you!
CCEJ will be hosting its 6 th annual conference:
"Race, Power, and the Environment: Liberating Our Communities from
Toxins"
When: August 25 th , 2007 from 9am-5pm, Where: South
Seattle Community College.
Join us for an educational and exciting day of diverse workshops around indigenous environmental justice issues, food justice, colonization and its global impacts, ..toxic careers, violence and neighborhood safety, gentrification, redlining, and climate change. Workshops will be drawing speakers from all around the Puget Sound region and will address issues on the urban, rural, and indigenous levels. An additional "Accessing Information on the Web" skills workshop is hosted by the EPA and CCEJ.
Dr. Joy Leary, author of "Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing", will be our keynote speaker this year. The focus of her talk will be to discuss the root causes of environmental injustice. Following her talk will be several interactive caucuses specifically around youth, environmental justice allies, immigration, and economic justice. We hope to engage people with in-depth, dynamic dialogue in order to fashion solutions to the different toxins that exist in our community.
The true cost of the conference is $125 per person, but to keep the conference accessible for everyone, registration is on a sliding scale of $1-125. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds. Vegan and vegetarian-friendly lunch, day-long childcare, and simultaneous translation in multiple languages will be available with advance notice.
To register for the conference, download our registration form here and mail it to our office at 1620 18 th Ave, Ste 10 Seattle, WA 98122, or e-mail it to [email protected] . Check back for maps, directions, and the full conference brochure soon.
For questions regarding the conference, or if you or your organization are interested in sponsoring and/or tabling, please contact Mel Carnay, Administrative Coordinator, at 206.720.0285 ex. 4 or [email protected].