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In reply to the discussion: when obama is renominated ,will biden also be renominated? [View all]Ferret Annica
(1,701 posts)We have an Occupy Eugene demonstration going here, and the city council has given us an extension of the December 15 deadline until the 11th of January.
Here is a link to the forums:
http://occupyeugenemedia.org/discussion/index.php
An ironic thing about the site being at the mouth of the I-105 viaduct park between Washington and Jefferson streets is this higway built at the end of the 1960s was controversial when I got to Eugene because it is said to originally been slated to route closer to Valley River Shopping Center that was also new then.
The houses lost to eminent domain were the heaviest concentration of Anri-Vietnam War activist households, and though denied by the city this was deliberate to help dislodge protest leaders and members of the the Eugene Coalition Liberation Movement organization.... well, you know the deal.
They have tall cyclone fence segments around Occupy Eugene and run generators for the heavy, bright light arrays they have shining on the camp much as the Forest Service did to us in the trees during forst closures trying to close down our tree villages.
The Eugne police are extraordinarily well equiped and experienced with dealing with dissent, as Eugene is a counter culture enclave which has an incrdible history of doing protest on many things.
Some years back in fact, the Wall Street Journal did a series of stories on our large anarchist community. Which is only this year resurfacing after years of being low key because that time created a lot of heat and made things dangerous to be too conspicuous.
Tim Lewis has videos of the 1990s protests on his 'Picture Eugene' Channel. The biggest story of 1997 was the Eugene Tree Riot where we had a large group of people take to forty large trees slated for destruction one sunday moring.
They tortured people out of the trees and many were peppersprayed and arrested that day. One of the videos Tim has up is footage of that protest which was considered the biggest story of the year here.
Eugene tree Riot: