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Against the White Gold Rush: Lithium Mining at the Oregon Border
The Threat As of April of this year, the Federal Government is proposing to let an Australian company, Jindalee Lithium, explore for lithium mining in Southeastern Oregon, in the McDermitt Caldera, which is the ancestral and current homelands of the Fort McDermitt...
Share Fair Report-back
By: Neighborhood Anarchist Collective On Saturday, May 31st, the Neighborhood Anarchist Collective (NAC) hosted its second Share Fair of 2025 at the First United Methodist Church in Eugene. Over 500 people are estimated to have attended, which makes it one of the...
Elwha Forest Defenders Forced to Leave Woods After Attacks from Violent Vigilantes, Police and Government Technology
Below is a statement released by forest defenders in the Elwha Forest on the Olympic Peninsula. On May 7th, the group launched a tree-sit and blockade to defend a century-old forest that had been auctioned off last year by the Washington State Department of Natural...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
Failure at The Daily Emerald
I have declared that I wouldn’t write for a while every-single-time I have gotten involved with a newly formed, or forming, outlet, without fail. It’s not that I don’t want to write but rather that I enjoy watching these things blossom from behind-the-scenes while...
War on the Poor: Money Trails and Escalation
by: Dime and Screw When confronted with the disturbing lack of funding for vital programs and shelter, city officials in Eugene, Oregon wax poetic about budget short falls, insisting that they are doing their best, that there simply isn’t funding for life-saving aid,...