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Article: CPA celebrates a decade of dissent.(Environment)(The activist organization was founded in 1995 to oppose the Hyundai plant)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 2, 2005
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Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard
When land use watchdogs and environmental activists meet tonight to celebrate the 10th year anniversary of Citizens for Public Accountability, they might consider offering at least one toast to their nemesis Hynix.
If the South Korean computer chip manufacturer formerly known as Hyundai hadn't come to town in just the way it did back in the spring of 1995, one of the most tenacious grass-roots groups to spring up in Eugene's activist landscape might never have come into being.
"Like most social change organizing efforts, you need a catalyst, a really bad decision," said Bern Johnson, one of the founding ...