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The Shedd Institute www.theshedd.org - 541.434.7000 Shedd Theatricals 2018 ay! rid ns F Ope SUPREME THREAT “We will not go back” is what the woman protester said at the hearing for Su- preme Court applicant Kavanaugh. As they hauled her away she kept repeating it. American women, if you want to keep Roe v. Wade intact you better be writing your representatives in congress. The alt- right evangelicals are champing at the bit to deny women the choice of bringing a child into the world. Next time you are sitting at your family holiday table just know that one in three women have had an abortion. Most of them will never tell you that they have. But they are your daughters, nieces, mothers and grandmothers who at one time found themselves pregnant and made the choice that Roe v. Wade ensures. It’s part of the ongoing war on women — women who still make 78 cents on the dollar doing the same job a man does. This is what we should be focusing on: more wage equity. You may not want to get an abortion, but in some cases it becomes a choice — cases like your teenage daughter, who may want to exercise her right some day. Only the GOP would want to force a woman to have a baby she doesn’t want. Do we want to go back to back-alley abortions? I think women should withhold sex un- til their men get vasectomies. Yes, I’m seri- ous; just think about it. What a better way to slide the responsibility to men. Women can use the day after pill until then. Our body, our choice. Got it? Diane DeVillers Eugene WARMONGER McCAIN If one was looking for an example of the bi-partisan, liberal-conservative mor- al rot in this country, you would be hard pressed to find better than the EW’s Slant blurb on John “Bomber” McCain (8/30). A “truly amazing life?” WTF? Oh and lest we forget: “He wasn’t without his flaws.” Did the editorial staff even bother to peruse — in more than a cursory, sanitized fashion — the “resume” of this inveterate, evil warmonger? Sure, Trump is an execrable SOB that we’re stuck with for who knows how long, but McCain ranks and reeks right with him. The only saving grace, outside of his never snaking his way into the oval office, is that he is now, finally, blessedly, six feet under where he can do no more harm. If hell were to exist, he’d be a smoking there now. Karl Stout Eugene Sep 14-30 Wed Oct 3 NATURE’S RIGHTS “What if nature had rights?” is a ques- tion that gets to the heart of the destruction our society is doing to the world we live on. Rather than treat nature as property, Rights of Nature acknowledge that nature in all its forms has the right to exist, thrive and flourish. A forest ecosystem — the trees, rivers, soil and everything living in that web of life — has a right to be healthy. The deci- sion to cut a forest down should not de- pend on who owns the land and the amount of profit they can make. It should depend on the forest ecosystem’s right to exist. Nature does have rights. The problem is that our industrial/technology-depen- dent world does not recognize such rights or respect them. Various indigenous cultures acknowl- edge nature’s rights. Those rights have in- fluenced the way they have lived for cen- turies. Our culture needs to wake up, learn and earn the wisdom of indigenous people. Nature has rights. Such a wake-up has begun. It dates back a few decades and is happening all over the world — in New Zealand, India, Ecuador and nearby Lincoln County. We can do something locally. Lane County can pass its own ballot initiative recognizing the Rights of Nature. Want to learn more? Go to the “What if Nature had Rights?” panel discussion 6 pm, Sept. 20, at the Many Nations Long- house. The panelists will discuss what’s been done elsewhere, what has succeeded and what has failed. And what we can do locally. John Herberg Eugene David Bromberg The Shedd Community Music School Music classes & private lessons: 541.434.7015 / registrar@theshedd.net Coming up next at The Shedd… 10.11-14 Jazz Kings: In The Mood Glenn Miller & The Dorseys 10.17 Chico Schwall Am. Roots: Bonaparte’s Retreat 10.21 Carl Woideck Jazz Heritage: Perfectly Frank 10.22 An evening w/ Pat Metheny 10.26 Leo Kottke 10.27 Larry Fuller Trio 10.28 microphilharmonic: Brahms 11.4 Michael Feinstein 11.13 Rufus Wainwright 11.15 David Grisman Dawg Trio 11.16 The Good Time Travelers 11.30-12.16 WHITE CHRISTMAS 12.6-12 Jazz Kings: Ring Those Bells eugeneweekly.com • September 13, 2018 5
