Lots of people have been referencing this Democracy Corps report on focus-group meetings with Republicans, and with good reason: Greenberg has basically provided a unified theory of the craziness that has enveloped American politics in the last few years.
What the report makes clear is that the current Republican obsession with attacking programs that benefit Americans in need, ranging from food stamps to Obamacare, isn't about some philosophical commitment to small government, still less worries about incentive effects and implicit marginal tax rates. It's about anxiety over a changing America — the multiracial, multicultural society we're becoming — and anger that Democrats are taking Their Money and giving it to Those People. In other words, it's still race after all these years.
One irony here is that at this point it's the liberals who believe in America, while the conservatives don't. I believe in our ability to change while retaining our essential nature; I believe that today's immigrants will be incorporated into the fabric of our society, just as Italian and Jewish immigrants — once regarded as fundamentally incompatible with American ways — became "white" by the middle of the 20th century.
Another irony is that the great right-wing fear — that social insurance programs will in effect buy minority votes for Democrats, leading to further change — is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. The GOP could have tried to reach out to immigrants, moderate its stances on Obamacare, and stake out a position as the restrained, sensible party. Instead, it's alienating all the people it needs to win over, and quite possibly setting the stage for the very liberal dominance it fears.
Meanwhile, a key takeaway for us wonks is that none of the ostensible debates we're having — say, the debate over rising disability rolls — can be taken at face value. Yes, we need to crunch the numbers, but in the end the other side doesn't care about the evidence.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Krugman’s blog, 10/11/13
Friday, October 11, 2013
Affordable Permaculture Class in Salem! Starts 10-22-13
Brighid's Circle, LLC is offering a Permaculture Design Certification Course, right here in Salem. See details below-
A Permaculture Design Course teaches how to design ethical, self sustaining food growing, water, housing, and energy systems of any size. Create a design to feed your family or work as a consultant for others.
Full Permaculture Design Certificate Course offered for donation of only $10-$20 per class.
1 class per week. 24 weeks. Call for more information or to reserve your seat, 503-449-8077.
Presented by Brighid's Circle, LLC.
Instructor L. June studied permaculture with world renowned permaculture designer & instructor, Geoff Lawton, of PRI, Australia.
Permaculture is "Earth Care, People Care, and Return of Surplus," creating systems that are not only sustainable, but also enriching to the soil and all life.
Classes begin:
In Salem, October 22nd, 6:30-9:30pm, @ 5090 Center Street NE, Salem, OR 97317
For more info visit:
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At Brighid's Circle we believe people need permaculture, not just to create a sustainable future, but also to feed our families and communities now. We offer permaculture design courses on a sliding scale at a fraction of the usual course prices.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Race: Why the Tea Party Shutdown Govt.
> Ultimately, as nearly everything in American politics does, it comes down to race and the demand of the privileged whites to not pay taxes to provide any services or support to "those people."
>
> The Tea Party is just the latest incarnation of the Slaveholder party and it's sympathizers, and they read the writing on the wall all too well--they see that their racist refusal to expand Medicaid in the states of the Confederacy will ultimately founder if the Affordable Care Act is implemented in the US. Thus, what seems to most people an insane government shutdown is instead quite rational, in a terrorists blowing up the joint around them kind of way.
>
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>> Millions of Poor Are Left Uncovered by Health Law
>>
>> James Patterson for The New York Times
>> Claretha Briscoe, left, of Hollandale, Miss., with family. She earns too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to get subsidies on the new health exchange.
>>
>> By SABRINA TAVERNISE and ROBERT GEBELOFF
>> Published: October 2, 2013
>>
>> A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kinds of people that the program was intended to help, according to an analysis of census data by The New York Times.
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>> Because they live in states largely controlled by Republicans that have declined to participate in a vast expansion of Medicaid, the medical insurance program for the poor, they are among the eight million Americans who are impoverished, uninsured and ineligible for help. The federal government will pay for the expansion through 2016 and no less than 90 percent of costs in later years.
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>> Those excluded will be stranded without insurance, stuck between people with slightly higher incomes who will qualify for federal subsidies on the new health exchanges that went live this week, and those who are poor enough to qualify for Medicaid in its current form, which has income ceilings as low as $11 a day in some states.
