Sylvia Hart Wright
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Protecting Old Growth Forests and Ousting Neo-Nazis from Campus (Cimmeron Gillespie — Part 1)
Sylvia: It’s December 3rd, 2016 and I’m interviewing Cimmeron Gillespie. I know that you’ve been an activist since you were in high school. You went to the University of Oregon and now you’re 28. Cimmeron: Yeah. Pretty much for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirming and welcoming congregations/communities, Anti-apartheid movement and teaching black students, Anti-semitism and the Pacifica Forum, Backdoor drafts during the Iraq War, Children of ministers as activists, Cimmeron Gillespie, Holocaust deniers and the Pacifica Forum, Kiss-in to disrupt homophobic meeting, Milleniium Grove and Earth First, National Socialist Movement speaker on college campus, Oberlin College and anti-apartheid movement, Orval Etter, Pacifica Forum and Israel/Palestine, Physical violence and economic violence, Student disruption of Neo-Nazi meeting, Student tactics to disrupt meetings
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Advocating and Mediating for Native Americans and Homeless People (Jennifer Frenzer-Knowlton)
Sylvia: It’s November 16, 2016, and I’m interviewing Jennifer Frenzer-Knowlton. I know that you’re trained as a lawyer and that for a time you lived with your former husband on an Indian reservation. And you’ve been active with Occupy Eugene … Continue reading
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Tagged "Occupy Eugene" movement in Oregon, "Rest stops" as legal camp spots, Boldt Decision and Tribal Treaty nations, Community Supported Shelters Eugene, Facilitated neighborhood mediation, Homelessness in Oregon, Human Rights Commission in Eugene Oregon, Jennifer Frenzer-Knowlton, Life on the Makah Indian Reservation, Life on the Navajo Reservation, Native American relations with Bureau of Indian Affairs, Opportunity Village Eugene, Rights to housing Eugene Oregon
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Promoting Diversity of Opinion in the Media (David Zupan)
Sylvia: It’s November 2, 2016 and I’m interviewing David Zupan. I know you’ve been a mainstay of the peace movement in Eugene and the director of Progressive Voices nationally. Has activism been your main career or did you shift into … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaigns for nuclear-free zones Oregon, Community radio in Oregon, David Zupan, Diversity in reporting, Documentaries on the homeless, ELAW (Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide) and climate change, Eugene PeaceWorks, Institute for Public Accuracy, International Documentary Film Festival and climate change, KEPW community radio, Low cost student housing, Martin Sheen as anti-nuclear activist, Mary Wood and the Public Trust, Our Children's Trust vs the U.S., Progressive speakers in the media, RootsAction, Speakers Clearinghouse and Progressive Voices, White Trains transporting nuclear weapons
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Longtime Community Organizer, Par Excellence (Marion Malcolm)
Sylvia: It’s October 14, 2016 and I’m interviewing Marion Malcolm. I assume you could call yourself a community organizer. Is that right? Marion: Community organizer is exactly the title I like. I was hired by CALC [now called Community Alliance … Continue reading
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Tagged CALCAV and Martin Luther King, Clergy and Laity Concerned in Eugene, Community Alliance of Lane County OR, Community organizing in Oregon, Improving school and city sevices to the underserved in OR, Interfaith Sanctuary Movement and El Salvador, Marion Malcolm in Eugene and Springfield OR, Missionary kids, Sanctuary Network for refugees from El Salvador
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Empowering Thousands Daily to Speak Out on Current Issues (Norman Solomon)
Sylvia: It’s September 30, 2016 and I’m interviewing Norman Solomon. I know you’ve accomplished many things in your life. How would you summarize your career? Norman: There’s certain labels that could be put on it, writer, author, activist, organizer? Political … Continue reading
Changing Minds with Guerrilla Theater (“Wentworth”)
[This interviewee chose to use the pseudonym “Wentworth.” To accommodate him, a few other names have been changed as well. He’s an old acquaintance of mine. We were both members of an affinity group that nonviolently blocked an important intersection … Continue reading
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