Heady Writing From the Streets of Eugene, Oregon
A federal judge has handed a win for Black Unity nearly six years after the events of July 29, 2020—otherwise known by many in the local activist community as “J29” or “Thurston”—and five years after the protest group’s lawsuit against the City of Springfield, Oregon and the Springfield Police Department was filed.
On Jan. 30, community members in both Eugene and Springfield attended rallies to demand that ICE be out of Lane County, in solidarity with the nationwide general strike that day. In Eugene, a riot was declared.
On the evening of Jan. 27, Department of Homeland Security officers exited the Old Federal Building in Downtown Eugene and violently surged hundreds of people—including elders and minors—attending an Oregon Nurses Association-organized candlelight vigil for slain Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti with flashbangs, PepperBalls, FN303 rounds, and tear gas.
Yesterday, Aug. 28, more than a dozen press organizations sent a letter to Mayor Kaarin Knudson and Eugene Police Department’s Chief Chris Skinner admonishing Public Information Program Coordinator Michael Rea’s use of press markers...
DSM, concerned by the EPD’s cosplay as members of the press, spoke to journalism experts who all agreed that this is bad.
More questions than answers remain following the conclusion of this year’s Lane County Fair where two protests occurred over the Lane County Republicans’ selling of “Alligator Alcatraz” t-shirts. It has been four days since...
Protests against the Lane County Republicans’ selling “Alligator Alcatraz” t-shirts at this year’s Lane County Fair resumed at noon on July 27, one day after they began. This time, many signs, including at least...
Dozens of community members gathered in front of the Lane Event Center’s main entrance beginning at 6 p.m. on July 26, one day after online outrage was sparked by the Lane County Republicans’ booth...
On July 23, this year’s Lane County Fair at the Lane Events Center in Eugene began. Since then, at least three separate posts on social media from astonished fairgoers have been published claiming that...
“This is an indictment of the political leadership of this city. We prioritize Phil Knight, we prioritize Brian Obie, we do not prioritize the LGBTQ community and our festival, we do not prioritize the Black community in this town.”
