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A Jazz Kings Christmas at The Shedd 2016
Happy Holiday
Thu, Dec 8, 7:30 pm
Sun, Dec 11, 3:00 pm
Wed, Dec 13 Corvallis
Thu, Dec 14 Florence
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people who serve us that are considered
“poverty wages.” So they qualify for fed-
eral assistance.
According to research from People’s
Action Institute, a living wage needed to
cover food, housing, utilities and cloth-
ing, along with some savings to handle
emergencies, would be $17.28. The daily
news tells of strikes and protest all over the
country in an effort to do something about
the blatant inequality in living standards
that is caused in part by these low wages.
Pay attention to the action of our city
council — or better, speak to them about it.
Bob Cassidy
Eugene
NEW ZONE REBORN
People living in Eugene have much to
be thankful for. For three months, down-
town has been missing what is perhaps the
greatest art venue ever devised.
Fortunately, New Zone Art Gallery
opened its doors at its newfound location,
220 W. 8th Avenue, on Friday, Dec. 2, at
5:30 pm. It includes New Zone’s tradition-
al Holiday Store.
New Zone members worked diligently
making this happen, searching every nook
and cranny for space. Our combined ef-
forts came to be known as “Phoenix Ris-
ing” as we applied for grants and eventu-
ally crossed paths with the Hood family.
We thank the Hoods from the bottom
of our artistic souls for the opportunity to
share our artwork with our extensive Eu-
gene family once again. We have missed
you all so very much. We’ll keep the door
open for you.
Hito
New Zone Art Gallery member
Eugene
MESSAGE OF INDIFFERENCE
The day before Thanksgiving and a
mere week before paychecks would be dis-
bursed, the University of Oregon decided
to break its promise to its employees that
it would cooperate with the Fair Labor and
Standards Act regulations. Some employ-
ees for months now have been counting on
a fair and reasonable increase to their sal-
ary to reflect new standards and fair wages.
Due to an injunction in Texas, the new
regulations are on hold based on the expec-
tation that they will disappear once Trump
takes office. Some institutions have made
the moral decision to follow through with
them anyway or instituted the regulations
early and decided not to renege.
However, the UO is among the many
that have decided they care more about
money than their employees, and sent some
workers, including my husband, home to
grieve with their families at Thanksgiving
over not only the significant impact to their
livelihood, but the clear message of indif-
ference their employer has toward them.
Please help us show the UO the mis-
take they have made by calling the office
of UO President Michael Schill directly
and asking why they would make such a
heartless decision.
Sydney Georgieff
Eugene
A NEW HERO
The recent Standing Rock victory is a
temporary step forward. A new struggle
lies just around the corner with vigilance
still necessary. Chris Turley is a decorated
veteran of the 101st Airborne in Afghani-
stan and member of the Osage Nation. He
recently arrived at Sacred Stone camp after
a prayerful, two-week, 800-mile trek most-
ly on foot from Osage Nation Reservation
in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
Turley cited his military vow to support
and defend the Constitution "against all
enemies, foreign and domestic"; the Da-
kota Pipeline and the police violently con-
fronting peaceful water protectors, he said,
pose precisely that domestic danger to "my
people, our people, your people."
Standing Rock feels like home to us —
a place to defend the values that form the
basis of a healthy, earth-respecting, peace-
ful, community-building world that mil-
lions are seeking to give birth to across this
nurturing planet. We all can and must do
something to be the path with a heart.
Standing Rock, like Occupy and Black
Lives Matter, calls out to us because it rep-
resents the intersection of so many things
Shedd Theatricals 2016
Irving Berlin’s 1946
Annie Get
Your Gun
December 9 th to 18 th
The Shedd Institute
Tickets: 541.434.7000
www.theshedd.org
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