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Author: karen
ALERT: Proposed New Rules for Nudity on Oregon State Forestry Lands
Periodically, the Oregon State Forestry Department reviews and updates their rules. This time, the update includes the following changes that affect us:
629-050-0050 – Designated Recreation Areas, Item 9:
A Person may not engage in nudity in a Designated Recreation Area.
629-025-0005 – Definitions, Item 17:
“Nudity” means uncovered, or less than opaquely covered, post-pubertal human genitals, pubic areas, rectal areas, the post-pubertal human female breast below a point immediately above the top of the areola, or the covered human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state. For purposes of this definition, a female breast is considered uncovered if the nipple only or the nipple and areola only are covered.
What can I do?
The process requires feedback from the public—that’s us. You can provide feedback by sending a letter in one of these ways:
Email
Deadline: February 8, 2015 @ 5:00 pm
Address: ODF.SFCOMMENTS@oregon.gov
Postal mail
Deadline: February 5, 2015 (provides time for mail delivery)
Address:
Justin Butteris, State Forests Policy Analyst
Oregon Department of Forestry
2600 State Street Building D
Salem, OR 97310
If you write a letter, consider the following:
- Limit your comments to only the nudity issues. The changes to the rules are extensive and cover many areas. Including comments on other changes will confuse and dilute your message. If you want to address other changes, consider covering those in a separate letter.
- Ask that your letter be made part of the official committee record.
- Be brief and respectful.
- Include your full name and address.
- Consider customizing and personalizing the attached template to reflect your thoughts on the matter.
A sample letter can be found athttps://www.aanr-nw.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Letter-Template.docx. (pdf) (rtf)
Need more information?
Mike Parker, AANR Northwest Government Affairs Committee Chair
gat@aanr-nw.org • 503.810.4060
- Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Hearing
http://www.oregon.gov/ODF/Documents/AboutODF/OAR-629-025RecFiscal20151113.pdf - Proposed Rule Amendments
http://www.oregon.gov/ODF/Documents/AboutODF/OAR-629-025RecPropRules20151113.pdf
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Don’t forget – smile.amazon.com
Don’t forget – smile.amazon.com
This holiday season, when you do your online gift shopping at amazon.com, you can donate to the AANR Education Foundation and it won’t cost you anything. Amazon’s smile program allows you to select a charity and .5 % of the purchase price for most Amazon items will be donated to your cause. Search for and select AANR Education Foundation and from then on, start at smile.amazon.com to do your shopping.
The AANR Education Foundation’s objectives are to:
Seek partnerships with individuals, groups and organizations in support of the creation of art, literature, and scholarship, relating to the nudist world, its practices, and the wholesome nature of the human body.
Endeavor to develop educated persons and leaders in broad areas of society; and aim to improve people’s lives by developing community support for nudist resorts, clubs, groups and areas.
You are always encouraged to donate to the AANR Education Foundation (http://www.aanr-ef.org/). But here is a way to get Amazon to do it for you.
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Venice Beach Votes To Allow Topless Sunbathing
It’s great to hear of a neighborhood council taking positive steps concerning nudity. The Venice Beach neighborhood council has voted allow topless sunbathing. Melissa Diner, who proposed the measure, sees the issue as a rights issue, that is that women should have the same rights as men. This is the good news part of the story.
The measure still needs the approval of the city of Los Angeles, which includes Venice Beach.
Reading the story in the LA Times http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-topless-venice-20150423-story.html, I was very surprised at the bias the news article took against the proposal. This is the bad news part of the story.
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2015 AANR-NW Spring Board Meeting
The 2015 AANR-NW Spring Board is happening at Squaw Mountain Ranch April 24 – April 26. There will be sessions about topics ranging from pot legalization to cooperative background checks. There will be Government Affairs Training on Saturday morning. Learn how to do your part to prevent legislation that is bad for nudists. However, there is more than just meetings at a board meeting. Squaw Mountain is planning to show us all a good time with a welcome receptions, games, movies and other activities
Board Meetings are open to all AANR members. You are not only allowed to come, but encouraged. In addition to running the region, we have a great time. Please join us.
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AANR-NW Celebrates Earth Day at Rooster Rock State Park
AANR-NW is the proud adopter of Rooster Rock State Park through the Oregon State Park Adopt-A-Park program. AANR-NW invites you to participate in this family tree planting event. This is not a clothing optional event. We will be planting trees in the textile portion of the park.
Usually the weather at this event has us appreciating clothing!
What: Earth Day Tree Planting at Rooster Rock State Park
Where: On I-84 East of Troutdale take exit #25
When: April 25th 9 am- 1 pm
Lava Nursery located in Parkdale, Oregon, generously continued their donation of 400 tree seedlings. We value their contribution and solicit your help to get them planted. We work in partnership with Oregon State Park staff, Sierra Club members, Scouts, SOLV, and local community members.
