Eric Jackson of #Eugene recently passed away after spending the last five years of his life advocating for the homeless there. He lived with them in the tents, racked up $12,000 in fines, and was a constant gadfly at city council meetings demanding better treatment of the homeless there. Rest in power, Eric. You were an inspiration to many. #BasicIncome, housing as a human right, and ending the failed War on Drugs can't come soon enough. And bring back the WPA and CCC. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/2/9/2222566/-RIP-Eric-Jackson-1966-2023?_=2024-02-09T21:31:38.000-08:00
It's funny to me that our airport's slogan is "fly local, fly eugene." Fly local? I've never flown from there because there's no mass transit option. I'd rather take the train to Portland and then light rail to the front door of the airport, same price, plus a train ride!
Same group as #2595. These boys and many others work late every week night, they said, usually until midnight. On Saturday most of the day and also night. Air is bad; associations are bad, the long hours and confinement are bad. One of the boys told me he was 10 yrs. old, five boys told me 11 years old, three boys told me 12 years old and I could not question many. Late Saturday night, I counted one boy of 10 years, five of 11 years, nineteen boys apparently 12 and 13 years old. Location: #Lowell, #Massachusetts.
I just opened the back door right at the moment a large tree, a couple houses away, snapped and fell over from the weight of the ice. Be careful with that ice #Eugene
Hey heads! I’m taking my high school senior to #eugene#oregon in a couple of weeks to check out #universityoforegon. He’s an accepted student! Please hit me with recs on:
Restaurants
Music clubs/scene
Record stores
Other heady stuff
@mrcompletely this is great to hear! I’m excited for him to see it. He’s very interested and I think going somewhere completely different could be a huge life experience for him. But we’ll see. He had some great schools and programs to choose from.
New Post on my Personal Website: Scoping out the Eugene-Springfield Fediverse
I recently wrote up a new post for my personal website about the Fediverse in relation to the Eugene-Springfield area, and figured I'd share it. Let me know what you think!
We made a couple of bots for City of Eugene and Lane County. They grab new posts from their official RSS feeds. Might be good for your list until they join the fediverse themselves.
Interesting, the Pleasant Hill man who shot his wife and was taunting the police via Twitter -- but where the local police department bizarrely left the scene -- was finally arrested (by the FBI) on Saturday. #crime#PleasantHill#Californiahttps://www.facebook.com/PleasantHillPD
@fisherstudio@ncweaver After my brief and ill-fated stint volunteering for a department, I unfortunately had my expectations of the professional conduct of folks in that business lowered (quite dramatically).
Bob's Birders wasn't spared from the first #atmosphericRiver currently pointed at #Eugene, but a little elbow grease and it's good for Teddy, Kathleen, and Mort, our 3 #squirrel regulars.
@ch0ccyra1n@eugene I think they're replacing the water pipes to eventually turn the fountain near the Park Blocks into a fountain that shoots water from the ground.
ONA is conducting a letter writing campaign to draw attention to the hospital closure.
Folks of #Eugene and @eugene: Our only hospital on this side of the river is closing. The ER's last day is set to be Dec. 1. The Oregon Nurses Association has started this letter writing campaign to hopefully draw the attention of the OHA and Governor.
We in America, Oregon, Lane County, and Eugene, do not live in a world where health care, housing, the economy, or near damn near anything critical to human life and well-being is funded by or run by any government at all. So complaining to the government, petitioning them, or blaming them, is pretty much useless and pointless.
The power of the world we live in today is held almost completely by corporations, business, and finance. Since Reagan in the 1980s, most of the things government used to do has been aggressively privatized. Businesses love to blame government, but corporations hold most or all the cards.
Tax revenues have been eroded so that the ability for government to be a positive force to do anything is near zero. Best they can hope to do is regulate… and often without funds to enforce the regulations.
So if you want to complain, then complain to the corporation that owns Peace Health. Not that it will make any difference, but at least you’d be pressuring the people who actually have the power to make the decisions.
@bamfic I would argue instead that it really doesn't matter what people do. The decision to close the hospital has already been made and probably won't be reversed. Starting from the assumption that no action will do anything for this, why should it matter what people do regarding this, as long as it's not hurting anyone?
Folks on the ground in #Eugene, #Oregon report that police have begun a raid of the property at the center of an ongoing #rentstrike. They are asking supporters in the surrounding community to show solidarity and support. More updates at: https://www.instagram.com/eugenerentstrike/
