Our Sponsors:

Oregon Toxics Alliance is proud to welcome
an exclusive Oregon appearance...

Human Rights and The Environment:
An Evening with Dr. Sandra Steingraber
Noted author, biologist, poet and cancer survivor

• When: April 28, 2011 (Thursday) - 7 PM (doors open at 6:30)
• Where: Robinson Theater on the University of Oregon campus*

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General admission seating (first come, first seated)

Sponsored by
Northwest Community Credit Union, EWEB and Seventh Generation

Download and distribute the event flyer

In her exclusive Oregon appearance, noted author (Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment), biologist, poet and cancer survivor, Dr. Sandra Steingraber comes to Eugene to speak about the links between cancer and the common presence of toxics in our environment. Oregon Toxics Alliance is proud to host Dr. Steingraber's appearance and in preparation for her visit, we will be showing the film based on her book, Living Downstream, several times before her arrival in late April.

Tickets are now available through the University of Oregon Ticket office:
$11 - general public
$9 - students with ID

NOTE: If there are tickets leftover from online sales, they will be for sale at the door on the evening of the 28th.

Spring Membership Drive Special...
As an added incentive to renew your OTA membership, we are offering a free ticket to those who join or renew their OTA membership at the $40 level. This is available for the first 20 people who sign up and send an email to our office manager: info@oregontoxics.org. Please indicate in the subject line or in the body of the email that you have signed up for an OTA membership and would like a ticket reserved in your name. If you'd like the ticket sent to you, please make sure to include your mailing address.

Please note: if you do not send us an email we have no way of knowing what donations are in response to this special "friend of OTA" offer.

Sponsors:

• Northwest Community Credit Union
• Eugene Water and Electric Board
• Seventh Generation

Donations/Grants:

• Ceres Foundation
• Lane Community College Institute for Sustainable Practices

Generous Support:
Naturopathic Physicians of Lane County, holistic care practitioners making a difference in the health of our community...including: Dr. Kelly Fitzpatrick, ND Virginia Oram, ND Bill Walter, ND Skye Weintraub, ND Dan Hardt, ND Clinic of Natural Medicine: Teresa Silliman ND Tina Kaczor, ND, FABNO Ryan Campbell ND, LAc	also: Café Mam Hummingbird Wholesale Genesis Juice/Toby's Organically Grown, Inc. Turtle Mountain/So Delicious

Resources:

• Download the event flyer
• Film showing Press Release
• Dr. Steingraber's web site
• Dr. Steingraber's most recent book: Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis (amazon.com page)

download her April 18th interview on KBOO radio (24 min.; 22Mb mp3 file)

Also, see the critically acclaimed documentary film based on Dr. Steingraber's book...

Living Downstream info. sheet (press)

Dr. Steingraber stands by the bank of the Illinois River.

Living Downstream is a cinematic feature-length documentary based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. -- See a 4 minute preview of the film...

"From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act."
- Sandra Steingraber

*Robinson Theater in the Miller Theater Complex
1109 Old Campus Lane (opens new window)

The theater is on the UofO campus across from Dads’ Gates EmX bus stop. Public parking is available between East 11th & Franklin. We encourage car pooling and use of public transit: The EmX leaves downtown every 10 minutes until 6:30 pm after 6:30, it leaves every 15 minutes. Get off at the Dads’ Gates bus stop next to the U of O.

UofO map: http://map.uoregon.edu/

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