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Occupy Eugene’s work endures: Occupy Medical and Opportunity Village are two among many OE-inspired projects, which include funding the quarterly Eugene Occupier newspaper and an offi ce. Are there connections between the events of 2001 and 2008? Why is our middle class increasingly trapped in debt slavery and what and who are behind the destruction of the societies of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen — with Ukraine on deck and Russia next? Connect the dots for yourself. At 7 pm Friday, May 22, upstairs at 454 Willamette St. will be at a fundraiser showing of the fi lm Operation Terror, an imagined dramatization of the events of Sept. 11. Empty out your change jar and bring along a quality item we can raffl e off, at the kickoff of the Occupy Eugene Fourth Friday Cinema and Cabaret. Fergus Mclean Dexter passes the Senate, the legal defi nition of “predator” will expand to include bears, bobcats and red foxes. Coyotes, rabbits, rodents and feral swine are already classifi ed as “predators” for killing purposes. So are cougars and gray wolves. To pay for killing more predators, the law will tax land located in new predator control districts at $1 per acre or at a $1 per thousand dollars of assessed value. This proposal intensifi es commercial agriculture’s war on wildlife. It would create local funding to pay the USDA’s Wildlife Services for more of that agency’s noxious trapping, hounding cougars and aerial gunning. The bill is now being considered by the Oregon Senate’s Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, where it should die the legislative death this rotten idea deserves. Ricardo Small Albany WAR ON WILDLIFE GMO PREEMPTION The Oregon House of Representatives is out to kill more predators. They passed HB 3188A last month to allow the creation of predator control districts. If the bill Where, oh where, has our democracy gone? More and more Oregonians and Americans are hip to corporate power in this country. Many wonder “How does this 'VJ#Xé Buff aloExchange.com s r e t o o Sc Motorcycles i B cycles Bicycle Tune Up $ 85 GET READY FOR SUMMER RIDING Reg. $105 Get on the Road Today! good through 6/15/15 407 W 11TH • EUGENE • e-wheelworks.com • 541-431-7300 EUGENEWEEKLY.COM • MAY 21, 2015 5