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>> People shopping for insurance on the health exchanges are already discovering this bitter twist.
>>
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>> �How can somebody in poverty not be eligible for subsidies?� an unemployed health care worker in Virginia asked through tears. The woman, who identified herself only as Robin L. because she does not want potential employers to know she is down on her luck, thought she had run into a computer problem when she went online Tuesday and learned she would not qualify.
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>> At 55, she has high blood pressure, and she had been waiting for the law to take effect so she could get coverage. Before she lost her job and her house and had to move in with her brother in Virginia, she lived in Maryland, a state that is expanding Medicaid. �Would I go back there?� she asked. �It might involve me living in my car. I don�t know. I might consider it.�
>>
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>> The 26 states that have rejected the Medicaid expansion are home to about half of the country�s population, but about 68 percent of poor, uninsured blacks and single mothers. About 60 percent of the country�s uninsured working poor are in those states. Among those excluded are about 435,000 cashiers, 341,000 cooks and 253,000 nurses� aides.
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>> �The irony is that these states that are rejecting Medicaid expansion � many of them Southern � are the very places where the concentration of poverty and lack of health insurance are the most acute,� said Dr. H. Jack Geiger, a founder of the community health center model. �It is their populations that have the highest burden of illness and costs to the entire health care system.�
>>
>>
>> The disproportionate impact on poor blacks introduces the prickly issue of race into the already politically charged atmosphere around the health care law. Race was rarely, if ever, mentioned in the state-level debates about the Medicaid expansion. But the issue courses just below the surface, civil rights leaders say, pointing to the pattern of exclusion.
>>
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>> Every state in the Deep South, with the exception of Arkansas, has rejected the expansion. Opponents of the expansion say they are against it on exclusively economic grounds, and that the demographics of the South � with its large share of poor blacks � make it easy to say race is an issue when it is not.
>>
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>> In Mississippi, Republican leaders note that a large share of people in the state are on Medicaid already, and that, with an expansion, about a third of the state would have been insured through the program. Even supporters of the health law say that eventually covering 10 percent of that cost would have been onerous for a predominantly rural state with a modest tax base.
>>
>>
>> �Any additional cost in Medicaid is going to be too much,� said State Senator Chris McDaniel, a Republican, who opposes expansion.
>>
>>
>> The law was written to require all Americans to have health coverage. For lower and middle-income earners, there are subsidies on the new health exchanges to help them afford insurance. An expanded Medicaid program was intended to cover the poorest. In all, about 30 million uninsured Americans were to have become eligible for financial help.
>>
>>
>> But the Supreme Court�s ruling on the health care law last year, while upholding it, allowed states to choose whether to expand Medicaid. Those that opted not to leave about eight million uninsured people who live in poverty ($19,530 for a family of three) without any assistance at all.
>>
>>
>> Poor people excluded from the Medicaid expansion will not be subject to fines for lacking coverage. In all, about 14 million eligible Americans are uninsured and living in poverty, the Times analysis found.
>>
>>
>> The federal government provided the tally of how many states were not expanding Medicaid for the first time on Tuesday. It included states like New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee that might still decide to expand Medicaid before coverage takes effect in January. If those states go forward, the number would change, but the trends that emerged in the analysis would be similar.
>>
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>> Mississippi has the largest percentage of poor and uninsured people in the country � 13 percent. Willie Charles Carter, an unemployed 53-year-old whose most recent job was as a maintenance worker at a public school, has had problems with his leg since surgery last year.
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>> His income is below Mississippi�s ceiling for Medicaid � which is about $3,000 a year � but he has no dependent children, so he does not qualify. And his income is too low to make him eligible for subsidies on the federal health exchange.
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>> �You got to be almost dead before you can get Medicaid in Mississippi,� he said.
>>
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>> He does not know what he will do when the clinic where he goes for medical care, the Good Samaritan Health Center in Greenville, closes next month because of lack of funding.
>>
>>
>> �I�m scared all the time,� he said. �I just walk around here with faith in God to take care of me.�
>>
>>
>> The states that did not expand Medicaid have less generous safety nets: For adults with children, the median income limit for Medicaid is just under half of the federal poverty level � or about $5,600 a year for an individual � while in states that are expanding, it is above the poverty line, or about $12,200, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. There is little or no coverage of childless adults in the states not expanding, Kaiser said.
