People take photos of protest art representing President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein on the National Mall near the U.S. Capitol on Thursday.Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP
I am going to announce my campaign in a couple of days. When I ran for Governor as a Republican, I got 172 votes! Wow! The mistake I made when I entered Ken Kesey Square on the Art Walk, is
I DIDN’T HAVE MY TRIBE WITH ME!
As I was viciously attacked, no Democrat, or friend came to my rescue. They didn’t back me because they were afraid I would publish their names, and quote them. Then……..
THIS VICIOUS COVEN OF WICCANS AND ASSORTED DEVILS
WOULD COME AFTER THEM!
Trump is a master at TRIBALISM! He got millions of Chritian Women to vote for him – even though he did not recognize the name….
ABRAHAM
I’ve been hanging around Republican sites on Facebook, gathering the names of extremely vicious Republican Women – who do not want to find Jesus! They do want the NAME….
ALLEY VALKRIE!
But they don’t know it yet. I will give it to them. I will campaign on the evil words and threats, of
THE DHE-DEVIL KNOWN AS QUEEN ANTIFA!
I didn’t utter a word in my last campaign. I expect to get a
THOUSAND REPUBLICAN WOMEN VOTES!
I will bid them to Google MY NAME, and read the Slander of Queen Antifa, and her call to her Wiccan Coven – to get me! They will use this revelation….
AS PROOF DONALD TRUMP IS INNOCENT OF ALL CHARGES, AND WAS THE VICTIM OF WITCHES – WHO SET HIM UP FOR A FALL!
“They will do, and say anything in order to thwart the will of Jesus!”
When they read I am – THRICE BORN – I might have a minor cult following. I will give Bible Lessons.
John
Prophet of The Face To Face Political Church of God
Added Jean Stacey, a Eugene social activist, also on Facebook: “This is so against the person we know. Emily Semple fanning (the) flames against homeless people is shocking enough for a health check.“
Capturing Belle
I met Belle Burch at the Eugene Art Walk on April 4, 2024. She asked for my number saying;
“We can talk.”
Two weeks later – she gives me a call and wants to meet. I would later wonder if she, and her SLEEPS People are wondering if I am the secret donor. This would explain why they went crazy to get rid of what I published about them in Royal Rosamond Press – lest the Donor X them off their list. Is this why Alley Valkyrie lied when she said;
“The EPD know all about you!”
This lie was echoed by my neighbor – who was gleeful to discover I was a wanted criminal – NOT! I called THE EUGENE COPS -and they never heard of me!
Above are two photograps showing Semple Attorney Stacey WATCHING ME talke to Belle. Both women were involved in creating a Alternative Art Walk and Downtown Art Happening, featuring THE HOMELESS, and the three members of SLEEPS who are artists. Belle is an Artist who knew THEY were taking over Ken Kesey’s legacy, and Eugene’s Art legacy. They did not inform me of this. They did not put up a banner in the Square saying
WELCOME TO THE LEGALIZED ART AND COO-KOOS NEST REVIVAL FOR THE RIGHEOUS HOMELESS CITIZENS. Brought to you by three attorneys who are working THE NEW ART DEAL behind closed doors…..FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!
THE CONSTITUTES – CONSPIRACY! Is Jean asking for a MENAL HEATH CHECK of a City Council person -elected by the votes of Citizens? How many votes did Jean getto do what she do. I got a HEALTH CHECK by my concerned neighbors – who chose not to call Cahoots
BIG LEGAL ART MOMMA IS WATCHING YOU
I am seeking attorney to sue Emily Semple, and Jean Stacey, who were there in Ken Kesey Square – watching me talk to Belle. Emily knew HER Attorney was working on their ARREST! Eugene City Council Person, Semple, had to know about Valkyries post on Mayor Kittie Piercy’s Facebook where she depicts Belle and I as being – total strangers! Emily tired to get arrested, but there were not enough jail cells. These arrests are PUBLIC RECORD that I can record in my newspaper. To try and STOP ME, is a violation of my Constitutional Rights. Did members of SLEEPS wonder if I would be CHOSEN because of my work with Hollis Williams – and I own a newspaper-forum? Was Semple a member of Alley’s Facebook, and did she read this
Storm Faerywolf F(a)eri(e) or non?
Alley Valkyrie Local creeper. Delusional narcissist. Not Feri, but reminds me of a few of them. I sent him a PM firmly telling him to leave a friend of mine alone, and my “threat” will be the subject of his blog tomorrow. He has no idea who he is fucking with.
Storm Faerywolf Give him hell, Alley!
and my “threat” will be the subject of his blog tomorrow.
Give him hell, Alley!
Give him hell, Alley!
Give him hell, Alley!
I was terrorized by my neighbors, according to Councilperson, Semple. some of them were Christians. One expects to be RAPTURED. Valkyrie moved to France – after admitting she was sending me THREATS! She confessed this to an admitted Warlock – AND WEREWOLF! How many of my neighbors want to play with this DEVIL? How would you like The Devil Policing Your Penis and punishing’ you for alleged misbehavior – WITH YOUR VAGINA – and you get no FAIR TRIAL! We await to see if the Supreme Court rules
DONALD TRUMP IS ABOVE THE LAW!
The folks you will read about – believe they are above the law -because they are helping the poor. They took many cities – HOSTAGE!
Here is an e-mail from Belle Burch saying she would like to go to New York with me and take in a Broadway Show. Is this any business of the Mayor of Eugene? Stefan Eins is a famous artist who founded Fashion Moda. Love sings The Red Telephone in the background as Oregon Trippers turn a dude on to ACID for the first time. I turned people on the ACID. Do I deserve to be….
POLICED BY MY NEIGHBORS?
” is shocking enough for a health check.“
“is shocking enough for a health check.“
” is shocking enough for a health check.“
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
stefan
To Me
Jan 20
Hi,
The picture of your Muse looks like Christine. Your email – to me – below refers to Stefan and Chris (!), I thought the end of your autobiography might be you actually visiting New York and joining me and Chris having a magical time. How about it? After all: you found your muse! Tootle-oo!
