Newspaper Page Text
Page 20
Flagpole Magazine
April 1, 1992
Earthworks
Red Clay and Elvis:
There will be not one, but two environmental conferences
this weekend (April 3-5). The first will be right here in Athens
at the Law School auditorium on campus. It is the fourth annual
Red Clay Environmental law conference and students get in
free this time!!! General public is only $5 for both days. This
is really a neat chance for everyone to learn a lot about
regional environmental issues. Much of the meeting is general
^formation. Panels are on such issues as: State Superfund
law, solid waste, wildlife/ endangered species; Wetlands,
N.E. Georgia proposed reservoir (Bear C r eek), Land trusts,
Forest management toxic waste, agriculture/ pesticide is
sues, and grassroots work. The keynote speaker will be Peter
Sorenson, an Oregon attorney, and another importantspeaker
will be Judge Mark Dickerson, the administrative lawjudge for
the Dept, of Natural Resources and the Environmental Protec
tion Division. There will be free yummy catered food and the
whole shebang will begin Friday at noon and last until
Saturday at 5:40. Local folks and students are ail encouraged
to go; it's a great opportunity to get environmentally educated
without even leaving Athens. The other conference is called
Bonfire, for the Student Environmental Action Coalition. It’s a
conference for student environmentalists in the Entire South
east!!! Folks from as far away as Massachusetts and even
Ohio are coming also! It will be at Middle Tennessee State
University in Murfreesboro, Tn., about 30 minutes outside
Nashville. There will workshops on just about everything and
there will also be state and regional meetings for people to
attend and meet other folks working in their area. There will be
a benefit concert (one of the performers, Dana Lyons, has the
best song “I’m an Animal’), speakers, a media event, discus
sions, a rally and of course, the obligatory SEAC rowdy
parties. The costis only $5, but there is limited housing but lots
of camping. For more information, or to get directions or a
registration form, anyone can call SEA at 542-8102 (during
day) or me at 369-0090. Or you can call the organizers
directly: Adam at 615-386-3909. So for those of you who can
and want to go, carpool with us in SEA And those of you who
can’t go, stay here and go to the Red Clay conference.
Red Clay
Environmental Law
Conference
Schedule
Friday, April 3
12:00-1:15 Registration
1:15 -1:45 Opening Remarks
2:00 - 3:20 1st Period
(Environmental Ethics,
Private Citizen's Suits/ Community Right to
Know andEnvironmentat Prosecuters)
3:40 - 5:00 2nd Period
(Agricultural Issues/Pesticides, WildlifePreser
vation/ Endangered Species and Recycling)
5:00 - 6:00 informal Mixer
Saturday, April 2
8:30 - 9:30 Registration
9:40-11:00 1st Period
(Job Prospects and Wetlands)
11:10-12:30 2nd Period
(Current Legislative Developments: State
Superfund\ RCRA/Solid Waste and Land Trusts/
Real Estate Transactions)
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch & Lunch Speaker
2:10-3:30 3rd Period
(Toxic Waste/CERCLA, Coastal Development
and Forest Management/ Deforestation)
3:40 - 5:00 4th Period
(Toxic Torts/Health Law, Nonpoint Source
Pollution and Grassroots)
5:00-5:30 Keynote Address
5:30 - 6:30 Pizza & Beer
For more info call (404) 542-5188
Owls and Judges:
Incidentally, the Supreme court just ruled last week in favor
of opening the protected areas for the spo’tted owl for limited
timber sales- unanimously. This is especially distressing
since Bush has convened the God Squad to rule on the issue,
and their ruling adds more fuel to a decision against the owl
and against old growth forests, and against bio-diversity, and
against American taxpayers (timber sales are subsidized),
and against Mother Earth, and against...
