Here are 1,700 names of officers removed from service, in 50 years in Oregon, recently released after the special session in the Legislature, prompted by direct actions and advocacy in support of BLM.
The driver of this Subaru, at 15 to 20 miles an hour, deliberately drove into Black_Unity organizer, Isiah Wagoner, so hard that his body spun and almost entirely went under the vehicle. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital. Isiah intends to press charges, but for over an hour, police refused to even detain the perpetrator, who was identified and located by activists — not by cops.
BREAKING NEWS! Oregon’s Governor, Kate Brown, has reconvened the Oregon State Legislature, for an emergency session, beginning TODAY, THURSDAY 6/25/20, at 10 am!
The above link opens a .pdf that outlines Black_Unity’s demands for reform, legislation, community representation, defunding, demilitarization, and system change. These are among the main talking points being prepared by many who will participate in tonight’s public comments at the Eugene City Council meeting TONIGHT.
There were many empty seats at Saturday’s rally. Trump’s campaign declared that it had received over a million ticket requests. The prank by TikTok users and K-pop fans came after the Trump campaign tweeted to ask the President’s supporters to register for the free tickets earlier this month...
When we talk about institutionalized racism in policing, first and foremost that is omnipresent in the murders and brutality. It is also prevalent in charging and sentencing. Examining the pervasiveness of institutionalized racism in prison settings is part of examining institutionalized racism in policing.
It is significant that Juneteenth weekend and World Refugee Day weekend overlap. Because many decades before the Emancipation Proclamation, many decades before word of it reached Texas 2.5 years later, about 4,000 people of African heritage who had been enslaved...
Reposted from Facebook by Boop Troop Eugene News Blog as a public service. I personally very strongly support completely demilitarizing Eugene Police Department...
Perhaps the reason that Louisville, KY was documented to have boarded up its police station windows earlier this morning was knowing that announcing intent to fire 1 of 3 murderers, while an absolutely necessary first step, does not bring complete justice for Breonna Taylor...
Thank you to all those who commemorated the 155th anniversary of the delivery of the message to Texans that all slaves were freed, the holiday of Juneteenth, with this fabulous street painting action at the federal court house in Eugene.
Below are the best resources I have personally encountered so far about: what LRAD sonic warfare is, the damage it can do, where it has been used, what you can do in the face of it...
If people in your personal or professional life still doubt or argue against there being a systemic, institutionalized basis for racism in how police brutality and other negative aspects endemic in policing are enacted, here is a tool you can use.
Indefatigable, tireless. Uploading our evidence, wireless...
Tonight, unanimously, Seattle City Council voted to ban: use of tear gas and other “crowd control weapons”, use of choke holds; and covering of badge numbers with the so-called “mourning bands”...
This is an era of DIY. This is an era in which we are — and must be — the media.
In this series of news briefs, I will be sharing articles and databases you can use to do your own research, for articles, press releases, and your own education. Our first focus is on: disciplinary reports documenting police misconduct and violence...
In the fight for justice, dancers artists and MC’s join together to create a visual arts film focused on the Black Lives Matter movement. Through creative expression this film is an artistic response to systematic oppression and police brutality.
4-page policy released today outlines presumptively declining to prosecute most lower-level charges, and taking tumultuous circumstances into account for most higher charges. The new DA is an ally who acknowledges that most charges were unnecessary, exaggerated, and context-derived.
