“Now there is an occupation of this territory, because the city is under total police and security control,” Nadezhda Tolokonnikova said on Tuesday.
“We have arrived here on Sunday [and] we are being detained all the time. Even when we were driving our car and walking in the street. So they are looking for any reasons to arrest us.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26265230
Empathic Take-Down at PK Park
Posted on July 28, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
Yesterday I asked two of my neighbors if they wanted to go to an AA meeting with me. No reply. I asked another neighbor if she wanted to makes amends. She was sharing personal matters in a improper manner and setting. In regards to the fate of Christine Wandel, I will not tell in this blog, but in my sober novel. There was a miracle.
Below is a story by Jeff Forester, a brother in AA. He suggests Ken Kesey died from drinking while he had diabetes. I believe my friend, Nancy Hamren wanted me to help her friend get sober – and help him with his writing block. I only had a couple of months of sobriety and surmised Ken would end that in minutes of our meeting at the book class down the street. I stayed away. I am thirty-six years clean and sober. My friend, Kenny Reed died of what killed Kesey. Today I will be seeing my doctor at the Oregon Urology Center where I got cured of prostate cancer. I am a living – urinating – miracle!
When I went to Em’s Prankster game a couple of weeks ago I thought abut Ken. I believe he would be impressed with the chance I took turning my James Bond book into a propaganda novel aimed at countering Putin’s war against LGBTQ people that has been enjoined by Governor DeSantis, and Tommy Tuberville. To center an Ian Fleming inspired book in Eugene Oregon, was literary genius!
I have to call bullshit on Ken;s greatest fear. He was terrified of being alone, and writing alone. I did not want to be in my studio alone with an empty canvas. My bar was a hundred yards away. My friends were there. I got sober April 7, 1987, and have spent ten thousand hours, alone – writing!
I dedicate this song to the literary explorations of Ken Kesey.
John Presco
EXTRA! I just notice Ken is wearing a shirt with the image of folks entering a labyrinth. As usual, it is is a Group Grope!
But, wait a minute! Is that Pussy Riot entering the Labyrnth? I am a Newspaperman. I just had to ask.
Am I Still Kesey’s Heir Apparent?
Posted on July 16, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
When Nancy took me to the University of Oregon to hear her friend, Ken Kesey, read from Caverns, I told myself I would try to talk to Ken – this time – something I failed to do twice before, when Nancy got me On The Bus in the Eugene Celebration Parade, and, a backstage pass to the Dead Dylan concert at Autzen stadium. My childhood friend got me free tickets to the Country Fair, and she was there at my graduation from Serenity Lane. I wondered if Nancy was putting me on a collision course with Ken -and if he wanted what I had. I thought about sitting in on the Caverns class because it would be a leg up – but I was afraid Ken and I would get stoned and drunk together. I also did not want to appear as a Toady Kiss-ass – too!
With the finding of the articles by Tim Appelo, and Jeff Forester, I can assume I am Kesey’s heir apparent; because I believe he wanted to get sober – and save his life – like I did. I succeeded. Ken failed, and died. I believe he was told he would die if he kept drinking, because he was diabetic. I am diabetic. For almost a year I and my team of health experts have been waging a battle to get my blood sugar readings down. On July 22, I get to celebrate with Natalie, because I got my reading down to as low as it can go. We added years to my life. I do not need to imagine what Ken went through when he was told the truth (at the Mayo Clinic?) that he was doomed. Ken had lost his son, and could not write. His legacy – was in ruin! His liver was shot! Consider this post the appendage to Caverns written by….
‘The Writer Who Had To Stay Away’
Today, July 16, 2021, I introduce the Spirit of Ken, to Jack London, and John Barleycorn. With his DESIRE to quit drinking, Ken is a brother in AA. I doubt he went to an AA meeting – because that would have made the news. His celebrity status would have made it very difficult for him to be – a common drunk. Did he wonder if I could go through the steps with him – in private? This is the fate of my celebrity-sister, Christine, who was in love with Bill Arnold, as was Nancy. My sister lived with Nancy and I at the Idle Hands commune in San Francisco. They went on a double date with Nick Sands, and Stanley Augustus Owsley. Rosamond bonded with the Zorthian sisters. A movie script was written about her – and I am in it!
