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• Strong turnout for the rally downtown Monday calling for justice in the
Trayvon Martin shooting case in Florida. The message was clear that racial
profiling persists in our culture, and even wearing a hooded sweatshirt can
make you a target. Local activists used the rally and march to point out that
Eugene’s black population was segregated, not so long ago, in a ghetto along
the river. On a side note, we’ve heard complaints about an EPD crime
prevention public service ad on local TV recently that had an actor in a hoodie
portraying a criminal. Ouch! The PSA had been produced long before the
Florida case put hoodies in the national limelight. We heard from EPD
spokesperson Melinda McLaughlin that although hoodies are a “common and
popular item of clothing, due to the circumstances, we immediately asked all
the stations to not use it and pulled it from any places we had them posted.”
Community presentations and
discussions about the proposed Urban
Growth Boundary and strategies to
help Eugene grow smarter over the
next 20 years.
• The deadline for comments on the Waldo Lake gas motor ban is coming
up April 10, the day the Oregon State Marine Board meets in Springfield to
hear testimony. It is quite possible the ban will be overturned on technical and
legal grounds, but the power of public opinion cannot be dismissed. See
Activist Alert this week on the meeting details and how to submit testimony to
both the OSMB and the Aviation Board.
So what are some good talking points for testimony? Passionate, heart-felt
comments about the wilderness experience at Waldo are great, and it’s also
good to mention specifics. Oil and gas sheens are common around motorboat
docks and boat launches and degrade the wilderness experience. Waldo is so
pure and unique that we should not take risks with gas motors even if that risk
is small. Newer four-cycle motors are not the answer since they are noisy and
can also leak oil and gas. Clean, quiet electric motors are allowed and can be
quite powerful. Overturning the ban will encourage access to all the dispersed
sites around the lake and in the past these sites have been trashed. Float
planes are very noisy and their landing and taking off will diminish the quiet
wilderness setting at Waldo. There are many other lakes, including several
nearby, where gas motors and float planes are allowed and even encouraged.
Check our cover story last week for more talking points.
Pick a date & place that works for you:
From 6:00 to 8:00 pm:
— The Studio at the Hult Center
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— South Eugene High School
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• We might have been premature in our announcement in Slant March 22
that Eugene police officers are now handing out flyers showing defendants
how to request information, aka discovery, regarding pending cases against
them. Information about discovery is available at City Prosecutor Dan
Barkovic’s office, according to a city official. However, the flyer is no longer at
Municipal Court, as it has been in the past. Where did it go? Local activist Carol
Berg-Caldwell is working on making discovery information more readily
available to those who are charged with minor offenses in Eugene, a project of
her Independent Court Observers Network. ICON is affiliated with A Community
Together — Lane County (ACT), the low-profile nonprofit which Berg-Caldwell
and Majeska Seese-Green co-founded in 2009. Email majeska@efn.org for
more information.
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• We hear that KRVM disk jockey Rome Hamel, host of the “Rock N
Rome” show Sunday nights from 5 to 8 pm for more than 20 years, suffered a
heart attack March 4, followed by weeks of complications and being in a coma
on life support. “Thankfully for all of us who know and love Rome, he came
through, woke up, and wants nothing more than to be home, in the studio, and
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