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Terania Creek, a rainforest under threat from logging, Australia, 1979: hippies swarm worksites, spike trees, sabotage or sit in front of dozers, play a sort of honor-system treesitting game, barricade roads, tie trees together with cable, pour gasoline near illegally parked cop cars and divert a creek to flood the road, all while keeping their spirits high with omm circles, communal kitchens and childcare. Environmental Blockades: Obstructive Direct Action and the History of the Environmental Movement, published in 2021, “aims to inform the theoretical and practical concerns of both [activists and academics].

If I become overconfident, I will recall my failures. If I overindulge, I will think of past hungers. If I feel complacency, I will remember my competition. If I enjoy moments of greatness, I will remember moments of shame. If I feel all powerful, I will try to stop the wind. If I attain great wealth, I will remember one unfed mouth. If I become overly proud, I will remember a moment of weakness.

Today I will multiply my value A Hundredfold I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming to low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp. I will never be content with my performance in the market. I will always raise my goals as soon as they are attained. I will always strive to make the next hour better than this one I will always announce my goals to the world.

Art by Rosie In March of 2013, the Governance and Policy Committee of the Oregon State Board of Higher Education published a report titled Shared Services for the University of Oregon. Very few took note of the report’s significance and the implications it carried for the future of public university operations. The report begins on page one by citing an example from medieval Europe, “In medieval Europe, individual scholars (often former monks) had collected students for tutoring.

Forwarded from an anonymous trusted source A warm hello to all readers of The Student Insurgent and defenders of reproductive rights everywhere. As you may know by now, we are on the verge of losing reproductive autonomy nationwide. This egregious violation of human rights should shock and disgust anyone with the most basic sense of compassion. With a single unappealable decision penned by a handful of unelected, black-robed ghouls, tens of millions of people will no longer be in full control of their own medical choices.

Content Warning: Abuse, Sexual assault

Remember Marilyn Manson? The metal group? I consider him and his band the last rock stars. Manson’s reign of terror on MTV and the wider pop culture in the late 1990s and early 2000s was basically the last time a rock group captivated the public imagination before rock’n’roll was finally and irrevocably dethroned and hip hop and R&B tunes took over as the reigning pop music genres dominating the airwaves.

Let’s get one fucking thing straight here, dear reader. If Hillary Clinton had won this election and not Donald Trump, the necessity of taking to the streets and resisting would be just as dire. The election and inauguration were barely over and already these liberal party hacks have started talking about how crucial the 2018 and 2020 elections are. To hell with ‘em! The lesson you were supposed to learn from the election of Orange Hitler is that this system of mass slaughter, enslavement, and destruction called America is far too dangerous for anyone to be in charge of.

Amy kept pulling ahead of me on her bike. She was more athletic, and more eager about what we were about to do. I was a nervous wreck, despite my certainty of the righteousness of our cause. We were both in all black. Black pants, black hoodies, black shoes, black motorcycle helmets. It was cold, so the black gloves we were both also wearing didn’t look as suspicious as they normally might have.

In this collaboration between Insurgent and Cascadia Forest Defenders, we present a special printing of Long Live Eco Terror by anonymous. Download here!

Content Warning: Police violence

Content Warning: Police violence

GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) and GMO foods have made quite a stir lately. California’s Proposition 37, if passed next week, will require all vendors of food made with GMO ingredients to label them. Even though almost every developed nation requires labeling of GMO foods, it is not currently required in any state in the United States. Genetically modified foods are meals or snacks made from organisms that have had their DNA spliced with the genetic code from another organism.

Portland, OR – On Sunday, August 5th, residents of NE Portland held a block party in the historically black Woodlawn neighborhood, to celebrate the ongoing defense of Alicia Jackson’s home from foreclosure, and to publicly reclaim the new duplex built on her land. This property is also on Ms. Jackson’s land and was taken during the foreclosure process. Community members plan to use the reclaimed duplex, which is currently the subject of a legal dispute, as a base of organizing against gentrification and police violence in the neighborhood.

In addition to Reddit, Boing Boing and a few other monster sites, Wikipedia English is going dark tonight to raise awareness about the looming Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA is currently snaking its way through the US House of Representatives. The impending PROTECT IP Act is also under scrutiny. The enormous free encyclopedia site will be out for 24 hours. SOPA is a bill that threatens directly enforced action against sites that host user-uploaded content which may have been copy-righted.