>>
>>
>> The New York Times analysis excluded immigrants in the country illegally and those foreign-born residents who would not be eligible for benefits under Medicaid expansion. It included people who are uninsured even though they qualify for Medicaid in its current form.
>>
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>> Blacks are disproportionately affected, largely because more of them are poor and living in Southern states. In all, 6 out of 10 blacks live in the states not expanding Medicaid. In Mississippi, 56 percent of all poor and uninsured adults are black, though they account for just 38 percent of the population.
>>
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>> Dr. Aaron Shirley, a physician who has worked for better health care for blacks in Mississippi, said that the history of segregation and violence against blacks still informs the way people see one another, particularly in the South, making some whites reluctant to support programs that they believe benefit blacks.
>>
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>> That is compounded by the country�s rapidly changing demographics, Dr. Geiger said, in which minorities will eventually become a majority, a pattern that has produced a profound cultural unease, particularly when it has collided with economic insecurity.
>>
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>> Dr. Shirley said: �If you look at the history of Mississippi, politicians have used race to oppose minimum wage, Head Start, all these social programs. It�s a tactic that appeals to people who would rather suffer themselves than see a black person benefit.�
>>
>>
>> Opponents of the expansion bristled at the suggestion that race had anything to do with their position. State Senator Giles Ward of Mississippi, a Republican, called the idea that race was a factor �preposterous,� and said that with the demographics of the South � large shares of poor people and, in particular, poor blacks � �you can argue pretty much any way you want.�
>>
>>
>> The decision not to expand Medicaid will also hit the working poor. Claretha Briscoe earns just under $11,000 a year making fried chicken and other fast food at a convenience store in Hollandale, Miss., too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to get subsidies on the new health exchange. She had a heart attack in 2002 that a local hospital treated as part of its charity care program.
>>
>>
>> �I skip months on my blood pressure pills,� said Ms. Briscoe, 48, who visited the Good Samaritan Health Center last week because she was having chest pains. �I buy them when I can afford them.�
>>
>>
>> About half of poor and uninsured Hispanics live in states that are expanding Medicaid. But Texas, which has a large Hispanic population, rejected the expansion. Gladys Arbila, a housekeeper in Houston who earns $17,000 a year and supports two children, is under the poverty line and therefore not eligible for new subsidies. But she makes too much to qualify for Medicaid under the state�s rules. She recently spent 36 hours waiting in the emergency room for a searing pain in her back.
>>
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>> �We came to this country, and we are legal and we work really hard,� said Ms. Arbila, 45, who immigrated to the United States 12 years ago, and whose son is a soldier in Afghanistan. �Why we don�t have the same opportunities as the others
Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay
>
> The Tea Party is just the latest incarnation of the Slaveholder party and it's sympathizers, and they read the writing on the wall all too well--they see that their racist refusal to expand Medicaid in the states of the Confederacy will ultimately founder if the Affordable Care Act is implemented in the US. Thus, what seems to most people an insane government shutdown is instead quite rational, in a terrorists blowing up the joint around them kind of way.
>
>>
>> Millions of Poor Are Left Uncovered by Health Law
>>
>> James Patterson for The New York Times
>> Claretha Briscoe, left, of Hollandale, Miss., with family. She earns too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to get subsidies on the new health exchange.
>>
>> By SABRINA TAVERNISE and ROBERT GEBELOFF
>> Published: October 2, 2013
>>
>> A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low-wage workers who do not have insurance, the very kinds of people that the program was intended to help, according to an analysis of census data by The New York Times.
>>
>> Because they live in states largely controlled by Republicans that have declined to participate in a vast expansion of Medicaid, the medical insurance program for the poor, they are among the eight million Americans who are impoverished, uninsured and ineligible for help. The federal government will pay for the expansion through 2016 and no less than 90 percent of costs in later years.
>>
>>
>> Those excluded will be stranded without insurance, stuck between people with slightly higher incomes who will qualify for federal subsidies on the new health exchanges that went live this week, and those who are poor enough to qualify for Medicaid in its current form, which has income ceilings as low as $11 a day in some states.
