A mock-up depicting President Trump on Mount Rushmore released by GOP
Did I see this – coming?
Below is a Peace Message I sent Governor Kotek and Senator Ron Weyden. Kotek took classes in religion at the University of Oregon, that is gutting classes that instruct us how to own moral judgements. Since Trump got elected, he is driven to be installed as a….
GIANT HEAD ON MOUNT RUSHMORE
This evil president has done severe damage to American Universities, and uses Government Funding to hold them hostage, till they…
THINK LIKE HE THINKS
Consider the letter to Ed Ray concerning,…..
ZARDOZ
JP
I felt a ZARDOZ moment coming! We’ve seen this guys act before.
“How did you get into the Berkeley Vortex?”
The clause of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination at federally funded institutions
Marschall told the right-wing news outlet Just the News last month that he believed revelations about antisemitism in higher education would bring about “the beginning of the end of DEI.”
In fact, Marschall is the most prolific filer of antisemitism complaints filed under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act since Oct. 7. He is responsible for at least 12 of the 79 investigations opened so far — and the tally is growing every week as the education department opens new investigations at an unprecedented clip. (Marschall has filed more than 30 complaints in total, at least 15% of the department’s publicly available figures for total “shared ancestry” complaints filed since Oct. 7.)
In the months after Oct. 7 — when Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200 people in southern Israel, most of them civilians, and took 253 hostages, sparking the ongoing Israel-Hamas war — Marschall embraced campus antisemitism as his new cause, seizing on Title VI as a tactic. The clause of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination at federally funded institutions — and allows for the education department to compel schools to change their policies or risk losing funds. Anyone can file a claim, and the department has pledged to investigate all allegations.
Ed Ray Speaks To You – His Chosen Ones!
Posted on May 29, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Zachary Marschall (Courtesy via JTA)
Journalists gather at protest in Brussels for fallen colleaguespublished at 06:4506:45
Journalists have been demonstrating at a protest in Brussels, Belgium, to honor the memory of colleagues killed whilst reporting in Gaza.
The protest, organized by the International Federation of Journalists, follows the death of five members of the press from Israeli strikes on Nasser hospital on Monday.
The incident, which Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu called a “tragic mishap”, has been met by global condemnation. Israel says its military is conducting a “thorough investigation”.
Faculty members alert community: UO plans to eliminate entire departments, fire tenured professors
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Jeff Schroeder: What we hear about meetings between University leadership and department heads is that there are plans to entirely eliminate the Departments of Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, German and Scandinavian, and Russian.
Presenter: For KEPW Reports, Jana Thrift:
Jana Thrift (KEPW): Hello, this is Jana with KEPW-LP 97.3 FM in Eugene, broadcasting online at KEPW.org and today I have a very important topic that I want to cover, and I have Jeff Schroeder here. He’s an associate professor with Religious Studies at the University of Oregon, and what is happening at the University of Oregon right now that you’re trying to let people know about?
Jeff Schroeder (University of Oregon): There are massive, drastic changes being carried out at the University of Oregon right now, during the summer. There are plans to eliminate entire programs, fire dozens—we don’t know the number—of faculty, including many tenured faculty.
[00:00:53] These changes are being carried out very suddenly and undemocratically. The faculty are not being given an opportunity to have a say in this process. We could even call them DOGE-like cuts, similar to what’s happened elsewhere with the federal government here, right here, at University of Oregon, we’re seeing drastic cuts just being carried out without consultation.
[00:01:17] And this is a threat in so many ways. It’s a threat to those very important humanities programs, which I’ll tell you about in a moment. So it’s a threat to the course offerings for our students. It’s a threat to the ability to get a good liberal arts education at what is meant to be the flagship university of the state of Oregon.
[00:01:36] It’s a threat to individual faculties lives and their families. And a bigger point is that it’s also a threat to tenure and academic freedoms.
[00:01:47] I’ll share all the details that I can, but I just want to say right off the bat that there are things people can do to go and gather more information and to take action steps. We have a website, the faculty union created a website, StrengthenUO.org, that is full of information. You can sign a petition, you can write to your elected leaders, you can write to UO leadership once you’ve learned what’s going on.
[00:02:13] So nothing is official yet, which is a good thing. It means there’s still time to change, but we understand the president of the University, Karl Scholz, has announced that the week of Sept. 7 termination letters will be sent out and the decisions will have been made. Okay? So we’re talking about a few weeks between now and the final decisions.
