Walking up to today's protest right now that's starting in the The Whittaker area if #EugeneOregon.
Currently about ~50 people at the Dew Drop Inn organizing, eating snacks and drinking some solidari-tea.
Update: I believe it's chamomile.
Scratch that. Somebody just yelled peppermint.
Fifteen past 6 p.m. and there isn't much movement. No idea where the protest will go from here.
I failed the very protest reporting class I helped give today for the @DailyEmerald and have worn the wrong shoes. Might cut this short or actually get cut because they're too small.
Organizers with Black Unity are currently advising POC to travel in groups as "lynchings are happening again."
"We are for ALL Black lives."
"This is not going to stop anytime soon."
They're now hyping up tomorrows event at Alton Baker Park.
About to start marching.
Currently marching past @NinkasiBrewing and an LTD bus has been stopped much to the dismay of the driver.
Almost back to where we started.
We are back where we started and it looks like pizza has arrived.
Black Unity calls the 4J vote "a win."
The protest is pretty much over. Some are going to stay and listen to music and eat snacks.
Oh, and, yes, two of my toes are cut.
Not two, but three.
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I'm not sure what's going on with this alternate universe but there's an awful lot of non-Black individuals using the n-word and claiming to be spokespeople for the Black community in the replies 😳😳
OHMYGOD. I didn't even see the now-deleted second part to the apology 😳
The ACLU of Oregon has released an alarming Call to Action regarding proposed accountability standards for cops within the state and how the process is being co-opted by law enforcement themselves.
"Oregon is trying to create accountability standards for cops; however, this process is being co-opted by police and their accomplices to shield bad cops."
Well I'm here at the corner of Garfield and 9th Place where houseless residents living in trailers were threatened early last night and told they would towed this morning.
Stop The Sweeps is here to aid.
I was here earlier this morning, too, when folks actually thought something was going to happen. Nothing did.
But now, at 9:45 a.m., EPD is present talking with one of the people here. Folks have been told they have until Monday before they'll be ticketed and forced to leave.
Wow. I've moved just a few blocks over to 8th and Grant where other RVs are being towed away.
I'm walking up to Tykeson Hall at UO for this teach-in about the CIA since they are, apparently, recruiting on campus this week.
Notably, I just learned today that the university's Center for Cyber Security and Privacy is sponsored by both the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security 😬
Signs that say "CIA Go Way" and "Fuck the CIA" rest against concrete ledges behind Tykeson Hall.