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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
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The Shedd Community Music School
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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
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