During the academic year of 1987-1988, Ken Kesey taught a graduate-level creative writing class of thirteen students at the University of Oregon. He charged the group with producing a full-length novel in one school year, which they did, publishing Caverns under the name O.U. Levon (Novel University of Oregon backwards) in 1990.
Forester says writing a novel with Kesey was serious fun, anyhow. “I mean, the class was a party. Being around Kesey was a constant party.” The first day of class, Kesey assigned Forester to roll joints for the seminar; one student sparked up and passed out. “Fell to the groundout cold. One student says, ‘Omigosh, is he OK? We should call someone!’ Ken just stepped over the body and handed me the joint and just kept talking. Ken said, ‘Aw, he’ll be OK.’” A couple of minutes later, he was. “The first class, you pass outhow cool was that?” says Forester.
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By Anthony EffingerJuly 05, 2023 at 12:02 am PDT
John Welsh, a 46-year-old father of two, moved to Portland a year ago, and he has a message for the thousands of people fleeing because crime and blight make the city feel unsafe: Try raising a transgender teenage daughter in Texas.
https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/07/05/they-arrived-portland-is-becoming-a-haven-for-gender-refugees/
Starfish Drinks Zig Zag Beer
Posted on August 20, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
I debated about Miriam Starfish using force to put down Maximorphius, the cook and owner of ‘The Bum’s Rush’ bistro in Eugene. My subconscious altered the name of Max’s Tavern, which is around the corner from The Bum’s Rush. Miriam Starfish almost skewers Professor John Bond, a name that is a conjunction of John Dee and James Bond, I just discovered. She has a love-hate relationship with John (played by me) who give a lecture on the Habsburg painting and – the Division of the Roses! What!!!!!!! I have yet to write that lecture – that is now the key to my book!
I have to see if I’m eleigible.
The Plastic School of Clean Mechanical Evil
Posted on June 30, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
The Eugene Emeralds play the Yakima Bears at Civic Stadium in Eugene, Ore. Wednesday August 19,2009. Civic Stadium was built in 1938 and now is one of the oldest baseball parks still in use in America. The Emeralds will leave the old stadium to play at the University of Oregon’s PK Park next season. AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Paul Carter.
Most Eugenius folks knew it was just a matter of time before the Plastic School Of Clean Mechanical Evil did its thing to Civic Stadium. The PSCME used fire this time to wipe clean something old, wooden, and cherished. Gone is our beloved Human Scale, our cozy Mom and Pops Goodness, our home away from home, our signature get-away that allowed us to plop our butts down on some old wood covered with twenty-two coats of grey-chipped paint, that failed to hide the deep timber wood interior we felt was there, and would always be there, and – now its gone.
What created that dark cloud of smoke was all the lead in that old paint. The people were warned this lead would come raining down on them, and it best not to breathe.
And here they come, from Orange County I suspect, the Clean Expensive Crew that hates everything that is old, and looks like it contains human sweat, and the petrified farts of old farts. They can’t wait to make everything look just like where they come from, the place most folks can’t go – because it is too expensive to be there. And, that’s the point. They don’t want us Old Timber Guys to think we got it made when we pay $6 bucks for something that could be had for $60 smackaroos. Then, you go to buy a cup, verses a cap of ice cream with the kids, and there go a $100 bucks down the drain. Here, have some Sticker Shock and Awe.
Look at the image of that dude sitting up high in the ball park, his wallet still overflowing with civic security because he’s not sitting on plastic and chrome. Note the glaring imperfections that are saving hin money. And he knows it!
Making Poor People feel even poorer is the Evil Republican Past Time. The burning down of Civic stadium is a reminder we little devils can’t balance the National Budget – to save our souls. Even the poor beggars in our streets have got in on the action, it not enough to hand them a metal coin, or dirty cash. They want their stuff handed to them by a slick group of providers, that traipse after them as they drink and vomit down the block.