Stefan Eins
http://art-nerd.com/newyork/fashion-moda/embed/#?secret=Lady4Nt0hm#?secret=K68YPhXPcY
Belle Burch
To Me
Apr 19 at 9:41 PM
Hell yes I want to see a dance show on Broadway. I’ve always wanted to see a Broadway show. I’ve been in NYC twice but failed both times to get overpriced tickets to any Broadway shows enough in advance to make one. Why do you ask?
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:59 PM, John Ambrose wrote:
Belle, my big project in Love Dance, a Broadway musical based upon the music of LOVE. Bryan was my best friend in HS. He was a roadie for the Byrds when he was 17. We hung out in a coffee shop in LA in 1963.
I about choked when you told me your were a dancer! Belle! You ring all my belles and set off all my whistles. It is just the way it is.
I want to see the hippie dance extravaganza on Broadway! How about you?
Jon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Eins
Exhibitions[edit]
Starting in 1977, Stefan Eins’ work has been exhibited internationally. Eins art was exhibited in shows in the National Gallery in Vienna (1991), MoMA PS1 in New York (2007), Now Gallery and other museums and galleries in US and Europe. Eins’s exhibit in MoMA PS1 was a collection of digital pictures of splotches.[6][7]
The case is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.
The case came from the rural Oregon town of Grants Pass, which appealed a ruling striking down local ordinances that fined people $295 for sleeping outside after tents began crowding public parks. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over the nine Western states, has held since 2018 that such bans violate the Eighth Amendment in areas where there aren’t enough shelter beds, as they are “cruel and unusual.”
YOU TOO CAN BE – AN ART ATTORNEY FOR THE HOMELESS – and hold legal art happening’s in your neighborhood! Yeeee-Haaaaaw! Tell them the Werewolf sent ya!
Have you had your dose of Cruel and Unusual Punishment’s today! Call your Certified Legal Art Doctor and have your penis and vagina shamed in public – BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!
Cited and Released were:
1. Bollman, Aurthur Frank 12/31/63 Eugene Trespass II
2. Burch, Belle Erin 11/21/90 No Address Trespass II
3. Shepard, Helen Marie 07/12/85 Eugene Trespass II
4. Monroe, John Lee 11/06/85 Eugene Trespass II
5. Smith, Charles Anderson 11/08/50 Springfield Trespass II
6. Williams, Terra Renee 02/24/88 Eugene Trespass II
7. Marcroft, Sabra Marie 05/15/66 Eugene Trespass II
8. Stacey, Jean Anderson 08/23/45 No Address Trespass II
9. Valkrie, Alley NMI 12/20/81 Eugene Trespass II
10. Wales, Geran Straford 09/15/90 Eugene Trespass II
11. Holtham-Keathley, Ambrose Stormrider 02/06/92 Eugene Trespass II
12. Grotticelli, Peter David 07/16/88 Eugene Trespass II
You know what they say…..”Once a Slug Queen – Always a Slug queen!”
Eugene Donor Commits $400,000 For New Shelter Site
Article | April 17, 2014 – 12:00am | 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.”
City councilor Emily Semple apologizes for ‘terrorism’ remark about protest camp
Christian Hill
christian.hill@registerguard.com
https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.647.0_en.html#goog_1079142741
Eugene City Councilor Emily Semple publicly apologized Monday for saying a homeless protest camp is engaging in “terrorism.”
Semple made that remark during the Sept. 17 Eugene Human Rights Commission while describing negative impacts the camp, now located along the curb at West 11th Avenue and Lawrence Street, is having on nearby residents and business owners.
“I am very frustrated and upset. This has become the face of homelessness, which has hurt every single homeless person in this city,” she said, according to a video of the meeting. “It’s making people angrier, both the merchants and nonprofits there, but (also) everyone who drives by. I believe in protest, and I believe this has become terrorism.”
In response to an inquiry about her remarks on Monday, Semple read from a prepared statement. Semple said she planned to read the same statement during the conclusion of the public comment period at Monday night’s City Council meeting.
“At the Human Rights Commission meeting last Tuesday evening, I used the word ‘terrorism,’” she said. “If I had pre-written my remarks, I would have chosen a different word. I apologize.”
Semple, whose ward includes downtown and south-central Eugene, declined further comment.
One of the council’s most progressive voices who has a history of social activism, Semple faced immediate blowback from her liberal supporters for her remark at the meeting. She is seeking re-election next year in a race that so far has drawn two challengers.
“It is the job of our ‘representatives’ to not allow fear and bigotry to be the reasoning for our City’s choices,” Eugene resident Jana Thift wrote on a Facebook post. “It seems that Emily forgot that it was her fighting for the right to gather in protest not so long ago.”
Added Jean Stacey, a Eugene social activist, also on Facebook: “This is so against the person we know. Emily Semple fanning (the) flames against homeless people is shocking enough for a health check.”
But at least one resident came to Semple’s defense on social media.
“The protest camp is a slap in the face to every working person in Eugene,” Eugene resident Diane Davis posted on Semple’s Facebook page. “Thank you for standing up for taxpayers who just want to be free to walk the streets.”
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The protest camp, led by homeless advocate Eric Jackson, has been relocating in and near downtown for months, mostly recently in front of the Fifth Street Public Market expansion project and Eugene Municipal Court.
The camp seeks to bring attention to what Jackson has said is the criminalization of homeless people by local officials in enforcing the city’s illegal camping ordinance and the county’s curfew for its properties downtown. More recently, it seeks to protest the City Council’s approval of an amended ordinance that allows adjacent property owners to enforce trespass on planter strips — the narrow strip of land between the sidewalk and curb.
Semple, who lives near the camp’s current location, told the commission she’s heard reports of campers regularly yelling vulgarities, fighting, using drugs and disassembling bicycles.
The city councilor said she’s walked around the alleys and buildings in the immediate area several times in recent days and observed feces, urine stains and used drug needles.
Homeless Rest Stops and Conflict of Interest.
