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The MTTA Revue - Summer 2016
Get Happy!
The Music Of
Harold Arlen
Friday July 8 - Half Past Four & Half Past Eight
Shedd Theatricals 2016
couldn’t have done better.
Anyone who hears of “the one
percent” or “Main Street vs. Wall Street”
understands those references perfectly.
Example two: Today we have Bernie
Sanders advancing the understanding of
people’s rights vs. the corporatocracy.
Example three: Although gravely
misguided, the “Trump-ets” are a
significant population who recognize that
they are not being treated fairly and want
economic security that they justly deserve.
At home here in Lane County, the fight
is being waged by the people to establish
and secure our basic lawful rights of
choice and democratic self-determination.
Community Rights Lane County (CRLC,
communityrightslanecounty.org) has for
three years been trying to get a charter
amendment on the ballot that would secure
our rights to local self-governance.
Finally, although obstructed by endless
corporate money and $600-an-hour
corporate lawyers, petitioners managed
to get the “Freedom from Aerial Spray”
charter amendment and the “Right
to a Local Self-Government” charter
amendment ready for signature collection.
If the corporate push-back is any indicator,
the value of these laws to our rights is huge.
Although our strength lies on the
grassroots, local level, this is not a single
issue campaign. The structure of law must
change so profit is not the sole priority
above the access of the people to health,
justice and security.
Richard Gross
Deadwood
TOW TRUCK HERO
On June 20, there was a house
fire at a home in the Skinner Butte area
on 2nd Street, near High. A passing tow
truck driver was the first person to alert the
authorities of the house fire, and he also
aided in the rescue of a person sleeping in
a slightly detached back studio.
It was impossible to walk down the side
of the house because of the flames, so he
went down the alley and tore down a section
of the fence (using either a crowbar or his
body) to get to the sleeping tenant’s door.
Our neighborhood community would
like to give a shoutout of gratitude to
this unknown man (he left as soon as the
firefighters arrived). We would also like to
thank the firefighters. When you wake up
at 1:30 am to your next-door neighbor’s
house on fire, then see the courageous
firefighters show up, who then put it out,
you give thanks for living in a community
that has such services.
Robin Quirke
Eugene
Leonard Bernstein,
Betty Comden & Adolph Green’s
1944 musical masterpiece
On The
Town
July 29
-Aug 7
Oregon Festival of American Music 2016
PEACE MOVEMENT
We need a new peace movement — a
movement to bring both peace and peace
g.i.jive
Good Cheer From Home, 1939-45
July 29 - August 13
The Shedd Institute
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