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1 week ago | 
eugeneweekly.com | Camilla Mortensen
Upcoming Rallies, Marches and Protests• Hands Off! Peaceful protest against the rise of fascism in our country, noon-3 pm, Saturday April 19, 8th and Oak, Downtown Park Blocks. • XR Eugene’s Spring Rebellion, noon, Saturday, April 19, 6th and Pearl, Extinction Rebellion, Rebel against oligarchs. Rebel against extinction. • Day of mass immigrant defense outreach, 2 pm-4 pm, Saturday, April 19, Party for Socialism and Liberation. Register at bit.ly/massoutreachsession.
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2 weeks ago | 
eugeneweekly.com | Camilla Mortensen
• CAHOOTS Town Hall, 6:30 pm, Thursday, April 10, Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, Room 180, University of Oregon. Learn about research on CAHOOTS’s positive impacts and about the challenges it faces. CAHOOTS is currently not providing services in Eugene. • Uphold the Law, 5 pm to 6 pm, Monday, April 14, Wayne Morse Federal Courthouse, 405 East 8th Avenue.
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3 weeks ago | 
eugeneweekly.com | Camilla Mortensen
• Weekly vigils calling for an immediate ceasefire in Palestine and Israel, 5 pm Wednesdays, Planet Versus Pentagon, Old Federal Building, corner of 7th & Pearl, Eugene. • Replace Reverse Reclaim/Hands Off! Eugene Fights Back, noon, Saturday, April 5, 50501 Movement, Indivisible Project and Activist Coalition of Eugene Springfield (ACES), Eugene City Hall, 500 East 4th Avenue. See Mobilize.us.
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4 weeks ago | 
eugeneweekly.com | Camilla Mortensen
After the Lane County Commission voted 3-0 on April 1 to ban drag shows in Eugene, Eugene city councilors pushed back — pointing out that the county cannot control what the city does. The commission is made up of five members.
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4 weeks ago | 
eugeneweekly.com | Camilla Mortensen
Ten years ago on March 30, 2015, Brian Babb, a 49-year-old military veteran with PTSD, was armed and feeling suicidal, according to court documents. He had fired his gun and told his therapist as much when he called her for help. Within an hour of that call, Babb was shot and killed by a Eugene police officer. His sister, Stephanie Babb, is holding a memorial March 29 for Brian Babb and for others who have been killed by police violence.
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4 weeks ago | 
eugeneweekly.com | Camilla Mortensen
• Know Your Rights Training for Immigrants and Allies, 4:30 pm, Thursday, March, 27, Civil Liberties Defense Center, co-sponsored by Indivisible Eugene Springfield. The Lavender Network, 440 Maxwell Road, Eugene. • Save Our Services Kick Off Fundraiser, 5 pm, Thursday, March, 27, Ninkasi Brewing, 155 Blair Boulevard.
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1 month ago | 
eugeneweekly.com | Camilla Mortensen
The University of Oregon’s faculty union, United Academics, announced in a March 20 press release that it intends to strike as soon as March 31. At issue is fair faculty compensation, the UA says. If the strike proceeds, it would be the first faculty strike at the UO. In January 2024, the school narrowly averted a graduate employees strike when the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation and the UO reached an agreement only days before the strike was to begin.
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1 month ago | 
eugeneweekly.com | Camilla Mortensen
It’s more important than ever to speak up and show up. • Know Your Rights Training for Activists, 4:30 pm, Friday, March 21, Civil Liberties Defense Center, co-sponsored by Indivisible Eugene Springfield. The Lavender Network, 440 Maxwell Road, Eugene. • Stop the Corporate Coup, 1 pm to 3 pm, Saturday March 22, Indivisible, at the corner of Seneca and West 11th in West Eugene.
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1 month ago | 
eugeneweekly.com | Camilla Mortensen
It’s more important than ever to speak up and show up. Email [email protected] with “Activist Alert” in the subject line to add protests to this listings and add them to the Weekly‘s What’s Happening Calendar. • Know Your Rights Training for Activists, Civil Liberties Defense Center, 4:30 pm, Friday, March 21, The Lavender Network, 440 Maxwell Road, Eugene.
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1 month ago | 
eugeneweekly.com | Camilla Mortensen
Those videos on social media and YouTube of people redoing vans and buses into shiny dwellings on wheels, or the ones of folks building tiny homes full of air and light from scratch, fill me with horror and fascination. Horror because I find home improvement utterly unrelatable and somewhat terrifying. I live in a 1975 Airstream trailer, and I have for almost 15 years.
