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
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