NEWS
• The independent private Oak Hill
School will be the new home of Super
Summer, a three-week academic
enrichment program for advanced
learners and Talent and Gifted students,
and will expand to include sixth and
seventh grade students. The popular
program has been housed at the UO for
the past 35 years. Super Summer will
begin its permanent residency on the
rural Oak Hill campus near LCC June 27.
The application process will open Feb. 8.
See oakhillschool.com or call 744-0954.
• Casper’s Cannabis Club is a new
business founded by a group of
entrepreneurs from Florida, Myron
Brandwine, who serves as general
manager, and partner investors Daniel
Karten and Joseph Lekach. “Our mission
is to become the number one marijuana
dispensary retailer in the U.S.,” Brandwine
says. The store is located close to
campus on 814 E. 12th Ave., next to
Barry’s Espresso Bakery & Deli. “We
believe that dispensaries are beneficial
for patients because we offer variety,
high-quality tested products,” Brandwine
says. “We do not sell to minors, we
educate, and we are able to recommend
the right strains for each patient’s needs
in a professional and compassionate
manner.” Casper’s has a Facebook page
and can be called at 357-4328.
• For those in the medical marijuana
business at any level, new rules are
being written in light of the legalization of
recreational pot. The proposed new
permanent administrative rules, about
100 pages, can be found by searching for
“OMMP rules.” Oral testimony on the rules
was taken around the state this week and
written comments can be emailed to
publichealth.rules@state.or.us or mailed
to OHA Public Health, 800 NE Oregon
Street, Suite 930, Portland 97232.
Deadline is Jan. 29.
Kris McAllister of Springfield has been
following this issue and sent us his
testimony calling for lower fees, not
reducing allowed plant numbers,
residency requirements for OMMP
growers and investors and more. He can
be contacted at resolventset@gmail.com
for more information.
• Eugene Modern Dance is now
offering dance classes Thursday
evenings for pregnant women, says
studio owner Susanna Meyer. “The class
is suitable for women of any level of
dance,” she says, “from beginner to
dancers who have trained for years.” The
studio is at 5185 Nectar Way. Call 485-
1531.
• Free one-on-one job-help sessions
are being offered from 4 to 6 pm
Thursday, Jan. 28, at the Eugene Public
Library. Preregister for the half-hour
counseling sessions by calling 682-
5450.
10
JILL STEIN WANTS TO
MAKE WAR OVER OIL
OBSOLETE
PHOTO: TODD COOPER
JILL STEIN, GREEN PARTY
CANDIDATE, CALLS FOR CHANGE
The American media has been paying a lot of attention to the
clown car that makes up the pool of candidates for the Republican
presidential nomination. And on the Democratic side, the media
has finally noticed that Bernie Sanders is making inroads into what
many thought was a surefire Hillary Clinton ticket.
But lately, Green Party presiden-
tial candidate Jill Stein says, there’s
been a little more oxygen in the
room, and the media and American
public have realized that Stein and
the Greens have something to say.
A physician and environmental-
health advocate, Stein was the 2012
Green Party presidential candidate,
and she’s seeking the 2016 nomina-
tion. Stein stopped by EW’s offices
on a swing through the Northwest.
Stein has as much to say about
American politics as she does about
her Power to the People Plan and
Green New Deal, calling for a transi-
tion to 100-percent clean and renew-
able energy by 2030, and investing in
public transit, sustainable agriculture
and conservation, thereby creating
new jobs.
Third party candidates often take a lot of heat — the regularly
repeated criticism is that, by casting a ballot for a third party, vot-
ers instead help the worst possible candidate take office. Stein says
she’s in the Green Party because the other two parties are “under
the thumb of war profiteers, predatory banks and fossil fuel pi-
rates.”
The recent announcement that Stein’s campaign has raised
enough money for federal matching funds, allowing her to get
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public funding for the race for the White House, has given her
campaign a boost.
Stein says she wants to mobilize the 43 million students and
young people burdened by student debt, calling this group “a self-
organizing demographic” through mechanisms such as social me-
dia. One element of her platform is
canceling education debt for those
students. “It’s a no brainer,” Stein
says, pointing out that the same was
done for the banks.
Stein says her background as a
doctor fighting to improve health
and safety led her to discover that the
solution wasn’t going to be clinical
medicine but political medicine. She
says that health care, education, jobs
and housing are all rights, calling
for “Medicare For All” single-payer
public health insurance program, an
end to high-stakes testing, a $15 min-
imum wage and housing that benefits
the public good. Renovating and re-
storing housing also creates jobs, she
points out.
The candidate also calls for mak-
ing war over oil obsolete, a carbon tax, public ownership of energy
production and transitioning to renewable fuels. Greening the en-
ergy system also avoids the health consequences of fossil fuels,
Stein says, and the catastrophe that is climate change makes “Pearl
Harbor look like small potatoes.”
Barack Obama “put his troops on the shelf after he was elect-
ed,” Stein says, but she wants to use the “bully pulpit” that is
the presidency to create “transformational change” and “turn the
White House into a Green House in 2016.” — Camilla Mortensen
One element of Jill
Stein’s platform is
canceling education debt
for students. ‘It’s a no
brainer,’ Stein says,
pointing out that the same
was done for the banks.