2007 Bioneers Film Series
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2007 Bioneers Film Series
Tuesday Nights 7:00 p.m. FREE
November 27, December 4, December 11
January 22, January 29, February 5
Sponsored by the Wilderness Charter School
Strawbale Classroom, 60 Morse Street
Tuesday, November 27
Katharine Redford and Ka Hsaw Wa - leaders in the Burmese democracy uprising, and human rights activists ever since, working against human rights and environmental abuses within Burma.
Wallace Nichols - scientist, ocean activist, author and a dad working with many non-profit organizations, youth, fishermen and researchers around the world to build an Ocean Revolution.
Tuesday, December 4
Van Jones - founder Ella Baker Center for Human Rights working to combine solutions to social inequality and environmental destruction to create the first-ever Green Enterprise Zone.
Majora Carter - founder Sustainable South Bronx, secured $20M in funding to create riverfront parks, demolish underused expressways, implement environmental stewardship training programs.
Tuesday, December 11
Winona Laduke - activist, two time Green Party U.S. vice presidential candidate, working for indigenous land issues, and most recently recipient of the International Slow Food Award.
Evon Peter - chairman Native Movement and former chief of Neetsaii Gwich'in from Arctic Village in NE Alaska, working with U.N. and Arctic Council forums, for Indigenous & environmental interests.
Tuesday, January 22
Jay Harman - CEO of PAX Scientific, an engineering R&D firm using streamlining geometries and biomimetic approaches to design energy efficient and ecologically friendly technology.
Paul Anastas - founder of "green chemistry" during work for the U.S. EPA and as director of U.S. Green Chemistry Program; author of Benign by Design and Designing Safer Polymers.
Tuesday, January 29
Judy Wicks - Local living economies enthusiast, owner/founder of Philadelphia's 24-year-old White Dog Café and co-founder/co-chair of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE).
John Abrams - cofounder and CEO of South Mountain Company, a 32-year-old employee owned design/build and renewable energy company.
Tuesday, February 5
Judith Baca - founder of the first City of Los Angeles Mural Program in 1974, which evolved into the 30-year community arts organization known as the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC).
Eve Ensler - award-winning playwright, performer and activist, is the author of The Vagina Monologues.
For more information call 541-482-8771 ex. 150 or email 
wcs@ashland.k12.or.us