[00:02:39] What we hear about meetings between University leadership and department heads is that there are plans to entirely eliminate the departments of Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, German and Scandinavian, and Russian.
[00:03:04] In addition, there are proposed downsizings, so program reductions including firing of tenured faculty from programs such as Women’s and Gender Studies, Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, history, creative writing, math, physics, and the list goes on.
[00:03:26] All of these changes are being carried out very quickly without faculty consultation. They have some kind of money problems that they’re trying to address. But the way they’re trying to address it is totally at odds with the model of shared governance at the University where everyone is supposed to have a say.
[00:03:44] Faculty should have a say in how their programs are downsized. We know effective ways of carrying out changes that might need to be done. But it seems like the UO leadership, the highly-paid UO leadership are making unilateral decisions, and carrying this out, again, over the summer.
[00:04:05] This is really, I think, a crisis of management and not of finances. You can go again to StrengthenUO.org for more details on the finances and the lack of transparency on the part of University administrators.
[00:04:21] But supposedly these financial problems were just discovered suddenly this past March. Right up through March, University of Oregon was hiring lots of faculty, including my department. We were hiring brand new faculty. Classics was hiring faculty, German was hiring faculty. And then suddenly they figured something out that they had some kind of major financial problem, and now suddenly they’re turning around and planning to close—entirely eliminate—the programs that just had been growing and having new faculty hires and new coursework.
[00:04:59] So this means faculty who are hired to begin work at the University of Oregon on Sept. 16 will be fired just as they arrive. Faculty who were hired last year will be fired. Like, it doesn’t make any sense. It’s a huge waste of resources. It’s really drastic, unwise measures that have all untold negative consequences for people’s lives, but also for the future of the University of Oregon as a respected and strong institute of higher education.
[00:05:34] Presenter: Jana Thrift for KEPW Reports: The University of Oregon is planning to eliminate entire academic departments. From the Department of Religious Studies, Jeff Schroeder:
[00:05:44] Jeff Schroeder (University of Oregon): Budget cuts are going to be unpopular. It seems like the University administration has taken the strategy that if they can just do it in one fell swoop all over the summer when nobody’s listening and able to respond, that they can somehow lessen the pushback.
[00:06:02] But we are doing everything we can to mobilize and to create that pushback right now and just insist for more time, for more shared conversations about: What is the financial situation facing the University, and how can we solve this problem together?
[00:06:20] Like, there’s all kinds of other solutions. I’ll just name a few real quickly while we’re talking about this subject.
[00:06:26] A first step should be incentives for early retirement. If faculty are nearing retirement, if they’re giving an incentive, they might retire early, then they lose some of that cost, but it’s in a voluntary and sort of shared way. There could be hiring freezes, there could be pay cuts to these very, very well-paid administrators.
[00:06:48] You can go to StrengthenUO.org to see the salaries of the University president and provost and so forth. There are definitely other ways to solve it. It seems to me that this is a calculated choice, to go ahead and move the University in a certain direction without faculty input because they know it will be unpopular—and without student input.
[00:07:11] It’s very clear that the humanities are being specifically attacked here. The programs targeted: Religious Studies, Judaic Studies, Arabic, Holocaust Studies, Classics, German and Scandinavian, Women’s and Gender Studies, Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies. Even history is a humanities discipline.
[00:07:30] The humanities are about literature, language, English literature, comparative literature. The humanities are the study of history, the study of cultures, the study of religion, the study of philosophy. It’s comical, it’s ludicrous that one needs to explain the importance of studying cultures or history, right?
[00:07:51] We study history to learn from mistakes, to understand historical forces, I mean, name your issue. How do we understand fascism and the rise of authoritarianism in history so that we can respond to trends in our world today?
[00:08:05] Religion, classics and philosophy. Big big-question disciplines that talk about the nature of reality, talk about values, how we ought to structure our societies. How we can retain our humanity and not let AI algorithms and economic forces structure our lives and our social choices. Languages, culture.
[00:08:28] We need these disciplines so that students at Oregon, and the public that benefits from all the research that comes out of the University, can be more informed, engaged global citizens.
[00:08:39] Can you imagine at the University of Oregon, there will be no more world religions courses? I’m sure lots of us have taken those courses, whether it’s in college or high school, or can understand the importance of world religions.
