World Food Day lunch unites varied crowd
By Lori Steinhauer
Of the Emerald
Members of the Eugene business, volunteer, stu
dent and unemployed communities came together
Tuesday to attend a panel discussion and a free lunch
marking World Food Day and the United Nations Food
and Agriculture Organization’s 39th anniversary.
Individuals, volunteer organizations and govern
ments throughout the world also shared their compas
sion for sufferers of hunger and poverty Tuesday.
The Food and Agriculture Organization originated
in 1945, with 43 nation members, to increase produc
tion and improve distribution of agricultural goods
throughout the world. Today membership has expand
ed to 156 nations.
On the local front, 300 sandwiches and apples
were provided by local churches and volunteer groups
for the more than 60 people who dropped in to eat,
listen or voice opinions at the Lane Unemployment Pro
ject office on the Downtown Mall. Leftovers were
Dick Gregory to speak
Comedian and activist Dick Gregory will
speak on “Social Justice in America” at South
Eugene High School tonight at 7:30.
Gregory was one of the first black comedians
to break the color line and perform in white
nightclubs. He became active in the civil rights
movement in the early 1960s, going to jail several
times.
In 1967, Gregory took his first prolonged fast
to protest the Vietnam war. He quit working in
nightclubs in 1973.
Now Gregory devotes his time to touring and
speaking on politics and health, two areas he
believes are closely related.
Tickets for the event are available at the EMU
main desk. Student tickets are $2.50 in advance
and $3 at the door. General public tickets are $3
in advance and $3.50 at the door.
The event is sponsored by the Associated
Students of Lane Community College.
distributed to visitors in the vicinity, and delivered to
the Family Shelter House and Womanspace.
In addition to feeding some hungry people, the
gathering brought together people from all walks of
life. Cynthia Kokis, a Eugene food day organizer said.
Kokis estimated that low-income citizens compriz
ed about half the audience.
'‘There’s a little distance between the unemployed
and poor, and those who are not, and I think this bridg
ed the distance a little. I think a lot of comfortable peo
ple want to help, but they’re a little afraid,” Kokis said.
The first of four panelists to speak on the politics of
poverty was Kate Dickson of Eugene, who represented
Sen. Mark Hatfield.
Dickson said Hatfield has put a commendable ef
fort toward aiding the needy. She cited as an example
his support of a bill that passed Congress on June 25, to
aid impoverished citizens in South Africa. However
Dickson said the bill had a flaw in that a portion of it
also allocated military funds for the war against
Nicaragua.
The other panelists had few favorable comments
for the present administration, however.
State Rep. Larry Hill, D-Springfield, condemned
Hatfield for vetoing 40 bills since the last legislative
session in 1983, “the second largest number vetoed in
state history.”
“My guess is the (senator) is not in touch with real
life. He’s never been unemployed, he’s never been
hungry,” Hill said, answering a question as to why Hat
field had vetoed bills that would support low-income
citizens.
Panelist Donna Goetsch, director of Lane County
Clients Council, pointed out that since Reagan became
president, 70 percent of the federal budget cuts have af-.
fected families with less than $10,000 yearly income. In
addition, she said 3.5 million fewer children in the
United States are receiving school nutritional aid.
Goetsch said the Eugene school breakfast program,
which started again this week, will benefit those
children who lack either the money or time to eat at
home before school.
“The truth is you can’t teach kids much who are
Photo by Michael (Japp
A panel discussion and free lunch marking World
Food Day attracted a large and diverse crowd to the
Downtown Mall Tuesday.
thinking about the pain in their stomach." she said, ad
ding that hungry children often disrupt classes.
Meanwhile, Hill said many area school districts
still need the program, but cannot afford it.
The last panelist to speak, Stefan Ostrach, of the
Lane County Labor Council and the American Federa
tion of State-County and Municipal Employees Coun
cil, pointed out that Oregon has lost $1 billion in
domestic spending since 1981.
Ostrach also expressed his fears over Ballot
Measure 2.
. "There's going to be poverty and hunger pretty
quickly if Ballot Measure 2 passes." he said.
Another poverty-related problem Goetsch pointed
out was that only 15 percent of the families who receive
food stamps in the state can budget their stamps
through the end of each month. Goetsch said surveys
show people on food stamps on the whole are better
shoppers than the public at large;
In addition to those at the mall, Kokis said among
others who observed World Food Day were public
school teachers who discussed the holiday in their
classes, and many local organizations that held canned,
food drives for the needy. .
et al.
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