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
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