[00:08:55] Whether you’re a religious believer or not, religion is obviously a really central, influential, huge factor in human history in U.S. politics, in global conflicts. So how are our students going to be prepared to navigate this world, to navigate politics, to navigate, to be international leaders, if they can’t take courses in Arabic or Judaic Studies or Religious Studies or Islamic Studies?
[00:09:27] It’s true that some of these programs that are up for elimination may not have the most majors. We have more students signing up to major in economics or computer science and so forth. But very bright, wonderful students love our classes in Religious Studies.
[00:09:48] It may not be well known that Tina Kotek, the governor of Oregon, is a graduate of University of Oregon and majored in religious studies.
[00:09:57] So religious studies is an important discipline for our leaders and for informed citizens. So I hope that the listeners can appreciate and understand the importance of the humanities.
[00:10:08] As for why the administration is cutting these programs specifically, I can only speculate because they’re not being transparent about their decision-making processes…
[00:10:18] I like to think that there are no sort of nefarious intentions of specifically censoring certain disciplines at work here. I think we can also explain this as a matter of money, that the UO leaders are maybe thinking of the University as a corporation and thinking about what the best ways they can get return on investments and what are the sort of biggest moneymaking fields and departments and areas of research and so forth.
[00:10:49] So we’re not seeing the same cuts from the business school or from the Knight Campus where various scientific and technological research is happening. We’re seeing the cuts at the humanities, which have their own value that isn’t immediately relevant to the bottom line.
[00:11:07] There’s one other point that I would really like to highlight here, and that is the attack on tenure. Just to be clear, this is a very unprecedented firing of tenured professors, other professors, other faculty have been laid off. So it’s not only tenured faculty that were being targeted and all the firings are regrettable and problematic.
[00:11:30] But the tenure system exists to ensure stability of employment for faculty who are engaging in research that may be controversial. So you’re protected from firing, in case somebody decides that your research is not acceptable.
[00:11:47] So you can think of various censorship and attacks on scholarship about the history of the United States and racism, for example. We need established, respected faculty to have their work protected so that they can’t be fired at the whims of the people who hold the levers of power, right.
[00:12:07] And so when they make these cuts, these are brand-new. This has not happened at the University of Oregon. They’re trying to exploit an article in the collective bargaining agreement that only allows for tenured faculty if an entire program is reduced or eliminated. And that’s supposed to be for academic reasons, not financial reasons, certainly not for temporary or cyclical variations in finances and they’re using this apparent loophole to fire tenured faculty, which has not happened at the University of Oregon before, but will establish a dangerous precedent.
[00:12:46] So these protections for faculty who are maybe doing unpopular research will not exist at the University of Oregon. That’s bad for academic freedom, but it’s also bad for the University of Oregon. Because if tenure exists at all the other strong quality, respected universities and colleges around the country, why will good scholars want to come and work here? They won’t, and that’s going to be bad for the University. It’s going to be bad for the students.
[00:13:15] And so, that’s another element, another layer. It’s possible that the administration would like to have that power to be able to fire whoever they want whenever they want. And we can’t let that happen.
[00:13:26] So, again, I just want to remind anyone who’s listening, thank you for listening, please go to StrengthenUO.org to learn about what’s happening and to click on ‘Take Action’ and you can sign a petition. You can write letters. You can try to raise the alarm about this right now because we only have a couple of weeks before they will be handing down their judgments and decisions.
[00:13:50] This is a threat on all kinds of levels, but it’s certainly a threat to the city of Eugene. I just encourage folks to go to the StrengthenUO.org website and to try to gather information. We’ve got letters coming in from academic associations around the country expressing their solidarity with us. We’re trying to get ahold of Tina Kotek’s office. We’re trying to speak to our representatives, because this is all being pushed through in this sudden, rash, unwise, an undemocratic way.
[00:14:21] Please help us spread the word, and thank you for listening.
[00:14:25] Presenter: Jana Thrift for KEPW Reports, on a proposal to eliminate entire academic departments, which under a loophole in the collective bargaining agreement, would allow the University of Oregon to fire tenured faculty. You can learn more and get involved at StrengthenUO.org. And listen for the latest from KEPW 97.3, Eugene PeaceWorks community radio.
