The University and Central Presbyterian Church at 555 East 15th Ave. will host the campus group and community sponsored third annual Peace Festival on Saturday and Sunday.
University Students for Peace, Eugene Peace Works, Oregon Progressive Alliance and Justice Not War are organizing the festival with a theme of “Peace Begins at Home.”
“We’re trying to emphasize the fact that in order to attain peace … we need to start with ourselves,” Students for Peace member Phillippa Anderson said.
A march and rally will take place Saturday afternoon. The march will begin at 3 p.m. at the University and will end at the Federal Courthouse on East Seventh Avenue.
Speakers include authors Paul Lobe and Bhavia Carol Wagner, Mario Africa, founder of the San Francisco-based Third World Outreach Program at the Center for Conscientious Objectors, foreign correspondent Reese Erlich, and Hope Marston, a member of the Lane County Bill of Rights Defense Committee.
Other activities include workshops dealing with issues of nonviolence and domestic violence, classes in tai-chi and meditation, and performances by the Eugene Peace Choir and hip-hop band Sirens Echo.
For a schedule of events and speaker biographies, go to http://www.oregonpeacefestival.org.

— Roman Gokhman