Palestine shall be the watchword for the US empire. The creation of a Palestinian State, to be recognized by the United Nations has been the subject of some controversy. The US has never exerted such pressure to prevent human rights developments. Currently Israel is a military powerhouse and controls the borders into the shrinking areas of Palestine. Shrinking as Israeli border settlements continue develop, being defended by the IDF, pushing Palestinians deeper into the West Bank and the Gaza strip.

The titan’s madness leaves us undone. The worker’s slaughter; The bosses having fun. Tall towers, falling down. Small soldiers, Walking into town. Hanging heads, cheering crowds. Kingdoms falling, with king’s heads in clouds. Planes soaring, bombs burst. The crowds roaring, The deathtoll’s new worst. Volunteers marching, with paychecks in blood. Nations Falling, Corpses laying in the mud. Seven million, Dollars a Day. For jets to make, corpses in a new way.

From C4SS- Center for a Stateless Society: Anarchists want to abolish the state, with all functions now performed by the state being performed by voluntary associations. So naturally, we object to “public employment” — the funding of services through compulsory taxation — in principle. The question is, how do we get there from here? Some things currently done by tax-funded government employees are legitimate functions that would still exist in some form in a stateless society.

The Student Insurgent has been following closely the protests in Madison. As the cold temperatures drop and the people simply cannot bear to remain at the protest, still an enduring crowd of around 20,000 came out and Unions talking about a general strike. The Student Insurgent’s very own KC has given us the latest of what’s going on, with secondary confirmations from demonstrator Ryan Nelson. “Right now in Wisconsin public workers from across the state, supported by private sector workers, students young and old, retirees, labor activists and more, are holding unprecedented protests in Madison against the utterly dictatorial move by Governor Scott Walker to gut their collective bargaining rights.

Eugene’s Civil Liberties Defense Center and the student Cultural Forum sponsored a showing of END:CIV a SubMedia Production. The movie, leaning heavily on Anarcho-Primitivist ideology and ethics is a must see. Featuring several premises of Derrik Jensen, noted author of the ‘End Game’ books. The Movie follows four of Jensen’s premises. This is the most profound critique of civilization to date. The movie was followed by a panel discussion with John Zerzan- local primitivist & radio host.

In a definitive vote, the Buffalo City Council voted to ban fracking- a move which will then not pollute local drinking water. It is odd that not doing something horrible, seems like a great victory. “Citizens and clean water advocates heralded the Buffalo Common Council’s move to become the first city in New York State—and the second major city nationwide—to ban hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. The Common Council passed “Buffalo’s Community Protection from Natural Gas Extraction Ordinance” today by a 9-0 vote, following months of citizen lobbying by Frack Action Buffalo, a local grassroots group.

Peace is not merely the absence of war, but the presence of understanding. That is the understanding that it is not ideologically sound, morally coherent or politically practical to attack those around you with violence. Violence is the use of force with the intent to cause harm and can take many forms. Violence can be direct, indirect or passive. Direct violence is the form we are most familiar with, intentionally causing physical harm eg: punching someone.

University of Oregon President LaRiv. came to speak as the Faculty senate, in the Jaqua (Jock) center. The meeting was held in a classroom (in fact, the only public classroom), in the one public floor of the Jaqua center. The talk was about the Riverfront Research development or ‘how to destroy natural riparian zones’. LaRiv answered two questions, the first was about using an old plan, he says ‘it’s not old, we made, you know, some revisions’.

When people talk about ‘THINGS’, objects, ideas, or even time, these are measured in terms of value in money. All that is exists now has a theoretical value placed upon it, from the water and food we drink to the star registry. One man even offered to sell his soul for money(1). At the same time money is used, it is constantly changing value. All things are for sale, but did you ever stop to consider why money exists at all, the circumstances that created it and shape this amorphous thing which all else is relative to, how did money come to exist?

In 1952 the Cuyahoga river caught on fire, a river was burning. How did it get that way? The industrial centers on either side dumped chemicals, so many chemicals from industrial waste, the pollution killed all life in the water itself. This was a consequence of pollution going unchecked, industry being ill maintained and an ignorance of the balance between production and natural conservancy. A corporate process that exploited the workers, the citizens and disproportionately the poor erupted in a literal conflagration.

