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…
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.
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.