Many Israelis have noted how Haredi rabbis have refrained from criticizing those who have signed up. The Haredim considered Torah study essential for young men, and Haredi leaders in the past have insisted upon the exemptions, even as other Israelis have denounced the group for shirking military service.
https://forward.com/news/570782/israel-hamas-war-haredim-idf-military-service/
North Vietnamese anti-aircraft weapons
Peace Message
Dear Senator Wyden and Governor Kotek;
I am seventy-six years of age. I am thirty-six years clean and sober. I have what many people want, and millions of Oregon tax dollars has been allotted to combat drug and alcohol abuse. Many lives are being lost. Did Senator Hatfield ever pass a law, or attempt to pass a law forbidding Oregonians from contributing to the War in Vietnam – where many lives were lost? Our late Republicans Senator was a – standout! His opposition to war – is the shining example I bid all Oregonians to emulate in order to put an end to the slow-motion carpet bombing being conducted by Israel on the citizens of Gaza – who had legitimate grievances for many years. President Herzog knows this. He called the hideous violence a “legitimate war”. When I heard this several days ago, I am propelled back in time. In 1971 I attended an Anti-Vietnam Demonstration where 7,000 American citizens were arrested.
Was it their fault they got arrested President Herzog – because they failed to heed the many warning they would be arrested – if they did not disperse? Was it your idea to drop leaflets from a airplane telling civilians if they do not leave their homes and head north – they will surely die? Did the U.S. drop leaflets on Hiroshima and Nagasaki before they dropped atomic bombs? Why bother? I would like to read your propaganda plans. I suspect you want to avoid the loss of Israeli soldiers – lest there be a Anti-war movement amongst Liberal Jews and the Haredi. How many Israeli soldiers were lost in both Iraq Wars?………FOUR! Many reporters are asking if you got a peace plan, an end game! In Vietnam – there was none! There was the infamous body-count. I suspect that illegitimate war kept going in order to – destroy the American Left! Israel was a Socialist nation, that is at odds with the religious zealots.
Mark Hatfield saw the rubble of Hiroshima that is show in pic 3. Hard to see the difference. Many evangelicals want a End Time Battle and Tribulation, and see themselves as Christian Zionists, which angers Ultra-Orthodox Jews – who spend ten thousand hours a month study the Torah – so they can be exempt from mandatory military service! If they spent twenty thousands hours studying the New Testament, they may have discovered what I discovered. John the Baptist spoke after being put in Eljas chair when he was eight days old. Thus he was not a Christian, but, and Orthodoxic Jew.
This brings us to the Republican lawmakers who brought the religious agendas of the Christian-right to the people of Oregon by walking out to avoid voting on moral issues – they were going to lose! This is why I am for Oregonians passing a Bill that would forbid the teaching of Commandment No.1 and No,2. Also with this Bill will be the outlawing of all violent accounts of God – allegedly killing Jews he found guilty of IDOLETRY. God’s Wraith – is not applicable to gentiles and Christians, and may be one of the sources of Anti-Semitisms, as well as the source of Godly Permission to commit brutal religious warfare. . I suggest the State of Oregon put together a panel in order to study how the Torah promote valence, along with the book of Revelations. I also suggest a boycott of goods made in India that gave us Mahatma Gandhi, , but refuses to condemn Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Senator Wyden – would you standup and not vote for more money to Israel? We have a housing problem in Oregon that is destroying our State. It appears to millions of people all over the world, Israel is turning homes in Gaza into rubble – because they want to get rid of them – and take their land. The IDF is not conducting conventional warfare. They are saying they are murdering thousands in order to get them to turn over members of Hamas, but, that’s not true! War in most cases is about ‘Murderous Revenge’. Before WE give Israel more money ask them if they can come up with a proportionate Body-count – an eye for an eye – that will satiate their need for revenge? For – it looks like genocide to me – and a million others – at least! Hitler and the Nazis came up with ‘The Final Solution’. We are seeing ‘There Is Not Solution Plan’. I suggested a New Exodus to South Dakota. Anything but watching nine million people murder civilians who do not have what the North Vietnamese had, SAM missiles capable of bringing down high flying carpet bombers – that I am sure Senator Hatfield – HATED! Dito!
STOP FUNDING THE NO SOLUTION PLAN – NOW!
Sincerely
John Presco
Here are other agendas for Oregon Citizens…
- Abolish the first and second Commandant because these laws only apply to Jews, who as a whole reject the teaching of Jesus, Paul, and John. Judaism is a CLOSED religion. Someone learned Jews believe the Jews lost the Promised Land because they kept breaking 1&2. Christians were not invited to take part in….The Zionist Dream!
