This unique event brings together community members, students, scholars, environmental justice advocates, scientists, and policy makers to learn about herbicide exposure from the ground up and explore our capacity for social change.
Saturday – folks from all over Oregon are gathering in Triangle Lake for a day long Witness to Action Assembly. Triangle Lake residents have been exposed to pesticide drift for years. As a community they’ve come together to demand testing and advocate for community and ecological health in creative and important ways. Gathering at this site, we’ll listen to community members across Oregon organizing against pesticide drift, draft a Statement of Principles and through a series of themed break-out sessions explore or capacity for individual and collective change. To sign up for transportation and a free bag lunch, go here!
Tyrone Hayes, a professor of Integrative Biology from Berkeley will be our keynote speaker this year. His research regarding hermaphroditism in frogs as a result of exposure to the commonly-used herbicide Atrazine have created national attention and controversy within academia and beyond. His research and public activism were recently the subject of a New Yorker magazine article, which among other things, details the extent to which chemical company, Syngenta, has gone to discredit his work.