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• There’s an important election in November. What can I do? Go to the Blackberry Pie Society website and it will tell you “how to … Continue reading
WOW Hall, It’s Ours!
Participate and help the Community Center for the Performing Arts’s historic building and programs
By David Zupan Thousands of events, gatherings and friendships have happened in the W.O.W. Hall since the Woodmen of the World built their new Woodcraft … Continue reading
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• On May 31, while Eugene Weekly staff writer Henry Houston was reporting on Black Lives Matter related protests, Eugene police officers hit him with … Continue reading
Police Unmasked
Disregard for our impacts on others lies at heart of today's ills
After more than 10 years of writing columns for The Register-Guard, it was time for a change. I am pleased to say I will now … Continue reading
Change History
Dismantle the systems that validate oppression and racism
By Michelle Holman White people in America are clearly steeped in a very real moment. We are being urged to listen, reckon, reflect and act. … Continue reading
Racialized Inequality
Social justice is the vaccine we need for Oregon's food system
By Joan Gross and Emily Yates-Doerr The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the racialized inequality that permeates Oregon’s food system. The conditions of slavery and … Continue reading
A Life Steeped in the Arts
In Memory of Lois Wadsworth, 1936-2019
My mother was a gatherer of people. She could draw someone she had just met into conversation, then into friendship, almost before they knew what … Continue reading
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COVID-19 and Long-Term Care of Oregonians
Long-term care residents and employees need support
Our vulnerable citizens residing in long-term care and skilled nursing facilities, often physically and/or mentally disabled, are in dire need of our support and help. … Continue reading
Black Girl From Eugene
Assimilation is not a gift
By Ayisha Elliott I was born in Eugene. A Black baby of two revolutionary Black parents and the fifth child of our crew. I grew up … Continue reading
Protect the People
Oregon Legislature’s steps on improving policing
By Sen. James Manning and Rep. Marty Wilde Oregonians deserve peace officers who will serve and protect the public, not control the public. During the … Continue reading
A Dream Deferred No Longer
The coronavirus is not the only out-of-control pandemic
By Joe Berney Seventy years ago, the American poet Langston Hughes wrote about Black lives and Black discontent in Harlem: What happens to a dream … Continue reading
The Assault on St. John’s Church
The June 1 attack on peaceful protesters sums up Trump’s administration
By Thomas Coffin Certain dates are never erased from memory. Dates such as July 4, 1776; Dec. 7, 1941, and Sept. 11, 2001. Perhaps June … Continue reading
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• This week we present to you another “Local and Vocal” roundup of local voices on the issues that affect people locally and globally. Eugene Weekly … Continue reading