Local activists with Decriminalize Homelessness and Stop Death On The Streets, among others, then helped to move tents and belongings out of the exclusion zone while a work crew from the city cleaned up everything left behind.
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Eugene Rising, Part IV
Welcome to The Anarchist Capital of the World
Eugene Rising, Part II
Part II: The Workers, The Racists, and The Vagrants
Eugene Rising: A History of Protest in the Emerald City
Part I: The Birth of the Emerald Empire
Essential for Survival: Measure 110 and the Queer Community
Oregon is building a new future that we all have a stake in, a future that seeks to mend the wounds inflicted by the war on drugs.
News You Might Have Missed: Week of January 17
News You Might Have Missed is a weekly run-down of quick local news stories and links where you can investigate these stories for yourself. In a perfect world, I’d be able to write all these stories myself, but I only have so much time in a day to write articles. Climate I got an emailContinue reading “News You Might Have Missed: Week of January 17”
Proud Boys Attend Rally in Eugene, Three Arrested
Members of the Proud Boys and rally organizers accused EPD officers of “protecting antifa” but video shows an EPD officer returning a flagpole to the same person who had wielded it as a spear.
UPDATED: EPD Officers Shoot Black Man, Department Struggles to Keep Story Straight
Muhsin Sharif’s name wasn’t even released by law enforcement–it was his sisters who revealed his identity to KEZI two days after he was shot.
Activists Urge City to Reconsider Fracking Franchise
The letter–which is cosigned by groups such as the Eugene-Springfield NAACP, Sunrise Eugene, Cascadia Wildlands, and the Cascadia Action Network–calls on the city to both prohibit the installation of new natural gas hookups in Eugene and prevent future construction of fossil fuel infrastructure.
How Copaganda Works: A Look at Eugene Police Department’s Digital Newsroom
Propaganda isn’t always about changing minds. It’s often about maintaining the expectations of minds you already have.