“Can I interest you in a clean plastic porta-potty? How about a mini porta-house with wheels? Check it out, we have Half-jobs that are not really work, they are plastic faux jobs that allows you to dine for free in our swank diners for the wretched – delivered fresh from Orange County. I mean, we are almost giving you a complete life – for free! But let’s not go too far – lest people get the wrong impression.”
And how much are John and Jane Public going to have to pay for this cornucopia of eternal incompacitation, they not given a clue when these Hobos will be back on their feet?”
“Just keep it coming!” Says Big Red and Lil Belle from the Public Relations Firm of Deep Pockets of Pity. “We’ll tell you when to stop!”
For over a decade We the People have heard the pleas “Save this! Save that!” and we got it, that it was going to cost us money. So, did any of the selfish folks send someone some money? Apparently not. We saw the weeds grow high around our old-fashioned ball park, and at night they had a guy in a hoody going around smashing beer bottles, so that when the sun rose, we would be hit with flashing points of blight!
You just knew then he was paving the way for The Torch, the phantom that wipes the slate clean, so the new mechanical crap can be hauled up from Los Angeles and erected over night, before our complaints can reach the Mayor, who climbs up on stage exposing her white underwear to prove to us……she is still Human. But, what about us!
I tried to warn you Godzilla was coming to town. Did anyone listen!
No sooner did I tell Krysta about Belle and Anand, and I was backing out, then she got one of HER PEOPLE to evict me from the City of Eugene FB page. She had lured me down a dark Alley and hit me over the head with the Fake Sex Charges. I didn’t get any sex, but, someone got a shit load of funding!
SAVE BELLE – FROM THE MONSTER!
“RUN FROM THE MONSTER!”
SAVE THE DOWNTOWN
SAVE THE WHITEAKER
SAVE MACK COURT
SAVE CIVIC STADIUM
SAVE THE HOMELESS
SAVE THE EUGENE CELEBRATION
SAVE ME – JUST ME!
When they saw my videos shot in Altan Baker Park where the Big Idea Jonny was giving my Big Ideas away for free, I had to be stopped. When Belle heard me giving my Bohemian cosmology away for free, she hung a price tag on My Dream to return everything to the Human Scale – and slash prices in half.
The true citizens of the Emerald Valley, know what is comng, what will replace Civic Stadium. It will cost $20 bucks just to look at it. Then, you get to the ticket window where you will be sexually abused as the vacuum hoses go for your wallet – and your Civic Balls. Once inside, you will sit down on fart-resistant seats with tiny holes in the bottom that whisk your nasty smell into giant tubes, so giant fans can blow them sky high. You will not spot any wood anywhere. Not as much as a wooden toothpick.
As the hot flames rose above the trees, you could hear the sad lament;
“We’re losing a huge chunk of our history here. And we will never get it back!”
Here are two of the posts I ran pasty Krysta Albert, who bid her Sterilized Board of Planners to – SNUB ME! She then sent her posse of Nurse Ratchets out to assassinate my character, too.
“Don’t listen to this un-medicated crazy man who is out to hurt the fair ladies of our town! Come, celebrate with me and Doctor Strange Love! Be groovy, or be square!”
Yeah…………right! This is another Bull Run, the running of the Suckers past the Parasites. Not one tie-dyed vender, or homeless performing clown, is on my side, or the side of history. Nothing is allowed to be authentic anymore, lest any kind of standard is set. To see a video of a faux artist laying out her art on an old blanket at the first FOE event, made me want to vomit. There is way too much art in the world. So, let it be known I turned Krysta into the Art Police.
Every dog has her day!
I am going t set up a site where citizens can tell each other on the internet how much THEY GAVE TO SAVE. They don’t have to use their full name, just initials, lest Alley Valkyrie and her Vicious She-things swoop down from Portland, and lay fowl smelling turds in your planter boxes.