Posted on November 15, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
I just learned that Nightingale Services has been chosen to run a Rest Stop that is being backed by the City of Eugene. Councilperson, Emily Semple, Alley Valkyrie, John Monroe, and Nathan Showers, have been on the board of Nightingale. John and Alley founded Nightingale at the time an anonymous donor wanted to give a homeless advocate group $400,000 dollars, which I believe is their motive for going after me and my newspaper. Take note of John Monroe taking photographs of his Mob who refused to leave the City Managers office they invaded. Semple wanted to be arrested for trespass, but the jail did not have enough room.
With Semple on the City Council, what we got is a pair of loaded self-serving dice, and, a secular inhouse alternative Wiccan cosmology, blessed by the Mayor. Throw in the fact Semple and Valkyrie are artists, then we have a City Sanctioned and Protected Bohemian Mafia made up of thuggish Witches and Warlocks, who have been invited to camp for free on City owned property. In other words, we got a City Cult – right here in River City!
These Live-in Bohunks don’t have to apply for any Art Grant, like real Artists and Bohemians do. Many artists rent spaces downtown. Not so members of our City Religion who have usurped the idea of a Christian Monastery. You can thank an ex-Slug Queen for this slight of hand – with Black Civic Magic! I suspect the violation of my First Amendment Rights was motivated by the desire of SLEEPS to run Semple for Mayor, or City Councilperson, who may have warmed her cold tits at the Wiccan Yule Log ritual. Note the three adults in the top image, who have captured two children, and are taking them into the woods around Eugene to feed them to hungry old witches who own black cooking pots.
Yeah! Right! OCCUPY is all about – The Children! What is needed is a good Boogey-man! Councilperson, Emily Semple needs to be interviewed by the FBI about what she knows about the “threats” Alley Valkyrie made, and her demonization of me on her facebook. Emily know exactly why I was targeted.
The City Council will hold a working meeting on the issue of Rest Stops at 5:30 P.M. on Monday November 26th. At 7:30, there will be a public forum. How many folks who object to homeless politics, know about this meeting?
https://www.eugene-or.gov/3706/Rest-Stops
Eugene City Councilor Emily Semple publicly apologized Monday for saying a homeless protest camp is engaging in “terrorism.”
Mr. Showers appeared in the video I took while visiting Ken Kesey Square. He approaches Belle Burch who approached me, talked to me, took my number, set up a ‘Get to know you’ meeting, where after two hours, she did not mention she was an advocate for SLEEPS, and, had been arrested with Ms. Valkyrie, John Monroe, and her lover Ambrose. When I learned she was not acting as her own person and agent, and her coharts were associated with a famous Eugene Anarchist, I became alarmed. I had opened myself and shared personal information about my late sister. Belle offered to edit my autobiography. When she asked for more personal information via e-mail, I wondered what did THEY wanted from me. Wouldn’t you?
Alley Valkyrie – President of Nightingale
Posted on December 3, 2017by Royal Rosamond Press
Alley Valkyrie and John Monroe founded Nightingale. With what funds? I got this info off their site in 2015. The board has changed.
Jon Presco
http://respectexistence.org/about-us/npac-board/
NPAC Board
Alley Valkyrie–President
Alley Valkyrie is an artist, small business owner, and tireless supporter of the unhoused. She currently lives in Portland and sells her handcrafted clothes and prayer flags at the Saturday Market. Since the Occupy Movement in 2011, she has worked “full-time without pay as an informal liaison between homeless campers and police” (Eugene Weekly) . She founded the Nightingale Public Advocacy Coalition with her partner, John Monroe.
John Monroe–Vice President
Activist and musician John Monroe studied philosophy at the University of Montana and has recently attended graduate school in Europe. He was an early member of the Occupy Movement, SLEEPS (Safe, Legally Entitled Emergency Places to Sleep), and the Kesey Square Revival and founded Nightingale Public Advocacy Coalition with his partner, Alley Valkyrie.
This is Whoville, who just got evicted by City Manager, Jon Rius. They trespassed in his office. I am certain most of the Downtown Merchants, and housed Citizens of Eugene, know nothing about these INVASIONS. The Mayor and City Council did not learn of the THREATS board member, Alley Valkyrie, made to me, because she told me if I went to a Council meeting I would have to deal with her and – her people! She then launched a Smear Campagin against me that I am sure Emily Semple IS aware of. She knew Valkyrie was employing SEX as a weapon to demonize me and destroy my reputation. Was Mr. Showers aware of this slanderous attempt to make me look like a Sex Pervert?
Alley Vlakyrie posted these words on Mayor Kitty Piercies facebook, and when THEY took them down, she went Witch Hunting for another forum. She was furious I had one, and THEY didn’t, thus THE TARGET was my newspaper, Royal Rosamond Press.
Who are THEY? They are OCCUPY who took over the park where the Saturday Market is held. The Market folks asked them to move. They created Whoville. Vickie Nelson founded Nightingale. She is seen in the newsletter wearing purple. She may have founded Eugene Occupy. This is her saga – HER BABY! Semple got behind – THE MISSION – that the City of Eugene has adopted, and made – THEIR BABY. How much influence did Semple have? Was she aware I have a homeless plan of my own?
There is Conflict of Interest here, because the Third Party – are the Citizens of Eugene! They don’t have a clue they are dealing with OCCUPY, or, a Collective of Wiccan Threats that were made to this newspaper reporter who began to EXPOSE the truth! What Sane People have to look at, is, no sexual predetor wants ANY ATTENTION, thus my decision to not be bullied by Ms. Valkrie and her “threats” proves I am not a covert abuser of women.
The greatest choice I made, was to GO ABOUT MY BUSINESS, and treat Belle Burch as a real person and citizen, and continue the agenda WE AGREED TO i.e. she is my Muse! I will try to make it clear to the Eugene City Government that they have a Very Special ongoing relationship with OCCUPY, who do not give a shit about anyone who is not homeless, because they USED THE HOMELESS from the start to promote their Political Agenda. They have proven they will use anyone! It is a game with them. They hate to BE WRONG! They use homelessness as their pseudo-religion. They are no COMPATIBLE with normal society that they seek to overthrow and install their COVERT ANARCHIST AGENDA! How synical that one their own, became a Councilperson. Semple is a Loaded Dice. Were other threats made to – other males? Was I used as an example?
