Czechoslovakia to Chile, Back to Oregon Coast Local woman’s fight for aerial spray ban is her sense of purpose We’re being accused of being eco-terrorists. But the way the laws are right now, the corporations have priority over the citizens’ right to defend their own health and safety. That’s terrorism. — Newport resident Maria Sause …
An electronic umbilical cord Alternative Radio star David Barsamian comes to Newport for Rise Up & Resist The lifeblood of alternative radio is sometimes the celebrity that they create among themselves. And on Monday, Oct. 7, Lincoln County’s KYAQ radio station will welcome one of the biggest stars from the bottom of the dial as …
Madras, Oregon, Man Heads Up County Project to Put an End to the Cycle of Poverty Juan Garcia helps the family’s youngest, Jacob, 9 months, as he fusses during a recent mass at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Central Oregon, Madras, where the ecosystem looks like parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Chihuahua. He introduces me …
heroes come from communities, live through struggle, take life and action up a notch It’s a modest apartment in Newport where I sit with Susan Swift to go over “quite the life” as any listener might say about this feisty, spiritual and articulate, world-traveling woman. The hitching post Susan and I tie our respective philosophical …
How a Lincoln City kid makes good on his goal to build things You can’t hammer a nail over the Internet. — Michael Crawford, writer One might think a profile of a former Oceanlake kid, Taft elementary youth and a teen who dropped out of Taft High School who now, 21 years later, works hard …
on the first nuclear disaster of the 21st Century Sometimes a poet can grasp the human significance of a technological failure better than a scientist. We are fortunate to have these poetic voices from Japan collected here. May we hear them and, more importantly,may we heed them. — John Pearson, MD, Oregon Physicians for Social …
A trillion trees is a start, but the world can’t get past a trump fart crisis after crisis and still the citizen in capitalism follows the paymaster as god, as the answer for children’s grandchildren’s futures! I’ve been running into a lot of soft democrats and confused environmentalists lately who are all up in arms …