“I SW gave $20 to a beggar, $10 to save Civic, $40 to OCCUPY.”
Time to cut out the Middleman! We can adopt a Bum, directly. As long as we don’t ask them to work, everything will be hunky-dory! However, maybe Anand Holtham Keathley could have organized a Homeless Folks Fire Patrol, who would be very willing to shoo away kids playing with matches in exchange for three meals a day? There’s going to be meeting at City Hall to decide whether all Fourth of July fireworks are going to be banned. It’s like Eugene is shutting down……dying!
What I miss the most about Civic Stadium were the young teenagers that came there with their beautiful dates – to show them off! Young men, who did not come from money, could afford $12 dollars, and owned some Civic Pride amongst The People. There was a Beauty Contest going on. Not one beauty was hunched over pecking at her cellphone with a gaggle of her girlfriends, while the boys pecked away in their group. These beautiful young women practiced good posture, and………..BEING SEEN!
No one looks at each other anymore. The PSCME closed that shit down. We now know there is a heavy fine for beholding beauty – DIRECTLY! You have to purchase a spendy I-Phone, pay for the use of it with your plastic credit card, then, make a pass at her.
“Hey, good-looken! Are you behind the wheel of your car, yet. Text me when you are!”
There will be no game today. Big Brother Nurse is watching your – pocket book! What’s coming to replace Civic Stadium, is being hatched out by the Paranoid Planning Committee, who are afraid if they charge you what they want to charge you, no one will show, and profits are out the door. So, what is that exact price of admission going to be?
WE WILL BE PENALIZED FOR OUR LOSS. We old timers know this is a victory in the battle against dirty old men, hippies, and the poisoned pedagogy! It’s a clean woman’s world. They want everything fresh and new – and expensive! Down with cheap dates! Women don’t want us men to have our beloved sanctuary were we can watch a MAN’S GAME!
It’s alllllllllllll gone! The only game left, is to spot Ken Kesey sitting in the bleachers of Civic Stadium – of yesteryear!
That’s it, my Sucker Booth. I’ll blow-up an old black and white photo of Civic and put it behind curtains. My sign will say “Spot Ken and win a Panda”. My mark will have fifteen seconds to point out Kesey, who will not be in the crowd, because no photo of him at Civic, exists. But – what the hey! It’s all in fun! After all, I am not a Sexual Predator!
I push a red button. The curtain opens, slowly, too slowly for my mark who has handed me $5 bucks.
“GO!” I shout. “Hurry! You have seven seconds left!”
“Mr. McMurphy. Your hand. It’s smearing my window!”
Jon Presco
Copyright 2015
Did I Capture Big Donor?
Posted on June 29, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
May 9 at 8:53 am ·
“Mary Broadhurst: yeah well…I’m a bit concerned about labels being applied to this guy. obviously he has issues. but will calling him a psychopath push him over the edge. did anyone consult with Belle before coming to her rescue? perhaps she had a plan as to how to deal with this…
May 9 at 8:57am ·
Alley Valkyrie: “Yes, I talked to Belle.”
Right after I filmed Belle Burch at Ken Kesey Square, a anonymous women gave the homeless $400,000 dollars. Nathan “Red” Showers in the video about this gift. Red and Belle have a chat in my video. Mary Broadhusrt is a attorney and member of OCCUPY. She has been involved in SLEEPS that Ambrose Holtham Keatley is spokesperson for. His father, Anand, supported Whoville, and Volunteers for OCCUPY Medical that is mentioned in the Donor article.
Belle approached me as a prospective donor to SLEEPS, after she may have got a pledge from the woman who conceals her face when she sees my camera pointed at her. Why is she hiding her face. No one else is doing this. This is not Belle’s first rodeo. No shrinking violet is she. She even sticks her tongue out at me.
“anonymous benefactor took up the issue”
“Whoville camper and organizer Nathan “Red” Showers says the Whoville campers are like a family and many of them relied on the emotional support, on-site warming center and food donations available at the camp.
