CELDF: Communities’ protecting the environment: “What do you do when local and state elected officials will not protect your community? When you realize our legal and governing structures are designed to support and perpetuate these harms, rather than stop them?”
Colorado’s Merrily Mazza headlines Oregon Community Rights Tour
what’s Happening?
Medford and North Bend, OR, are threatened by liquid-natural-gas export pipelines feeding into the proposed Jordan Cove export terminal. Eugene residents are living with the costs of pesticides contaminating their air, soil, and water.
What do you do when local and state elected officials will not protect your community? When you realize our legal and governing structures are designed to support and perpetuate these harms, rather than stop them?
You do something to change it. Colorado’s Merrily Mazza has been on the frontline of Community Rights since 2014. Her work to advance rights and protect against fossil fuel harms is ongoing, challenging the Colorado oil and gas industry as it expands across the state. She brings her powerful Community Rights message as an activist, a Lafayette City Council member, and as a grandmother, to Oregon counties.
when?
Tuesday, May 22nd, 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, May 23rd, 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 24th, 7:00 p.m.
where?
Medford Public Library
North Bend Public Library
Eugene First United Methodist Church
join us!
For more information, contact cooscommons@gmail.com.
