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On the last day of the Oregon Country
Fair 19 years ago I came to town from
Florida with my family in our school bus/
RV, fi nding alleys and backyards to park,
and knew this would be our home.
Within a few weeks, I secured my fi rst
local mural, “Tuscany,” on High Street.
I have been grateful it has become a local
landmark and more people than I know
have taken pictures in front of it and
shown it off to friends and visitors alike.
So, this past Sunday, I returned to begin
doing some touch-ups to freshen it up and
repair some spots where nature and a few
skateboarders, bicyclists and taggers had left
their “contributions” to the public art event.
I fi nd myself refl ecting on the past in order
to look forward. I’ve grown and learned
so much about myself and my place in this
community, how much it has given me and
what I am now prepared to give back.
The event we had at Reality Kitchen in
the Whiteaker neighborhood June 26 was
our opportunity to invite the community
to learn more about our program to
support young adults with disabilities. We
had a wonderful day in the Whit!
We are embarking on an ambitious
mission, as all nonprofi t organizations
know, but the cause is right and the folks
we work to support towards independent
lives deserve the best we can give. This
is why I offer my deepest appreciation for
the compassionate community we live in;
the vision, advice and kindness of many
professionals and gifted volunteers, and,
of course, the gracious contributions and
fi nancial support of those who have and
continue to help us move forward along
this path. Please visit www.realitykitchen.
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say “Whiteaker Be Up!”
Jim Evangelista
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6 JULY 21, 2011 EUGENE WEEKLY
In the West we are indoctrinated to
equate anarchy with chaotic violence, and
even those who call themselves anarchists
perpetuate this myth. Modern anarchists
oppose all forms of authority in hopes
of bringing down the state and giving
us all the pleasure of living in a post-
Apocalyptic nightmare world governed by
survival of the fi ttest. This is not anarchy;
this is seventh grade antisocial behavior.
True anarchy is not disorganized;
it is infi nitely better organized than
representative democracy. It is not
something that erupts spontaneously in
a power vacuum, it was meticulously
elucidated by giants like Reclus and
Kropotkin, any one of them more intelligent
than the Founding Fathers combined.
Anarchy does not mean no government;
it means no central government. Where
in democracy you are a vote and in
socialism you are a worker, anarchy is the
radical notion you are a human being with
immeasurable intrinsic value.
Anarchy requires personal respon-
sibility and collective discipline to take
control of all functions of the state at the
local level to where the state is no longer
necessary — including those police
today’s pseudo-anarchists delight in
fi ghting, as physical safety and security
are basic human rights.
There is no greater threat to the
centralized state than for ordinary people
to realize how powerful they truly are
when they become better organized
and more self-reliant. Although true
anarchy has never existed in the modern
world, there is no doubt it is the form of
organization humans were meant to live
in all along.
Warren Weisman
Eugene
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