I demand Emily Semple resign, or I will bring a lawsuit against her and the City of Eugene.
That Kim Hafner would hijack and employ the threatening tactics that Alley Valkyrie employed against me, is a Civic Outrage. I am considering suing OCCUPY for defamation of character. I am looking for a famous National Attorney!
Sue OCCUPY? You betcha! Am I afraid? Who wouldn’t be! But, one has to take the risk in order to let the horses run free!
I will be contacting Downtown Merchants.
SCREW OCCUPY – ALL TO HELL! They keep changing their name and their identity, but, in my book they are forever – SHITHEADS! They loathe the INDIVIDUAL thus they have a vested interest in keeping homeless people huddled together – in fear! The FBI suggested this is Racketeering. WHO…………….needs this shit!
If I had given into their demands, this vile Witch Hunt poster would have never been seen by the public. Think about it! I knew it was coming. Fuck Alley Valkyrie, the She-Devil who posted it – for Belle’s sake? Bullshit! This is Conspiracy to deprive me of my First Amendment Rights!
Once again, I knew Alley Valkyrie was going to slander me by posting a false abuser report on a fake abuser site. She did not surprise me, nor catch me. I was not slinking about looking for more victims. My neighbors are inviting a lawsuit. I told Kim Hafner all about my troubles with Whoville folks. She picked up their gauntlet.
“You have no fucking idea what you’re getting yourself into.”
The Many Masks of OCCUPY must end its Antisocial Ways, and show a willingness to get along with The Normies who have proven they are not as GENEROUS as our Mayor and City Councilors – who give them thousands of dollars of TAXPAYER monies. Now that they got an INSIDER on the council, what need to they have to deal with Reality? Hurting people who are not one of them – is a way of life!
There are eleven people in the top photo. They have gotten much attention from the media and posted a dozens of videos they took. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars has the taxpayer given them so they can maintain their Unique Counter Lifestyle? Separate them! Break them up. Get rid of their extended family! Only as individuals will they consider changing their ways. As long as the Kim Hafner Mob does not have to act like individuals, and be solely responsible for the way they treat ONE neighbor, then, they will look for more outrageous and dangerous reasons, to torment me!
“If you see him in your neighborhood, on the street, or anywhere, call him out. Expose him. “
I am open to individual apologies.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
“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.”
John Gregory Presco, DOB 10/8/1946
This man’s name is John Gregory Presco, DOB 10/8/1946. He lives in Springfield, Oregon.
He frequents Eugene, especially the Whiteaker neighborhood, and regularly shows up at activist events. He is a stalker, a harasser, and an obsessed delusional sicko. He targeted a friend of mine and has been writing about her obsessively, and when I confronted him about his behavior, he decided to target me as well.
If you need a concrete example of his behavior and why I am posting this, his delusional writings can be found at https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com
If you see him in your neighborhood, on the street, or anywhere, call him out. Expose him. Make it known that you will not accept and tolerate someone who harasses and obsesses over young women in our community. This man is a very sick individual. Anyone who deliberately makes women feel unsafe should not be tolerated in this or any community.
https://www.eugene-or.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=1243
A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another. Typically, this relates to situations in which the personal interest of an individual or organization might adversely affect a duty owed to make decisions for the benefit of a third party.
Police
Posted on: April 1, 2014
12 Cited for Criminal Trespass After Refusing to Leave City Manager’s Office After Hours
This afternoon, a group of people staged a sit-in at the City Manager’s Office and refused to leave. At 5 p.m., they were advised the office was closed and they indicated their intention to stay. At 5:45 p.m., the group was informed that they would be subject to Criminal Trespass charges if they didn’t leave. Twelve people were cited in lieu of custody and released.
The group was demanding to meet with the city manager regarding homeless issues recently discussed or ruled on by council, outside a council setting. The city manager’s delegate on this issue, Deputy Chief Joe Zaludek, came to the office to meet with them but they did not accept that offer.
Last week, on March 26, the City of Eugene re-posted notices that property is not open to the public and that the clearing and clean-up of the area would begin after April 1. The City Council has directed that the site be closed no later than April 15.
The City’s goal has been for people to leave the site voluntarily and to get connected with the services they need to find safe and legal shelter. The City is coordinating with a number of local social service agencies to help people transition from the camp.
The City Council and City staff have been working to help develop options. There are now two rest stops open – at Garfield and Roosevelt, and Northwest Expressway and Chambers – that are being managed by Community Supported Shelters. The City is continuing to work with community partners to open a third site and hopes to have a signed agreement with a volunteer site manager in the next few days.
Cited and Released were:
1. Bollman, Aurthur Frank 12/31/63 Eugene Trespass II
2. Burch, Belle Erin 11/21/90 No Address Trespass II
3. Shepard, Helen Marie 07/12/85 Eugene Trespass II
4. Monroe, John Lee 11/06/85 Eugene Trespass II
5. Smith, Charles Anderson 11/08/50 Springfield Trespass II
6. Williams, Terra Renee 02/24/88 Eugene Trespass II
7. Marcroft, Sabra Marie 05/15/66 Eugene Trespass II
8. Stacey, Jean Anderson 08/23/45 No Address Trespass II
9. Valkrie, Alley NMI 12/20/81 Eugene Trespass II
10. Wales, Geran Straford 09/15/90 Eugene Trespass II
11. Holtham-Keathley, Ambrose Stormrider 02/06/92 Eugene Trespass II
12. Grotticelli, Peter David 07/16/88 Eugene Trespass II
https://www.eugene-or.gov/537/Mayor-and-City-Council
https://www.eugene-or.gov/3947/Clear-Objective
https://www.eugene-or.gov/3706/Rest-Stops
Victim of Modern Day Witch-hunt
Posted on August 16, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
“The Cogswells were also involved in an attempt to prevent the execution of Goodwife Proctor in the Salem witch trials.”
I will make the case in one of my books, that I am the victim of two witch-hunts, one by the Alley Gang Wiccans, and the Hefty Haffner Evangelical Haters. These two conflicting religious groups formed a bond in order to drive me out of my home, and Springfield.
