NEWS BRIEFS
EUGENEANS
CONCERNED
FOR
BAHÁ’ÍS IN
IRAN
The Bahá’ís of Eugene will hold a day
of prayer Sunday in response to Iran’s
continued persecution of members of the
Bahá’í faith.
The religion holds that Abraham,
Krishna, Zoroaster, Moses, Buddha, Jesus
and Muhammad are all messengers of God
and their religions represent a stage in the
spiritual development of humanity.
Bahá’ís believe that the Bahá’u’lláh is
the latest of these messengers and that his
message is one of unity.
The Bahá’í community of Iran,
numbering about 300,000 people, is the
largest non-Muslim religious minority in
that country. Bahá’í youth are denied entry
to Iran’s colleges and universities while
Bahá’í adults are denied jobs and business
licenses. Since August 2004, 335 Bahá’ís
have been arrested in Iran, according to
Marcia Veach, public information officer
for the Eugene-Springfield Bahá’í
communities.
As the situation for the Bahá’ís in Iran
has worsened, the Bahá’í International
Community has reached out in an open
letter to Iran’s judiciary, requesting that the
Bahá’ís be granted their full rights of
citizenship, she said.
In December, the U.N. General
Assembly supported a resolution that
expressed “deep concern at serious ongoing
and recurring human rights violations.” In
more than two decades of such resolutions
about Iran, the vote passed with one of the
highest percentages ever.
Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden has been in the
forefront of a Senate resolution (SR 694)
condemning the treatment of the Bahá’ís
and other religious minorities in Iran.
Resolutions, unlike laws, are nonbinding.
“It’s clear that just continuing to shine a
light on these injustices does make a
difference,” said Veach.
A day of prayer will be held beginning at
10 am Sunday, Jan. 9, at the Eugene Bahá’í
Center, 1458 Alder St. The Bahá’ís will be
joined by special guest Dr. Feridoon
Rahimi, who, along with his family, suffered
persecution in Iran because of his faith.
For more information: 541-344-3173
www.EugeneBahai.com — Heather Cyrus
HERBICIDE
SPRAY AT
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Rural Triangle Lake Charter School in
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Dec. 31,three acres of that former forest
— right behind the school where students
resumed classes three days later — were
“chopped and squirted” with an herbicide
called Arsenal.
In the fall of 2008 Weyerhaeuser
clearcut 50 acres of its land around the
school and offered to cut five acres of the
school’s trees as well because the school
board was told at the time that the school’s
trees would blow down with the
surrounding forest gone, possibly
damaging the school buildings.
Jan Wroncy of Forestland Dwellers,
who supplies EW with our weekly pesticide
spray schedule, says the commercial
Weyerhaeuser timberland has to be cleared
of weeds and made “free to grow” under
Oregon Department of Forestry rules. But
Wroncy says when it comes to school
lands, it should be “letting the kids be free
to grow,” not exposing them to toxics.
She says Arsenal’s ingredient imazapyr
breaks down into quinolinic acid, which is
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