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Meditation Classes
For seven years the Sri Chinmoy
Center of Eugene has offered classes
in meditation.
Winter Term Classes
will be held in the EMU Forum Room. All classes are
free and open to the public.
Tuesday, January 20
¥ 7:oo PM — EMU Forum Room
Topic: “The inner world and the outer world."
»,% Tuesday, January 27
* * 7:00 PM - EMU Forum Room
Topic: “Reincarnation" (The meaning of a life time)
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Liberalism survives
Progressive Alliance assembles in city
By STEPHEN KNIGHT
Of tha Emerald
The Progressive Alliance met
last weekend at City Hall to an
nounce that liberalism isn't ob
solete in these conservative
times and to map ways to get
progressive issues passed
through local and county
governments.
One Alliance member, City
Counselor Cindy Wooten, told
about 50 people it is time for
progressives to remind the pub
lic that "we're not going to roll
over for the next four years" just
because "Republicans are
swarming around Washington
like bees, and Ronald Reagan
believes he is governing the
country from a mandate by
God."
Ron Eachus, steering com
mittee chairer of the Alliance,
said the organization was
formed to create a network that
would actively support progres
sive issues as well as can
didates of Wooten's political
stripe
"We re a citizen group work
ing on controlling our own des
tiny," he said.
Eachus said most decisions
on critical issues like inflation
and unemployment are made at
the federal level where special
interests have the money and
connections to influence
policies for their own financial
benefit.
The focus of policy-making
needs to be at the local level
where decisions can be made in
the public interest, he added
One local issue discussed at
the gathering was weatheriza
tion Alliance member Sam Sa
dler said most new homes are
being built with no regard for
future use of solar energy, and
homes with solar collectors
have no clear right to direct
sunlight.
He also said a solar access
law is needed to encourage
solar-responsive building orien
tation and give assurance that a
solar homeowner has the right
to unobstructed sunlight. Sa
dler said this proposal is being
opposed by the Southwest
chapter of the American Insti
tute of Architecture as "re
stricting their creativity."
Other issues on the proges
sive agenda included:
• Free speech. Attorney Jill
Heiman said free speech in
Eugene is being undermined by
the city’s parade ordinance
which restricts demonstrations
through the imposition of high
permit costs. Before a demon
stration can be held, police pro
tection and liability insurance
must be provided for.
"The parade ordinance dis
criminates against poor peo
ple,” Heiman said.
The ordinance also gives
local government the power to
penalize unpopular groups and
ideas by refusing to issue a per
mit, she added.
Heiman proposed that the
Progressive Alliance support
legislation to overturn the pa
rade permit ordinance.
• Mandatory weatherization.
The Alliance passed a motion to
fight for the mandatory
weatherization of all homes in
Eugene built before 1974, which
Alliance member Don Corson
said is essential to stave off fu
ture projected energy shor
tages. Mandatory weatheriza
tion, currently opposed by the
Homebuilders Association and
private utilities, benefits tenants
and low-income persons who
are hit hardest by energy infla
tion, he said.
• Housing preservation. Al
liance member John Van Lan
dingham said low-income
housing is being rapidly re
placed in the city by expensive
upper-income homes. Lan
dingham said the city council
has suggested measures that
would subsidize only the build
ing of upper-income housing
The progressives agreed to
push for legislation that would
provide housing for low- and
moderate-income housing.
• Plant closures. Attorney
Kathy Tasanari of Lane Coali
tion to Save Jobs said plant
closures are becoming a na
tional epidemic, with more than
3,000 workers losing their jobs
in Lane County over the last few
years, 500 from West Fir alone.
Tasanari said industries
should be made to re-invest in
the modernization of existing
plants instead of running off to
some other region where labor
is cheaper. She advocated
measures whereby the Bureau
of Labor would investigate and
determine if the closure is really
necessary and a policy that a
moving corporation would have
to make a good-faith sale to the
community or organization of
employees.
The Progressive Alliance
plans to have another general
meeting in two months. Other
local politicians affiliated with
this organization include City
Councilors Mark Lindberg and
Gretchen Miller and County
Commissioners Jerry Rust and
Scott Lieuallen.
Prize-winning poet to appear
Internationally-known American poet W.S.
Merwin will read from his poems, prose-poems
and translations Thursday at 8 p m in 150
Geology Admission is free
Earlier in the day Merwin will read on the Lane
Community College Campus at 11:30 a m in
Room 308 of the Forum An informal question
and-answer discussion will follow the free read
ing.
Merwin is recognized for his influence on
American poetry as well as his own work, which
includes 12 books of poetry, 12 books of transla
tions and one book of prose. His translations
include the work of French, Portuguese and
Spanish, and Latin American poets such as Pablo
Neruda
Merwin’s most recent book of poems is "The
Compass Flower,” published in 1977 by Athen
eum His many awards include the Pulitzer Prize,
the Yale Younger Poets Award and Guggenheim
Fellowships.
A rarity among American poets, Merwin earns
a living strictly from literary work — book and
magazine publications, translations and read
ings.
The poet Adrienne Rich says Merwin "has
been developing a language and a poetic land
scape which are both severe and sensuous, in
which the silences — as in human intercourse —
are as essential as the speech."
In a poem from "The Moving Target" (1963
Atheneum) Merwin briefly explores his relation
ship to the writing process:
Coming late, as always,
I try to remember what I almost heard.
The light avoids my eye.
How many times have I heard the locks close
And the lark take the keys
And hang them in heaven.
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