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STAND UP TO BIG TIMBER
I just read a blog online from Oregon
Wild that had information about Lincoln
County voters deciding to ban aerial spray
in their county [see also EW’s 6/15 article].
This is great, and it is really exciting to
hear about, especially from the coast.
However, we don’t need more county
initiatives that only protect a few Orego-
nians from aerial spray. We need statewide
changes to logging and chemical laws. One
of the things I learned from Oregon Wild is
that we have the “weakest logging regula-
tions in the West,” and I want to know how
that is possible.
I live in western Lane County, and drive
to the coast often and see the ridiculous
clearcuts hurting our rivers and fish and
people; the lone tractors clearcutting entire
hillsides, providing no jobs; the piles of
logs at export terminals creating no jobs. I
see corporations laughing at us all the way
to the bank, as they find token “family for-
esters” to put up as the face of the logging
industry.
The final thing I learned from that blog:
Senator Arnie Roblan is the one blocking
state reforms on these important matters,
but his district was just the first in the na-
tion to ban aerial spraying.
Will we start losing Democratic seats in
Salem soon because the Democrats are too
scared to stand up to the industry? I hope
not.
Grow a backbone Salem Dems, you’re
losing the environmental vote quickly!
Phil Eugene Cragmussen
West Lane County
MAKE EUGENE INCLUSIVE
June 13 at Harris Hall, the community
rose strong for an Inclusivity Ordinance for
Lane County. After all that was expressed
with words of compassion and insight by
well-informed citizens, I was discouraged
to hear the chairperson of the Equity and
Access Advisory Board refer to a resolu-
tion instead of an ordinance. We the people
insist on an ordinance.
Please visit the Lane County Com-
mission website and view the Board
Meeting Webcast for June 13 as your
neighbors spoke before a standing-room-
only crowd. View the sympathetic words
of each of your commissioners.
Then hear the chairperson of the work
group speak of “one sticking point of con-
siderable size.”
The city of Eugene has a Protection of
Individuals and Groups Ordinance, con-
trary to the information shared by the Eq-
uity Board Chairperson. As Eugene has,
Lane County can and must protect individ-
uals and groups with an ordinance.
As hero Taliesin Myrddin Namkai
Meche lay dying after supporting and de-
fending strangers on the Portland Max
train, he spoke words of love. Just a few
hours later after her son died, Asha Deliv-
erance released this statement:
A Musical Fable
Gypsy
June 23-25
The Mildred Baker
Fund for the Arts
Nellie
McKay
A Girl Named Bill
July 1
Blue Roosters
Friday, July 7 - 7:30 pm
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