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The City of Eugene has approved a site at Garfield and 2nd for a self-governed, homeless village based on ecological models and drug & alcohol free. This comes after many months of nudging by our Shelter Rights organizer, Michael Carrigan, and many other dedicated activists. The process will take months but it's one step closer to a dignified. legal place for people to sleep!
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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
Jain Elliott
Member at Large
Shelley Courtland
Member at Large
Leslie Prieto
Member at Large
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We are looking for people to help in many ways big and small...
- small office tasks, like mailings
- occasional drop-off /pick-ups
- yard maintenance
- house maintenance
- tabling at events
- work with youth
If you have an hour or longer you can help!
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We at CALC are very proud to be recipients of a grant from the MRG Foundation! We appreciate their support for local, grass-roots organizations who are making tangible social change. At MRG's presentation day, we were introduced to many other great Oregon non-profits and are honored to be in their company. Thank you to MRG for inviting us and for their support!
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Message from the Director
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Bigger than the Sum of Its Parts
In the past few years, one of our biggest challenges here at Community Alliance of Lane County has been to bring together all of the program work, task forces, volunteer committees, events, and projects that have been staffed, supported, sponsored and lead as part of our work to create strategic social change. As a far-reaching organization well into its fifth decade, this has been no easy task! Over the years, some committees and projects have been operating on the fringes or existing somewhat autonomously, and while this might have been necessary at one time or serve the preferences of some, it does not really make for strong movement work or lasting policy and advocacy changes.
As an organization, we have been working to weave all of the strands together, pulling and tucking and evaluating how we can best focus our efforts in the distinct issue areas in which we work. And, as many of you can imagine, this is not always painless or embraced. As humans, we have a tendency to want to cling to the familiar and focus in on the details right in front of us as opposed to tackling the big, daunting picture. CALC really is about the big picture - real, lasting, progressive social change-and that is more than each individual activity, event, committee and task force. CALC is about how strong we all are together.
As we jump purposefully into another year, we continue the challenge of staffing, funding, supporting, and evaluating these efforts to promote county-wide public policies based on social, racial and economic justice. We remain committed to working for a society free of bigotry, and upholding human rights and human dignity and it is going to take all of us pulling together in one clear direction!
Kori Rodley
Kori Rodley
Executive Director
Consider a gift to CALC for a year's worth of hard work, strategic change, and advocacy. Donating is easy and secure through Network for Good!
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Countering Bigotry and Oppression with Education and Action
The coming year is a pivotal one for the anti-oppression work we have traditionally defined as our "Back to Back" program. What began initially as a response to hate, bias and bigotry has grown and expanded and we are poised to meet community needs with ramped up education in the form of workshops, leadership development and increased community-changing advocacy work in the form of our photo exhibits, and collaborative support and partnership work. This is exciting and it has taken the hard work and dedication of many.
Watch our web site and email alerts for more information on the year's worth of workshops on topics such as Community and Individual Empowerment, Access to Power, Civic Engagement, Know Your Rights, Anti-Racism training, and Community Organizing. If you would like to get advance notice of these, please email calcoffice@gmail.com and ask to be put on the "Back to Back" list.  | |
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Get Involved Now by submitting a recipe to our Social Justice Potluck Cookbook. An energetic volunteer committee led by former CALC staffer, Mo Young, is hard at work compiling recipes, raising money and creating what will be a lasting testimony to the community-building power of shared meals! Click here to contribute your recipe or email Kori if you'd like to donate to the printing of the cookbook, pre-order a copy or two, or volunteer your time or talent.
We'd love to have you participate with our Antibiogotry and Anti-Hate work. Call CALC at 541-485-1755.
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| CALC's work on Shelter Rights in Springfield:
We are just a little bit more than a month away from the opening of the CALC's Neighbors Without Addresses photo exhibit, which has been in the works for over 6 months. Neighbors Without Addresses features photographs and biographical interviews with nearly 25 individuals, couples, and families residing in Eugene and Springfield and experiencing homelessness.
