NEWS BRIEFS
golden infrastructure of public safety,
energy, defense and transportation.”
As for political strategies, Stutzman
adds, “We are nonpartisan, do not espouse
a particular religion, and do not want
representation that only hopes to maintain
a career in government by buying favors
with tax dollars.”
Stutzman pointed out the group’s name
came from “the cohesive nature of the day
after 9/11, where gender, race, avocation
or party did not matter; we were
all Americans.”
Past Chair Randy Barklow of Elmira, a
45-year-old bodybuilder and maintenance
technician, says that anyone is welcome to
attend the monthly meetings, though they
recently started collecting annual
dues among those sharing their long term
interests.
Monty Luke, their PR person, suggests
those interests include “wanting to see our
leaders in Washington start acting like
adults, rather than splurging trillions of
dollars borrowed from our children and
grandchildren.” — Joseph Lieberman
happening people
POSSIBLE HARM
AXES CLEARCUTS
When it comes to stopping a U.S.
Forest Service clearcut or massive federal
pipeline project the Supreme Court ruled
in 2008 that the possibility of “irreparable
harm” isn’t enough. There has to be a
likelihood of harm.
“If you look those two words up in the
dictionary,” says attorney Susan Jane
Brown of the Western Environmental Law
Center, “they mean the exact same thing.”
Brown says a recent ruling by the 9th
Circuit Court of Appeals clarifies the
Supreme Court’s ruling in NRDC v. Winter
and defines at what point groups can
temporarily stop federal projects while the
case is being heard.
Groups will often seek a preliminary
injunction to stop something like a
clearcut, because if the action isn’t stopped
while the case is dragging on, the trees
might already all be cut down by the time
the court issues a ruling.
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February 11 & 12
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MEGAN KEMPLE
Though her parents grew up in Oregon and met at the UO, Megan Kemple
was raised in Wisconsin and California until age 5, when they moved to
Portland. “We did lots of camping in central Oregon,” says Kemple, who
developed a passion for the outdoors, majored in environmental studies at
Macalaster College in Saint Paul and taught at seasonal outdoor schools in
California, Colorado, Washington and Oregon. She moved to Eugene in 1996,
worked four years as middle-school program coordinator for Sexual Assault
Support Services, then seven years as education coordinator for the
Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides. “And I was volunteering my
life away,” says Kemple, a co-founder of the School Garden Project, who also
donated her time to the League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club,
Cascadia Wildlands and Growers Market. “In 2007, I quit volunteering.” She
was hired by the Willamette Farm and Food Coalition to coordinate its new
Farm to School Program, offering educational field trips to farms and
harvest meals in schools. In addition, Farm to School acts as a “benevolent
broker,” arranging transactions between school districts and local farmers
at no cost. Learn more at www.lanefood.org and see Activist Alert this week
for details about a Feb. 10 community forum and garden tour.
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