>>
>>
>> People shopping for insurance on the health exchanges are already discovering this bitter twist.
>>
>>
>> �How can somebody in poverty not be eligible for subsidies?� an unemployed health care worker in Virginia asked through tears. The woman, who identified herself only as Robin L. because she does not want potential employers to know she is down on her luck, thought she had run into a computer problem when she went online Tuesday and learned she would not qualify.
>>
>>
>> At 55, she has high blood pressure, and she had been waiting for the law to take effect so she could get coverage. Before she lost her job and her house and had to move in with her brother in Virginia, she lived in Maryland, a state that is expanding Medicaid. �Would I go back there?� she asked. �It might involve me living in my car. I don�t know. I might consider it.�
>>
>>
>> The 26 states that have rejected the Medicaid expansion are home to about half of the country�s population, but about 68 percent of poor, uninsured blacks and single mothers. About 60 percent of the country�s uninsured working poor are in those states. Among those excluded are about 435,000 cashiers, 341,000 cooks and 253,000 nurses� aides.
>>
>>
>> �The irony is that these states that are rejecting Medicaid expansion � many of them Southern � are the very places where the concentration of poverty and lack of health insurance are the most acute,� said Dr. H. Jack Geiger, a founder of the community health center model. �It is their populations that have the highest burden of illness and costs to the entire health care system.�
>>
>>
>> The disproportionate impact on poor blacks introduces the prickly issue of race into the already politically charged atmosphere around the health care law. Race was rarely, if ever, mentioned in the state-level debates about the Medicaid expansion. But the issue courses just below the surface, civil rights leaders say, pointing to the pattern of exclusion.
>>
>>
>> Every state in the Deep South, with the exception of Arkansas, has rejected the expansion. Opponents of the expansion say they are against it on exclusively economic grounds, and that the demographics of the South � with its large share of poor blacks � make it easy to say race is an issue when it is not.
>>
>>
>> In Mississippi, Republican leaders note that a large share of people in the state are on Medicaid already, and that, with an expansion, about a third of the state would have been insured through the program. Even supporters of the health law say that eventually covering 10 percent of that cost would have been onerous for a predominantly rural state with a modest tax base.
>>
>>
>> �Any additional cost in Medicaid is going to be too much,� said State Senator Chris McDaniel, a Republican, who opposes expansion.
>>
>>
>> The law was written to require all Americans to have health coverage. For lower and middle-income earners, there are subsidies on the new health exchanges to help them afford insurance. An expanded Medicaid program was intended to cover the poorest. In all, about 30 million uninsured Americans were to have become eligible for financial help.
>>
>>
>> But the Supreme Court�s ruling on the health care law last year, while upholding it, allowed states to choose whether to expand Medicaid. Those that opted not to leave about eight million uninsured people who live in poverty ($19,530 for a family of three) without any assistance at all.
>>
>>
>> Poor people excluded from the Medicaid expansion will not be subject to fines for lacking coverage. In all, about 14 million eligible Americans are uninsured and living in poverty, the Times analysis found.
>>
>>
>> The federal government provided the tally of how many states were not expanding Medicaid for the first time on Tuesday. It included states like New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee that might still decide to expand Medicaid before coverage takes effect in January. If those states go forward, the number would change, but the trends that emerged in the analysis would be similar.
>>
>>
>> Mississippi has the largest percentage of poor and uninsured people in the country � 13 percent. Willie Charles Carter, an unemployed 53-year-old whose most recent job was as a maintenance worker at a public school, has had problems with his leg since surgery last year.
>>
>>
>> His income is below Mississippi�s ceiling for Medicaid � which is about $3,000 a year � but he has no dependent children, so he does not qualify. And his income is too low to make him eligible for subsidies on the federal health exchange.
>>
>>
>> �You got to be almost dead before you can get Medicaid in Mississippi,� he said.
>>
>>
>> He does not know what he will do when the clinic where he goes for medical care, the Good Samaritan Health Center in Greenville, closes next month because of lack of funding.
