May 2025
May Weather Report
FIVE-WEEK SUMMARY As many of you have probably guessed by now, we're quickly approaching a more summer-like circulation pattern, with a few nuances and caveats. Upper 70s to mid-80s are possible roughly next Wed. May 28 into early June. But, in part due to residual...
Solidarity in Resistance: Definition of Terms and the Elephant in the Room
Solidarity in Resistance: Definition of Terms and the Elephant in the Room On May 1st 2025-- May Day-- there was a rally and march in Eugene, Oregon, put on by labor and union organizers. Conflict arose between attendees about what constitutes "correct" behavior at a...
To the Sorority that Asked Us to Leave Their Steps
The other day, a friend and I were walking in our neighborhood and sat down for a few minutes to chat at the base of some concrete steps. These steps were at the base of a patio that was attached to one of the UO sorority houses. We chatted for a few minutes, until a...
Justice in Mutual Aid: Four Charges Dismissed
EUGENE, OR - Four individuals cited with second-degree trespass charges have had their cases dismissed by the Eugene Municipal Court. Three of the four were delivering food and supplies to unhoused people at the time of citation by Eugene Police. The fourth, a stroke...
The PARTY for SUCKING and LICKING HEREBY DECLARES WAR
... on all Grifters, Liars, Aspiring Statemongers and Patronizing (trans)Misogynists Excerpts from an anonymous reportback on distributing the zine "Why I Left the PSL" at a PS(Party for Socialism and Liberation) rally …When we were handing out zines near the stage, a...
Forest Defenders Launch Tree-Sit in the Elwha Forest in Port Angeles, Washington
Port Angeles, WA - Compiled from press advisories, instagram posts, and a conversation with the media team. As of May 7th, 2025, forest defenders have been on a platform high off the ground(70-100 feet) to defend a century-old forest. Located on the Olympic Peninsula...
On The Usefulness of Poetry
If gaza is the soul of Palestine, The west bank is the heart, And both are bleeding, Both are in a state of shock, Tractors across their veins, Their arteries poisoned, Their airwaves struggling for life. Maybe the time for poetry is dead, Buried in a mass grave Along...
The Fight for Cahoots 2.0
After seven weeks of persistent advocacy, concerned public comments flooding city council meetings, and unaddressed community crises, the Eugene City Council maintains $0 for CAHOOTS or a comparable crisis response service in their 2025-2027 Proposed Biennial Budget. ...
Dear Darling / May 2025
Dear Darling, "Why is the sky blue" has become offensive and, at best, assumed a joke. When we stop to consider what we might about someone in this position, we find the vulnerability, we find a scared person looking for affection. To compete with a what will not only...
community, access intimacy, and failure / May 2025
To be disabled is to have failed. I don’t mean we’ve failed inherently, but our culture tells us whose bodies matter, and it’s not us. Having failed gives as certain problems, like with making money, staying housed, finding partners, keeping our children,...
Auntie Steph’s Whole Wheat Bread Recipe
Whole Wheat Bread Preheat oven to 375℉ 3 ¾ to 4 ¼ cups whole wheat flour 1 packet rapid rise yeast 1 ¼ teaspoon salt 1 ⅓ cups water ⅓ cup non-dairy milk 2 tablespoons oil 2 tablespoons honey 1. Combine 2 cups flour, dry yeast and salt in a large bowl and mix until...
Artisanal Avarice
By: Mara X I’ve become obsessed with a particular kind of hobby. These hobbies focus on an experience which has a consistent baseline and is usually engaged in casually. The hobby is in the optimization and customization of the experience, the expansion of its...
Joy & Sacrifice
By: Persephone This was largely written in the wake of Aaron Bushnell's brave and tragic self-immolation in protest of the genocide in Gaza, in response to the feelings this stirred in me—parts of me that felt a deep sense of recognition in the likely motivations for...
Meet Malik Muhammed
Malik Muhammad is a Black/Palestinian Muslim, anarchist antifascist, antiracist abolitionist imprisoned fighting for his love of freedom during the George Floyd Uprisings in Portland, Oregon. Throughout his prison sentence, he's consisently fought back against racist,...
MELTING ICE: Reportback From the May 2nd March
Anonymous Report-back: On May 2nd there was a call for a black bloc under the slogan MAY DAY MELT ICE, in response to the federal government’s unrestrained escalations against migrants, people connected to last year’s Palestine Solidarity movement, and non-white...
Foster youth struggle to find support after aging out
EUGENE, Ore. — Foster youth in Oregon lose vital support when they turn 18 and age out of the system. Many navigate adulthood without guidance, stable housing, or access to basic health care. The transition from being in custody of the state to independent living...
DEFEND FOREST PARK UPDATE: WHAT’S NEXT IN THE FIGHT AGAINST HARBORTON RELIABILITY?
by: at Least Six Possums in a Trench Coat Editors Note: Forest Park is a public municipal park in the Tualatin Mountains west of downtown Portland, Oregon As we walk up the BPA Trail into Forest Park, we realize that we have never actually heard what a northern...
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...
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...