Dissonant Times
Willamette Valley Grassroots Media
April 2025
Put the Park Back in Parking Lot
Dear Editor, Imagine: Instead of a parking ticket, you get a park and a picnic. Such a world is possible, if only we’re brave enough to create it. Eugene, there are steps we can take to topple oligarchy right here at home. Across party lines, across creed, class, and...
April Issue 3 Week Forcast
EARLY SPRING SYNOPSIS Please dive in with me to think about what weather might grace us in the next few weeks. Quite a lot has been going on lately, which is typical for early-to-mid Spring as increasing sunshine causes warmer air masses to battle with pools of cold...
Failure at The Daily Emerald
I have declared that I wouldn’t write for a while every-single-time I have gotten involved with a newly formed, or forming, outlet, without fail. It’s not that I don’t want to write but rather that I enjoy watching these things blossom from behind-the-scenes while...
War on the Poor: Money Trails and Escalation
by: Dime and Screw When confronted with the disturbing lack of funding for vital programs and shelter, city officials in Eugene, Oregon wax poetic about budget short falls, insisting that they are doing their best, that there simply isn’t funding for life-saving aid,...
Cahoots and White Bird: This Must Mean Revolution
This Must Mean Revolution written by Cifer, based on conversations with current and former White Bird workers. Thank you to Miles, Swift and many others for your ideas and contributions. Starting in 1969, White Bird Clinic has been promising dedicated, client-centered...
Still Not Bombs
March 31st, 2025by Azria Raventhorn First they came for the covered area. The shelters at Park Blocks --which provided some small respite from the piercing winter rains-- were torn down. Eyes in the sky flashing blue lights watched over the excavators tearing the...
Dear Darling / April 2025
Dear Darling, I am writing because I am struggling to understand how we can all take care of each other at a time rife with so much struggle, of the political, personal, and economic nature. I want to believe that the thing that will get us through is care from our...
April 3rd SWEEP
Report submitted from near Washington/Jefferson bridge, April 3rd 2025 I am walking along West 4th Avenue towards the Washington/Jefferson bridge on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at about 11:00am, crossing Jefferson through the underpass and there is a Eugene police...
Resistance is Fertile in the Solidarity Garden
Grocery prices are about to go up. Again. So now, more than any other time in my 4+ decades on Earth, we need to stop asking permission to do what’s right, start sharing resources and cultivate community care. While the Trump administration accelerates our...
Queen King
In honor of a friend, comrade, and guiding light - her power, love and influence will be with us always. The following are excerpts from a eulogy written for Candice King(1984-2025). I know it isn’t lost on anyone that someone who dedicated so much of her time to...
a love poem
if i die before i say "i love you" i made sure you'll find out i told everyone else, everyone who would listen, to make sure its not time yet i'm not brave yet to tell you myself but the chance that you would never know is too risky to bear so i told the baker and I...
Rattling the Cages and Editing the Pages: An interview with Eric King and Josh Davidson
In late February 2025, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with the editors of Rattling the Cages, Josh Davidson & Eric King. Rattling the Cages is an anthology of oral histories of North American political prisoners released through AK Press in 2023. The...
Still Against Genocide
In the early hours of April 15th, 2025, a banner reading "FREE PALESTINE" was hung off the Harlow Road bridge over the I-5 interstate. This was done in protest of the u.s. backing of the genocide in Gaza, timed on u.s. tax day in acknowledgement of u.s. taypayer's...
Mel’s Hovel, Part 1 & 2
Water droplets seemed to freeze in the air as Mel’s paws splashed through the puddles marking her way home. The last rain left, much to her delight, several more than usual scattered over the well worn path through the woods. Well worth the worry ignited by the strong...
Trans Day Letter to the Mayor
I met the mayor at the Lavender Network and Transponder art show on March 30th 2025. I had three pieces in the art show, and I was glad to be part of the whole experience. The next morning I wrote a letter to the mayor because of the Transgender Day of Visibility...
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