The Power of ONE: This year's CAER conference celebrates the power of individuals to make
sustainable changes toward social and environmental justice. Speakers will share their grassroots
strategies and successes in effecting change within their communities, emphasizing issues relating to
communities in the Pacific Northwest. The conference will bring together activists, educators, legal advocates, students, and community members to empower the notionthat everyONEmakes a difference!!!
Panel Discussions to include such topics as:
> Roots of EJ (Institutionalized Racism, Inclusion or Tokenism etc.)
> Local EJ Issues (Brownfields, Farmwork & Pesticides, Water Rights)
> Tools for Change (Building Trust Across Cultures,Community Organizing)
What is Environmental Racism?
Poor communities, who have the smallest portion of America's wealth, suffer the brunt of the country's
pollution and waste. People of color often make up these communities. This is, essentially, the problem
of environmental racism.
The Environmental Justice(EJ) Movement has responded to this problem by empowering individuals and
communities to gain access to their right to be involved in environmental policy making and
enforcement. The Coalition Against Environmental Racism (CAER) is a student coalition at the University
of Oregon. We are an organization bringing together graduate and undergraduate students to provide a forum
to address environmental racism. We have two main goals: to educate the community about the connection between environmental problems and social inequalities; and to bring activists together in order to combine efforts in the struggle for environmental justice.
For more information, please contact:
 caer@gladstone.uoregon.edu.
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