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Christine McDonald (center) of the Komen Foundation hands Carol Brownlow of the Hambleton
Project a grant check.
They were joined by other members of the
campus community, including students, campus
security and administrators as well as represen
tatives of the city of Ashland, including a repre
sentative from the Ashland Police Department.
The latest fliers found read: “Do you hate
QUEERS and their friends and families? FUCK
THAT! ...You Queers can vanish to volcanic
ash, and reappear in hell with a can of gas and a
match. 1 hate QUEERS and God hates
QUEERS! And the Bible says that Homosexual
Offenders should be put to Death! ‘How come
she’s a bitch all the time, all the time, I gotta
strangle the girl, I gotta strangle the girl tonight.’
So help eradicate homophobia now, Kill the
Queer.”
A second flier read: “Do you hate GOD and
Christian morals? Dykes and Fags have no soul,
so when you kill them you haven’t really com
mitted a crime. 1 hate all Queers, but that is
okay because they aren’t really people.”
The university is taking these actions quite
seriously. SOU security and the Ashland Police
Department are investigating the matter aggres
sively as crimes of intimidation and harassment.
For more information contact Colleen
McDonald at 503-539-0097 or skirtkat@hot-
mail.com or Alix Shedd at 503-288-8481 or
lacolocho@gmail.com. The conference Web
site is www.bominflames.org.
H ambleton P roject G ets
from K omen F oundation
B ig B ucks
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foun
dation of Oregon and Southwest Washington
has selected the Hambleton Project as one of 14
recipients to receive Komen Community Grants
this year.
“Our challenge to advance the local fight
against breast cancer remains as great today as
ever. One in seven women will be diagnosed in
her lifetimes,” said Christine McDonald, exec
utive director of the local Komen Foundation.
“The community-based grants we fund make it
possible for all people to connect with life
saving breast health services and much-needed
support."
Through its Komen Community Grant, the
Hambleton Project will provide breast cancer
support groups to lesbians and women who part
ner with women primarily in the Portland and
C onference T akes R adical A pproach
Salem areas. It will also create and provide
to V iolence
eight-week bereavement groups for families of
Two years of meetings, debates, actions, breast cancer victims who do not survive. Hie
grassroots organizing and collectives formed to Hambleton Project was created seven years ago
support survivors of sexual assault while hold in response to the lack of specialized breast
ing perpetrators accountable have resulted in a health services for lesbians.
three-day conference addressing sexual assault
“The Hambleton Project is delighted to
from a radical perspective. The Born in Flames receive a third year of funding from the local
Conference is the first of its kind in Portland’s Komen Foundation that enables us to provide
recent years and will take place June 24 breast cancer support groups and bereavement
programming for the lesbians of the northern
through 26.
Day workshops will be held at Portland States, Willamette Valley, Portland and Southwest
University, with nightly entertainment taking Washington,” said Carol Brownlow of the Ham
place at Liberty Hall in North Portland. Open bleton Project. “This funding has been a bless
ing day will focus on community and personal ing to this underserved population who would
education, followed by issues of support on the not access these services from the general com
second day and a final day of hashing out munity. Thanks to the generosity of Komen,
these women can continue to receive this essen
accountability in radical communities.
Workshops include “Healthier Sex,” “Make tial survivor support.”
The community grants are made possible by
Your Own Smut: Radical Pom and Why It’s
Important,” “Boundary Setting,” “Guy-Necolo- money raised locally through the annual Komen
gy: Men, Sex and Power” and “Creating Online Portland Race for the Cure and other area fund
Communities Grounded in the Arts.” Night raisers.
“Local support is truly making a difference in
events include a sex-positive show with bur
eradicating
breast cancer as a life-threatening
lesque acts and local bands.
All
workshops
and
events
are disease,” said McDonald. “We’re seeing more
queer/trans/straight-friendly, wheelchair accessi survivors today than ever before. While that’s a
ble and American Sign Language interpreted. victory in itself, Oregon and Southwest Wash
A supervised play area will be available for chil ington have some of the highest breast cancer
dren, and sexual assault advocates will be acces
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