I am a lifelong resident of Eugene, Oregon. A few years ago, I very seriously considered moving out of state. This kind of stuff is exactly why. I eventually came to decide I'd rather have our problems than anyone else's problems — but, as you described, we absolutely do have our problems.
The answer is not to try to make Oregon into Nebr…
I am a lifelong resident of Eugene, Oregon. A few years ago, I very seriously considered moving out of state. This kind of stuff is exactly why. I eventually came to decide I'd rather have our problems than anyone else's problems — but, as you described, we absolutely do have our problems.
The answer is not to try to make Oregon into Nebraska. Somehow we need to become a more functional version of ourselves.
Until very recently, I also lived in Eugene. For several years, I practiced nonprofit environmental law there, and interacted frequently with the Portland left activist crews through that work. There’s certainly a Eugene-Portland activist pipeline. I will say what struck me after a few years was that the Portland folx always demanded our work include their intersectional human issues, but rarely showed up to support our activism on behalf of non-humans, which was focused on preserving life in the form of old forests and wild creatures. There could certainly be blind spots among that contingent about how human supremacy structured many of their thought patterns and violent reactions.
I am a lifelong resident of Eugene, Oregon. A few years ago, I very seriously considered moving out of state. This kind of stuff is exactly why. I eventually came to decide I'd rather have our problems than anyone else's problems — but, as you described, we absolutely do have our problems.
The answer is not to try to make Oregon into Nebraska. Somehow we need to become a more functional version of ourselves.
I lived in Eugene for six months. That was a difficult place, so strange there.
Until very recently, I also lived in Eugene. For several years, I practiced nonprofit environmental law there, and interacted frequently with the Portland left activist crews through that work. There’s certainly a Eugene-Portland activist pipeline. I will say what struck me after a few years was that the Portland folx always demanded our work include their intersectional human issues, but rarely showed up to support our activism on behalf of non-humans, which was focused on preserving life in the form of old forests and wild creatures. There could certainly be blind spots among that contingent about how human supremacy structured many of their thought patterns and violent reactions.