AltWeeklies Wire
Prepare for the Worse: Climate Change Meets Disaster Planningnew
Disaster preparedness experts try to get homeowners and cities prepared for the looming threats of shaking earth and giant waves.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
10-24-2013 |
Environment
The Ire of the Tiger: Wayne Morse and Free Speech Plazanew
The "Tiger of the Senate" the late Sen. Wayne Morse's namesake "free speech plaza" has been given time limits, but protesters say that free speech doesn't have a curfew.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
09-30-2013 |
Civil Liberties
Trainloads of Toxics and Chemicals Going Through Eugene, Ore.new
A train-hopping videographer gets the information the government won't provide — just what's on the trains going through Eugene, Ore. Crude oil, hydrochloric acid and propane in tank cars known to puncture and tear.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
08-16-2013 |
Environment
Green Tribunal: India and Enviro Lawnew
While America-centric enviros might think of India as "backward" with images of the 1984 Union Carbide Bhopal disaster and its toxic effects lingering, India just might surge ahead of us when it comes to its system for litigating development and the environment.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
06-30-2013 |
Environment
Occupy Medical: What Free Universal Health Care Looks Likenew
Doctors, herbalists, nurses and volunteers from all walks of life have turned a bloodmobile into a fully functioning mobile medical unit providing free health care, prescriptions, haircuts and more to anyone and everyone who needs it. Is this the new face of Occupy?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
04-12-2013 |
#OCCUPY
Gettin' Cleannew
This is the creeping terror that haunts every recovering dope addict. We are a silent minority. And we are a growing minority. But, as with any minority, we have been misperceived, stereotyped, underrepresented and grotesquely vilified, often by ourselves.
Eugene Weekly |
Richard Kidd |
03-29-2013 |
Drugs
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ducksnew
From Oregon's Duck mascot to corkscrew duck penises, it's time to pay attention to endangered ducks.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
12-28-2012 |
Features
Up in Smoke?new
Colorado's and Washington's creation of alcohol-like statutes for marijuana made Oregon a bronze-at-best state for pot legalization, but marijuana policy reform advocates are riding high.
Eugene Weekly |
Shannon Finnell |
12-20-2012 |
Drugs
Born to Gunnew
In Oregon, you can get a license to carry a concealed handgun without even really knowing how to shoot.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
11-30-2012 |
Features
Tags: concealed handgun
Whither the River?new
How do you save an urban river in the age of global warming?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
11-16-2012 |
Environment
Occupy the Trees!new
The trees are Occupied! Occupy Eugene has teamed up with the Cascadia Forest Defenders for an arboreal Occupation in the Northwest. The groups are Occupying the trees in the city and on federal forestland.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
04-27-2012 |
#OCCUPY
Tags: #OCCUPY
Still Watersnew
Kayla Godowa-Tufti wants to know why white privilege has allowed timber heirs to fight to pollute the sacred waters of Waldo Lake where her ancestors once lived.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
03-29-2012 |
Environment
Coal Train: Coming to Tracks Near Younew
With three proposed coal export terminals, Oregon is facing the prospect of over one mile long open-topped coal trains spewing diesel fumes and coal dust through its towns and into its forests, rivers and lakes. Will Oregon be the gateway for the fossil fuel exports Big Coal is looking for?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
01-20-2012 |
Environment
Disenfranchised: Homeless Occupiers Back on the Streetnew
Now that Occupy Eugene has been evicted, homeless youth are back on the street.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
12-26-2011 |
#OCCUPY
Homeless Activism: Occupy Eugene Seeks a Longer Staynew
Organizers of Occupy Eugene say it is the unique way activists and the homeless have come together to create a workable model that makes the camp an experiment that should continue beyond the current Dec. 15 expiration date of the city's permit allowing them to stay in the park.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
12-08-2011 |
#OCCUPY