When Alley Valkyrie sent me her threats, I responded to this one, saying Belle Burch had never told me to not contact her, or write about her. Five minutes later, Ms. Burch called me and asked me not to publish anything about her in my newspaper, Royal Rosamond Press. But, her compatriot had already launched an attack on me on her Facebook, which goes against their policy. Their attorney, Mary Broadhurst, objects, but she does not tell Alley to resort to legal action if she believes I am abusive. Almost everyone who read this HUNT knew Valkyrie wanted to USE HER DARK POWERS – have sport with me! She was looking foreward to doing a Victory Dance, when I slunk away – like the others! Alley and Belle had invaded the City Managers office when he practiced his right – not to meet with A WALK-IN MOB! Belle calls Riuz a “coward”. We are seeing a Wiccan Police Force that Kim Hafner applauds – with glee – after she gathered a Christine Posse to harass me and the cats that visited me.
There are authors and groups that are very keen on Witch-hunts. Descendants of the Cogswell family founded Eugene Oregon’s major newspapers, and are kin to George and Joaquin Miller – as well as Jack London. Two of the men were journalists, like myself. I am the alleged kin of John Wilson who I have shown descends the Schwarzenberg family, and may be the reasons he was born at Windsor Castle. I got a very Gothic book that I will lay on the steps of Eugene’s government. Inside I will ask why the Mayor and City Council did not back me up like John Cogswell and his family backed Goodwife Proctor.
Watch this video of a real live witch-hunt that will resemble the news we are going to see for many years to come as the Taliban raid homes and drag out people they believe are not going along with their religious program – and thus are a threat! If only I had obeyed Alley Valkyrie ad removed all mention of Belle Burch – who wanted to alter the course of our City Government through CIVIL DISOBEDIANCE, and thus…..she is newsworthy!
I have proven – beyond a shadow of a doubt – that Alley Valkyrie has no extra-special powers in regards to spell-casting, and, in regards to living in a Democracy!
ADMM: I stopped in Safeway this morning and a woman clerk who knew my homeless friend, recognized me, and said hello! If Hollis Williams were alive, her would be livid at the way the Alley Gang treated me. I showed pics of Hollis at our two hour meeting – and pics of myself t a OCCUPY meeting dressed as Santa. Belle Burch did not identify herself as a advocate for the homeless – and a member of OCCUPY – at that meeting! Only when I I.D.ed her hands, and being a member of the group she got attested with, did SHE CONFESS!
There was much controversy about the lack of leadership with OCCUPY. And then there is the group Anonymous. Alternative Eugene Lifestyle, already had recognizable leaders, some who joined OCCUPY. THEY recognized each other and formed Whoville and Themville. Owning stealth, they began to own power. No add Wiccan Power. I began to RECOGNIZE what, and who, is invisible. I suspected Belle might run for office to get Kitty out of there, because she let John Riuz close down Whoville. Belle went to – THE ENFORCER – Alley Valkyrie. Both women had attorneys available. They could have sued me, do what normal people do. These are no normal people. These are very SPECIAL PEOPLE like QAnon. They get to overthrow -all governments that don’t do their will. Mary Broadhurst – will be my star witness, because she calls THE WITCH-HUNT that is being conducted in front of homeless friends of Alley.
The Cogswell family, have risen from their graves, and have come to my defense. They were at the trial of Elizabeth Proctor. They took a great risk by doing the right thing. Did they worry – they were next – after Elizabeth was murdered? This morning the Cogsworth family, came down on the RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY. There is panic at the Afghanistan airport as thousand try to flee the coming Witch-hunt. Will there be trials before the executions?
I am on the right side of history! As I was being attacked, an article appeared in the Register Guard about a anonymous donor wanting to give a large sum to a homeless group. This would be motive for getting me to remove all negative reports from my newspaper. Who ended up with the $400,000
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Storm Faerywolf F(a)eri(e) or non?
Alley Valkyrie; Local creeper. Delusional narcissist. Not Feri, but reminds me of a few of them. I sent him a PM firmly telling him to leave a friend of mine alone, and my “threat” will be the subject of his blog tomorrow. He has no idea who he is fucking with.
Storm Faerywolf Give him hell, Alley!
“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.
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.”
Terrorists In the Wiccan-Christian Corn | Rosamond Press
Threats From Alley and Fairy Friends | Rosamond Press
Anonymous Donor Gives $400,000 for Homeless Camp in Eugene
By RACHAEL MCDONALD• APR 17, 2014
An anonymous donor from Eugene has stepped forward with $400,000 to purchase property for a homeless camp in the city.
The $400,000 will be used to buy a piece of private property to create a place for homeless people to sleep. The donor has also asked that a health clinic be on site for residents and others in need.
Attorney Mary Broadhurst is a homeless advocate who’s worked with SLEEPS and residents of the recently shuttered illegal Whoville camp. She says she’s grateful.
The Cogswells were also involved in an attempt to prevent the execution of Goodwife Proctor in the Salem witch trials. According to Ipswich In The Massachusetts Bay Colony, 290-291, by Thomas Franklin Waters, The Ipswich Historical Society, 1905: “Five members of the Cogswell family were among the twenty prominent people who signed the petition drawn up by the Rev. John Wise on behalf of Goodwife Proctor, who stood accused of witchcraft. Mary Warren alleged that she had been threatened and abused by Goodwife proctor, and that she had seen apparitions of people who had long since been murdered by the wife of John Proctor. This evidence prevailed and the good woman was sentenced to death.”
Rest Stops
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- Community Supported Shelters Opens a New Window.
- Nightingale Hosted Shelters Opens a New Window.
- Rest Stop Flyer Opens a New Window.
- 2016 Annual Report
- Outreach Handbook, Eugene’s Rest Stop & Car Camping Programs, A How-To Guide for Community Members Opens a New Window.
- Ordinance No. 20517 Opens a New Window.
- Ordinance No. 20547 Opens a New Window.
- Ordinance No. 20576 Opens a New Window.
