International Women and Women Aligned Day Rally
Intersectional People’s Network of Eugene/Springfield (a newly forming community organizing group), Disrupt! Eugene and So Just Collective invite the community to join them at A Rally for International Women and Women Aligned Day at the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza this coming Wednesday, March 8th, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. to celebrate “International Women’s Day,” as the groups take time to honor women and transfeminine people across all intersectionalities, as a community. …
Emily Semple Wins City Council Seat
Emily Semple (Occupy Eugene’s Brave Beatrice) has officially won a position on Eugene’s City Council. Lane County Elections has finalized the results and Emily won by 140 votes. We welcome her as our new representative for Ward 1 in Eugene. With national politics in turmoil we have managed to get one of our own occupiers in office to represent us locally! We have come a long way since the Eugene City Council was deciding our fate in Washington Jefferson Park. Congratulations and thank you for all you do and for being so awesome as to take on the system for us again. …
Occupy Eugene’s own “Brave Beatrice” (Emily Semple) Is Running For Eugene City Council Ward 1
To add to her wide range of diverse tactics practiced since 2011, Brave Beatrice is running for office! Among others, she is endorsed by the current Ward 1 city councilor George Brown (now retiring) and City Councilor Betty Taylor. Beatrice has been arrested in defense of free speech and won her Federal court case. She made all of our beautiful OCCUPY bandanas and has participated in numerous actions these past years. Occupying the city council is her next tactic for bringing the voice of the people to the city …
Brave Beatrice needs your help! This is when the power of the people through grassroots efforts could REALLY make a difference! It is crucial to have more volunteer support during this last window of opportunity—before ballots are cast. Please volunteer just a little time toward helping Emily help us …
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Occupy Eugene General Assembly
Occupy Eugene continues to hold GA’s at Growers Market.
They are now being held 6:00 pm on the first Monday of each month.
Please join us at our General Assembly at the Growers Market, 454 Willamette St., Eugene, OR. …
OEMG Releases the Community Solutions Media Library Right Here on Our Website!
You can go directly to the Community Solutions Media Library at http://occupyeugenemedia.org/
We will be continuing to add media to the library and we hope that anyone who has relevant photos or videos will share them with us, so we can add them to the library also. You can put your photos on our Occupy Eugene Photos Facebook page, email Jana at occupyall1@gmail.com or call 541-606-2025 for more information. …
POVERTY STATE MUSIC VIDEO
This is a music video from the solo version of “Poverty State”. This song is on the album “Going To Lift My Voice” released May 22, 2015 by Steve Gibson with the Crosscurrent Duo. This is an amazing CD!!! Thank you Steve Gibson for the honor of producing your first music video. Go to http://crosscurrentduo.com for more information.
Just wait until we come out with the Crosscurrent Duo version of “Poverty State”–with both Steve Gibson and Ken Zimmerman!
Opinion: Failure within Occupy Eugene
“If you aren’t falling, you aren’t trying hard enough.” …