Environmental, activist event June 18-19 in Marland, Okla.

The Coyote Creek Center for Environmental Justice is sponsoring a Multicultural Gathering for Social Reform and Environmental Justice

The Southwest Organizing Project based in Albuquerque, NM, traveling with the Peoples' Freedom Caravan to the US Social Forum in Detroit, will be coming through Ponca Territory June 18-19. Representatives from El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos (immigrant rights group), New Mexico Youth Radio, the Chain Breaker Collective (bicycle collective from Santa Fe), and the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE, anti-uranium mining group from NW New Mexico) is following in a van.

And from Southwest Workers Union we have:
Fuerza Unida, Mexican American Studies Student Organization (MASSO), Youth Leadership Organization (YLO), Mecha, NRP which is a radio group not NPR**, Progressive Leadership Alliance in Nevada, Pushback Network, Via Campensina from Guatemala.

FRIDAY June 18
6:00 P.M. - Welcome and Introductions: Dwain Camp (M.C.) and Casey Camp Horinek (Sponsor/Host Organization)
6:30 P.M. - Supper, Invocation and Ponca History: Louis Headman (Ponca Elder/religious  leader)
7:00 P.M. P- resentations/statements from TICAR, The Southwest Organizing Project, and Southwest Workers Union

Cultural presentations
Casey Camp/Horinek: Coyote Creek Center for Environmental Justice and
Dwain Camp: Oklahoma American Indian Movement (OK.AIM)

SATURDAY June 19
8:30 A.M. - Toxic Tour Caravan - Rally and leave Standing Bear Park Visit toxic sites and environmentally polluted areas
10:30 A.M. - Closing prayer

The Coyote Creek Center for Environmental Justice is hosting this event, and is located at 27100 Acre Road, Marland, OK 74644 - The phone for contact info is 580-268-3017. This is located 10 miles north of the Cimarron turnpike (HWY 412 exit on HWY 177 North) and 5 miles east on Acre Road or 15 miles South of Ponca City on Highway 177 and then East on Acre Road. We will mark the road on Highway 177.