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STUDENT ARREST
The California branch of Change for
Equality (a women’s rights group in Iran)
now has an opening for a researcher in
Tehran. The former student vacated the
position at the request of the state and
was escorted to a notorious prison along
the beautiful desert shores of central Iran.
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I hear some Democratic pundits say
that we should celebrate Democratic
victories because real change is on its
way. I think they really mean Americans
should go back to their couch potato
positions and sleepwalking lives so our
new Democratic representatives can shirk
their responsibility to enact real change.
I will celebrate when the new
Congress and President Obama spend
hundreds of billions of dollars on new
passenger rail infrastructure throughout
the nation instead of voting in 2009 to
waste hundreds of billions on expanding
petroleum dependent freeway systems.
I will celebrate when the federal
government stops funding the logging
and bulldozing of our publicly owned
forests. These forests are the last best
hope to curtail extinctions and slow global
warming.
I will celebrate when governments
abandon subsidies for food crop and forest
bio-fuels as well as fuels from tar sands
and “clean coal.” The creation of these
fuels is far more destructive than the
benefi ts derived.
I will celebrate when our government
spends more money on conservation and
renewable energy infrastructure than
is spent on building weapons of mass
destruction and war.
I will celebrate when corporate
lobbyist are outfl anked by citizens
demanding changes to assure American
and the world’s children that they will
inherit a steady state economy and livable
planet.
The only road to this reality is if average
citizens force Senators, Congress, mayors,
agencies, governors and President Obama
through their collective shouting voices
for real change starting now and for the
rest of our lives.
Shannon Wilson
Eugene
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I congratulate you and this country.
This is an important moment preserving
our government of the people, by the
people, and for the people. Thank you for
opening the doors of the Oval Offi ce to
all persons. Gone are the days when only
an old white man has the chance to serve
as president of the U.S. Thank you for
providing us all with the opportunity.
I truly admire your courage,
dedication, and perseverance, as well as
that of the countless people who believe in
you and your message of hope and change.
Now that the election is over, the truly
hard work begins — for you, for myself
and my community, for all of us and our
communities across this nation. May we
all unite on that which brings us together,
rather than focus on that which draws us
apart. It is up to us all to create the change
we seek. You cannot do it alone, but we
can all do it together. Yes we can. We live
in amazing times, diffi cult times, beautiful
times, tragic times. And, there is hope.
My 2-year-old son said on his own
accord, “Barack won.” He is our hope.
Your girls are our hope. All the children
are our hope. Let us all strive to make this
country great, this planet great for the
children, their children, and for countless
generations of children into our collective
future. I hope your win is conformation
of a new revolution, r-evolution, our
evolution; one of love, peace, hope and
prosperity for all.
Indigo Ronlov
Eugene
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There were no warrants and no charges,
but her house was searched and she was
relieved of some of her personal, you know
what I mean, things. I don’t understand
how a people would tolerate such abuse on
their visitors much less their own. It can’t
happen here, can it? After all we live in
the land of the free ride and the home of
the bravado.
Vince Loving
Eugene
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vocal music. Perhaps you are not aware
that Divisi, a prize-winning a capella
group of a dozen UO women who can be
heard around the nation and, most every
Friday afternoon, on the UO campus. If
you decide to list other winners, you can
pick On The Rocks, the men’s equivalent
of Divisi, any number of church groups in
town or the Cascade Chorus.
Gil Campbell
Eugene
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