GRASSROOTS UNITE
Activists
concerned about health, justice, peace and the environment will
share organizing tactics May 5-6 in Missoula, Mont. Bryony Schwan,
director of the Missoula-based Women’s Voices for the Earth, says
the conference aims to diversify the environmental movement and
pinpoint common ground among the participants. Speakers include
Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs, now executive director of Citizen’s
Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste; Dan Funsch of Alliance for the
Wild Rockies, and Gail Small of Native Action, a Northern Cheyenne
activist group. A separate workshop, May 7, Women Without Limits,
seeks to empower women and develop leadership. For more information
about the workshop or the conference, Finding Common Ground:
Gender, Justice and the Environment, contact Women’s Voices for the
Earth at 406/543-3747.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Grassroots unite.
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