Dissonant Times
Willamette Valley Grassroots Media
Dissonant Times
Willamette Valley Grassroots Media
June 2026
Ask an Abolitionist: Supporting Trans Prisoners
Question: Hi Eric, I feel helpless when it comes to supporting trans prisoners and fighting back against the growing repression against them. How do we best offer our solidarity to trans people behind the bars? —-Protect Trans Prisoners, but how? Eric’s Answer: What...
JUNE WEATHER FORECAST
ATMOSPHERIC SUMMARY Long-term forecasting is very challenging in the best of times. But this El Niño is now on track to become the world's strongest on record, sending quite an enormous amount of thermal and kinetic energy across the eastern Pacific and ultimately...
Federal judge orders immediate removal of fence around Eugene federal building
by: Ember Lovejoy In the lawsuit Renshaw v. General Services Administration (GSA), plaintiffs challenged the federal government’s installation of a tall metal fence around the perimeter of the Eugene federal building as a violation of the First Amendment’s protections...
Disabled Love: our first ride after the death of David Morris
“Is my skirt in danger of the chain?” I asked. “No,” Ming said. “Am I showing any parts of my body that I’m not supposed to show?” I asked. “No,” Ming said. Those questions are comfortingly repeated toward the beginning of most of our rides. It was our first ride...
Dear Darling
Dear Darling, I have a best friend who is kind and wonderful and beautiful and amazing. Our relationship is everything to me. We've been friends since elementary school, and have kept in touch despite going to different high schools and colleges, and we facetime...
Juneteenth: Call to Support Hakiyim Simpson and Malik Muhammed
Incarceration is a modern, legal form of slavery. The state manages to still enslave disproportionate amounts of BIPOC folks through the prison system. The United States has more people in prison than any other country in the world. None are free until all are free....
Wayfinding Towards Solidarity and Struggle: The importance of community-powered education
When we struggle personally and collectively with conflict and injustice, where do we turn? When liberatory projects, campaigns, and larger movements burn and fizzle out, how can we build resilience across individuals and communities to keep up the work? How do we...
PINKWASHING: Corporate Propaganda and the Settler-Colonial Toolkit
by: Mx. Rahi Tea It seems the general "mainstream left" is fiiiiiinaaaaaly having critical conversations about pink-washing and rainbow-capitalism. The corporate and state-sanctioned messaging that presents the facade of support for the queer community but at its...
Life or Limb? On the Use and Misuse of Hazard Tree Designations
A recent dispute over protections to an old-growth redwood tree in Lower Redway, California has once again invigorated scrutiny towards hazard tree designations, their justifications, and the uses to which they are put. In late 2025 Robert Scarlett, a mid-twenties...
Information and History the Oregon Country Fair Doesn’t Want You to Know
1) Oregon Country Fair is located on an Indigenous burial ground and a traditional village site; 2) Archeology is rooted in racism; 3) Colonial nostalgia doesn't rinse out in the sauna shower. A brief history of Oregon Country Fair playing Indian, disrespecting tribal...
To Plant a Garden
Seventeen planters, placed by the city over a year ago to deter people from relaxing in front of an unoccupied downtown building, yet never filled with life. Nine, approximately 22’x25’ austere, concrete boxes lining the front of the federal courthouse, each occupied...
From Incarceration to Queer Liberation
My coming out story is pretty unique - kinda gritty, but also very supportive and loving. I grew up entangled in male toxicity where one of the main expressions was anger, and sarcasm took the place of tenderness. When my father died at 52 from a heart attack, my twin...
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Dissonant Times is published by a small editorial team based in Eugene, Oregon, with the help of a mixed bag of volunteer contributors and advisors. We are community powered and at present our only funding comes from supporters of grassroots, citizen journalism.
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