- Administrative Rules for Rest Stop and Dusk to Dawn Opens a New Window.
- Providing for the Unhoused (Study by UO Community Planning Workshop) Opens a New Window.
- 2015 Annual Report
Many people experiencing homelessness have no safe, legal place to sleep and are driven to hide under bridges and along the river banks in unsafe and unsanitary conditions in order to rest. Nightingale Hosted Shelters is a part of Eugene’s Rest Stop Program, and is a response to this situation. We provide a secure place for people to sleep without worrying about being cited by the police or told to “Move along.”
NHS includes both a Site Council consisting of two camp managers and the residents of the camp, and a Steering Committee consisting of seven board members and the camp managers. The Site Council addresses challenges that arise at camp on a daily basis. The Steering Committee raises funds, takes care of legal and administrative matters, and is available for problem solving, support, and mediation.
NHS provides Conestoga huts or tents, port-a-potties, and garbage and recycling at our camp. Our goal is to offer people a transitional place to be and recover from the trauma of the street as they work their way to more traditional housing.
Our management philosophy is self-governance with oversight and a focus on skill building. Self-governance provides residents with autonomy, responsibility, and dignity. Oversight is provided by our two onsite managers and a Steering Committee with experience and relevant skills in social services, advocating for vulnerable populations, counseling, and mediation.
NHS has been running rest stops (single and double) since 2014. NHS is unique among Eugene’s other rest stops in having had to move camp every six months, which has given us a lot of experience in breaking camp and setting up a new camp quickly and efficiently. We are currently at 3500 Hilyard St. in the parking lot of Good Samaritan.
We have been fortunate in having two camp managers, Nathan Showers and Tracy Joscelyn, who have both worked in the food industry, Nathan as a chef at a Best Western kitchen and Tracy in Food for Lane County’s Dining room. Nathan also holds a culinary arts degree. Both he and Tracy are knowledgeable about food storage and preparation, treatment and handling of water, heating, waste management and illness prevention.
Dark Tales of Ex-Slug Queen
Posted on October 29, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
In time for Halloween, here is a Tale of a real Witch Hunt that took place in the Emerald Valley. Enjoy!
John
Dark Side of Ex-Slug Queen
Posted on February 22, 2016by Royal Rosamond Press
EXTRA! EXTRA!
Ex-Slug Queen, Emily Semple is running for the Eugene City Council in Ward One – which is the downtown! I knew the Gwendolites were going to run someone for office, when Gwendolyn Maeve Iris bragged about how many people’s posts she had deleted because they were negative. Then, people were being banned with her Harry Potter wand. When I said something negative to a Gwendolite, I was out of there! Poof!
This is the core of OCCUPY and SLEEPS. Emily, also known as ‘Brave Beatrice’ is a member of The Nightingale Collective, along with Alley Valkyrie and her lover, John Monroe. Is that Emily’s bodyguard – Lurch? Is Emily and Lurch concerned about being molested by a crazed Zombie panhandler – for the Arts? Is it time to revive ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’. That’s City Councilors, Betty Taylor, and George Brown, bookending Alley Valkyrie’s compatriot in the Nightingale Public Advocacy Coalition! Am I dreaming? Is this ‘The Invasion of the Body Snatchers’?
“Into the burning holly cauldron you all go!”
Philosophy Major? This explains why Monroe practiced Psyhcobabble on me after his lover captured me in her Wiccan Pillory. These are my favorite lines, the luring of the monster north – away from Pretty Belle! I will ask the director to hire that Big Boy to be the dude they want me to be.
Ashley Hewes: Mary people like this hurt people who turn the other cheek. That is all I have to say (she lied) I will not stand idly by when there is something I can do to quell his obsessing. I would be willing to become the object of his obsession if I felt it would work. But that would be detrimental to his health.
What Ashley is suggesting, is, only my death will quell my lust for Belle. Alley wants some of this hot action!
Alley Valkyrie: I’d rather he focus on me than Belle, that I’ll absolutely say. I have 100 miles of distance from this fucker.
“Let’s go hide behind the chainsaws!”
I did not go to the City Council meeting that started 90 minutes ago. My new position is to let the Ghoul Times roll, and write a Trilogy. My first book is titled ‘Satan’s Slug Queen’. I tried it on the State Trooper who called for a donation – and he loved it! I pledged $15 dollars – and they are on my side!
What gets me, these women raid banks, raid the mayor’s office, trespass all over the place so they can get on the news, win a Slug Queen crown, then run for a city council seat, and, if you write something bad about them, you’re a Serial Killer rape-artist! Now, they have evolved, or devolved to their old ways.
Emily was arrested, and released, and she was with Belle Burch and her lover, Ambrose Holtham-Keathley, when they got arrested in the City Managers office. The only reason our ugly ex-slug queen was not taken to jail, was the police said they could only arrest twelve. THE TWELVE! This is right out of a fairytale! You can hear me mention Sleeping Beauty to Belle in the first video. I wished I had kept in running.
This is huge! In the video I took in Ken Kesey Square on April 4, 2014 – they are all there, including Emily Semple – who looks right at me. So does Jean Stacey who seems to be running the whole show. Why didn’t they approach me, just to see who this interesting and handsome old guy is? This is supposed to be an impromptu art gathering of normal citizens, but it’s a rogue’s gallery of wanna-be criminals. – who understand Belle is working me, working the crowd! She’s their Beautiful Poster Waif. You can see her link arms with her lover-boy, Ambrose, and with some other young dude, just before she was arrested! When Alley saw my video, then looked at my blog – she flipped! Belle had destroy all of Jean Stacey’s work, and the work of the Nightingale Collective.
What they saw was THE NEXT MAYOR who comes from a very famous family of artists – who are kin to Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor – and the Getty family. When you read their mission statement, their main goal is to take away the art and culture of the rich – and give it to the homeless and the poor! Why do I suspect Jean Stacey’s sister was a very talented, even beautiful artist? Jean looks like a frog.
The Collective could care less about the homeless. They are after power! Now, they want to be the political force downtown. Was Belle being groomed for public office?
