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Clackamas Print
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Local author’s message universal
Los Angeles Times. Cockbum also co
edits the aforementioned online politi
I The Clackamas Print
cal publication, CounterPunch, with
St. Clair.
While he may be eclectic in his writ
He’s been called Osama Bin Laden, ing topics, St. Clair is first and foremost
the Unabomber and, perhaps worst of an environmentalist who advocates the
all, Lars Larson.
preservation of nature and all the com
He is esteemed local author Jeffrey ponents involved. From an early age,
St. Clair, and he spoke at the college last he has respected and embraced the
Wednesday as part of the Sustainability majestic beauty of the natural world.
Project here at Clackamas.
“I was always into wilderness; I
St. Clair also works as an investiga spent most of my summers hiking in
tory journalist who specializes in envi the Smokey Mountains. When I was
ronmental issues and co-edits the polit 15, I went to Northern Canada on an
ical online publication CounterPunch. expedition ... we floated the Churchill
He attended American University in River for 1500 miles, we saw polar
Washington DC,where he majored in bears, grizzly bears, salmon ... that
English and was exposed to high levels kind of sparked an interest,” said St.
Clair.
of political unrest.
Also growing up in Indiana, he cites
While he was studying at American
the satirical science fiction author Kurt University, the Three Mile Island
Vonnegut as a favorite writer and is a accident occurred just upriver in
firm believer that a person’s bookshelf Pennsylvania, triggering his passion
is the real window to his or her soul.
to help protect the environment and
Speaking of books, St. Clair is spread awareness.
responsible for his fair share. His first
To synopsize the incident, on March
came in 1998, entitled Whiteout: The 28, 1979, the Unit 2 Nuclear Power
CIA, drugs and the press. It is a history Plant suffered a partial core meltdown.
of the CIA’s involvement with drug This was a potentially catastrophic sce
nario, as highly radioactive chemicals
gangs from WWII on.
Since then, he has written, a vari could have been released into the envi
ety of books packed with essays and ronment and surrounding community.
articles that cover everything from reli
Luckily, no one was injured, but
gion, enviromental issues, politics, sex the risk of nuclear energy plants com
and music. Several of his works are pletely decimating a population was
collaborative projects with Alexander now abundantly evident. Being so
Cockbum, a nationally syndicated col close to the extremely volatile situa
umnist who writes for The Nation and tion, St. Clair was directly affected by
Mike Guldice
the event.
“After that, I began working with
the environmental group called
‘Friends of the Earth,’ and haven’t
stopped since,” he said.
St. Clair has adamantly opposed
decisions made by presidents, past
and future, and believes that the gov
ernment is truly the real proprietor
behind the destruction of the environ
ment.
“It all comes down to budget.
I’m kind of a heretic in some
environmental communities,” I
he said. “A lot of liberals think t ,
we need to raise taxes [and] R
give more money to the fed
eral government. The way I
read the. history of the west is
that the subsidies have always ||
gone to industry, and they aré ,
the driving force for extinc
tion.”
St. Clair may originally
hail from Indianapolis, but it’s gt
clear that he is an Oregonian L
at heart. He strives to open V
people’s eyes and educate the
public as to how they can help ® J
save nature and protect all that
is beautiful, not only here in the
Pacific Northwest, but world- |
wide.
“Our awareness is alb that
is alive and maybe sacred in any
of us. Everything else about us is
dead machinery” - wise words from
Vonnegut, and Jeffrey St. Clair would
probably agree.
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11 — 11:15 a.m. — Original Spanish play written by Instuctor Irma Bjerre and performed by
Spanish students.
11:15 a.m. — 12:15 p.m. — Cuba Che band to play latino music; also free.
- Cha Cha and Salsa lessons.
12:15 — 1 p.m. — French Club performs
- Tunisian belly dance
- Puppet play
- Solo: “Un JourTu Verras”
- “Dejeuner du Martin”
- “Rappelle-toi Barbara”: a multi-media presentation of Jacques
Prevert’s romantic poem
1 — 1:30 p.m. — German Club presents scenes of travel.
1:30 — 2 p.m. — ASL students perform.
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