Sami Awad of Nonviolence International will speak publicly in Lane County Oregon Aug. 17-19 on the future of nonviolence in Gaza and the West Bank.

These are the times and locations:

• Sunday, Aug . 17, 11 am to 12:15 pm, Eugene First Congregational Church, 1050 E. 23rd Ave.

• Sunday, Aug. 17, 7 pm to 9 pm, First United Methodist Church, 1376 Olive Street, Eugene 

• Tuesday, Aug. 19, 10 am to 11:30 am, the large meeting room at Springfield Public Library, 225 Fifth Street. 

• Tuesday, Aug. 19th, 6:30 pm to 8 pm, at the Florence Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 87738 Highway 101 (at Heceta Beach Road)