December 2025
An Excerpt from “Off Route”
By: Rick Levin, author I am exaggerating my response to the pandemic, of course. Yes, it scared the hell out of me. But I never feared the virus killing me, really. What I feared was other people—that’s always been my core fear, only here it was amplified and...
Malik Muhammed No Longer in Solitary Confinement
On Friday December 12th, Oregon-based political prisoner Malik Muhammed was transferred out of Snake River Correctional Institution, where they had spent over a year in solitary confinement. They are now in Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, a medium security...
It’s a Wonderful Community Christmas
The halls of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Eugene (UUCE) were jolly on December 25th thanks to the hard work of community members and the hospitality of church membership. The Christmas Day event was the second iteration of what organizers have named Community...
Stop Amazon from Destroying Our Wetlands
Diagram of proposed “e-commerce” fulfillment center (believed to be amazon) to see the size/scope. Located at Awbrey Lane and highway 99, it is proposed to be 320,000 square feet and house upwards of 1400 vehicles. On their application, they acknowledge that six and...
A Review of Eric King’s A Clean Hell by Indigenous political prisoner Oso Blanco
by: Oso Blanco This book Eric King has published will tell you many truths of what US colonialism has come to in the form of US federal prisons, especially the abuses of humans in the SHU and at the ADX Supermax in Florence, Colorado. The haves who seek to destroy and...
Dear Darling: Anxiety or Reality?
Dear Darling, I feel like like a lot of my friends hate me, which is something I've always struggled with, but in some cases I've been right. Lately its been really bad. I tried to tell a friend I was having a bad week and she just stared at me. Other people in...
Ratself by the meat pit
Ratself stumbles over rotten garbage into the dank alley behind Boneyard, dizzy with oblivion and welcome of it. They trip, lurching faceward into goop and grime, betrayed by a loose, fraying shoelace rapidly congealing into the mess. Ratself is wasted. Nose leaking,...
On Ghosts – Poetry
by: Clarabel “My heart has joined the thousands, for my friend stopped running today” - Watership Down A new ghost darts past the door, a silvery wisp, with sparkling eyes. Every other ghost in the house is woken, From sleep, from respite, from being locked in the...
Harm Reduction is Respect
Being real about emotions and inner life is everything to me. I’m a radical mental health person. Relatedly, addicts are my people. I think a lot about self-harm, substance use, addiction, and harm reduction. What am I doing that’s fucking up my life, and how...
Flocking Finally: Eugene and Springfield Police Departments Terminate Flock Contracts
On the evening of Dec. 5, both the Eugene Police Department and the Springfield Police Department announced terminations of their Flock contracts in what Dissonant Times dubbed “the Friday Night Deflocking.” The terminations are a win by Eyes Off Eugene during their campaign to rid Lane County of the intrusive automatic license plate reader technology.