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Fall 1987 Calendar
October 17: THE SKILLFUL HEART
A day for caregivers and helping professionals to
work with burnout and learn skillful ways to "be
there" for patients or clients that promote healing
the heart and mind. Saturday, 9 am-5:30 pm, $50.
October 22: EFFECTIVE SELF -
EXPR ESS ION! Fun, informative and really
useful! Learn whole-person communication skills,
getting and keeping rapport, being effective and
genuine. Thursday, 7 pm - 11 pm. $15.
October 13 - December 1, 8 weeks:
THE COUNSELING CLASS:
Skills For The Concerned Person.
For people whose job includes paying attention to
helping others. Learn to assist with feelings and
positive change. Tuesdays, 6:45-9:45 pm. $75
Oct.30-Nov. 1: TURNING POINTS:
Avakening Skill & Heart For Growth
And Change.. For people in a Life-Transition
or who want to create positive change. Open your
heart and learn skills for working on yourself in
a lifelong process of self-directed growth. $195
including four weeks of follow-up sessions.
Nov. 13-15: THE MEN'S RETREAT
For men who want to explore all aspects of being
a "real man" including life purpose and vision,
intimacy with men and women, personal power
grounded in compassion, and developmental tasks
remaining in their life. At B reitenbush! $195.
Call for a free consultation: 344-3764
Thomas Fisher, M.S. and
Tamara Oglesby, B.S.
■LETTERS
Distressing Weekend
September 18th and 19th have come and
gone; to many Lane County residents these
two days were particularly uneventful.
However, for a few of us who are keeping
our eyes and minds open, these two days
were very distressing.
The first event was the Eugene Rodeo.
The cruelty inflicted on animals by grown
adults harkens all humanity back to a time
before our modern enlightenment when
care-less people abused animals as they did
each other. Inhuman treatment of animals
is subhuman.
The second event was the Nuclear War
drills sponsored by FEMA. Several Re
serve units set up command posts like the
one by the Autzen Foot Bridge (code
named “ATOM”—appropriately enough)
and displayed several instruments to test
for radioactive fallout from a nuclear
exchange.
Other instruments (supposedly) tested
for a biological warfare agent. A man
dressed in camouflage green showed us
how the little red light went on when he
placed a probe into a beaker of solution.
They also had contingency plans to deal
with the “peace groups” that they said
would destroy communication towers.
Didn’t the Voters of Eugene and Lane
County vote overwhelmingly to make our
areas Nuclear Free Zones and therefore
outlaw these ridiculous exercises in futili
ty? Or, is allowing this type of madness
to continue one of the reasons the Nuclear
Free Zone task force is trying to change
Eugene's voter approved ordinance?
Is it any wonder that the human race is
teetering on the brink of nuclear annihila
tion?
Think about it!
—Richard Gold
I
Just Say No
Personal misfortune doesn’t always hap
pen elsewhere, to others. But it is often
preventable.
Our County Commissioners recently
authorized Lane Public Works to purchase
1000 gallons of Round-Up for application
on county roadsides. A reference used by
Public Works shows the active ingredient,
glyphosate, to be water soluble (12,000
parts per million) and lethal at 1.5 cups
for a 150 lb. human. One thousand gallons
then would equal 16,000 cups or 10,607
lethal doses. If only one percent of this
were taken in by healthy human adults via
contaminated water, drift, volatilization,
or food, this would equal 106.07 lethal
doses. On the same scale, a 1.5 pound
human fetus would need less than one tea
spoon to be killed and aborted if it had a
fully developed immune system, which it
would not.
These calculations are based only on
acute toxicity and only on the “active” in
gredient, glyphosate. Cancer studies,
financed by the manufacturer Monsanto,
were rejected as fraudulent and re-ordered
by the EPA. Only one acceptable cancer
study has been repeated so far and it was
positive—tumors in mice. The names and
effects of the so-called “inerts” or secret
ingredients in Round-Up have been with
held from the public.
If our Commissioners would say no to
this environmental drug, they could pre
vent a lot of misfortune and tragedy in
Lane County such as abnormal children,
miscarriage, cancer, poisoned fish, wild
life, and food.
The commissioners can be reached at
687-4203. You can obtain an official No
Spray sign from Public Works at 341-6902.
SOS is at 484-COPY.
For life, in a strange world,
—Barbara Kelly
Director, Save Our ecoSystems
Neo-hippie Nonsense
Your decision to run Carolyn Reuben’s
column (“Living Foods for Life with
AIDS,” Sept. 17) was—pardon. the
pun—tasteless. As someone who has had
the sad experience of watching a friend die
of AIDS, I resent this columnist’s fostering
of the myth—a la Harmonic Conver
gence— that diet and meditation can cure
this irreversible condition. A peach pie is
a wonderful thing indeed, but I’m sorry;
it cannot cure pneumocystis pneumonia or
any of the other horrific consequences of
the HIV, no matter how flaky the crust.
My fear here is that many dubious
authorities on health care are capitalizing
on AIDS patients, who are at their weakest
and are willing in many cases to believe
almost anything. While I would never
deprive anyone with AIDS the hope of a
cure, I find Reuben’s column and the books
upon which it is based to be offensive and
opportunistic in nature. Such fiction may
be reassuring to the uninfected population
who feel their disease-free days are
numbered, but I suspect it is insulting to
the dying, who deal with AIDS 24 hours
a day and are entitled to accurate in
formation—either positive or negative—
about their conditions and their hopes for
prolonged life.
I urge you to discontinue the publica
tion of Reuben’s column if this piece was
an example of the pseudoscientific, quasi
factual neo-hippie nonsense we can expect
from her in the future. I enjoy your
publication and feel it has an important role
to play in the community, but your readers
are not well served by this type of shoddy
workmanship.
—Michael MacRae
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