“It was all donations from churches and organizations that support us. They paid for tons of propane that we went through,” Showers says. “It was beautiful how many people were just out there, ready and willing. We need another chance.”
Like a FAMILY. Hmmm! Red does not mention donations from individuals, lone wolves. Did anyone ask for a receipt for tax purposes? I mean, surely Mary Broadhurst has set up a non-profit status for SLEEPS, and gave everyone lessons on how to be legal and kosher with the IRS.
The post that Krysta Albert found very disturbing was the one I sent to Anand Holtham Keathley asking about contributions. You can detect there is going to be competition as to what groups gets the lion’s share. This secret donor is going to check the media to see her name NOT mentioned. If she comes across my blog, she might suggest everyone but SLEEPS – get some!
How many members of SLEEPS held an emergency meeting, and decided to bring in their big gunslinger, Alley Valkryie. Surely Ananad is interested in getting more public exposure. Is this the reason he got chummy with Krysta Albert, and why she did not want anyone to get chummy with me, he knowing I have been an advocate for the homeless? Do you think Belle and Krysta have met? Note how the dude in this video adds that all small donations are accounted for? Did any other Suckers see what I saw, and they confronted the Predators, and, Alley is in their face threatening to tell their wives prince charming tried to pay a homeless woman for sex? Big Red is lurking about, acting like a…………?
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“Why your son and his anarchist gang broke away from OCCUPY raises questions. What was the nature of the falling out. I hope Festival of Eugene has a reputable firm handling donations. As a board member – denied access to the Festival of Eugene Facebook page – I will go to interested agencies to make sure my name is not dragged into the mud. I have a reputation to protect”.
I find it interesting that Belle, Alley, Ambrose, Anand, and Mary find my posts very disturbing, but, all the homeless psychos on the streets are innocent little lambs who can do no wrong. These Savors poo-pooh the real fear normal people have of them – for good reason! It appears there was a conspiracy to deprive me of my Civil Rights. Member so SLEEPS would not want me to testify against them a a City Hall meeting, a forum they use to attract donors. People give Alley money for being a ballsy-bitch!
Alley Valkyrie; ” I will also say that going downtown would be a mistake, as EPD is quite aware of who and what you are, and they have nine uniformed officers downtown. But then again, you said you were going to City Council and you didn’t have the balls to do that, and…See More
Alley Valkyrie: And if you do go downtown, you will have to deal with me personally, by the way.”
I talked to my first girlfriend who recently saw the video of Belle. She is going to write down what she told me, being, she never saw a person, or an image of someone that reminded her of herself, as Belle Burch. Marilyn even noticed the mold on her neck. This is like dejavu, and the Moulin Rouge, she added.
When Ientered Ken Kesey Square I turned on my camera to record the event, because after finding my chronically homeless friend dead in his new apartment Hud-VASH just got him, I had been avoiding the homeless because my heart was still broken like so many who loved Hollis William’s. When I saw Belle, it was love at first sight.
I tried to establish a foundation where deceased Veteran pay for the funeral of the next fallen warrior. I have a right to do volunteer work in my community, and serve the homeless am I so compelled. To be harassed and denied this right by people who say they love the homeless, is suspect.
I am now seeking a second and third opinion on this matter. Mary Broadhurst, and Anand Holtham Keathley know I do not fit the profile of psychopath and predator. Are they afraid of Alley Valkyrie who is doing damage control – and knows what has been going on behind the scenes.? This is why it is extremely important you do things on the up and up.
42 U.S.C. § 242 – Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law
Provides severe penalties for anyone, who, under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom subjects another to the deprivation of rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution.
18 U.S.C. § 241
Section 241 of Title 18 is the civil rights conspiracy statute. Section 241 makes it unlawful for two or more persons to agree together to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the Unites States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same). Unlike most conspiracy statutes, Section 241 does not require that one of the conspirators commit an overt act prior to the conspiracy becoming a crime.
Here are my posts made just before May 9, 2014
Jon Presco
Copyright 2015
Mary Broadhurst: “I read his blog. It’s disturbing.