>>
>>
>> �I�m scared all the time,� he said. �I just walk around here with faith in God to take care of me.�
>>
>>
>> The states that did not expand Medicaid have less generous safety nets: For adults with children, the median income limit for Medicaid is just under half of the federal poverty level � or about $5,600 a year for an individual � while in states that are expanding, it is above the poverty line, or about $12,200, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. There is little or no coverage of childless adults in the states not expanding, Kaiser said.
>>
>>
>> The New York Times analysis excluded immigrants in the country illegally and those foreign-born residents who would not be eligible for benefits under Medicaid expansion. It included people who are uninsured even though they qualify for Medicaid in its current form.
>>
>>
>> Blacks are disproportionately affected, largely because more of them are poor and living in Southern states. In all, 6 out of 10 blacks live in the states not expanding Medicaid. In Mississippi, 56 percent of all poor and uninsured adults are black, though they account for just 38 percent of the population.
>>
>>
>> Dr. Aaron Shirley, a physician who has worked for better health care for blacks in Mississippi, said that the history of segregation and violence against blacks still informs the way people see one another, particularly in the South, making some whites reluctant to support programs that they believe benefit blacks.
>>
>>
>> That is compounded by the country�s rapidly changing demographics, Dr. Geiger said, in which minorities will eventually become a majority, a pattern that has produced a profound cultural unease, particularly when it has collided with economic insecurity.
>>
>>
>> Dr. Shirley said: �If you look at the history of Mississippi, politicians have used race to oppose minimum wage, Head Start, all these social programs. It�s a tactic that appeals to people who would rather suffer themselves than see a black person benefit.�
>>
>>
>> Opponents of the expansion bristled at the suggestion that race had anything to do with their position. State Senator Giles Ward of Mississippi, a Republican, called the idea that race was a factor �preposterous,� and said that with the demographics of the South � large shares of poor people and, in particular, poor blacks � �you can argue pretty much any way you want.�
>>
>>
>> The decision not to expand Medicaid will also hit the working poor. Claretha Briscoe earns just under $11,000 a year making fried chicken and other fast food at a convenience store in Hollandale, Miss., too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to get subsidies on the new health exchange. She had a heart attack in 2002 that a local hospital treated as part of its charity care program.
>>
>>
>> �I skip months on my blood pressure pills,� said Ms. Briscoe, 48, who visited the Good Samaritan Health Center last week because she was having chest pains. �I buy them when I can afford them.�
>>
>>
>> About half of poor and uninsured Hispanics live in states that are expanding Medicaid. But Texas, which has a large Hispanic population, rejected the expansion. Gladys Arbila, a housekeeper in Houston who earns $17,000 a year and supports two children, is under the poverty line and therefore not eligible for new subsidies. But she makes too much to qualify for Medicaid under the state�s rules. She recently spent 36 hours waiting in the emergency room for a searing pain in her back.
>>
>>
>> �We came to this country, and we are legal and we work really hard,� said Ms. Arbila, 45, who immigrated to the United States 12 years ago, and whose son is a soldier in Afghanistan. �Why we don�t have the same opportunities as the others
Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay
Friday, October 4, 2013
Don't Miss "Symphony of the Soil", Thurs. 10-10, 7 p.m.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild
Michael's Comments:"In her latest book, Lyanda Lynn Haupt seeks to turn around our usually negative impressions of urban animals and see them as neighbors and visitors worthy of our attention. 'The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild' is a defense of animals that essentially share our homes with us: from coyotes and moles and raccoons to pigeons and crows and owls (as Haupt describes them, The Furred and The Feathered). Each chapter shares general natural history, worldly mythology, and encourages us to be kind to our 'gracious co-inhabitants.'...Haupt drives home that urban animals are simply doing what is natural: being animals."
Publisher CommentsFrom the bestselling author of Crow Planet, a compelling journey into the secret lives of the wild animals at our back door.