What a story! Beauty and the Beast! She once was a beauty queen. Then………she met a Fairy, her Dark Tinkerbelle.
EXTRA!
I just found the Maypole these Wiccans dance around. It is a Pagan Tress – with clenched fist! BINGO! This is why these Pagans broke away from OCCUPY and founded SLEEPS who will come to sleep under this Tree of Hope one day! This is why Belle did not ask me to be one with them at the Wandering Goat – after seeing we were on the same path! Well, not quite! These Wiccans read my Biblical stuff, an not understanding any of item were dismayed. They concluded their job was to separate my Pagan stuff from my Biblical stuff – for the sake of the Pagan Word Economy that was just planted in the ground. Emily Semple is their Jeanette Appleseed who may become the Pagan Council-Fairy of the whole goddamn downtown!
Alley Valkyrie read this, and went on the attack the next day! I anoint Belle the Goddess of the Birch Tree and Labyrinth. I have wondered if Alley threatened Belle. Now, I am almost certain of it.
http://paganarch.com/gods-and-radicals/
Here is Storm Faerywolf, a confessed Warlock and Witch who conspiring with Alley Valkyrie to bring me down. He is the Master of the Blue Rose and posts with Alley on The Hunt. That is Ambrose and Emily holding a serpent banner. John Monroe hexed me.
Storm Faerywolf F(a)eri(e) or non?
Alley Valkyrie Local creeper. Delusional narcissist. Not Feri, but reminds me of a few of them. I sent him a PM firmly telling him to leave a friend of mine alone, and my “threat” will be the subject of his blog tomorrow. He has no idea who he is fucking with.
Storm Faerywolf Give him hell, Alley!
This is the greatest radical film ever made! There’s a love story here. I walked into a coven of Witches and Warlocks at Kesey Square. Here is Gwendolyn having a Witching good time, at the expense of the Kesey family. John McCahill is wearing the death hood. How did Alley know I was not Feri? She read my blog and found Christian stuff in it.
Here’s Gwendolyn saying the rock in window was contrived.
“Meanwhile social media is buzzing: Many proponents of Kesey Square have wondered if the vandalism was contrived by someone who wants to see the square developed. “I really think it is someone who has a grudge against the movement to save the square,” says Gwendolyn Iris, a Save Kesey Square activist. “Based on the words and spelling, it just reads like mockery.”
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20160218/slant/slant-2-18-2016
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Well, I just picked a fight with quite the unstable psychopath. May not have been the most sensible thing to do, but it should definitely get interesting…
John McCahill just cant turn it off can you …. LOL
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Alley Valkyrie Local creeper. Delusional narcissist. Not Feri, but reminds me of a few of them. I sent him a PM firmly telling him to leave a friend of mine alone, and my “threat” will be the subject of his blog tomorrow. He has no idea who he is fucking with.
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Alley Valkyrie If you read the rest of his blog, you’ll see why I went after him in the first place. I am making this public because this man is a sick psychopath who takes pictures all over Eugene.
Randy Cain I’m glad the mafia sent him treats.
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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.
Glenn Combs: I’m thinkin’ concrete shoes. We got a river with deep spots… Hypothetically speaking, of course.
Storm Faerywolf is professional warlock, author, and co-owner of The Mystic Dream in Walnut Creek, California. An initiate of the F(a)eri(e) tradition, he has over thirty years of experience practicing witchcraft and has been teaching both privately and publicly across the U.S. and around the world for more than twenty. He holds the Black Wand of the Master and is the founder of BlueRose, his own school and lineage within Faery, offering classes both in-person and online. He is the author of The Stars Within the Earth, and the forthcoming Betwixt and Between: Exploring the Faery Tradition of Witchcraft, due 2017 from Llewellyn Worldwide. For more information about his classes, books, CD’s or art visit his website at
Last year I interviewed Feri initiate, activist, and Wild Hunt columnist, Alley Valkyrie after she was arrested protesting for the rights of the homeless in Eugene, Oregon. Now, the verdict is in, and Alley Valkyrie has been vindicated. Quote: “Lane County violated the constitutional rights of a local activist last year when it had her cited for trespassing following her refusal to leave a public plaza after officials closed it, a Eugene Municipal Court judge has ruled. In her decision, Judge Karen Stenard said the county’s reason for ejecting protesters and shutting the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza — that the area had to be cleaned because human feces were smelled in the area — was too broad and did not pass the rigorous test required for government actions that restrict constitutional freedoms. As a result, Stenard dismissed the charge of second-degree trespassing filed against protester Alley Valkyrie.” – See more at: http://wildhunt.org/tag/grey-school-of-wizardry#sthash.I6X9TL5y.dpuf
The Federal Plaza
Since the second SLEEPS movement was kicked out of the Free Speech Plaza on September 3rd, the Federal Plaza located at 7th and Pearl has become a key strategic site. This site is secure for SLEEPS in part because local protestors have been challenging free speech constraints on that site for over a year now. On May Day, 2012, an Occupy camp was setup there. This was the last Occupy site proper in Eugene. The plaza was held for a number of months before being closed down, and local protestor ‘Brave Beatrice’ took a federal citation in order to take the closure to court. Her case was thrown out. After protestors assembled a second time, Federal agencies again shut down the site. This time not only Beatrice but another local protestor Terry were cited. Again the court threw out the case. Due in part to these precedents, Deparment of Homeland Security staff have been compliant with allowing the protestors to remain there.
http://respectexistence.org/about-us/npac-board/
NPAC Board
Alley Valkyrie–President
Alley Valkyrie is an artist, small business owner, and tireless supporter of the unhoused. She currently lives in Portland and sells her handcrafted clothes and prayer flags at the Saturday Market. Since the Occupy Movement in 2011, she has worked “full-time without pay as an informal liaison between homeless campers and police” (Eugene Weekly) . She founded the Nightingale Public Advocacy Coalition with her partner, John Monroe.
John Monroe–Vice President
Activist and musician John Monroe studied philosophy at the University of Montana and has recently attended graduate school in Europe. He was an early member of the Occupy Movement, SLEEPS (Safe, Legally Entitled Emergency Places to Sleep), and the Kesey Square Revival and founded Nightingale Public Advocacy Coalition with his partner, Alley Valkyrie.
