That didn’t take long! The merchants in Downtown Eugene – have awoken! It appears the merchants were not asked for their input. They want citizens to take part in the Art Walk and not be accosted by homeless parasites like I was. In the last three years since I was threatened by Kim Hafner’s Mob, nothing has changed. The Hafner’s have no solution but – The Rapture! Please, take these bums up – now! Why is Jesus so stingy? There’s tons of room in heaven!
Alley is a anti-Capitalist Pagan. Is her ally, Emily Semple, of like mind? If so, she should resign. I will lead a Mob of Mortified Merchants to City Hall.
John
The president of Downtown Eugene Merchants worries about the retailers, restaurants and bars near the camp.
“We feel like as the downtown businesses, we’re really the reason people come downtown and engage with this part of the community,” Geoff Ostrove said, “and we really feel like we should have been a part of the conversation.”
https://kval.com/news/local/homeless-protest-camp-downtown-moves-across-street-to-courthouse-plaza
The Eugene City Council voted 7 to 1 to move ahead with a plan to put a temporary homeless camp downtown on the vacant site of the former City Hall. City staff are uncertain how much the camp will cost. City Manager Jon Ruiz said the funding would come in part from $8.5 million approved for community safety initiatives. (SBG)
EUGENE, Ore. – The City of Eugene is moving ahead with plans to erect a temporary camp on the former site of Eugene City Hall downtown.
With tents, toilets and WiFi, the camp would give dozens of people a supervised and safe place to stay during the winter months.
The proposal calls for the camp to be temporary.
But some downtown businesses and organizations are concerned about the impact of the camp.
“We don’t think it’s an appropriate site for that activity,” said Ginerva Ralph at The Shedd Institute. “It undos all the work that the city and the businesses have done to improve downtown. It just isn’t a great city for that sense of feeling of welcoming, safe and accessible downtown.”
The president of Downtown Eugene Merchants worries about the retailers, restaurants and bars near the camp.
“We feel like as the downtown businesses, we’re really the reason people come downtown and engage with this part of the community,” Geoff Ostrove said, “and we really feel like we should have been a part of the conversation.”
“We’re just more concerned about the negative perception from the community and people thinking that it’s not a safe place to bring their kids and to bring their families,” he added.
He’s not alone.
“I have a concern about traffic, about drug traffic, when we get people in there, there’s a bunch of people doing meth, will it encourage people to do more of that?” Raymond Hardman at Emerald Broadband said. “Will it encourage more people to storm over there?”
The City of Eugene responded for this story with a statement:
We know the impact of homelessness on downtown and our entire community has been a critical concern for residents and businesses. Homelessness is a complex issue for our community and others. More than 1,600 people in Lane County are unhoused, and this temporary shelter during the colder months will help meet urgent and immediate needs in the short-term while the City and its partners work to find a longer-term solution.
The aim of the temporary shelter is to provide unhoused people in downtown with a safe place to sleep and store their belongings rather than using public sidewalks, parks and other areas downtown.
We continue to look for solutions that compassionately support people experiencing homelessness while ensuring the livability of our neighborhoods and supporting local prosperity.
A Dog and Her Tree’
Let me say first of all that I approve of the mere existence of this ‘zine, as well as Jason Pitzl-Waters’ Witchcraft Today – Witchcraft Tomorrow: A Manifesto, with which it makes a fine companion. The cover art is also excellent, and you can see more of Alley Valkyrie’s designs here. I see this work as both a visible manifestation of a lively artistic, intellectual, and spiritual community, and the beginning of an important conversation.
By way of engaging in that conversation, I have some quibbles. I could have wished for a little less primer and a little more Pagan. There’s a fair amount of explanation of how and why exploitation of labor is fundamental to capitalism and the history of same, but not enough (to my mind) of what that has to do with Pagans in particular. The most theologically profound observation in the ‘zine is made early on as an introductory remark and almost as an aside:Lots of Pagan religions like the earth and believe in spirits, faeries, and gods of land, or in a great earth spirit or mother or goddess. That’s one of the reasons why Paganism is usually defined as an ‘earth-based’ religion. And who can own the land or the trees? Well, under Capitalism, people with money and power and access to the systems that delegate and enforce private property rights.
Homeless camp in downtown Eugene moves across street to courthouse plaza
Campers who have pitched their tents downtown in recent weeks moved across the street to the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza outside the Lane County Courthouse on Friday. A City of Eugene official said the campers have complied with a request to move to make way for the Farmers Market to operate on Saturday.
EUGENE, Ore. – Campers who have pitched their tents downtown in recent weeks moved across the street to the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza outside the Lane County Courthouse on Friday.
A City of Eugene official said the campers have complied with a request to move to make way for the Farmers Market to operate on Saturday.
Law enforcement maintained a presence in the area Friday during the move. Eugene Police have set up one of the new “guardian trailers” in the area.
Also on Friday, a group affiliated with the Eugene Chamber of Commerce met to discuss the concerns business owners have about camping downtown and a plan to turn the former city of Eugene City Hall into a temporary camp.
Rosamond Press 
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I talked to a woman at City Hall and I can submit my complaint and demands in writing. She suggested nine copies.