Head for the Mountains:
Let me give you a small thing that YOU can do to save
wilderness. Congress has before it now a bill, Senate Bill
1696, sponsored by two Montana Senators that would open
over 4 million acres of Montana’s roadless lands to the Forest
Service and multinational corporate developers. The bill is an
utter abomination that would: (1) set a new precedent that
would engulf the National Forest system. (2) set up more
mining, logging, drilling, and motorized recreation areas on
PUBLIC lands (3) the release language of the bill means that
Environmental Impact Statements would no longer be pre
pared for timber sales. This area has for the most part, intact
grizzly bear, gray wolf, woodlanc. "aribou, and bull trout
populations, along with numerous mammal species found no
where else in the U.S.!! Write your senator and tell her or him
to vote down this bill. Ask for them to support the Northern
Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA). This bill would
set up over 15 million acres of federal lands in several states
(including Montana) as Wilderness Areas, Wild and Scenic
Rivers, National parks and preserves with biological linkage
corridors to preserve genetic diversity. This bill would also
establish a Wildlife Recovery System that would create jobs
restoring areas that have been damaged by poor land
management. Rep. Peter Kostmayer (D-PA) has announced
his intention to sponsor NREPA. The areas is pristine wilder
ness twice the size of Yellowstone and Bill 1696 would save
only 1.2 million acres and hand the rest over to developers.
Say yes to wilderness! (bill 1696 introduced by Max Baucus).
Ali Jones
^^Pawn, Inc.
Champ's Pawn, Inc A Champ's Jswlary A Pawn Outlet
296 W. Broad Street • Athens
543-8454 • 543-8321
(Next To Phoenix Natural Foods)
"MORE THAN A PAWN SHOP~
# We buy or loan on
all items of value.
Cold, Diamonds, Guns,
TVs, VCR's, Etc.
Confidential Loans
Mo Loan Too Small or Largo
For Excellent Values
Athe/Ts llest Bar-li-Q
SPRING HOUSE
Is *••£**-'
546-0697 "The old fashion taste”
•’ BBQ: Beef ^ Chicken • Ribs • Pork
COMING SOON!
Baby Bac k Rib S/ycciaH
11-I I \1-Th
11-12-F \ S
I l-^O Still
OPEN 2 PM -2 AM, on SAT. 2 PM -12 AM
IVlQJtii 6 .... fttCAAk Fljfials;
Ttl.es 7 s % 1
Sky's Place Now Has a 24-Foot Limo,
With Full Bar & T.V., For Your Party Needs...
See Sky for details
90.5FM
WUOO Athens • University of Georgia
8 f
—H
CJ v>
<t •
S£> -g>
g. E
§ v>
~ •
O 3
*3 &
• o
HEAVY
Pong water
Pom Orchard
Flat Duo Jets
Ween
Cows
Naked Lunch OST
Uncle Tupelo
Unsane
Woggles 7’
Boogie Down Prod
Bad Religion
Wedding Present
Daisy 7*
Etta James
Senetoi Flux
Jazz Butcher
Something's Gone
Wrong Again Comp
Unrest 7*
Guftarrortlsts Comp.
MEDIUM
Clarence "Gatemouth"
Brown
Miracle Leglor
Sea Monkeys 7‘
Chicken Scratch
Popdefect 7'
Dag Nasty
Darkside
Crane s
Happy Flowers 7'
Smugglers 10"
Astro Zombies 7'
Dillon Fence
Tiny Lights
Tori Amos
ken Nordlne
John Moran
Dogbowt 7*
Flying Saucer 7'
Swamp Terrorists
Pats Of Unusual Size
7*
LOCAL
Flying Fish
Fuzzy Sprouts
Day room
Laggerhead
Mystic Boom
Boom
The Go-Figures
Hayrlde
Five-Eight
Lenny
Vision
Regina Strap
The Violets
The Plants
Shawn Mullins
Blitzen
Heavy Ethel
Hubbard's
Cupboard
Jack Trlppe r ‘
ADDS
Jack 0 Ncrts 7'
Ouh
Psychic TV
Unrest (LP)
Bewitched
kronos Quartet
kMFDM
Fish and Roses
SSD
Mighty Mighty
Bosstones
Shrimp Boat
Sugarcubes
Curve
Anne Dudley &
Jaz Coleman
Big Wheel
Posies 7*
Fatima Mansions
Phlsh
Cracker
Stumpy Joe
Buffalo Tom
Think Tree
Dirty Dozen Brass
Brand
ATHENS
ONLY
ALTERNATIVE