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The Power Potential of Organized Anarchists: Lessons from the Sacramento Anarchist Bookfair
Earlier this month, anarchists from southern California to northern Washington gathered at the Sacramento bookfair to share books and zines, build relationships, and figure out what’s possible in the ultimate fight to topple fascism. Some of the most...
Free Skool Eugene: One year of skill-shares, following in the legacy of anti-authoritarian education
Free Skool Eugene is a collective that organizes spaces to share skills and knowledge, free of cost and state control. I sat down with organizers Jamie, Cyn, Janae, Emily, and Alex to chat about the project, their reflections after the first year, and their...
Time Before and After
by: Sense > An open call for membranes of time, this inaugural post (amid calls for sanity) let's what exists before and after sanity be sense, and what exists before and after sense, below. Before sense, there was the scourge - a boiling fester of...
Art is for Liberation: Interview and Album Review with Femme Dagger
Ahead of Femme Dagger's upcoming release of their album Glitter in the Cut, I talked with Annah Anti-Palindrome. Using a looping system, kitchen utensils, gas-masks, raw eggs, found objects, and Annah's own body(mostly throat), she performs with Temple Kirk on...
Poetry for Collective Awakening, for water to our collective soil
By: Stardust How do we diffuse the binaries between right and wrong , good and bad, And create clouds which hold each and every one of us, in our unique time and place within our body-minds How do we extinguish the flames of voices of past trauma And spark fires of...
Sleep the Worldeater and the inevitable death of kings
by: Scotty I want to lie in a field of flowers and loam, and to soak into the dirt while the evil of the world atrophies and there the wickedness of kings becomes lost and forgotten. Yet. Between restlessness and sleep There is a mirror in the void, coyotes...
El derecho de vivir en paz: An interview with Misery Whip
After their Portland show on August 25th, I talked to AJ and Ben from Oregon-based “Working Class Death Metal” band Misery Whip about their newest LP “The Right to Live in Peace,” their politics, and the intersection between hardcore and politics. Listen to their...
HOW HOMELESSNESS BREAKS US
Homelessness traumatized me– homelessness fucked me up. There are physical health consequences I still live with like the chronic UTI. But homelessness broke my heart in new ways. Abandonment got a new name. It wore me down past my minimum. I emotionally invested in...
Support and Resistance at the Lane County Jail
On Friday afternoons from 1-5pm, a group of friends and comrades sit outside of the Lane County Jail. We welcome people out of jail, and offer them drinks, food, bus passes, basic first aid supplies, cigarettes, and whatever other treats we pulled together that day. A...
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...