September 2025
Poetry for Collective Awakening, for water to our collective soil
By: Stardust How do we diffuse the binaries between right and wrong , good and bad, And create clouds which hold each and every one of us, in our unique time and place within our body-minds How do we extinguish the flames of voices of past trauma And spark fires of...
Ask an Abolitionist: Life During Wartime
hello eric! i wanted to ask you this question when you were in oregon in may, but i was too shy, so seeing that you were accepting questions for this column gladdened me. essentially, i've fallen in love with a political prisoner. it is that future-altering,...
Letter from the Editor: Six Months of Many
Happy 6 month anniversary! September marks half a year of monthly publication from your friends (or maybe enemies, I don't know) at Dissonant Times. Whether this is your sixth or your first issue checking out what we've got to say, we want to say THANK YOU for joining...
September Forecast
EARLY AUTUMN SUMMARY By and large, the first half of October has done almost a complete 180° turn towards Autumn weather in just two days, and a series of fairly moderate storm systems this week could help seal the deal. Starting this weekend, a blocking pattern of...
The Impending Sweep of Thousand Acres
"Spiritually, there's a lot of purgatory in this forest. Lot of spirits that haven't made a decision yet... it's not for the faint of heart." - Tish, Thousand Acres resident since 2019 Cold seeps into the rushing water of the Sandy River Delta where it stirs and mixes...
Amazon is Trying to Build a Massive Fulfillment Center in Eugene
A new and destructive development project is rapidly moving through the city of Eugene’s permitting process: an Amazon fulfillment center. In all public communication surrounding permitting and construction, the facility’s owner is obscured, but the nature of the...
Medics for Action Collective Eugene: Protest Medics and Community Care
A new collective of volunteer medical care providers has assembled in Eugene, and quickly burst into action. I spoke with Marten and Sy, two members of Medics for Action Collective Eugene (MACE), about what this project is and why they choose to volunteer. Made up of...
Where’s CAHOOTS? Willamette Valley Crisis Care Soars While White Bird Withers
note: The information contained in this article, when source is not included as a link, is derived primarily from conversations with current and former White Bird employees. As of October 5th, Eugene will have survived six months without the universally-beloved...
stimming as energy work
I met someone for the first time who was naked. Of course we’re all naked under our clothes. I've met a lot of clothed folks, in my life. Some I've gotten close to and seen naked later, once we knew each other. But this was the first time I ever met someone who was...
Dear Darling: Meet the Parents except it’s poly and they’re you’re extended anarchist community
Okay, darling. I like to date my coworkers (that’s not the problem) and always struggle with gauging when it’s a good time to bring them to community events. You know the kind - when everyone you know is tabling for something, and the whole event is spent seeing your...
Analysis Of Eugene’s 9/13 Charlie Kirk Vigil
By Corvallis Antifascists on 2025/09/16 Republished by Dissonant TImes 2025/09/30 Last Wednesday, Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder and ur-debate bro Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking in front of a crowd at a Utah Valley University. In the following...
In the Eye of a Hurricane
by: Bella Ciao A young man is in custody for an assassination and a hurricane of speculation, conspiracy theories, false flag accusations, and propaganda spinners on both sides are hard at work. The right pushing for a pretext for crackdowns that were already...
Sleep the Worldeater and the inevitable death of kings
by: Scotty I want to lie in a field of flowers and loam, and to soak into the dirt while the evil of the world atrophies and there the wickedness of kings becomes lost and forgotten. Yet. Between restlessness and sleep There is a mirror in the void, coyotes...