Let's talk about the founder of Planned Parenthood... Margret Sanger; Sanger's periodical, the Birth Control Review, was know for its endorsement eugenics, the belief that the human race could be improved if certain people did not reproduce. In an excerpt from the April 1924 issue she says: "How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden for children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds." In her book, Woman and the New Race, (Eugenics Publishing Company, 1923) Sanger tied together eugenics and birth control by saying: "Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives." (p. 229) In Sanger's 1932 Plan for Peace, she wanted "to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring." She then desired to make a list of the "illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals, prostitutes, dope-fiends" and "segregate them on farms and open spaces as long as necessary for the strengthening and development of moral conduct." Such thoughts sound sort of similar to Nazi Germany? In Margret's 1938 autobiography, she describes her experience after speaking to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan by writing: "In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered. The conversation went on and on, and when we were finally through it was too late to return to New York."

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Are you registered to vote? If you're not and you want to participate (i.e. vote) in the November 6th election, the deadline to register is this Saturday, the 6th of October.

Here are some registration resources:
WA State Secretary of State
Thurston County Elections Website

Don't like the way society is headed? Do you think that government can do better?

Well then, consider participation in electoral government. It may not be the best system, but it's what we have (at the moment.) And with your involvement, we have better odds of making improvements.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 7 PM
Longhouse Cedar Room

Common Bread, Evergreen's interfaith ministry, joins the Dharmata Foundation to present Anam Thubten Rinpoche, ordained Tibetan lama and Dharma meditation teacher. This event is free but donations are accepted! For more info, visit our site below.

Common Bread also invites you to our opening pot-luck interfaith celebration this Thursday evening, October 4th, 5 PM in the Longhouse Cedar Room.

Visit our site: http://Cbread.blogspot.com

Angus Tierny, Student Leader
Fred LaMotte, Chaplain

Second time's the charm. Here's the agenda with time and place. Don't make too much of the anal-retentive times next to the agenda items. I'm not that inflexible. Look for the snazy brown fedora.

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