‘Standing Ground’ is a phrase with two meanings. First it means to stand one’s ground-to have a defiant spirit. Second it means to have a physical space around which a community unites. The University seldom has either and needs both. The streets of Eugene become a physical place and the unruliness is an embodiment of a resistance to oppression. If you were at the riot, you were yelled at by authority figures who had neither respect for you nor your friends.

In recent news, mark Williams- noted leader in the Tea Party has been expelled from the group. The Conservative groups has gained support, by trying to be populist demagogues. The harassed politicians by bussing in people from out-of-area to ‘make’ issues in town hall meetings a tactic called ‘astro-turf’ (meaning fake grass-roots). The Tea Party is noted as a low taxation platform that also sports many ‘birthers’ (those who do not believe US President Barak Obama was not born in the United States and is therefore ineligible for the presidency).

The Climate Justice League works to educate peers on energy-wasting effects of bottled water through visual displays and street petitions. On February 24 the group will present a resolution to the ASUO senate to discourage the use of student fees on bottled water. Show support by attending the “Take Back the Tap” bottled water educational event Monday, Feb. 22 from 11am - 3pm in the EMU Amphitheater. THe event is being put on by the UO Climate Justice League in conjunction with the national Take Back the Tap campaign.

Unanimously the Student Senate voted in approval of the resolution which calls for Pacifica Forum to “[get the fuck] off the university” (some words and emphasis added). The issue was safety, as students and community members sighted violent attacks, harassment and a feeling of general insecurity from the Pacifica Forum’s presence on campus. While this meeting sent the resolution to rules committee, where it will go through grammatical not substance reform.

On Monday, January 25, 2010, four human rights advocates are scheduled to begin federal trials for carrying the protest against the School of the Americas onto the Fort Benning military base in Georgia. This school, re-named the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, is a controversial U.S. Army training school for Latin American soldiers. Each defendant faces up to six months in prison and a $5,000 fine for this act of nonviolent civil disobedience.

I am concerned about the increasing use of authority by the University of Oregon… But lets contextualize this, the Eugene Police Department defended two of its own, when they were sexually raping and abusing women. The Officer, Maganya, would demand sexual favors or give out traffic fines. In 2007, Ian VanOrnum, was electrocuted, twice, while laying face down on the ground. in 2009, a Chinese student was tazed by an officer, in his own home.

Content Warning: Racism

Content Warning: Racism, Misogyny

A dozen students marched from the UO Amphitheater to the University’s marketing department to demand no more UO licensed Russell Clothing. The new student group Step Up, Oregon! is raising awareness of Russell Athletic’s poor human rights record.

Originally organized by a small group of students early this year, AHA! has grown into an organization of over sixty members in less than a week of campaigning. Currently under review to become an officially-recognized ASUO student organization, AHA! was created in order to support the growing number of atheists and nonreligious students on the University of Oregon campus. “We formed AHA! with many goals in mind, but most importantly, we want to serve as a support system for campus atheists, agnostics, and religious skeptics.

The first step in recognizing security risks in a community is working towards creating a security culture. Below we have compiled some relevant materials and links that should be used in conducting security workshops and educating activists that you work with. As our direct action movement becomes more effective, government harassment will only increase. To minimize the destructiveness of this government harassment, it is imperative that we create a “security culture” within our movement.

“The purpose of the incidental fee is not to save the world.” -Sam Dotters-Katz Just before our yearly budget hearing when a committee from the student government decides how it will allocate funding to the various student groups, the Oregon Daily Emerald published an article stating that “committee members” (of the PFC) mentioned that the Insurgent mails off campus and because that “takes money off campus” they “anticipated a contentious meeting”.

What is an affinity group? An affinity group is a small group of 5 to 20 people who work together autonomously on direct actions or other projects. You can form an affinity group with your friends, people from your community, workplace, or organization. Affinity groups challenge top-down decision-making and organizing, and empower those involved to take creative direct action. Affinity groups allow people to “be” the action they want to see by giving complete freedom and decision-making power to the affinity group.