CALC is currently working the Lane County Human Services Commission to help complete their annual One Night Homeless Count. The street count will take place on January 30th in both Eugene and Springfield. CALC is currently organizing volunteers to help count the homeless that day and evening. This event is extremely important in two ways: firstly, counting the homeless, who are often left out of traditional Census counts, providing a potential source of revenue to help the homeless; secondly, the One Night count gives unhoused individuals an opportunity to feel valued and counted as community members of Lane County. Come help with the One Night Homeless Count! If you are interested in volunteering and helping with the count, which will take place throughout the daytime and evening, please email Community Organizer Joanna Bernstein at Call SAfER to help with Springfield Alliance for Equality and Respect (SAfER) or the above projects: 541-485-1755 or email Joanna. __________________________________________________ CALC's work on Shelter Rights in Eugene: Michael Carrigan, a CALC Community Organizer, represents CALC on the Board of Opportunity Village Eugene and was part of the successful lobbying effort to persuade the City of Eugene to accept Conestoga Huts as "tents" to qualify them for the car and tent camping program for to the unhoused run by the St. Vincent de Paul. Last weekend an enthusiastic group of volunteers erected two huts at the Church of the Resurrection. The greatest need right now is for more spaces to place the huts. They can be placed at churches, businesses or even at private residences. Contact CALC if you are able to host a hut or tent and we'll put you in touch with St. Vincent de Paul. You can also support this effort by attending the Huts for the Homeless fundraiser to pay for the actual structures.  CALC supports S.L.E.E.P.S in their efforts to establish temporary places this winter for the unhoused to sleep safely in tents and their work to protect the right to protest on public land. Michael has been assisting them in their conversations with City and County representatives and working with their activists to hold safe, non-violent protests. Lastly, Michael will be presenting as part of the ACLU's Civil Conversations Series. The public is invited to these events. Hope to see you there: Monday, Jan. 14 at Davis' Restaurant, 94 W. Broadway. Time is 5:30 - 7:00 and food/drinks may be purchased.
The topic is "Is Housing a Right" and will be facilitated by Michael Carrigan, outreach community organizer for CALC (Community Alliance of Lane Co.) It is free and open to all for conversation on this important topic. To get involved with OVE or Eugene Shelter Rights: 541.485.1755 or email Michael |
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 Military Sexual Trauma is a long standing, hidden epidemic occurring in all military branches, all levels of the military and all military colleges. Victims are enlisted and officers: recruits in basic training: and, as we know locally, even a high school youth who was victimized by a recruiter.
We at CALC have joined in a national effort to inform the public and then to pressure Congress and the Department of Defense to take action to finally stop this epidemic - not just address it with ineffective words. In coordination with the local Veterans for Peace Chapter, we have shown the film, The Invisible War, at LCC, UO, Eugene, Springfield, Cottage Grove and Florence.
Please come to one of the upcoming showings of The Invisible War:
Friday, January 11th, 7 pm.
Wildish Theater
630 Main Street Springfield
$5 admission
Saturday January 12, 2013, 2:30 pm
Siuslaw Library, Bromley Room,
1460 Ninth Street, Florence
Wednesday, January 16, 6:30 pm.
Community Center, Shephard Room
700 East Gibbs, Cottage Grove
When this new Congress has a bill introduced to address this epidemic, probably called the STOP Act, we will be calling on CALC supporters to help get this bill enacted. Reports by victims must be removed from the military chain of command so that they get what civilians have, investigation and adjudication in their best interests, not those of the military.
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. For more information, call CALC at 541-485-1755 or email
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Trudy Cooper of Portland will report on a recent trip to Pakistan, where a CODEPINK delegation witnessed the devastation caused by more than 300 U.S. drone strikes in the past four years. The people of Waziristan have suffered as many as 3000 casualties from those attacks.
Cooper will show pictures and tell stories of students, teachers, children, and women killed when drone-launched missiles destroyed their homes. The delegation met with survivors of those attacks, who are trying to live on amid that destruction and the ongoing threat posed by drones.
In response to the growing use of drones by U.S. military and intelligence forces abroad and the civilian deaths they inflict, and the threats posed to civil liberties by the surveillance use of drones here at home, a movement against drones is building. The event is an opportunity to find out about drone-resistance activities in the Eugene-Springfield area.
If you would like to assist in our efforts to Promote Peace please email Michael or call 541-485-1755
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The Safe Schools Working Group (SSWG) in Springfield is currently in the planning a human sexuality training in collaboration with the Springfield School District. This training is for Safe Schools Network representatives, who are in each school to support LGBTQI students, their families and faculty, throughout the district. The SSWG will bring Brad Victor, a Sexuality Education Specialist, to conduct a presentation and training on issues on human sexuality curriculum. Details are still being worked out for this event, which, will take place during the Spring.
Similar work is also being done by the GSA Booster Team. We are identifying Gay-Straight Alliance advisers at each school and doing outreach to see what type of support they need. As those needs arise, we hope to match them up with individuals and groups to help them meet those needs. Would you be willing to help a GSA develop youth leadership? Let us know!
Please contact Joanna to help out with SSWG or to help support GSAs please contact Kori.
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15th Annual
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Celebration & March
Monday, January 21st
March starts at 1:30 pm at Springfield Justice Center
230 4th St., Springfield
Celebration from 2-4:00 pm.
Springfield High School
875 7th St., Springfield
Student Art - Student Essays - Music by Eric Richardson's Invisible Art Project
Free - Family Friendly Event - Open to the Public
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We welcome back our interns Jesse Quinn, Cesilia Sartin Doty and Liz Blieden! They are working on the GSA Booster project, helping with the showings of The Invisible War and working on advancing a "Q Center" at LCC. Good work!
We hope we didn't miss anyone but if we did, big thanks to you!
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