Please wear weather appropriate clothing to this rain or shine event. Park tools are limited. We have been asked to bring garden planting tools, 5 gallon bucket, gloves, and drinking water. However, no tools or experience are required.
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Gymnophobia
by Karen Lahey
Gymnophobia is the name for the fear of nudity. It is an anxiety disorder and can be serious. Most people that are anti-nudist don’t suffer from gymnophobia. They suffer from ???. You can fill in the blanks.
It is interesting that there is a phobia about nudity. I wouldn’t have thought it until I was searching the internet for something to write about. This is a not too subtle hint that you ‘should’ be sending me content to publish.
What I did find was a a e-petition being proposed to criminalize gymnophobia. The justification was made that racism is a crime and homophobia is a crime so gymnophobia should be a crime. You can see this e-petition at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/73141
You can’t sign this petition unless you are a citizen of the UK.
I agree with most of the petition, but not with the very beginning. There is no way to legislate against hatred and prejudice. And certainly, one should not legislate against the sufferers of a disease. We can only legislate about how people act no matter how they feel about each other.
Really, please send me articles or ideas.
Karen
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U.N.I.T.E.
An organizing committee that came out of the discussions from the one day Unity Summit on February 11 in Miami continues to meet via phone conference. Two ideas are being pursued. One is how the various nudist/naturist groups can collaborate to support the Celebrate Nude Art Festival that is being planned for the Miami area in the fall. The intent is that this event can be put on in other areas in future years. The organizing committee is also looking into forming an ongoing way for our various nudist/naturist groups to work together, taking form as some sort of industry council.
I sit on this committee and will let you know as more information becomes available. Please email me if you have questions, concerns or suggestions.
Karen Lahey president@aanr-nw.org
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Success – Spokane Signatures Fall Short
Concerns that an anti-nudity initiative would be on the ballot this fall in the City of Spokane have been allayed. The group that gathered the necessary signatures turned in 3,320 signatures. However, 1,548 were ruled invalid for various reasons. This reduced the validated signatures to significantly fewer than the needed 2,477.
About one third of the invalid signatures came from people who live outside of the city of Spokane. Another third came from unregistered voters. The rest were invalidated because they were duplicates, couldn’t be verified or the signatures didn’t match what the county had on file.
Thanks go out to our Spokane nudists for their visibility at the city council meetings and with the city council.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/mar/17/exposure-law-proposal-focused-on-spokane-baristas/
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Keeping Your Eyes Open for Potentially Harmful Legislation
An important function of AANR is to watch legislation that might be harmful to nudism and to block it or to change it so that it will not affect social nudism.
In order to do this, AANR needs to know what legislation is being planned.
At the state level, AANR membership dollars go to buy a subscription to CQ State Track (http://www.cqstatetrack.com/index1.html). This website tracks bills given a set of keywords. Your regional GAT chair (Mike Parker – gat@aanr-nw.org) has a login to this site. However, any of us can look at the search results to see what is going on in our region. It is important to note that many of the reported bills do not affect us at all. They just meet the search criteria.
For the Northwest, the link is
http://www.cqstatetrack.com/texis/statetrack/insession/viewrpt/main.html?event=545a5e1821c
That is just the first step. AANR-NW needs to know what is going on in each county, city, town, etc. Spokane Valley, WA, passed a law last year banning mere nudity. AANR-NW didn’t know about it in time to mount an effective fight against it.
That is where you come in. Read your newspaper and your local blogs. Watch your local TV. Listen to local radio. Go to community meetings. If you learn about anything at all that might affect us, send information about it to gat@aanr-nw.org and to president@aanr-nw.org. It is better to get multiple emails about the same issue than no emails at all.
Remember that AANR is us. And we are AANR. It is up to us to make it work.
For your information —
The links to pending legislation for all of the US AANR regions are:
AANR-East
http://www.cqstatetrack.com/texis/statetrack/insession/viewrpt/main.html?event=545a5d3821c
AANR-Florida
http://www.cqstatetrack.com/texis/statetrack/insession/viewrpt/main.html?event=545a5d76264
AANR-Midwest
http://www.cqstatetrack.com/texis/statetrack/insession/viewrpt/main.html?event=545a5dba21c
AANR-Northwest
http://www.cqstatetrack.com/texis/statetrack/insession/viewrpt/main.html?event=545a5e1821c
AANR-Southwest
http://www.cqstatetrack.com/texis/statetrack/insession/viewrpt/main.html?event=545a5e6721c
AANR-West
http://www.cqstatetrack.com/texis/statetrack/insession/viewrpt/main.html?event=545a5ead1ac4
There is no comparable pending legislation link for AANR-Western Canada.