this: Which forces will work through us? ...
There are forces of destruction and creativity.
I choose creativity.”
Visit www.kucinich.us for campaign
news and statements on issues from animal
rights to organic farming and depleted ura-
nium. To contact local groups, call 744-7608
in Eugene/Springfield, 767-0770 in Cottage
Grove, 758-3118 in Corvallis, and 997-3345
in Florence.
Deadline for registering to vote in the
May 18 primary is April 27. Ballots arrive in
the mail around April 28.
— Kate Rogers Gessert
BEACH CLEANUP NETS
NEAR-RECORD 40 TONS
ism? What are the characteristics of effective
movements for social change? Can violence
ever be justified in the pursuit of such goals?”
Knox was a graduate student at Kent
State University in English literature and
helped to organize SDS there in 1967. She
now lives in Eugene, earned her doctorate
and is on staff at the Center for Advanced
Technology in Education, College of
Education at UO.
Marks-Fife was active in Kent, Ohio with
first the Kent Committee to End the War in
Viet Nam and then SDS from 1966-1969.
She has since moved to Eugene and has
worked in social services and continued as an
activist for peace and social justice.
writers:
do you just
wanna rock?
WRITE MUSIC REVIEWS FOR EUGENE WEEKLY!
We are now accepting submissions of CD reviews by local writers.
What’s in it for you? You’ll just do it for the glory . . . (These
are unpaid reviews, but you’ll get to see your work in
print!) What’s in it for us? We’ll boost our music coverage
and get rockin’ reviews from the experts (that would be
YOU) who know what’s really happening in the music world.
Reviews should be between 100 and 200 words, on any musi-
cal genre, and should be emailed to cal@eugeneweekly.com
under the subject heading: “Local CD Review.” Please
include complete information about the CD, including band name, album name, year and record
label, contact information so we can reach you, as well as a short bio about yourself. For addi-
tional guidelines and information, contact Jacquelyn at Eugene Weekly: 484-0519, Ext. 26
Under mixed skies last weekend, more
than 4,700 volunteers turned out to partici-
pate in the Great Oregon Spring Beach
Cleanup. The entire Oregon Coast, minus
some inaccessible parts, was cleaned of de-
bris that had accumulated during the stormy
winter months. Volunteers removed an esti-
mated 40.2 tons of trash from the coastline.
This was the second highest tonnage col-
lected during the 19-year history of the
Spring Beach Cleanup. Forty-two tons were
collected in 1999.
WEATHERMAN ACTIVISM
COMPARED TO POST-9/11
Vietnam-era radical student leaders Mark
Rudd, Carolyn Knox, David Powell and
Robin Marks-Fife will be speaking in Eugene
on “Social Movements: Then and Now” in a
two-day gathering this weekend at UO.
The Oscar-nominated documentary film
The Weather Underground will be shown at 7
pm Friday, April 2 at 180 PLC on campus,
and will be followed by a discussion with
Rudd and other former members of The
Weather Underground.
Two workshops on Saturday will further
explore issues of activism, violence and non-
violence, and protest and dissent in the post
9/11 era. The workshops run from 10 am to
noon and 1:30 to 3:30 pm at 240 McKenzie
Hall at UO.
The Weather Underground emerged as an
offshoot of the Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS) in 1969, and was responsible
for a series of bombings and other violent
acts against symbols of U.S. government and
corporate power. The group was controver-
sial both among the general public and
among progressive political activists, many
of whom felt that it discredited the left more
than it built its cause.
Organizers say the film and discussion
will examine several questions, among them:
“What is our responsibility as Americans for
the inequalities of globalism? What would
real social justice look like, not just in
America but throughout the world? How do
we as a society define violence and terror-
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