4-7, at the University of
Oregon School of Law, Eugene, Oregon.
Indigenous keynoters include Walt Bresette, Chippewa and Founder,
Lake Superior Green Party; Oren Lyons, Chief and Spiritual
Leader, Onondaga Iroquois Nation; Sarah James, Chair, Gwich'in
Steering Committee (Alaska); Anderson Mutang, Founder, Sarawak
Indigenous Peoples Alliance (Malaysia); and, Mililani Trask,
Governor, Sovereign Nation of Hawai'i.
(Unconfirmed at press time were Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell,
D-Colorado; Rigoberto Menchu, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize (Guatemala);
and, Ovide Mercredi, National Chief, 1st Assembly of Nations
(Canada).)
Entitled "Indigenous Peoples: Sacred Roots, Sacred Ties," this
year's Conference will celebrate the world's indigenous peoples,
whose existence is imperiled by relentless environmental
degradation of their ancestral homelands, in conjunction with the
United Nations Year of Indigenous Peoples.
Over 2000 participants and guests from around the globe will
attend the Conference and witness over 80 panel discussions and
workshops on environmental topics as diverse as the attendees.
Twenty of the panel discussions will focus solely on indigenous
issues as related by indigenous persons affected by those issues.
One panel will focus on the Northwest timber crisis and serve as
a prelude to the Forest Summit planned by the Clinton
Administration.
"Northwest Forest Summit: From Stalemate to Solutions," will be
moderated by Congressman Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, and broadcast
live over EDNET throughout Oregon and the Northwest. Three
leading timber industry officials and three directors of
environmental organizations from the Northwest will serve on the
three-hour panel discussion, which will include live and call-in
audience participation.
Another panel will focus on environmental investigative
reporting, with Paul Koberstein (The Oregonian), Paul Nyden
(Charleston, W.Va. Gazette), and Bob Wolfe (free-lance
investigative reporter) leading the discussion.
Other keynoters include David Brower, former Executive Director,
Sierra Club and Founder and Chair, Earth Island Institute; Dave
Foreman, Co-Founder, Earth First!; and, Dr. George Schaller,
Director, World Conservation International.
Now in its 11th year, the Conference is sponsored by Land Air
Water (L.A.W.), the world's largest and oldest student
environmental law organization, located at the University of
Oregon School of Law. L.A.W.'s over 100 members organize,
produce and present the Conference each year on a strictly
volunteer basis.
For further information contact:
David E. Evans, Kari Grabowski, Co-Directors
Matt McKeown, Publicity
enclosures: keynoter bios
special guests
Northwest Forest Summit information sheet
Conference brochure