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BY MARY O’BRIEN No More, No Less We are what we allow. W SIN CE 198 9 A Cornucopia of Natural Health Care Winter Classes! Gentle & Traditional Chiropractic Massage Therapy • CranioSacral Therapy Acupuncture • Physical Therapy Hot Stone Therapy Laura K. Adams, D.C. Adam Drapkin, D.C. Peggy Johnston, L.Ac. Chris Osterlitz, D.C. Barbara Robertson, D.C. Keith Blackwell, P.T. Licensed Massage Therapists: Linda Brewer #2568 Pam Skeele #2971 Lisa Hubbard #7797 Jude Painton #2154 Cindy Chambers #1276 Lisa Burtraw #5004 342-4520 492 E 13th Ave, Suite 200, Eugene In the Bijou Theatre Building Aikido & Basic Self-defense Classes in a Safe & Supportive Environment Parent & Child (7 yrs & up) 6:00-6:45pm Adult (12 yrs & up) 7:00-8:30pm Tue. & Thu. - Amazon Arts Ctr. 2700 Hilyard, Eugene hile people are dying in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and India from the Earth shud- dering and the ocean heaving, the 45- year-old brother of one of my friends is dying of lymphoma in a Utah neighborhood that was downwind of Nevada atmospheric nuclear tests in the 1950s. He’s the fourth person to die of can- cer around that age in that neighborhood in recent years. Each day on Earth, approximately 35,000 children under 5 die of malnutrition or starva- tion. As we speak, men are dying under torture by our government. How do we hold all this? The instant mass, community death, caused by no one, evokes mass sym- pathy and an inspiring mobilization of aid. The delayed individual adult death, caused by a nuclear arms race, is largely denied. The daily mass death of sparrow-like children, caused by desperation, greed, and deliberate policies is largely ignored. If all humans were to agree on one phrase each year to share in common and live by, my nomination for 2005 would be this: “We are no more and no less than the life at any given place on Earth.” Wed. - Veneta Health Club 88267 Territorial Rd, Veneta Call for information: 935-8655 mes AZINE na G A M E why TIM Find out st plays.” e b 0 1 e h t of this “one By Michael Healey January 26 – 29 February 3 – 6 February 10 – 13 Wed. & Thurs. 7:30pm, Fri. & Sat. 8pm, Sun. at 2pm The death of a person we never met from purposely administered, hideous pain is accepted for “national security.” I see no way to grieve more for one early death than another. I do not intend to downplay Southeast Asia’s current agony. I cannot help placing it alongside the agony of my friend’s brother and that of the 35,000 children who starved to death today and that of a mortally beaten prisoner, far from a newspaper’s front page. Somehow a tsunami helps us remember that we are all sisters and broth- ers; while colorful flags, particular phrases, or vast differences in wealth help us forget. If all humans were to agree on one phrase each year to share in common and live by, my nomination for 2005 would be this: “We are no more and no less than the life at any given place on Earth.” We are no more than the whale dying of PCBs we have dumped in the ocean. We are no less than the person who delivers fresh water to a thirsty Indonesian. We are no better than the conditions in a Guantanamo or Libyan prison, and we are no poorer than a song being played perfectly on a flute. If we thought this way, wouldn’t “No Child Left Behind” finally mean something compassionate? Wouldn’t we take care of each estuary, each for- est, each spring? Wouldn’t we stand between the perpetrators of violence and the victim? Wouldn’t our “bottom line” become the health of all rather than monetary profit for some? OK., the phrase isn’t going to be adopted by everyone. But in fact we are no more and no less than the life at any given place on Earth. May the best of life on Earth this year give you strength to bring hope and change to the worst. Mary O’Brien of Eugene has worked as a public interest scientist since 1981. 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