Personhood and People
Haiti still needs all the help it can get. As we go to press, CNN has published the best-guess figures as of Tuesday: 150,000 people killed, 194,000 injured, 300,000 hungry children, 1 million people displaced. An unimaginable tragedy continues to unfold down there, among our cousins in revolution.
Maybe you’ve already given to Red Cross, maybe not. Regardless, it’s time to dig deeper to help sponsor a worthy mission from earthquake country to earthquake victims. Eureka surgeons Asa Stockton and Nathan Shishido are leading a medical team that is just about ready to depart for Port-au-Prince. They’ll be working out of a 70-bed hospital that, according to recent news reports, is attempting to care for as many as 1,000 patients.
They need your donations. For more info, visit humboldthelpshaiti.com. And if you find yourself in Downtown Arcata over the next few days, Arcata Exchange is helping collect money for their cause. Five bucks buys a course of antibiotics, $100 enough gear to perform a surgery.
Stockton and Shishido will be joining other Humboldt organizations doing life-saving work in Haiti. As always, the Arcata firm World Shelters is playing a big role in the disaster relief effort, and the nonprofit media development NGO Internews is helping with emergency communications efforts. They’re both taking donations, too — visit worldshelters.org and internews.org.
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44th Annual Kinetic Grand Championship Race
STAFF PICK / events, art, outdoors, sports, for kids, free / 9 a.m.-6 p.m. A 3-day, 42-mile kinetic sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water! LeMans start at the Noon Whistle on the Arcata Plaza. Follow the race through Manila, Eureka and into Ferndale on Memorial Day for the Glorious Finish. kineticgrandchampionship.com. 889-3024.
Flow 2012 Fashion Show
STAFF PICK / events / 8 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Student designed and produced clothing. Fundraiser for Arcata Arts Institute. $35/$25 students. artsinstitute.net. 822-1220.
Woodside Preschool's Rummage/Bake Sale
events / 8 a.m.-noon. Woodside Preschool, 900 Hodgson St, Eureka. www.woodsidepreschool.com. 445-9132.
Lanphere Dunes Restoration
STAFF PICK / outdoors / 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Meet at Pacific Union School. Help remove non-native invasives at the Lanphere Dunes Unit of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Tools and gloves provided, wear work clothes and bring water. Carpool to the protected site. 444-1397.
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EIGHT Comments
Comment / By unanonymous / Jan. 28, 4:36 p.m.
Cobb didn’t win the green party nomination, he stole it: http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly07102004.html
Shishido is an orthopedic stud (in my biased opinion), he fixed my shoulder. His office has got some good pics of him ripping big surf in his kayak at the north jetty too.
Comment / By Hank Sims / Jan. 28, 6:21 p.m.
Eh, bullshit. The Green Party had its rules about how it would pick its nominees. Cobb played by them and won.
The rules were kinda wacky, but hey — that’s the Green Party for you.
Comment / By Anonymous / Jan. 29, 7:38 p.m.
Hank wrote, “Cobb admitted that his movement…has no detailed plans on how to make one of those two near- impossible things happen.
According to Cobb, though, that isn’t the point…”
No, that’s never the point for Cobb, is it? The point is to get more DUHC members, more DUHC funding, more DUHC publicity.
Did Cobb care that Measure T fell as soon as a slight breeze blew on it? No, because it served his purposes.
And what about the fact that cities, non-profit organizations, and hell, maybe even DUHC are corporations too? It’s gonna be hard to find informed candidates to come out against corporate rights when the cities they are hoping to represent are, ahem, corporations.
I support the sentiment, but it’s really hard to not want to throw the baby out with the bath water.
Comment / By Thirdeye / Jan. 29, 10:53 p.m.
7:36 nailed it. Limiting legal rights to flesh-and-blood would have huge ramifications rife with unintended consequences.
Comment / By Name / Jan. 30, 6:58 p.m.
Hank is his usual fair and balanced self when it comes to sucking up to Cobb & co., narry a hint of any opposing viewpoints on his latest scam. I’m sure we won’t be reading in the Journal about that Measure T modeled bogus law headed to the City Council either.
Comment / By Fred Mangels / Jan. 31, 8:21 a.m.
And, as usual, no mention or objection by Cobb to unions making political contributions.
Comment / By unanonymous / Feb. 1, 9:19 a.m.
of course not, poll taxes and minority representation are just kinda wacky rules.
Comment / By Joel Mielke / Feb. 3, 2:24 p.m.
Poor Fred.