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Se/Jochs Campus groups will honor transgender victims Tuesday A local Transgender Day of Remembrance’ Tuesday will commemorate those who have been killed By Jared Paben News Reporter Three campus groups — ASUO, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgen der Queer Alliance and Gender Queer — are sponsoring a local "Transgender Day of Remembrance" on Tuesday to honor transgender people who have been killed around the world. Thirty-seven transgender people have been killed in the last 14 months in regions around the world, according to the "Remember ing Our Dead" Web site, a site devot ed to compiling information and bringing awareness to violence against transgender people. Seven teen of those deaths occurred in the United States. On Tuesday morning, volunteers will place markers displaying each of the victims' names, stories and pho tos in the EMU Amphitheater, ASUO Multicultural Advocate Austin Shaw-Phillips said. On Tuesday night, ethnic studies Visiting Instructor Fiona Ngo will speak about characteristics the vic tims had in common, including their race and gender. That speech will take place in the Ben Linder Fo rum in the EMU at 5 p.m. and will be followed by a reading of the names of the victims. Shaw-Phillips, who handled the lo gistical planning of the day's events, said that as a transgender person, Tuesday is a time for him to reflect on and honor those who died. "It's been really intense to work on this event because two people have died since we started," he said. He explained that most of the vie tims of transgender violence were also people of color. Many others were poor and identified as women. He hoped the speech would also help show that violence toward transgender people is frequently based on race as well as gender. "Racist violence mixes in with gen der violence," he said. "We're going to try to start having that conversation." lire national "Transgender Day of Remembrance" was held on Nov. 20. The day was created in 1999 to honor Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was murdered Nov. 28, 1998, according to the "Remember ing Our Dead" Web site. Her death brought widespread attention to the issue of transgender violence and sparked the creation of the "Remem bering Our Dead" Web site. For more information go to http://www.gender.Org/remember/#. Contact the people/culture/faith reporter atjaredpaben@dailyemerald.com. REFERENDUM continued from page 1 would begin and taxpayers would pay an additional 1 percent to 9 per cent of their income tax, depending on their yearly income A family earning the median Oregon income of $41,000 would pay an additional $36 or more in income tax, accord ing to the Legislative Revenue Office. An individual earning less than $10,000 would not have to pay any additional income tax. Angela Wilhelms of the Taxpayer Defense Fund, the group spearhead ing the effort to reject the tax sur charge, said the campaign is seeking to educate Oregonians on the down side of the increases. Along with the three-year sur charge on personal income taxes, Oregon senior citizens will face a re duction, or elimination, of the abili ty to deduct medical expenses from state taxes, Wilhelms said. Property owners would see the early payment discount on property taxes cut in half from 3 percent to 1.5 percent, she added. HB 2152 would also impose a minimum business tax of anywhere from $250 to $5,000 on corpora tions in the state and disallow small businesses from deducting the cost of utility vehicles for business pur poses. State cigarette tax increases would also be extended from Janu ary 1, 2004 to 2006. Wilhelms called the combination Today's crossword solution ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TAX SURCHARGE • Single Returns Total Income Tax Surcharge Less than $10,000 $0 $10,000-20,000 $6 $20,000-30,000 $31 $30,00040,000 $80 $40,000-50,000 $120 $50,000-70,000 $181 $70,000-100,000 $317 $100,000-200,000 $593 $200,000 and over $2,470 • Joint Returns Total Income Tax Surcharge Less than $10,000 $0 $10,00020,000 $0 $20,00030,000 $7 $30,00040,000 $13 $40,00050,000 $38 $50,00070,000 $98 $70,000100,000 $214 $100,000200,000 $470 $200,000 and over $2,332 SOURCE: Legislative Fiscal Office of taxes "relatively convoluted." "Our goal is to educate voters on this package and how it affects every one," she said. Wilhelms said the amount of op position towards the surcharge has been surprising, adding that most of the returned petitions were distrib uted by volunteers outside of the or ganization. "We are still getting calls from people who ask if they can still get their signatures in or asking if there is another way they can help," she said. Morgan Allen of Our Oregon Coalition, an organization supportive of the tax surcharge, acknowledged the number of signatures shows that a substantial number of Oregonians are against the tax increase. "It shows we have a real fight on our hands," Allen said. However, Allen said his organization has a "good shot" in getting the tax sur charge passed through the voters. Allen said his organization's goal leading up to the election is to edu cate Oregonians about the benefits of the surcharge and how it would help many public services. Me said the surcharge would bring "stabili ty" to state-funded institutions, such as education and health care. Allen said if the tax surcharge is re jected, Oregonians could face a shortened school year for K-12 stu dents, loss of prescription medica tion benefits for senior citizens and having courts in operation for four days a week instead of five. He said the loss of the surcharge would also affect college students. "Basically, if this measure goes down, students are looking at an other tuition increase," Allen said. Allen said the organization will have volunteers go out into commu nities to let people know how serv ices will be affected. "It pretty much has to be a grass roots effort with Oregonians talking to Oregonians, and neighbors talk ing to neighbors," Allen said. "Peo ple need to understand it will have an impact on services." Contact the city/state politics reporter at shoikeda@dailyemerald.com. GOT A STORY IDEA? give us a call oj at 346-55111< EMEtyiP Oregon Daily Emerald PO. 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