In The Urban Bestiary , acclaimed nature writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt journeys into the heart of the everyday wild, where coyotes, raccoons, chickens, hawks, and humans live in closer proximity than ever before. Haupt's observations bring compelling new questions to light: Whose "home" is this? Where does the wild end and the city begin? And what difference does it make to us as humans living our everyday lives? In this wholly original blend of science, story, myth, and memoir, Haupt draws us into the secret world of the wild creatures that dwell among us in our urban neighborhoods, whether we are aware of them or not. With beautiful illustrations and practical sidebars on everything from animal tracking to opossum removal, The Urban Bestiary is a lyrical book that awakens wonder, delight, and respect for the urban wild, and our place within it.
Review"Animals are all around us, especially the most interesting birds of all that live with us. We can all watch them and enjoy and learn. Why go to South America and search for a quetzal sitting in a tree? Want to see real birds? Just put up a bird box and spread some seeds and watch sparrows in your back yard. The Urban Bestiary is a great read. It will get folks out there having fun." Bernd Heinrich, author of Mind of the Raven and Life Everlasting
Review"The challenge of our time is the movement from rural villages to big cities where nature seems gone. Haupt's brilliant book restores nature in our lives and uplifts that relationship with stories full of wonder, awe and love." David Suzuki, author of The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
About the AuthorLyanda Lynn Haupt has created and directed educational programs for Seattle Audubon, worked in raptor rehabilitation in Vermont, and is a seabird researcher for the Fish and Wildlife Service in the remote tropical Pacific. She is the author of Crow Planet, Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent, and Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds (winner of the 2002 Washington State Book Award). Her writing has appeared in Image, Open Spaces, Wild Earth, Conservation Biology Journal, Birdwatcher's Digest, and the Prairie Naturalist . Winner of the 2010 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, she lives in West Seattle with her husband and daughter.
read more about this book
Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Oct. 9, 7 p.m. @ Salem Public Library's Loucks Auditorium: FOOD CORPS
October's Lecture:
FoodCorps with
Curt Ellis, Co-Founder and Executive Director
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Salem Public Library Loucks Hall
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
When Curt Ellis left Iowa after creating the Peabody-winning documentary King Corn, something didn't sit right––and it wasn't just the home-brewed high-fructose corn syrup he'd consumed. Join Curt for a lively multimedia presentation as he shares the journey that led him to leave filmmaking and launch FoodCorps: a nationwide "Peace Corps" for healthy and sustainable school food.
A little more about FoodCorps:
Mission: Through the hands and minds of emerging leaders, FoodCorps strives to give all youth an enduring relationship with healthy food.
We envision a nation of well-nourished children: children who know what healthy food is, how it grows and where it comes from, and who have access to it every day. These children, having grown up in a healthy food environment will learn better, live longer and liberate their generation from diet-related disease.
Join us after the lecture to meet Curt and enjoy some healthy refreshments provided by LifeSource Natural Foods.
* The Lecture Series is free of charge to those attending, however, if you like what you hear, we encourage you to contribute a $5 donation so that we might continue to offer these top-notch presenters on vital issues to our community and world.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Crucial & free film at Salem Public Library -- on the American Gulag -- 8/21, 6:30 p.m.
The House I Live In
The Partnership for Safety and Justice proudly invites you to a free film screening of "The House I Live In." This documentary has received critical recognition for the scope it provides in America's failed war on drugs.
The film takes a comprehensive look at drug abuse as public health matter while investigating public policies, law enforcement and individual lives affected by the so-called "War on Drugs."
You can watch the film trailer online by clicking here.
We hope you can take a summer evening to join PSJ staff, members and supporters to watch this documentary with us. Seats are limited, so please let me know by phone or email if you can join us to one of the following film screenings:
Wed., Aug. 21st: 6:30 pm @ Louck's Auditorium located at Salem Public Library. 585 Liberty Ave., Salem, OR
I'm looking forward to seeing you there,
Cassandra Villanueva
Director of Organizing and Advocacy
Office: (503) 335-8449
www.safetyandjustice.org
PSJ is a membership organization. We rely on the support of our members so we can advocate for programs and policies that create community safety without sacrificing justice. Please make a contribution today to renew your membership.
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Free chances to learn both vital & fascinating things
A local massage instructor has broadened her range to add teaching others how to grow food for the future; she has licensed some fascinating films and will be showing them in both Salem and Oregon City to kick off a series of classes (offered on a sliding scale) on the most vital topic of all: how we can grow more food with fewer inputs.
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