Photos: MusicFest NW 2013 (Wednesday, Sept. 4 and Thursday, Sept. 5)
Hiss Golden Messenger at Aladdin Theater (9pm, Sept. 4) Photos by Trask Bedortha Continue reading
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Climate Change III: Oceans
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Climate Change I: Tweets on climate change, oceans, forests, rivers cities
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Climate Change II: forests and water
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Some people are all talk, others get arrested
Update: Comments are now working! If you spend much time on either EW or the R-G's website, sooner or later you will run into some comments by MikeWrites. The R-G reported today that MikeWrites, aka Michael Patrick McFadden was one of the people arrested for protesting the closure of the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza. (Ironically for some reason I can't get the comments to work on this blog post). Continue reading
Lane County closes Free Speech Plaza … again
Here is the Lane County press release on its latest closing of Free Speech Plaza. The county voted for an "emergency" closing of the Wayne Morse Terrace (aka the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza) 4-1, with Pete Sorenson voting against the closure. The county is also changing the Lane Code rules on the plaza, to "provide clear long term rules for use of the Free Speech Area." Continue reading
DeFazio statement on war on Syria
Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio has weighed in on the possible war on Syria, saying: I have yet to hear the administration answer two simple questions—what are our objectives and what is our long-term strategy in this conflict. This situation is incredibly fluid, but I currently do not support an open-ended, ill-defined intervention in another civil war. It's abundantly clear that there's no easy resolution to this conflict and the need for or potential effectiveness of U.S. military involvement is questionable at best. Continue reading
Experts speak out on chem weapons
From the Institute for Public Accuracy today: Eryl Nassruns the Anthrax Vaccine blog and recently wrote: Only seven nations are not parties to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Israel and Myanmar (formerly Burma) signed but failed to ratify the 1993 agreement. Five other nations failed to sign it: Syria, South Sudan, North Korea, Angola and Egypt. Continue reading
Missing person: Emily Joyce
Longtime Eugene newswatchers may remember KMTR meteorologist Tim Joyce, he's now with a TV station in Seattle, but his sister, Emily Joyce has been living in Eugene. Emily Joyce went missing on Aug. 29 and Tim Joyce is asking for help in finding her. Continue reading
Syria protest Tuesday in Eugene
Citizens from Congressional District 4 will attempt to meet with the offices of Rep. Peter DeFazio, Sen. Ron Wyden and Sen. Jeff Merkley at 11 am Tuesday, Sept. 3, at their district offices at the U.S. Courthouse, 405 East 8th Ave. “Activists are extremely concerned that the U.S. is about to enter yet another illegal, immoral aggressive war of choice, but are also outraged by the lack of communication from Congress,” reads a press release today from Leah Bolger, a U.S. Navy veteran and one of the organizers. Continue reading