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CALC's Truth in Recruiting Program was in 9 high schools in November--and helped 2 people to get out of their commitments to the military!
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Educating and mobiliizing for peace, human dignity, and social, racial and economic justice.
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Linda Hamilton
Co-Chair
Remie Calalang
Co-Chair and Treasurer
Cimmeron Gillespie
Secretary
Elda Galvan
Member at Large
Michael Sámano
Member at Large
Misa Joo
Member at Large
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Want to fight for social justice from behind the scenes? CALC needs your help! From working in our office to being on our board of directors, your volunteer work makes a world of difference. Contact Stephanie Talbott for more information.
calcoffice@gmail.com
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Wrapping up an amazing and intense year...
This past year has been amazing, inspiring and intense for our small, but mighty collaboration of staff and volunteers here at CALC. We start each year with very detailed work plans, budgets, goals and objectives and, to be honest, human rights and social justice work just doesn't fall into place in terms of work plans and budgets! Working with all the blossoming activists involved with Occupy Eugene and providing targeted and comprehensive education and response around hate activity and White supremist activities in and around Eugene/Springfield became important work areas for us that were not a part of the anticipated. As a determined, flexible and powerful alliance, CALC has been there encouraging solutions on the right to shelter, economic justice and equality issues countywide during 2011.
Anyone who spends a few hours around a handful of CALC-ers comes away amazed at how much we can accomplish with our concentrated and comprehensive focus on human rights and social justice. In my nearly two years here, I have nothing but pride and appreciation for the board, staff, volunteers and collaborators who keep moving the struggle forward. We are looking forward to even more growth as we reach out into the rural areas of Lane County and increase our strategic efforts to improve lives in 2011 and we hope you will support us-with your time, encouragement and financial contribution. We live in a world that needs CALC more than ever! - Kori Rodley, Executive Director
Donations may be sent to our address at 458 Blair Boulevard, or call the office at 541.485.1755. Donate online at Network for Good with Paypal or your credit card. More information on our website. |
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CALC's Springfield Alliance for Equality and Respect exists to advance human rights in three key areas: the right to shelter, LGBTQ rights, and immigrant rights/racial justice. Our work continues in all areas.
For this newsletter, we focus on immigrant rights, and we highlight our involvement with the Egan Warming Center in Springfield.
The Egan Warming Centers provide a safe and warm environment for homeless people to stay the night when weather hovers around freezing. It's the least we can do for our most vulnerable neighbors. We've had multiple activations already this season. Interested in volunteering? The next volunteer training is December 10th, 9 am- noon, First Christian Church, 12th and Oak, Eugene. Trained volunteers can serve at any site. Please see eganwarmingcenter.com for more information.
Integrating Immigrants: A Statement of Principles to Sign
Springfield Alliance for Equality and Respect urges CALC's friends to support an exciting new initiative supporting immigrant rights! A Statement of Principles has been developed by the Lane County Network for Immigrant Integration. This group includes representatives from about thirty local organizations. Two CALC programs, SAfER and Back to Back, are now participating.
The Statement of Principles speaks to:
- Inclusion and Integration
- Recognizing the Contributions of Immigrants
- Supporting Immigrant Families
- Promoting Respect and Non-discrimination
- Affirming a Common Sense Approach to Public Safety
- Advancing Humane and Just National Comprehensive Immigration Reform
The Statement of Principles will serve as a vehicle for raising awareness about immigration issues and building a broad base of support for immigrant justice.
The Network seeks both organizational and individual endorsers Click here to view the full statement and sign it. CALC is collecting these electronic signatues of support and will forward them to organizers.
Please also consider taking it to your group, union, or congregation and getting their support. Here is a link to a PDF of the document. You may then mail it to CALC at 458 Blair Blvd, Eugene OR, 97402
Call SAfER to volunteer for any of these events 541-726-7377 or email Marion. |
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Truth In Recruiting focuses primarily on reaching high school students to counter the militarization of youth. We have an uphill battle against the impact of the highly popular and seductive military computer games, which portray killing and blowing things up--- and have an "off" button, unlike the reality of combat. "Off" button or not, they succeed at instilling a notion that normal people actually do these excitingly portrayed actions.
However, we mainly focus on what happens in schools and how the recruiters try to achieve their goal of "owning the school" as the Army recruiter handbook describes. Some recent examples in Lane County high schools of how recruiters try to "own the school" include: leading PE classes, providing lunch for all staff and getting themselves included as an Aspire volunteer. Aspire is a program in most local high schools where community volunteers help seniors complete their post high school career plans.
Please let us know if you hear of any ways that military recruiters "own your school" as we generally are successful at getting such things stopped once we learn about them. And please complain to school administrators so that we all work to decrease the militarization of youth.
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If you're as concerned as we are about truth in recruiting we'd love to have your support. Please think about volunteering with us or donating to our TIR Peace Scholarship Fund this year. For more information, call CALC at 541-485-1755 or email Carol |
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Merkley Pushing Quicker End to Afghan War 
The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday, November 30 for an "expedited drawdown" of US troops from Afghanistan in an amendment to the defense authorization bill put forward by our own Sen. Jeff Merkley. The amendment requires the President to submit to Congress within 90 days a plan for withdrawing troops ahead of the administration's planned December 2014 deadline and for shifting security operations to the Afghan government. Senator Merkley understands that it makes no sense to spend three more years and who knows how many billions of dollars and U.S. lives in a doomed nation-building effort in Afghanistan. Contact Senator Merkley's D.C. office at 202-224-3753 or e-mail him, and thank him for has opposition to the Afghan war and tell him to keep it up. On a sobering note, The Senate approved an amendment that would authorize the military to jail anyone it considers a terrorism suspect - anywhere in the world, even within the United States - without charge or trial. Hopefully President Obama will veto the defense bill and demand that Congress pass a bill without the egregious amendment and with Senator Merkley's call for a quicker end to the Afghanistan war.