May 9 at 9:17am · Like · 2
.Ashley Hewes:: “Mary how long will it be before he starts capturing people?”
Published on Apr 4, 2014
On April 4th. 2014, I captured the end of my autobiography ‘Capturing Beauty’ when I captured a beautiful young woman with my video camera. When she told me her name was Belle, and that she would like me to do a painting of her, I knew I had found her, my Beautiful Muse at the end of my life, and at the then
Eugene Donor Commits $400,000 For New Shelter Site
Article | April 17, 2014 – 1:00am | By Adrian Black
As Eugene city leaders floundered last week in relocating the former residents of the Whoville homeless camp, an anonymous benefactor took up the issue, offering a $400,000 donation to establish a sanctuary on private property.
The pledge came as a direct response to, among general grievances, the unyielding position of City Manager Jon Ruiz and others willing to leave the destitute in limbo. “I wanted to step up,” the donor tells EW, “because I saw the city making an attempt to push these people out. They’re citizens, not strangers.”
A Eugene native with capital to spare from the success of a local family business, the donor says the wealth was a matter of pure chance, adding that a privileged position in society obligates one to prevent a human rights catastrophe when no one else will.
For the donation to be seen through, the money has to be channeled properly through the fiscal sponsorship of a nonprofit organization. This would be accomplished through an existing entity with 501(c)(3) status, such as Opportunity Village Eugene or Community Alliance of Lane County. An alternative could be for SLEEPS (Safe Legally Entitled Emergency Places to Sleep) or the Nightingale Public Advocacy Collective to attain such status — the latter is already pending.
It’s now up to Mary Broadhurst, an attorney and advocate for the unhoused, and others representing the advocacy group Homeless Health Sanctuary, to coordinate sponsorship and fulfill the multiple stipulations attached to this unforeseen act of philanthropy.
“We’re looking to buy private property — a single site for something that goes beyond a 30-person rest stop,” Broadhurst says. “Initially, it would be tents on platforms, but it would transition into micro-housing.”
Semi-permanent occupants would be expected to share the space with those seeking single use overnight stays. The site would also include a health stop, where twice a week residents and passers-through could be evaluated, presumably by Occupy Medical or like volunteers. An information station would be developed to point the weary toward free meals and other community resources. The donor put a specific focus on the site needing to be self-sustaining beyond land purchase and startup costs.
The donor remains anonymous to keep the focus on the issue not the donor, and to avoid criticism from a business community where some might shame the donation: “Developers don’t want the parents of university students to see all these homeless people. It decreases the property value. They have a lot to gain from sweeping them under the rug.”
“Facebook message from Alley Valkerie
“I’m going to make this very simple for you. I don’t know if you know who I am, but I sure as hell know who you are, and when you fuck with my friends, you fuck with me. Stop writing about Belle or I am going to make your life very difficult. I mean it. If I see one more word about her on your blog, your FB, or anywhere else, I will make sure that you experience all the fear and discomfort that she is experiencing right now. And no, this isn’t a physical threat, so don’t try to play victim. Frankly, I encourage you to contact EPD, as they already know all about you. I will not do anything illegal, but mark my word you will regret it if you write one more word about her. I will make sure that the entire community knows exactly how much of a sick fuck you are. Your picture, your name, and “samples” of your writing will be posted on every bulletin board in town. There will not be a single person in the Eugene/Springfield area who won’t know that you’re a sick stalker who won’t leave a stalker who won’t leave a young girl alone. Cut it out. Now. This is your first, last, and only warning.”
Alley Valkerie on facebook message.
“Please, go ahead and blog my threat.
You have no fucking idea what you’re getting yourself into
You also have no idea how many people are already on to you, and how many people have my back. We also have six other mutual friends who are going to learn about your behavior ASAP
And just so you know as well: if you write anything about me that could be construed as defamatory, you will be hearing from my lawyers ASAP.”
