Eugene, OR: "Green is the New Red" Event June 1st
The Government's Attack on the Environmental Movement and Your Civil Rights
On the 10th Anniversary of the 1997 Broadway-Charnelton Pepper Spraying
Incident
Speakers: Will Potter, Lauren Regan and Jim Flynn
Featuring: Video footage of June 1 EPD brutality and citizen resistance
Will Potter is an award-winning journalist based in Washington, D.C.,
who focuses on how the War on Terrorism affects civil liberties.
Lauren Regan is the executive director of the Civil Liberties Defense
Center and an outspoken civil rights attorney.
Jim Flynn is one the people who were pepper sprayed and arrested on June
1, 1997, for attempting to stop the removal of 40 heritage trees downtown.
The event is being held at the Wandering Goat Coffee Co. at 268 Madison
in Eugene. The presentation is FREE and will start at 7 pm.
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