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meet their constitutionally mandated respon- sibility to Oregon’s school children.” The Oregon Business Association is one of the sponsors. “As business leaders, we un- derstand the interdependence between a great education system and a healthy economy,” says Carl Davis of the OBA and vice presi- dent of Columbia Sportswear. “There are rea- sonable funding sources available that don’t require across-the-board tax hikes. Oregon’s elected officials must find the political will to support our schools adequately in order to at- tract businesses and train a productive work- force.” BUSH BUDGET OUT OF TOUCH A coalition of local people and organiza- tions concerned with social services gathered this week in Eugene in response to the Bush administration’s release of a budget last week calling for deep cuts in assistance to low-in- come people. The group, including students from UO and LCC, and directors of Looking Glass, FOOD for Lane County and ShelterCare, re- leased a report Tuesday called, “Communities in Crisis: A Survey of Hunger and Homelessness in America.” The report is based on 900 surveys of emergency food and shelter providers in 32 states, including Oregon. “The report shows that hunger and home- lessness are increasing in every region of the country while government funding to shelters and food programs is down, forcing many so- cial service providers to cut necessary pro- grams,” says a statement from the group. See the full report at www.studentsagain- sthunger.org SOLIDARITY WITH CUBA Documentary filmmaker and Radio Havana correspondent Bernie Dwyer will be in Eugene next week to show her film Mission Against Terror, as part of a tour sponsored by the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five. The film will be shown at 7 pm Monday, Feb. 21 at 100 Willamette Hall on the UO campus. Dwyer’s film examines the case of the five Cubans in U.S. prisons since 1998 for “successfully collecting information to stop terrorism against Cuba.” The local sponsor of the event is Solidarity with Cuba!, which developed out of the Cuba Interest Group of CISCAP. Mission Against Terror shows historical footage of terrorism against Cuba and features interviews with Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcón, former CIA agent Philip Agee, attorney Leonard Weinglass, Cuban activist Andrés Gómez from Miami, and family members of the Cuban Five. Dwyer is an Irish woman who lives and works in Havana as a journalist. She was pre- viously a lecturer in Women’s Studies at University College in Dublin. CORRECTIONS/ CLARIFICATIONS Radio Havana’s Bernie Dwyer • An editing error changed the meaning of a sentence near the end of our Visual Arts story last week. Here is how it should have read: “Newton, whose other profession en- tails using GIS-based cartographic databases, also plays with spatial ambiguity.” • Regarding last week’s Happening People, Judy Franzen tells us her psychology master’s degree was actually from International College, not the UO, but she did get a degree in landscape architecture from UO. A View From the Bridge by Arthur Miller Robinson Theatre 8 pm- Feb. 25, 26 Mar. 4, 5, 11, 12 7:30- Mar. 3 2 pm- Sun, Mar. 6 Benefit for Tsunami Relief UO Ticket Office 346-4363 Asian Foods • Performances • Art • Marketplace Crafts • Cooking • Martial Arts • Youth Activities FEBRUARY 19 & 20, 2005 LANE CO. FAIRGROUNDS, EUGENE 10am-6pm • Adults $ 2/Day • 12 & Under Free Presented by y the Eugene Eugene-Springfield Asian Council 541-687-9600/www.asiancelebration.org Sponsored by FEBRUARY 17, 2005 9
