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The Shedd Institute www.theshedd.org - 541.434.7000 Friday, June 29 The Blue Roosters Shedd Theatricals 2018 KEPW NEEDS YOU SILENCE = COMPLICITY Our new radio station, KEPW Peace Works Community radio, broadcasting si- multaneously from 97.3 FM and online at kepw.org, needs your help. Our signal on air reaches about a 25-mile radius around downtown Eugene. Online, the whole planet is our potential audience. We are short the people needed to co-create a successfully progressive, in- spiring, creative, stimulating, exciting, open-minded and inclusive radio station. We hope to have women, people of color, seniors, LGBTQ, youth, those without homes and others who feel they have either been marginalized or totally excluded from the airwaves in our area. You are all welcome and invited to par- ticipate. KEPW is an all-volunteer organi- zation supported by its listeners and fund- raising by Eugene Peace Works. We have openings in all areas and no experience is necessary. On-air production/announcing, programming, fundraising, public rela- tions, engineering and office administra- tion are among our serious needs. Please call 541-833-0622 or send an email to staff@kepw.org. You’re invited to our welcoming potluck the first Thursday of each month at 6 pm on the second floor of the Growers’ Market, 454 Willamette Street. At our potluck we all sit around a big round table, share food and some laughs, and talk about community radio. Andrew Rosenthal Eugene Your Slant column (June 21) said you’re reading William Shirer’s classic The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. I recommend his discussion of the Reichstag Fire shortly after Hitler took over Germany. The Na- zis burned their parliament (“Reichstag”), blamed it on the Communists, and it was the excuse to suspend civil liberties in Ger- many. Soul-searching about what led to Herr Trump could include consideration of the American Reichstag Fire on September 11, 2001. There are good claims for com- plicity (and stupid claims that discredit inquiry). The Cheney White House sup- pressed warnings from at least 15 U.S. allies. FBI, CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency agents tried to stop the attack but were blocked. In May, the Washington Post inter- viewed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who now says the CIA killed his dad on June 5, 1968. RFK Jr. states there was (at least) a second shooter, and that Sirhan Sirhan did not kill his father. Sen. Wayne Morse was told by Presi- dent Kennedy he had decided to withdraw from Vietnam. What would the legacy of the “Sixties” have been if JFK’s order had been implemented? What can we learn from our avoidance of this? A partial remedy for the U.S. could be a South African-style Truth and Recon- ciliation Commission. Societal silence and acquiescence about these and other abuses led to Trump. Mark Robinowitz Eugene July 20-29 The Shedd Oregon Festival of American Music 2018 August 1-11 IN THE HANDS OF THE MUSES Tributes to Songbook masters & mentors The Shedd eugeneweekly.com • June 28, 2018 5