Louise Prevost–Secretary
Louise Prevost moved to Eugene, OR, as a child in 1963 and attended schools here up to and including the University of Oregon, where she earned a BFA Degree. In the last five years she has been homeless or underhoused for various periods, and spent time staying at the Mission, couch surfing , and earning a roof over her head via pet- and/or house-sitting and as a live-in personal home-care aid. Her experiences have instilled in her a sense of urgent need to see that the rights and basic necessities of the most vulnerable people of our community are met through community action.
Victoria Nelson–Treasurer
Vickie Nelson is a retired librarian who has been a social activist since the 1970s when she was a founding member of Growers Market and of the alternative newspaper the Willamette Valley Observer . As a writer and editor she gravitates toward communication tasks in most of the groups she belongs to. She is currently an editor of The Eugene Occupier and a member of the board of directors of SPOT (Stop Pet Overpopulatt0n Now), a group that helps low-income people spay and neuter their dogs. She has been advocating for the unhoused for the last few years.
John Mccahill–Director
John McCahill joined the Occupy Movement in Eugene almost as soon as he heard about it. He organized the kitchen and kitchen volunteers , solicited donations of funds and food, and took on the massive task of providing several hundred meals a day and keeping activists and unhoused people fed. He is also a regular volunteer at the Egan Warming Centers.
Emily Semple–Director
Emily Semple is a political activist, and a member of SLEEPS, who has been put herself on the line for Constitutional Rights to free speech and assembly many times. A self-employed graphic designer at Semple Design with an AAS from Lane Community College, she brings a dramatic flair to all her activities, serves as a Eugene Slug Queen, and works as a pastry chef at Ambrosia, a Eugene restaurant.
Mary Broadhurst–Director
Mary Broadhurst has been involved in community organizing, first in the late 70s and early 80s as a VISTA volunteer with the Jobs and Justice Project and an organizer in the anti-nuclear movement. More recently she has been involved with Occupy Eugene, SLEEPS, and the Whoville Coalition. She is an Egan Warming Center volunteer. Mary is a graduate of the University of Oregon School of Law and a practicing attorney . For over 20 years she has represented students with disabilities, ensuring that they receive the educations to which they are entitled under federal law. A highlight of her career was as co- counsel before the United States Supreme Court. She has mediation experience and extensive experience facilitating meetings with school district administrators and staff. In 2012 she completed a three day training in Dynamic Facilitation: Conflict, Creativity , and Community. She also has been trained through the intermediate level in Nonviolent Communication.
Kesey Square Revival
UPDATE: As of April 5, 2013, Kesey Square Revival will no longer be taking place. Please read this post for the story and explanation behind this decision.
A vibrant commons is essential to a healthy city center, and Eugene lacks a functional and frequented public space. Despite the fact that Kesey Square is publicly owned and centrally located in downtown Eugene, it is a neglected and underutilized plaza. Originally furnished with balconies and then benches, all seating was removed by city staff a few years ago in order to discourage street youth and the general unhoused population from congregating in the square. Those populations have not left and are still the subject of constant complaints, and what remains is an empty plaza with nowhere to sit.
Kesey Square Revival was birthed from a vision of what a common space in downtown Eugene could look like, combined with a need for integrating those involved in activism and social service with those who are underserved and seek assistance and advocacy. After the Occupy Eugene camp closed in December of 2011, Eugene’s unhoused population experienced increased harassment by police and enforcement of “quality-of-life” crimes in the downtown area, as well as increased use of the DPSZ ordinance.
The need to both create community in public space and stand in solidarity with our unhoused neighbors came to fruition in February of 2012, when approximately fifty people spontaneously appeared in Kesey Square on a Friday afternoon, bringing with them tables, chairs, board games, free food, music, street theater, and chalk art. We created our vision of what downtown Eugene could look like, and the response was overwhelmingly positive. A friend of ours created a short video which documented the first Kesey Square Revival that can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/TZ7AE9JjDCs?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparentSince then, we’ve gathered at Kesey almost every Friday during the warm months. We are continually focused on integrating the downtown population as a whole and creating vibrant public space that focuses on community inclusion, positive energy, economic revitalization, and free expression. We currently meet at Kesey Square every Friday afternoon, weather permitting. For updates and specific events related to the Kesey Square Revival, “like” our Page at facebook.com/keseysquarerevival
More video footage of the Kesey Square Revival can be found by searching for “kesey square revival” on YouTube.
Mission and Philosophy
Our actions and objectives are rooted in the principle that everyone has a right to exist in public space regardless of socioeconomic status, and that the basic civil rights of individuals in public space outweigh the economic interests of businesses and government.
We believe that all members of our community have inherent value regardless of their economic contributions or financial worth. Everyone has a right to congregate in public, to participate in civic affairs, and to have access to local community and culture without being targeted for harassment, and everyone has a right to engage in life-sustaining activities in public space if they have no other option.
We are based in Eugene, Oregon, a community where these principles and basic human rights are not upheld and respected, despite our city’s claim to be a “Human Rights City”. Local responses to the “homeless problem” are almost exclusively focused on criminalization, and years worth of anecdotal evidence points to a widespread practice of harassment and profiling on the part of both law enforcement and private security.
We stand as a voice of conscience, and we unite as a collective force in order to influence and combat the practices, attitudes, beliefs, and power dynamics within our community that have resulted in widespread policies and procedures that unfairly target the unhoused and are unnecessarily punitive in nature.
We utilize public space and initiate public discourse in order to secure everyone’s right to do so, and we hope to serve as a example of how individuals can fight for social justice and create a culture of resistance on a local level through individual advocacy, creative messaging, civic engagement, community empowerment, strategic cooperation, and nonviolent civil disobedience.
We hope that our work inspires you to highlight economic injustices and work towards meaningful change in your community, no matter where you may live.
-The Nightingale Collective
Eugene Donor Commits $400,000 For New Shelter Site
Article | April 17, 2014 – 12:00am | 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.
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