up her own non-profit for social change,
Youth Centered Youth Development Institute.
Valadez will present an introduction and infor-
mation session about YCYDI at 6 pm Monday,
Nov. 17 in the UO Ben Linder Forum. “This is
for anyone interested. We’re recruiting board
members, volunteers, just anyone who wants to
get involved,” says Valadez.
The information and introduction session
is sponsored by ASUO Women’s Center. For
more information, contact Valadez at
342-2349
or
by
e-mail
at
ycydi@hotmail.com — Bobbie Willis
NATIONAL ADOPTION
AWARENESS MONTH
Adoptive Families of Lane County is
sponsoring a two-day conference, “Adoption
Issues and Perspectives,” to celebrate
Adoption Awareness Month. The conference
• Sarah Jacobson of the Eugene-Springfield
Solidarity Network (ESSN) gave an excellent and
informative talk to City Club last week on Oregon’s
tax system, and we hope KLCC will find a time slot
to broadcast the audiotape that was made.
Meanwhile, tapes are available at the Eugene Public
Library. Here’s what Jacobson had to say about
Citizens for a Sound Economy, the group petition-
ing to kill the Legislature’s three-year tax hike:
“They have received funding from Phillip Morris —
and led fights to repeal cigarette taxes; they have
received funding from USWest (now Qwest) — and
led fights for telephone deregulation. The organiza-
tion’s goals are to cut taxes, reduce the size of gov-
ernment, and prune business regulations. They are
a sister organization to Americans for Tax Reform,
another well-funded conservative pressure group,
whose president, Grover Norquist, is known for his
vision of ‘defunding government until it is so small
it can get washed down the sink drain.’”
• Corvallis progressives are gathering this weekend
at OSU to try to form a permanent alliance of envi-
is co-sponsored by the Oregon Post Adoption
Resource Center.
The conference will be Saturday, Nov. 15
from 9 am to 5 pm and Sunday, Nov. 16, from 10
am to 5 pm at the EWEB Training Center, 500 E
4th Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
The purpose of this conference is to pro-
vide education to parents, educators, teachers
and social workers.
For more information, call 344-1599.
ros, social issues activists and labor. It will be worth
watching to see if a common vision can be reached,
and an effective plan of action can be implement-
ed. What will likely cement these diverse interests
is the looming 2004 elections. Progressives can
take some lessons from right-wingers who are
adept at picking their leaders, falling into line, nail-
ing down agendas and charging ahead. For details
on Saturday’s all-day Founding Congress at MU
East, call 758-6114 or e-mail
donohmat@earthlink.net
• Don Kahle of Comic News says he’s putting his lit-
tle paper to bed for the last time and coming out
with a new “local free color weekend magazine”
called <wink> and we wish him well. Kahle has pro-
vided some good comic relief over the years. We
hope his new mag will have some provocative sub-
stance and relevance as well as fun features.
• Georgia Congressman John Lewis spoke to a full
house in the EMU Ballroom Nov. 10. Pete DeFazio
introduced him saying, “If there’s a man who can
lead the next generation, it’s John Lewis.” Lewis
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EARLY DEADLINES
Thanksgiving conflicts with our usual
Thursday morning paper deliveries, so our
paper that week will be printed early and dis-
tributed on Wednesday, Nov. 26. Our early
advertising and Calendar deadline for that
issue will be at 5 pm Wednesday, Nov. 19.
EW will be closed Thanksgiving and the
Friday after.
spent a lot of time telling poultry tales to punctu-
ate his points. He encouraged people to not be
chickens and to stand up for civil liberties. “You’re
too quiet!” he admonished the crowd, and in
response to an audience question about the USA
PATRIOT Act being implemented on the UO cam-
pus, he said, “To trample on civil rights is just
wrong … To have people spying on their fellow citi-
zens, librarians turning over websites and e-mails…
that’s not America for me — we have to change
that.” Let’s hope sheepish Frohnmayer got the
point about the
chickens.
• Last week in Slant we mentioned an upcoming
fund-raiser for the Oregon League of Conservation
Voters Lane County Chapter. Turns out it’s going to
be at a private home from is 6 to 8 pm Friday.
OLCV does very important work documenting the
environmental voting records of elected officials
local and statewide. Bring your checkbook, but
leave your shoes at the door. For directions, call
(503) 515-3474 or email to katy@olcv.org
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