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The color red, visible and hard to ignore, features prominently at events as people gather for healing, justice and remembrance.
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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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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.
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Workers with two programs run by the White Bird Clinic are pressing on with unionization efforts.
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For Bobbie Scopa, firefighting was a 45-year career filled with danger and stress, including a seven-year stint as assistant fire director for all wildland fire operations in Oregon for the U.S. Forest Service. But a major stressor for Scopa was living life as a man…while privately identifying as a woman. That struggle is told in her new book, “Both Sides of the Fire Line: Memoir of a Transgender Firefighter.”
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In September, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the removal of a word considered a slur for Native American women from nearly 650 federal sites.
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A Eugene donut shop owner is in hot water after reportedly drenching a homeless woman this weekend.
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The Yakama and Grand Ronde tribes are asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on their claim that an expansion of Highway 26 in 2008 violated their religious freedom by destroying an ancient burial site, a stone altar and old-growth trees.
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Lane County Health and Human Services has opened a new emergency homeless shelter in Glenwood. It’s located in a building that was once an African American church. The new shelter is named for the late Reverend Arthur Shankle and his wife Luvenia, who founded the Bethel Temple Church in the early 1960’s.
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An embattled businessman resigned from Oregon Public Broadcasting’s board of directors this afternoon.
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A new emergency homeless shelter had a grand opening in Glenwood Thursday. The renovated 12-bed facility was once an African American church.
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Eugene’s annual report on hate and bias showed a sharp decrease in the number of incidents in 2021. But city officials caution there might be more to the story.