2. Launch an investigation into the assassination of Folke Bernadotte by Zionists.
“As Israel engages in a massive air campaign ahead of an anticipated full-scale ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on Friday that all citizens of Gaza are responsible for the attack Hamas perpetrated in Israel last weekend that left over 1,200 people dead.
“It is an entire nation out there that is responsible,” Herzog said at a press conference on Friday. “It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true. They could have risen up. They could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup d’etat.”
The impression of a young girl was burned into a concrete wall when America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. The bomb was one of two deployed in Japan near the end of World War II, killing at least 129,000 people in the blasts.
Navy Lt. Mark Hatfield ’43 — who later served as an Oregon senator from 1967 to 1997 — was one of the first U.S. military personnel to enter Hiroshima after the bombing. He was stunned by the devastation — the eerie shadows, the ruined buildings and the horrifically wounded survivors. The experience shaped his political career and his life-long opposition to war.
“He understood the suffering of people,” says Wes Granberg-Michaelson, a former Hatfield staffer. “He was committed to peace, integrity and humanitarianism.”
On Jan. 26, several of Hatfield’s former foreign policy advisers gathered in Roger Music Center’s Hudson Hall to discuss the late senator’s legacy — including his efforts to stop the Vietnam War, slow the nuclear arms race, cut military expenditures, and promote international human rights.
Visiting history professor Christopher Foss served as moderator, and the roundtable participants were Walt Evans L’67, Gransberg-Michaelson, Tom Getman, Jack Robertson and Rick Rolf. Gary Barbour ’76, who had also worked as a Hatfield aide, gave the introduction.
Although the commentators served different roles in Hatfield’s administration, they all described him as a mentor who unfailingly put others’ needs before his own political ambitions.
“How we got our jobs is not important. What is important is why we stayed,” Getman said. “Our jobs were places to give, learn and be nurtured. He gave the rest of us hope.”
Hatfield served two terms as governor and five as senator. Because of his dedication to public service, Willamette’s Hatfield Library was named after him.
As senator, he co-sponsored the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment in 1970, which called for a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam. Despite his impassioned plea to the Senate to bring American troops home, the bill failed by a 55-39 margin.
Hatfield later opposed U.S. intervention in civil wars in Central America, and was one of only two Republican senators who voted against the 1991 Persian Gulf War resolution.
He helped pass bills to freeze the testing and development of nuclear weapons in the 1980s and 1990s, and he supported a trade embargo with the Ugandan government of Idi Amin, a president who reportedly killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of people in the 1970s.
Although his convictions weren’t always popular, Hatfield was never one to bow to public pressure, Robertson says.
“He had a beautiful sense of grace,” he said. “He was always calm, which helped all of us during those difficult times.”
Moderator Foss said what he most enjoyed about the discussion was hearing the staffers’ stories, which he described as serious, funny, engaging and disarming.
“These men would have given their lives for Hatfield — they were that dedicated to him,” Foss said. “They lived out the Willamette motto, ‘Not unto ourselves alone are we born,’ just as the senator did, and it seems clear that the United States, and the world, are better off for it.”
The panel discussion was sponsored by Willamette University Archives and Special Collections, the History Department and the Politics Department. More information about Hatfield’s life and legacy is available on the Hatfield Library’s webpage.
“This clause applies to Donald Trump,” the letter to Griffin-Valade said. “Having sworn an oath to support the Constitution as an officer of the United States, then ‘engaged’ in the January 6 insurrection as that term is defined by law and precedent, Trump is now ineligible to hold any ‘office … under the United States,’ including the presidency, unless and until he is relieved of that disqualification by two-thirds of both chambers of Congress.”
The underlying reason, however, is Republicans would like to get rid of bills they consider extreme — including those that expand access to abortions and gender-affirming care. They have been particularly adamant about a portion of House Bill 2002 that would allow children of any age to receive an abortion without parental notification. It’s a little unclear what the law calls for now.
I post this six years ago! The Proud Boys showed up.
Seer Jon
Praise Be To Zardoz!
Posted on August 12, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Zardoz came to the Wayne Morse Free Speech Square. I saluted a fellow Wizard of Oz.
Come back………when you know something!
Play half the Shofar video, then hit the drum circle video. Halfway into that, play Shofar, and at end of drumming. The New Jubilee Week will end on Friday, and sundown.
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