Share Fair Stations
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Hand washing station near Eugene library
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Pearl day spa
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Hand washing station near Red barn
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Springfield bus station
We stumbled across a paper version of a great bike maintenance zine by the Bike Church that we wanted to distribute so more people could repair their own bikes. But we couldn’t find it anywhere online so we scanned it and are making it available here for others. Enjoy!
Bicycle Maintenance Zine – A Universal Bike Church Publication
The cascadia subduction zone earthquake has a good chance of knocking out the sewer system in a lot of areas and this could result in a terrible public health crisis as hundreds of thousands of people find themselves with no way to safely dispose of their excreta. This guide has instructions for proven, easily implemented systems for storing and processing human waste. It was created by the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Collaborative Design’s inaugural cohort and MDML and formatted into this zine by me, a nameless anarchist living in the Eugene/Springfield area.
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May Day, or International Workers Day, is an important time of year for Anarchists. It’s the commemoration of the State’s execution of the four Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs and is a day of world wide worker solidarity. For more information please read the IWW’s great explanation of the history and significance of May Day.
This year we are participating in or organizing a number of events this May Day week:
Sunday April 28th – Fight Dystopia, Demand Utopia! 4-6pm @ Growers Market
Tuesday April 30th – Solidarity Share Fair 3-6:30pm @ First United Methodist Church
Wednesday May 1st – ESSN May Day Picnic 3-7pm @ Downtown Park Blocks
Wednesday May 1st – IWW/NAC Potluck and Movie Night 6:30-9:30 @ McNail-Riley House
Thursday May 2nd – NAC tabling at the UO Zine Fest
Saturday May 4th – Start of Storytelling Workshop series 6-8pm @ Growers Market
Please join us!
At every full collective gathering we acknowledge that we live in a society founded on stolen land and stolen lives. Someone researches and presents a relevant topic and then we take a moment of silence to reflect. We share the research here for others as well.
My original Stolen Land, Stolen Lives was going to be about police brutality but I think many of us are aware of the extent and impact of state violence, its purpose, and how well it functions against marginalized people and those who challenge the status quo. Charlie Landeros was a passionate advocate for teaching and arming the community to defend itself against the many threats vulnerable peoples face in the so-called U.S. and in the wake of their murder by the Eugene Police Department, it is important to carry on this legacy and continue to support the armed self-defense of our communities.
With higher rates of shootings and victims of gun violence than most other countries in the world, it is easy to simply point to guns as the cause and call for gun reforms and stricter gun laws than looking at the deeper, less tangible, but nonetheless prevalent roots of violence, including toxic masculinity, white supremacy, racism, and other forms of power structures that use violence to keep the oppressed down. While advocacy for armed self-defense may seem counter-intuitive in a society entrenched by violence, much of the success of progressive movements in U.S. history can be attributed to armed self-defense and armed resistance.
An episode of the Friendly Anarchism podcast goes deeper into the importance of community armed self-defense with Charlie and Ariel and you can listen to it on SoundCloud through this link:
https://m.soundcloud.com/critmedia/friendly-anarchism-episode-42-community-armed-self-defense-and-gun-control-with-ariel-and-charlie/reposts
In an era of violence, communities must be able to support and defend each other. Charlie strongly believed this. Let’s carry on their work. Love & Rage for Charlie
At every full collective gathering we acknowledge that we live in a society founded on stolen land and stolen lives. Someone researches and presents a relevant topic and then we take a moment of silence to reflect. We share the research here for others as well.
I) Introduction
II) Black Panther Theory
Sources:
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/
https://www.facebook.com/theRoot/videos/10159824705545231/
https://www.facebook.com/AfricasDiaspora/videos/383797498844870/
At every full collective gathering we acknowledge that we live in a society founded on stolen land and stolen lives. Someone researches and presents a relevant topic and then we take a moment of silence to reflect. We share the research here for others as well.
By Kim
The Mexican Repatriation Act was a mass deportation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans between 1929 and 1936. Although there were multiple waves of immigration before due to a number of factors, including the building of a railway system between Mexico and the Southwest U.S., increased demands for agricultural labor, and people fleeing from violence of the Mexican Civil War, as well as waves of deportation back to Mexico tied to economic downturns and anti-immigrant sentiments, immigration laws were not strictly enforced until the establishment of the U.S. Border Patrol in 1924. Many U.S. employers sought Mexican labor for jobs in industry, railroads, meatpacking, steel mills, and agriculture and encouraged emigration for their benefit, but because of the lax immigration laws before the mid-to-late 1920’s, many citizens, legal residents, and immigrants did not have official documentation to prove their citizenship or had lost their paperwork. A lot of them also did not apply for citizenship as they were well aware that Mexicans were considered “racially inferior” and knew they would not be socially accepted even with legal citizenship.
Even before the stock market crash, many Americans called for deportations due to “job competition and the burden and cost of public assistance.” Following the stock market crash of 1929, nationalist sentiments grew and President Hoover’s call for deportations led to a large number of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans being deported. Because records were not well-kept, an estimated number of 400,000 to 2 million people were “repatriated” between 1929 and 1937, with a peak of about 138,000 in 1931 and a total estimate of 1/3 of all Mexicans in the U.S. deported between 1931-1934. An estimated 60% of those deported were birthright citizens. The 1930 Census reported 1.3 million Mexicans in the US, but this number is believed to be unreliable as some deportations had already begun, immigrants without documentation were not counted, and the census attempted to use racial concepts that did not consider how Spanish-speakers in the Southwest defined their own identities.
The federal government worked with local governments to coordinate deportations through a combination of federal actions that created a climate of fear along with local activities that encouraged repatriation through a combination of “lure, persuasion, and coercion.” Some also sought to return to Mexico as they were usually the first ones to be laid off following the stock market crash and had to endure endemic harassment from growing national anti-immigrant hostility, while new employment laws made it difficult for non-citizens to get hired and made it easier for employers to discriminate against Mexicans and Latinx people in general.
There is a lot more that can be said about the reasons the U.S. used to justify these deportations, the scope of the impact this “unconstitutional” act had on immigrants simply searching for a better life, and the racism behind it all, but this serves as a harsh reminder that fascism and white supremacy has no consideration for legal boundaries beyond what helps to legitimize it as a government. The Trump regime has made it clear that it does not care for the technicalities and legalities behind its agenda and planned ethnic cleansing and our focus must be on the communities being targeted and affected. It’s a fight that cannot end until the most oppressed is liberated.