Mary Broadhurst yeah well…I’m a bit concerned about labels being applied to this guy. obviously he has issues. but will calling him a psychopath push him over the edge. did anyone consult with Belle before coming to her rescue? perhaps she had a plan as to how to deal with this…
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Alley Valkyrie Yes, I talked to Belle.
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Rodolfo Palma We’re with you, Alley!
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Mary Broadhurst one can call someone out by noting observations without using labels. just sayin’ I would like to see compassion even for someone who is making some errors in how he connects with the world through the internet.
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Alley Valkyrie Is “making some errors”? Come on, Mary. Please. No. This is sick. What he’s doing is cyberstalking in the legal sense. My compassion ends when I feel threatened.
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Mary Broadhurst some people feel threatened by homeless people.
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Ashley Hewes I understand and respect your thoughts Mary but I also feel that he should not be allowed to feel comfortable in this community. He rates right up there with child molesters for me.
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Alley Valkyrie: Mary, this is legitimate. This isn’t based on prejudicial fear. Read his blog. This man is sick. Cyberstalking and defamation, not to mention DMCA violations for posting my copyrighted photos without permission. He’s already been reported for that.
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Mary Broadhurst and this is what I mean. now someone who writes disturbing thoughts and publishes them on the internet is now thrown into the same box as a child molester.
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Alley Valkyrie: Have you read his blog? I’m not comparing him to a child molester, but I can’t believe you’re defending him!
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Mary Broadhurst: I read his blog. It’s disturbing.
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Ashley Hewes: Mary how long will it be before he starts capturing people?
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/public_indian_housing/programs/hcv/vash
Valkyrie questions the legality of shutting down the public property, but Mia Cariaga of the Eugene city manager’s office writes in an email that the property “is not open for public use of any kind.”
Advocate Mary Broadhurst says that contrary to the perception she’s heard from City Manager Jon Ruiz, Eugene community members are very supportive of the camp, which has allowed many of the chronically unhoused, some with substance abuse and mental health issues, to have shelter and help one another. Ruiz is “rubbing shoulders with the country club set,” Broadhurst says, who are the ones who want the unhoused out of sight.
Sue Sierralupe of Occupy Medical, which also opposes closing the camp, says, “Whoville exists because people support it. The bathrooms, the handwashing station, the food, the tents, the blankets, the medical supplies all exist because our citizens support it.”
Occupy Medical says that “eviction of Whoville will only increase the risk of exposure and transmission of illnesses that have been otherwise successfully prevented or treated with our partnership,” and the free medical care group says that it has treated everything from the flu, including H1N1, to skin conditions.
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20140123/news-briefs/will-eugene-save-unhoused-whoville
Broadhurst and Valkyrie say they are frustrated with media reports, based on the city’s press release, that indicate there is somewhere for Whovillians to go. The city cites expanded car camping, Opportunity Village and a rest-stop pilot program, but Broadhurst says while the community has made efforts to house those in need there are not enough beds for even a third of the area’s homeless. She says contrary to the idea that providing housing for the homeless will attract more homeless, “94 percent of the unhoused are local folks.”
