The Shedd Institute
www.theshedd.org - 541-434-7000
Meredith Willson’s
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Augus 2-11 Hult Center -
541-682-5000
providing a platform for his bigotry. I
grew up in this country, in this state, in an
overwhelmingly white and racist town —
I’ve heard his viewpoint my entire life.
This viewpoint isn’t an alternative
articulation to anti-racism, or even leftist
anti-racism, but a reinforcement of
mainstream white privilege and power.
Ryan Foote
Eugene
COMMUNITY RIGHTS RISING
In the last 16 years small communities
starting in conservative, rural Pennsylvania
have begun to give more rights to residents
of an area than to corporations that are just
set up there.
Thomas Jefferson disagreed with
James Madison’s view that it is the job of
government to protect the opulent minority
from the majority. He was one of our
(elitist) founding fathers.
The movement of community rights
started in Pennsylvania with family pig
farmers that wanted to keep factory
farms from coming into town, polluting
everything, undercutting the quality of
their (family) products and taking all the
money out of the community. Then came
fracking and the rights to aquifers.
Sludge (human waste) was being
applied as well under the name “bio-
solids” to crops and was opposed by
farmers, organic and conventional. From
the start the Community Environmental
Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), a group
of pro bono attorneys, moved their work
which was now in all of America to the
West Coast. In Oregon, Lane, Benton,
Jackson and Multnomah counties have
submitted ordinances to protect sustainable
agriculture, workers’ living wages, keep
GMOs out and enshrine ecosystems.
So far we’ve encountered opposition
from our very own government but
we believe that in the end we will be
successful in defending our communities
from corporate damage just like over 110
communities did so far. This battle, which
pits the small entrepreneur against big
corporations who (with their public relation
fi rms) have bought our government, needs
everybody’s help.
David Ivan Piccioni
Eugene
THE GREAT IMITATOR
I am writing to bring attention to two
issues. One, my husband’s medical fund
and two, Lyme disease.
Last fall, my husband was diagnosed
with late-stage neurological Lyme disease
along with two co-infections, Bartonella
and Babesia. For 15 years, he underwent
a series of tests, procedures, surgeries and
diagnoses in an attempt to fi gure out and
correct his ongoing health issues. When
modern medicine was unable to heal
him, much less correctly diagnose him,
he visited a local naturopath and Lyme
specialist, upon the suggestion of a friend,
a former Lyme sufferer herself.
One visit later and a positive Lyme test
gave him the answer to his ongoing health
problems.
We have no insurance and are on a
fi xed income. The treatment of Lyme and
its co-infections is expensive and long
in duration. We set up a medical fund
website
(www.gofundme.com/1lg310)
and on Monday, Aug. 5, we are holding
a fundraiser at Papa’s Pizza in Corvallis.
Those wanting to attend must bring a fl yer.
Please email themamatrinity@gmail.com
to request one or for more information.
Lyme disease is called the “great
imitator” in that it mimics a plethora of
other diseases, including anxiety, arthritis,
fi bromyalgia, multiple sclerosis and
chronic fatigue. It’s a nationwide problem,
having been identifi ed in all 50 states. Not
everyone shows the classic bull’s-eye rash.
In terms of testing, upward of 50 percent
of patients tested for Lyme receive false
negative results. Lyme-literate doctors treat
when symptoms of Lyme are present, even
without a positive test. If you or a loved
one suspect Lyme disease may be behind
your symptoms, contact the International
Lyme and Associated Diseases Society
for more information and ask for a list of
Lyme literate doctors in your area.
Vicki Trinity
Corvallis
Lyle Lovett
& His Large Band
Mon, August 5 - Hult 682-5000
Oregon Festival of American Music 2013
Boogie Woogie
Bugle Boy!
Tue Aug 6
Oregon Festival of American Music 2013
Boogie Woogie
Going My Bugle
Way Boy!
Oregon Festival of American Music 2013
Fred & Ginger at RKO – Tue
Friday Aug
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