July 2025
Canvassing for Community: Neighbors Offer Tools and Info to Employers Amidst ICE Escalation
LANE COUNTY, OREGON - As communities experience an alarming uptick in immigrant detainments, deportations and workplace raids, neighbors are arming themselves with tools and information about their constitutional rights. One grassroots group, Canvassing for Community,...
Dissonant Weather- Summer 2025
MAY–AUGUST SUMMARY (mostly somewhat technical) I apologize for not posting a forecast last month. I was busy after June 16 preparing for a big conference and also had some ongoing personal struggles. One glance at this first chart should tell you there's a lot going...
No, Seriously, Trust us: We’re still a sanctuary city – EPD
By: Brignoni-Ponce On July 7th the Eugene Police Department released a Department Command Directive (No. CD25-013) with the subject “Guidance for Requests for Assistance at the Federal Building Involving Immigration.” The document, signed by Chief of Police Chris...
Continued Resistance of ICE Deportations in Portland: Varied Tactics, Shared Goal
Escalating Violence Towards Protesters from Feds In Portland, Oregon, protests are held nightly at the ICE field office, located at 4310 S Macadam St. By day, the community holds barbeques, vigils, marches, sewing circles, sign-making sessions, and demonstrations of...
Just Trust Us: The Continued Manipulation of the Masses by Flock Safety and EPD
We are "really, really very reliable" Quote from EPD Chief Skinner’s “Copy Up” podcast: 07/11/25 episode Eugene OR - On July 10, 2025 over two dozen community members attended a Eugene Police Commission meeting to express outrage over the Eugene Police Department's...
Whither Pride? Takeaways from Two Pride Events
by: Lump Eugene commemorated Pride last month with a variety of events throughout June. I attended two of these on the 28th, the march to Eugene Pride in the morning and Pride Was a Riot! in the afternoon. This report back will loosely cover what I experienced at...
Weirdos and Wild Ones
by: a mutant During the Summer Solstice hundreds of anarcho weirdos gathered for the annual Autonomous Mutant Fest (AMF), a 15 day long DIY renegade festival where money is imaginary and the police (mostly) don't exist, except where they assert fire codes, unable to...
Dear Darling: Friendship Advice
Dear Darling, I have a friend who feels like a stranger now. We still eat lunch together, talk, and smile at each other, but it doesn't feel like there's anything left of substance. We're part of a friend group of four, and she's definitely close to the other two than...
Confronting Hate: An Urgent Call to Action for Lane County
Friends, neighbors, and comrades, You've likely seen them. They appear at the Saturday Market, brandishing anti-abortion signs at Planned Parenthood, and anti-gay rhetoric at Pride events. They set up their pulpits, one comically tall, and bring their own children to...
Beauty As Healing
Last night I dreamt that I was holding a baby. It was Candice's baby. In my dream, Candice was still alive, as vibrant and beautiful as ever, but having “a hard time.” So I was helping care for her baby. Often in my baby dreams, the baby has an unrealistic shape, or...
Thousand Acres Stops The Sweeps… For Now
Troutdale, OR "I've never seen people load up a bulldozer so fast and disappear. From dead set on destroying this place and cleaning it up and hauling it off to- invisible, they turned to smoke you might say, they disappeared so fast." Says 'Hippie', who has lived...
Mutual Aid Classifieds: Community Needs July 2025
A new project has emerged from recent Mutual Aid Town Hall meetings with an aim of increasing collaboration and sharing resources between some of the many mutual aid organizations in town: a Mutual Aid Spokes Council.During the first of our monthly meetings we heard...
For Your Summer Reading List: A Graphic Novel of MVP Resistance
Released this spring, Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance offers a raw and personal look into everyday Appalachians and their decade-long resistance of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Author and climate organizer Denali Sai Nalamalapu invites their readers into...
An Uncritical Media is Worthless
I’ll just go right out and say it: I was appalled when I read the transcript of KLCC’s Michael Dunne’s interview with newly sworn-in Springfield Police Chief Jami Resch that was published on July 9. So much so that I published a brief thread on the social media app...
The Magic Touch
Life is to be lived. Felt. But increasingly, it takes place virtually, in cyberspace. Chronic internet use, for example, is a key factor in Daphne Simeon's Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization and the Loss of the Self (2023). A great distancing is rapidly taking place....
ICE is still kidnapping people from Eugene
Today I was at the Call Out Sick protest downtown outside of the Eugene Federal Building in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors being arrested at their routine ICE check-in appointments while also being denied access to their attorneys. Despite about 40 people...