For the Calendar - Weds 11 April at Friends Meeting House

Interested in restoration agriculture, sustainable gardening, and local solutions?  Come join our latest free lecture to meet other like minded folk and learn more. NW Permaculture Institute Free Film and Lecture Series Held in Salem every 2nd Wednesday @ 6:30 pm At Salem Friend’s Meeting House, 490 19th Street NE (19th at Breyman) For more information: 971-218-4772, or dianedalychavez@gmail.com.

STRONGSalem's First Step: Mapping Salem

Join us next month for the second STRONGSalem meetup, where we will be further exploring our first project, mapping the net productivity (or drain) of each parcel in Salem, the tax paid by that parcel less the cost of municipal services provided to it.

We would especially welcome the artistically talented, who will be vital in helping turn the results into accessible and understandable info graphics.

At the IKE Box Fireplace Room (behind the stage area), 10 a.m. on Saturday, 5 May.
Please RSVP!

Putting Strong Towns ideas into Practice in Salem: New Meetup Group

If you want to debate or discuss the Strong Towns principles and how they might or might not work in Salem, please go to StrongTowns.org and participate there, and become a member of that group if you care to.

But if you have the vision and you want to do the work to help Salem put down all the Growth Ponzi Scheme plans and become a healthier, stronger, fiscally responsible place, join the new "MeetUp" group, called "Strong Towns: Reviving Our Native Geoconomy (STRONG)" Meetup Group.

With luck, we can come together as a group and activate -- build and execute work plans to localize Strong Towns principles and APPLY them here in Salem, with the long-term goal of having an entire city planning commission and city council who automatically know to "Do the Math" (and know HOW to do the math, and how to find the information needed) in all their decision-making.

https://www.meetup.com/Strong-Towns-Reviving-Our-Native-Geoconomy-Meetup/members/225345697/

A picture that tells 10,000 words, all of them important

https://mobile.twitter.com/RedTRaccoon/status/933032154451382274/photo/1

WORD from Sarah Silverman

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/nov/19/sarah-silverman-interview-jokes-i-made-15-years-ago-i-wouldnt-make-today

She is momentarily saddened. "I look at Trump and the billionaire oligarchs he surrounds himself with as addicts. I do believe they are addicted to wealth, and that wealth addiction is no different from crack addiction. It fills an empty void. They will sell their grandmothers. They're literally selling our entire country's health for more. I remember Garry Shandling saying in 2007 that when we put people in office who are addicted to money and power, we might as well be giving a bunch of cokeheads a mountain of cocaine and saying: 'Divide this equally among your people.' I see it proven true every day. And we've raised an entire generation to worship money at any cost, no matter how it's made."

Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay

Still time to Grab Some Beauty

responding to another gun massacre in a church

A real must-read: I Was A Racist Cop

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/i-was-a-racist-cop_us_59ef6b76e4b0bf1f88362209


Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay

"Naked Darrow" Play — Salem Library Loucks Auditorium - Wed Nov 15th

PRESS RELEASE "Naked Darrow" play Salem Library's Loucks Auditorium 6:30PM on Wednesday, November 15th Contact for EVENT info: Ron Steiner (503) 990-7060 Media Interviews: playwright/actor Gary Anderson (406) 925-0718 MEDIA RELEASE: "Naked Darrow," a one man play by nationally renowned Darrow portrayer Gary L. Anderson, is coming to Loucks Auditorium at the Salem Library. This recent NYC Off-Broadway production is produced by the Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (OADP) and the Clarence Darrow Foundation. Naked Darrow is a provocative look at our most hated and revered attorney, Clarence Darrow, as his great mind slips away. The performance will take place at 6:30PM on Wednesday November 15th. Darrow was best known for defending killers Leopold and Loeb and for defending science teacher John Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial. In this show, Darrow reveals his very private life, his trials, his personal demons and his jury-tampering charges. Personally, reckless and professionally fearless, Darrow now stubbornly faces his two greatest opponents: disease and death. Knowing the odds were against him to the end, he remained Clarence Darrow... an American Iconoclast. Gary L. Anderson is the country's most lauded portrayer of Clarence Darrow, with his work characterized in newspapers across the country as "Anderson's Darrow is in the same league as Holbrook's Mark Twain." He is the CEO of the Clarence Darrow Foundation, and a member of the Screen Actors Guild. An award-winning stage actor, he has appeared in several television series and as Clarence Darrow in the documentary, Assassination: Idaho's Trial of the Century airing annually on PBS. Tickets are available in advance for $20 by calling (503) 990-7060 or the button below: "Naked Darrow" With Gary L. Anderson Loucks Auditorium, Salem Library 585 Liberty St SE, Salem OR 97301 Wednesday, November 15th 6:30 PM TICKETS Co-Sponsors are: John Gear Law Office: LLC, A Values-Based Law Practice The Honorable Paul.J. DeMuniz, former Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice. Salem Area Fellowship of Reconciliation: Working for peace and justice through non-violence. National Lawyers Guild, Human rights over property interests.

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What the gunhumpers will support

"I don't want to see that kid dead any more than you do," Stokes said. "If there was a magic fix, I promise you I would support it."

Yes, exactly. If you haven't got a magic fix, don't bother me.

This perfectly encapsulates the entire "let's be reasonable, it's not that simple" argument that is always trotted out in favor of easy, essentially unlimited access to modern weapons of war for civilians: 

The ones who claim to be open to considering ways to reduce the carnage all claim to be open to supporting any reasonable solution — by which they mean a perfect magic fix involving no trade offs. Because in the whole history of human affairs there have been so many of those.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/07/us-gun-control-debate-bias

"Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay"

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