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Student activists at the University of Oregon are asking the school to boycott Israel’s government in an effort to help war-torn Gaza.
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Roughly a hundred people took to the streets Monday for a commemorative march honoring the civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr.
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About 150 Eugene students marched out of their schools Friday as part of the 2023 Global Climate Strike. They converged on the downtown to protest corporate efforts to overturn the city’s natural gas ordinance.
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Following a rash of antisemitic hate messaging in parts of Springfield over the last month, the organized Jewish community is speaking out.
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For the last few weeks, Springfield Police have been investigating incidents of antisemitic messaging left in Ziploc bags along the streets and sidewalks of Thurston.
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A Black Lives Matter memorial near downtown Ashland was vandalized on Tuesday night. The Say Their Names Memorial spans Railroad Park and includes hundreds of t-shirts and posters with the names of people of color who have been killed over the past century, many by police.
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Events hosted by the local NAACP chapter and Springfield's Alliance for Equity and Respect drew hundreds of people wanting to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The United Way of Lane County has opened funding opportunities to support projects and initiatives that further the advancement of racial justice.
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The new document expands the guidance from transgender students specifically to serving all gender expansive students. “Gender expansive” is a term used in the document to describe a range of gender identities, including transgender, nonbinary, intersex, genderqueer and Two Spirit.
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A Friday opinion by the Oregon Supreme Court offers clarity for people convicted in trials where not everyone on the jury agreed the convicted person was guilty.
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A rural road with a racist moniker on the Oregon coast has a new name. It now honors an early Black settler.
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The lawsuit was filed on June 5, 2020, by the local advocacy group Don’t Shoot PDX and eventually six named protesters. In addition to the financial settlement, the Portland Police Bureau will "decommission all remaining inventory" of its rubber ball distraction devices, similar to flash-bang grenades. A federal judge will oversee the injunction and retain the authority to enforce it for the next 14 months. After that, the city can ask for the case to be dismissed.