http://klcc.org/post/anonymous-donor-gives-400000-homeless-camp-eugene
https://www.citizenaudit.org/462442010/
NIGHTINGALE PUBLIC ADVOCACY COLLECTIVE
Established (IRS approval granted): 2015/02
Contact: % MARY E BROADHURST, PO BOX 1556, SPRINGFIELD OR 97477-0167
Assets: $0 as of 2014/12
Income: $0 in year ending 2014/12
Industry:
- P Human Services – Multipurpose and Other : Homeless Persons Centers, Services
Contributions are deductible
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public 170(b)(1)(A)(vi)
Charitable Organization
http://cldc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Decl.-M.-Broadhurst.pdf
| 34. Belle Burch, supported the homeless and asked the council to keep Whoville open.35. Ambrose Holtham-Keathley, supported Whoville and asked the council to keep it open.36. Marina Hajek, supported option #3 for the South Willamette Street redesign project.37. John Monroe, supported Whoville and asked the council to keep it open. |
| 25. Mary Broadhurst, supported homeless efforts and asked council to keep Whoville open. |
http://sire.eugene-or.gov/SIREPub/cache/2/kqqaaru52ypabidzddpeckcg/57506292015110500874.htm
https://www.facebook.com/mary.broadhurst.10/photos
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-fix-alley-s-van-and-get-her-back-on-her-feet#/story
http://www.eugenesaturdaymarket.org/artisanpages/valkyrie/valkyrie.html
Here is one attempt to help our houseless citizens. It comes from Utah, a Republican state. Here is their homepage. http://www.theroadhome.org/ They are part of the Housing First movement. Here is their page on Rapid Rehousing. http://www.theroadhome.org/services/housing/rapid-rehousing/ They may be something in this model which could apply here. Looking at it from a medical perspective, being houseless increases the risk to many disorders including malnutrition, poor wound healing, sleep deprivation, poor diabetes management and its attendant cardiovascular problems, hypothermia and PTSD. To prevent these and many other disorders multiple treatments may be required but the first and foremost is a prescription for housing. Other resources may be needed depending on the individual, but all require housing as a primary resource to add the stability necessary for any other improvements.
It is sadly ironic that some of those most vulnerable in our society will have what little they have taken away around Martin Luther King Jr. day. At the end of his life MLK was involved in the Poor People’s Campaign to address issues of economic justice. The city says they are just asking those at Whoville to move, but many of those involved say there are far fewer spaces than are needed. It is inhumane to make people move who have no good alternative. As a nursing student we are taught that “Homeless patients have even fewer resources than the poor. They are often jobless and do not have the advantage of shelter and must continually cope with finding a place to sleep at night and finding food. Chronic health problems tend to worsen because of poor nutrition and the inability to store nutritional foods. In addition, the homeless population is usually walking the streets and neighborhoods to seek shelter, and they lack a balance of rest and activity. There is a startling increase in adolescent homelessness. The homeless adolescent is usually without a nuclear family and has greater health care risks. Homelessness is a major public health issue. The fastest growing section of the homeless population is families with children. This includes complete nuclear families and single-parent families. It is expected that 3.5 million people are homeless and 1.35 million are families with children. Poverty, mental and physical illness, and lack of affordable housing are primary causes of homelessness (National Coalition for the Homeless, 2010). Homelessness severely affects the functioning, health, and well-being of the family and its members. Children of homeless families are often in fair or poor health and have higher rates of asthma, ear infections, stomach problems, and mental illness.” Until there is a better situation these houseless citizens should be allow to stay on public land. I note that the old City Hall is empty. Use that to provide shelter from the cold. It is painful to consider but it is absolutely true that you could end up houseless in this society. There, but for the grace of god go us all. I know because I was houseless for years. Now I own a house, a business and am in my last year of the of the RN nursing program. You do not know the suffering these people have been through, why they are where they are and you certainly do not know what they need if you think you can just close Whoville with no serious implications. Rather than closing Whoville we should be supporting that community while we find empty buildings to use, like the old City Hall, and others. Long term we need to provide the resources to get people in a stable situation. Many of these people have untreated PTSD from war, domestic abuse, childhood abuse or being houseless too long. I know. I’ve been there. There is a new direction called Housing First which helps houseless people get housing immediately while providing resources these citizens need so they can stabilize their lives. The Utah version with web links, I listed above. I encourage you all to consider they long term value to treating everyone as the family they really are. Peace.
http://occupy-medical.org/press-release/save-whoville/
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EUGENE, Ore. — In spite of numerous challenges, the Festival of Eugene is officially on for a weekend of entertainment at Skinner Butte Park.
“It’s been a fantastic rollercoaster, with highs and lows and we hope to bring all those highs to all those people that come here,” said Anand Holtham-Keathley, a community liaison for the festival.
The event was scheduled for 4 to 10 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.
http://www.kmtr.com/news/local/Festival-of-Eugene–272440751.html
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