Call CALC at 541-485-1755 or email Michael Carrigan
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Back 2 Back: In Our Community |
Silver of the Back to Back program recently took part in the City Club event titled "Why occupy Eugene?" The response was resoundingly positive. Those who were in attendance were happy to take part in the dialogue.
The invitation for the event came on the behalf of the People of Color, Occupy Eugene working group, which now meets at the CALC office. The group looks to deal with issues not regularly dealt with in Occupy circles; how environmental racism affects people of color, how a disproportionate number of subprime mortgages were given to Black and Hispanic families. Please contact Silver for times of upcoming meetings.
The Social Justice Potluck Cookbook is slated to be finished by the end of 2012, but there is so much to be done before that. We will be looking out for all of your wonderful recipes, quotes, and stories relating to food and family. We are truly excited about incorporating food family and resources into the social justice dialogue!
Back to Back is also working with CAUSA on the upcoming Eugene leadership conference taking place January 24th. Please save the date! CAUSA is working to ensure access for driver's licenses to all residents of Oregon and are also urging funding restoration for Centro Latino Americano here in Eugene.
We'd love to have you participate with the Back to Back Program. Call CALC at 541-485-1755 or Silver Mogart |
International Human Rights Day
December 6, 5:30-8pm
Atrium Building, 99 W 10th Ave #116, Eugene
Act Now! Protect human rights in our community. Celebrate International Human Rights Day with keynote speaker, Ajamu Baraka.
Ajamu Baraka has been Executive Director of the US Human Rights Network and served 8 years in that position starting from the Network's inception in 2003.
Refreshments will be served from 5:30 to 6 and the program will run 6-8pm.
Presented by:
City of Eugene Equity and Human Rights Center,
City of Eugene Human Rights Commission
Community Coalition for the Advancement of Human Rights
Call 541-682-5177 for more info or accommodation requests.
Causa Coming Out Party
Thursday Dec 08, 2011 6:00 PM $15.00
TheSLATE
2001 NW 19th Ave #104
Portland, OR 97209
United State
Causa's Coming Out Party will showcase Causa's LGBTQ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer) work and highlight the importance of and history behind creating alliances and conversations between the LGBTQ community and the Latino community.
For More Info:
Light of Esperanza First Annual Benefit Auction
EAT, DRINK, AND DONATE! Light of Esperanza is a non-profit organization. Their goal is to help improve the lives of women and children in rural Honduras through sustainable, educational, and cooperative projects.
Please join us at: The Humble Beagle, 24th and Hilyard
Dec. 8th and 10th from 5-11pm
A percentage of every plate and drink purchased on December 8th and 10th will be donated to Light of Esperanza For More Information - contact: lightofesperanza@gmail.com or visit our website at www.lightofesperanza.com
"Knowing You, Knowing You" Film Showing
December 13, 7pm
Eugene Public Library, Bascom-Tykeson Room
The film tells the remarkable story of Eleanor Longden, a "voice hearer" whose story goes from despair to victory. In this film, she tells her own story frankly and often with humor, offering surprising insights into the experience of hearing voices, "madness," and both ineffective and effective mental health care.
Immediately following the film showing there will be a lively discussion with a panel including psychiatric survivors/consumers, with audience participation.
Sponsored by MindFreedom, OCSC and Opal Network.
Free popcorn, beverages, and other snacks!
More info email lane@mindfreedom.org or phone 541-345-9106
Posada Celebration
Sat, December 17, 6pm - 9pm
21 N. Grand, Eugene Oregon
Join AMIGOS MSC and Juventud FACETA for the annual Posadas celebration! The event is free and open to the public. Service will be done in Spanish and English, and there will be food and drink.
Check out CALC's Website calendar for more events.
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What are CALC staff and consultants reading, looking at online, watching at the movies and more? Here are a few things we hope will be of interest to you too.
Stephanie's Pick: Just Seeds Artists' Cooperative 
Many of us are buying gifts for the holidays, here is a way to get great gifts and fund people working to advance justice on a number of fronts. Plus, their 2012 planner is only $7.00! Check them out here.
From their website: Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized network of 26 artists committed to making print and design work that reflects a radical social, environmental, and political stance. With members working from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Justseeds operates both as a unified collaboration of similarly minded printmakers and as a loose collection of creative individuals with unique viewpoints and working methods. We believe in the transformative power of personal expression in concert with collective action. To this end, we produce collective portfolios, contribute graphics to grassroots struggles for justice, work collaboratively both in- and outside the co-op, build large sculptural installations in galleries, and wheatpaste on the streets - all while offering each other daily support as allies and friends.
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Thank you to the individuals and businesses who made CALC's 45th Anniversary Gala a success!
A great time was had by those who attended the Gala all due to the support of our friends, allies and the generous business community! Special thanks to the Camas Ridge Marimba School and Infamous for the musical entertainment, to Joan Baylis for being an amazing MC and to Jorge Navarro for running sound and being the stage manager. Thanks to Hannah Goldrich, Lucy Irons, Stuart Irons, Terri Schlesinger and Carol VanHouten for set up and clean up assistance. We will miss the great energy of our CALC interns, Tanika Williamson and Laura Castleman who are moving on after this term ends. Thanks for all your help!
Our gratitude also to Kathryn Hargreaves, our dedicated intern, who is doing everything from going to schools with the Truth in Recruiting program to modeling at the Nuclear Weapons, the Ultimate Health Threat event. She's great... and for hire... let us know if you have paying work for a stellar college grad! |
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