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Activist will discuss nonviolent change.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 13-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Activist will discuss nonviolent change.(City/Region)(Julia Butterfly Hill is best known for sitting in a tree for two years to protest logging)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard

Julia Butterfly Hill knows a thing or two about going out on a limb.

Perhaps the world's best-known "treehugger," the 34-year-old Hill spent a world-record 738 days living in a 180-foot ancient redwood affectionately known as "Luna" in Northern California's Humboldt County between Dec. 10, 1997, and Dec. 18, 1999.

It was her nonviolent way of getting across her point: that lumber companies have no right cutting down 1,000-year-old redwoods.

Hill is a keynote speaker today at the inaugural Nonviolence as a Way of Life Conference at the University of Oregon that began Thursday and ends Sunday.

She will be joined by the...

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