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Progressive folk singer David Rovicswill be performing at a concert to benefit The People's World, a free workers' newspaper, at 6 pm Friday, March 15, at the LCC Performance Hall, 1475 E. 15th Ave. Cosponsored by the Community Party, USA and the Alliance of Happy Atheists, an ASUO student group, with financial support from the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation, the graduate employee union on campus. Continue reading
It's official. According to local designer, business owner and coproducer of Fashion Week, Mitra Chester, the two biggest fashion shows of Eugene Fashion Week will be hosted at The Shedd, May 3 & 4. Beautiful clothes in a beautiful venue? We're in. Belly and Oak Street Speakeasy will be hosting the smaller runway shows. Continue reading
As we reported in this week's EW. When it comes to saving the environment, lawyers and protesters often go hand in hand, so it may come as no surprise that alongside (though not an official part of) the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at the UO Feb. 28 to March 3, there were acts of protest. Continue reading
Peter DeFazio is cosponsoring legislation to expand who pays into Social Security. See http://wkly.ws/1fs Continue reading
Here’s a notice sent out this morning (March 6) from District 4J’s communications coordinator, Kerry Delf: Next year, the Eugene School District will change how it provides school nursing services, moving away from a model that concentrates resources in four school-based health clinics located on high school campuses, in order to funnel more support to elementary and middle school students. Continue reading
Protesters take over Franklin Boulevard. The Cascadia Forest Defenders, Deep Green Resistance and other groups held an "action against extraction" on Sunday, March 3, following the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, to call attention to global-warming inducing tar sands pipelines, fracking, coal exports and other damaging fossil-fuel projects. More in this week's EW. Continue reading
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According to Deadline.com, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart will be taking an extended summer vacation to make his directorial debut: Continue reading
The tide keeps on turning! From the AG's office: Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today announced that Oregon has joined two historic briefs in the United States Supreme Court supporting same-sex marriage. Continue reading
Chris Hellman is the military budget specialist and senior research analyst at the National Priorities Project. He said today that while many have focused on looming reductions to military spending, "in fact, the Pentagon is in a better position to absorb these cuts because of sizable growth in [its] spending over the past decade." Continue reading