CALC
Community Alliance of Lane County
I've Got Your Back 
Action Alert
What you can do to have your community's back and be a strong ally.
Greetings!
 
Here's an opportunity to support each other, celebrate the work of the Springfield Shelter Rights Alliance -- and have a fun and satisfying experience!

Please help spread the word about this wonderful event, especially to everyone you know in Springfield. 

Call 726-7377 if you would like to volunteer!  We could use your help with set up, clean up, or staffing Back to Back booth which will be displaying our beautiful new Queer Youth Art Project bowls and raising awareness about LGBTQ youth homelessness.
 
What: Human Rights Harvest
Where: 1175 G St., Springfield
When: 3-5 pm Sunday, September 13, 2009
Who: Organized by Springfield Shelter Rights Alliance
 
Live music, soup and bread for all, children's activities, a produce giveaway, a clothing giveaway, information tables and more -- don't miss Springfield's second annual Human Rights Harvest on Sunday, September 13th!  This great event will take place from 3-5 pm on the lawn at First Baptist Church, 1175 G St. in Springfield.   
 
Organized by the Springfield Shelter Rights Alliance (SSRA), the Human Rights Harvest will be fun, but fun with a purpose.  Layoffs, evictions and foreclosures -- these are hard and anxious times for lots of people.  Let's join together as community members, share information, find ways to help one another, and keep our spirits up!
 
According to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, food, shelter, clothing, and health care are basic human rights.  This is the stance of the Springfield Shelter Rights Alliance as well.  Please join us!

event flyer in English  event flyer en espaņol

Trans Awareness week (November 16-20 2009)
Fundraising Car Wash
 
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Amazon Community Center
2700 Hilyard ST. Eugene OR.
Sponsored by
The Gender Center Inc.
To volunteer or for more information:
information@thegendercenter.org  541-870-5202
LUIS ALBERTO URREA
Named to Latino Literature Hall of Fame
Winner of the American Book Award
Author of bestseller The Hummingbird's Daughter

Friday, October 2, 6:00
Eugene Public Library, Downtown
FREE

Free raffle: enter Sept. 1 - 6 to win a copy of Urrea's new novel,
Into the Beautiful North

Acclaimed author Luis Alberto Urrea will give a free talk at Eugene Public Library, Downtown, on Friday, October 2, at 6:00. Books for purchase and signing will be available courtesy of the University of Oregon Duck Store/Bookstore.

To enter a free raffle to win a copy of Urrea's new novel, Into the Beautiful North, visit any Eugene Public Library location between September 1 and September 6.

Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, Urrea (pronounced "oo-ray-ah") is a prolific writer whose work is informed by his bicultural life. Among many honors, he has been named to the Latino Literature Hall of Fame. His memoir Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life won an American Book Award. The Devil's Highway, his nonfiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a bestseller. Urrea's historical novel The Hummingbird's Daughter was also a bestseller, as well as a favorite of critics and book groups nationwide.

BookList describes his new novel as "a lush, rollicking novel of quests, self-discovery, and romance" featuring a "21st-century female Don Quixote."

Both serious and hilarious, Into the Beautiful North tells the story of 19-year-old Nayeli and her determination to save her beloved Mexican village. Nearly all the local men have left to find work in El Norte, and drug lords are threatening to take over. When Nayeli sees the old movie The Magnificent Seven, inspiration strikes. She rounds up a posse of friends for a dangerous mission: to cross the U.S. border and bring the men back!

The Seattle Times calls Into the Beautiful North "a wondrous yarn in the hands of a terrific storyteller." According to the Denver Post, it's "a wonderful comic satire . . . Urrea uses a breathtaking Mexican magical realism to construct a shimmering portrait of the United States." Says the Miami Herald, "that Urrea has turned a usually disturbing subject into a book that keeps a smile on your face is a tribute to his storytelling."

Urrea is also an award-winning poet and essayist, and a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

For  more information, contact Eugene Public Library: (541) 682-5450 or www.eugene-or.gov/library<http://www.eugene-or.gov/library>.


Sponsored by the Eugene Public Library, Friends of Eugene Public Library, the Eugene Public Library Foundation, and the University of Oregon Duck Store/Book Store.