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Still Standing: Forest Defenders Fight and Win to Preserve Oregon’s Old Growth Forests
By: Mossy Marblington On May 14th, a federal judge ruled to cancel the sale of a forest containing some of the last remaining old growth forest in Oregon. Forest defenders had been closely tracking the forests after the sale, and discovered that many of the ancient...
Nakba Day: 78 Years of Catastrophe
On May 15th, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) held a rally and vigil to observe Nakba Day. This year marks 78 years since the start of Al-Nakba or "the catastrophe" (or disaster) in Arabic. Throughout 1948, more than 750,000 Palestinian people were...
Radical Alternative Development Secures Its Own Venue
Eugene, OR-- Local punk nonprofit Radical Alternative Development (RAD) recently announced plans to open their own venue in Downtown Eugene. The announcement arrived amidst a bleak year of bar and restaurant closures in town, and is an antidote to a lack of...
Watkins in the street: Street performer arrested after fulfilling his traffic-directing vision
EUGENE, OR.— In front of the neighborhood behind Autzen Stadium, a man in a “Where’s Waldo?” striped shirt, clownfish shoes, and a purple-plushie cap stood in the center of traffic, pointing as the light changed from red to green and waving drivers to press on the...
Eugene Anti-Zionist Jews Say Not in Our Name: Protest Against Celebration of Genocide
Eugene, OR - On Sunday, April 19th, Temple Beth Israel (TBI) hosted a celebration of Yom Ha'atzmaut, or what they call Israel Independence Day, in collaboration with groups including the UO Hillel, the Israel on Campus Coalition, The Jewish Federation, and a Stand...
What We’ve Learned About Protest Arrests at the Eugene Federal Building: (non-legal) Advice from Eugene Jail Support
Eugene has had its fair share of state repression over the past few years. From the April 15th, 2024 mass arrest of nearly 60 protesters against the genocide in Gaza, to the 8 arrests and citations across multiple mayday marches on May 2nd, 2025, protesters in Eugene...
Federal Policy Attempts to Forcefully Detransition Trans Prisoners: Interview with Political prisoner Sofia De Ferrari
This past February, the Trump administration released its new policy outlining a plan to deny federal prisoners access to gender-affirming healthcare, with a road map that leads from pathologizing the trans experience as a "mental illness" to forced detransition. The...
Daisy CHAIN Unlinked: The Dissolution of A Yet Another Local Nonprofit
On February 19th, 2026 an email sent to Daisy CHAIN community members, including employees and clients, abruptly announced that the organization’s last day of operations would be February 20th-- giving employees and clients less than 48 hours notice of the termination...
Emergency Rooms in Crisis: Understanding the Corporate Infiltration into PeaceHealth
On March 20th, Eugene Emergency Physicians leveraged its new rights under SB 951 and filed a lawsuit against PeaceHealth and ApolloMD, elucidating the “friendly physician” model that ApolloMD is using as an out-of-state MSO to overstep beyond the administrative realm...
No years in Prison for Broken Windows
A statement by Eugene Jail Support to all members of the ICE OUT protest community: Spurred on by ICE's increasing activity, including the state sanctioned murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Eugene has given nearly 2 months of sustained resistance against the...