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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.
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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
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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."
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at shoikeda@dailyemerald.com.
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