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Looks good for Friday Night

In a Single Garment of Destiny

A talk by Leonard Pitts Jr.

 

Friday, Feb. 5, 7:00 p.m.

(Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)

 

Smith Auditorium, Willamette University Salem, OR

Free admission

Please register online, call 503-370-6463, or 

go to Putnam University Center, 2nd floor, weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

 

During the last four decades, Leonard Pitts Jr. has worked as a college professor, radio producer, syndicated columnist and lecturer. But above all else, he considers himself a writer. Focused on issues ranging from race to culture, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2004.

 

The title of Pitts' speech refers to a passage from Martin Luther King's "Letter From Birmingham Jail," which defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism and became an important text for the American Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s.

More information from http://willamette.edu/offices/oma/mlk/pitts/index.html

Awesome! Very cool

Greetings!

  The Salem Tool Library, a not-for-profit organization, is a startup
lending library for tools of all types!

We had our first planning meeting on Saturday January 16th and will have
committee meetings for the next 5 Tuesday nights (until our next full
membership planning meeting on February 20th @2pm). For more information,
visit http://www.SalemToolLibrary.org

Thank you for your support for this community project!,
Ken Gettys, Acting Exec Director

PS. Fully equipped Community Sharing Work Shops are being planned too!
Funding provided by members, local sponsors, donors, estate bequests, and
by Community Sharing Work Centers International! (http://www.CSWCI.org)

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Dangerous Lie -- "baby formula" is NOT NOT NOT "Complete Nutrition" in ANY WAY

As a childless guy, I'm open to some static for being dogmatic about this, but here goes anyway, because this is SO important.

BREAST IS BEST.

It's not even close. "Baby formula" shouldn't even be allowed to be sold without a prescription and a serious effort by trained folks to help support breastfeeding, along with supportive laws for helping lactating women continue to provide breast milk until normal weaning (i.e., measured in years, not weeks or days).

The ad below contains a dangerous lie -- the suggestion that this pseudofood is "complete nutrition for your baby's first year."

There is so much evil in the baby formula scam -- in a just world, the companies pushing these products would have to pay for the long-term health consequences caused by encouraging use of their products instead of breast milk, which is literally nature's perfect food for infants.

THE ONLY COMPLETE NUTRITION FOR BABIES ISN'T SOLD IN CANS AND DOESN'T MAKE A BIG PROFIT FOR A CORPORATE MONSTER.