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• Upcoming Occupy events:
Midnight Madness Flash Mob, Occupy
the Mall, Valley River Center, 11:45
pm Thursday, Nov. 24 (Thanksgiving,)
to 9 pm Friday, Nov. 25 (Black Friday).
Text @oc_actions to 23559 to sign
up for flashmob text alert system/
instructions and actions alerts. Then
Occupy Eugene: Occupy Cozmic!,
with David Rovics, “flat-picking
rabble-rouser, Brass Tacks, folk rock
dance band,” with Occupy Eugene
speakers, from 8 to 11:30 pm
Saturday, Nov. 26, at Cozmic Pizza,
$0-$20 sliding scale.
• The Middle Fork Willamette
Watershed Council will be meeting
from 6:30 to 9:30 pm Wednesday,
Nov. 30, at the Lowell Fire House on
North Pioneer Street. The topic is
“The Effects of Blue Green Algae on
Water, People and Communities,” and
speakers include Dr. Theo Dreher of
OSU, Jennifer Ketterman and Casey
Lyon of the Oregon Health Authority
and Chuck Spies of the city of Lowell.
For more information, email
education@mfwwc.org or call 937-
9800.
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• Cascadia Wildlands’ ninth
annual Wonderland Auction is coming
up Dec. 10 and this is the Eugene-
based regional nonprofit’s biggest
fundraiser of the year. Tax-deductible
donations of items or services are
welcomed. See www.cascwild.org or
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Congress’ super-committee has been a super-flop.
The proximate cause is that half its members believe
that shared sacrifice means the rich and the poor
should continue to pay the same for parking.
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• Local folks who follow the municipal
court tell us the number of citations for
illegal camping are down this chilly fall as
folks who are homeless are finding shelter
with the Occupy Eugene camp. One story we
heard from the camp is that a fellow in his
50s was shedding tears of joy. He had been
living outside for six years and the Occupy
camp was the first place he had found that
was safe and legal. Not been to the Occupy
camp yet? It’s worth wandering around,
talking to people, even joining workshops.
One Occupier we talked to this past weekend
told us it would be great if more local
churches
and
civic
groups
sent
representatives to the camp. The Eugene
Peace Choir sang at the camp Sunday
morning and drew an appreciative audience.
Community connection and support are
important for long-term changes to evolve.
What could evolve locally from Occupy
Eugene? How about permanent housing for
the thousands of men, women, families,
teens, alcoholics and drug addicts among us
who are homeless? How about mobilizing
people to vote for candidates who have some
sense of social and economic justice?
Occupy Eugene has a permit until Dec. 15
for its camp under the Washington-Jefferson
Bridge. The issue will likely be on the agenda
of the Eugene City Council Dec. 12. Not all the
councilors support the camp.
• A campaign to overturn gerrymandered
county redistricting is brewing, as we
announced on our blog last week. A petition
was filed without fanfare with Lane County
Elections Nov. 18, additional paperwork was
submitted this week, and a press conference
will be scheduled when county counsel and
the Elections Department have approved the
petition and ballot language. The campaign
will then kick off a five-week volunteer drive
to gather about 5,800 valid signatures to put
a measure on the countywide ballot for the
May primary. Sources tell EW that the lead
petitioners include local attorney David Force,
Duncan Rhodes from the Whiteaker
Community Council, and Darby Valley from
Cottage Grove. Treasurer of the PAC is
Ambrose
Holtham-Keathley.
Former
commissioners Jerry Rust and Bill Fleenor
are expected to be involved, gathering
signatures in western Lane County.
• Oregon might learn from Vermont’s
success is establishing single-payer health
insurance. Local activists with Health Care
for All-Oregon and the Eugene-Springfield
Solidarity Network’s Jobs with Justice
coalition have been working for months to
get the team that pushed through Vermont’s
single-payer plan to come to Eugene, and
looks like it’s going to happen. Mark your
calendars for 7 to 9 pm Thursday, Dec. 15, at
Harris Hall, 8th and Oak.
• What can save Civic Stadium from the
wrecking ball or the dismantling crew? One
possibility, perhaps in combination with some
future redevelopment of the acreage around
the stadium, is soccer. Some avid soccer fans
have started up a Facebook page to help
spread the word about getting a United
Soccer League program started in Lane
County, with its home at Civic Stadium. USL
encompasses both men’s and women’s pro
soccer, amateur and youth leagues. Check
out the discussion at www.facebook.com/
usltoeug and Google USL soccer for more
information on USL, its leagues and its
affiliates.
• We hear from Eugene videographer Tim
Lewis that the documentary about the Earth
Liberation Front’s ecologically motivated
acts of sabotage around the Northwest, If a
Tree Falls, has made the short list for an
Oscar nomination. Lewis tells us that out of
more than 100 documentaries the short list is
down to 15. In January five will be picked for
the Academy Award nomination. Some of the
archival footage used in the film was shot
locally by Lewis.
• Good news for pups! Sasha the pit bull,
a Red Cross award-winning deaf pup from
Lane County Animal Services that was our
cover dog this summer has found her forever
home for the holidays. It took Sasha a year to
find her perfect person and for her person to
find a home that would take them. Also in
perky puppy news, Cody the Fire Safety
Dalmation reports that he has a new “probie.”
Dalmation puppy Casey will be taken under
Cody’s wing, err paw, to learn the ropes
around the fire department and teach Lane
County kids about fire safety. Want to get
away from corporate greed and “Black
Friday” this Thanksgiving weekend? LCAS,
Save the Pets, West Coast Dog and Cat
Rescue, and Luv-A-Bull, to name only a few
would welcome doggie donations.
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Getting your debt under control means having more
money to spend on the things you really love. At Northwest
Community, we want to help get you there. Come into one of
our branches to discuss debt-consolidation with us, and even
if you go no further, you’ll be entered to win up to $10,000
to pay off debts.
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