The Student Insurgent

A Condensed List of UO Housing Atrocities [on campus housing] Hamilton and Earl have no elevators Communal bathrooms and accessibility; bathtubs only in Riley Overcrowding of the dorms; already cramped doubles turning into triples Some temporary rooms (for those who need to leave dangerous roommate situations) turned into quads, defeating the purpose Kalapuya and GSH literally sinking 12 credit requirement to live in dorms: no exceptions The fact that Hamilton is still somehow open Most expensive buildings are the buildings named after POC (pointed out by UO Black Male Alliance President - Desi Acuay - in Emerald Article “How new dorms are named”) [UO sponsored housing]

Content Warning: Fascism, Racism

The xx – Crystallised Bjork – all is full of love Galimatias & Alina Baraz – Drift Cocteau twins – cherry colored funk Massive attack – black milk Yves tumor – echolalia Akshara – universe Sia – Soon We’ll Be Found Tv girl – cigarettes out the window Portishead – roads Switchblade symphony – dissolve Galimatias & Alina Baraz – Unfold Elita – Sour Switchblade Neo10y – ILY Ariel Pink – Kitchen Witch

Editorial Board Salutations! This issue’s theme is Crystallize. Our creators who followed this theme could take many routes: whether it was about a subject that seems to be stuck - crystallized - in history to this present day, it could be about fiery pain or immense pressure (vital steps in the formation of crystals), a current application of crystals (ex: how crystals are a big part of the witchtok movement and all the cultural appropriation that comes with it), something beautiful or clear like a crystal, and more!

H4N SW0LO – The Imperial March (H4N SW0L0 Midtempo Bass Remix) Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra – Avant Title BGM Opening Ladysmith Black Mambazo – This Little Light of Mine (Bonus Track) Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – Homesickness, Pt. 1-2 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat. Ray Dalton) – Can’t Hold Us Eartha Kitt – I’d Rather Be Burned As A Witch Yusef / Cat Stevens – If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out

Listen on Spotify Andrew Gold – Spooky, Scary Skeletons (cuz obviously) Sisters of Mercy – Black Planet The Cramps – I Was a Teenage Werewolf Sonic Youth – Halloween Selofan – Billie Was a Vampire Bauhaus – Dark Entries Type O Negative – Christian Woman Screamin Jay Hawkins – I Put a Spell on You Eartha Kitt – I Want to Be Evil The Cure – A Forest Julia Romana – Blood Be Fluid

Listen on Spotify Where Do the Children Play? -– Cat Stevens Selva negra — Maná Maggot Brain — Funkadelic Cuñaq — Curawaka La rueda que mueve al mundo — Los Espíritus Por el suelo — Manu Chao Apocalíptico — Residente Madre Tierra — Macaco Semillas — Muerdo Madre selva — Grupo Putumayo El Condor Pasa — Simon & Garfunkel Raindrops — Elephant Revival This Land Is Your Land — Woody Guthrie

As I begin the final term of my first year in Eugene and am starting my first full term with The Student Insurgent, I feel a good deal of reflection is in order. As I flew away from my life in rural upstate New York, I expected to feel the world open up to me and to be engulfed by an array of new experiences reaching out for me, but the romantic projections of my life after high school were met with the reality of the mundanity of the life I have always lived.

Feeling utterly deflated? Need music to help you remember why life’s worth living, or just uplift you? Here’s The Student Insurgent’s antidote to the other playlist. South Side of the Sky — Yes Build a Fire — Pile Song 33 — Noname Help Me — Mic Crenshaw, Jana Crenshaw Movimiento Social El Deseo — Sara Hebe Utopian Futures — Kimya Dawson Here Comes The Sun — The Beatles The Times They Are A-Changin’ — Bob Dylan Sweet But Bitter Life — Possessed by Paul James New Beginning — Tracy Chapman You Must Believe in Spring and Love — Abbey Lincoln Strength — Moonchild Feeling Good — Nina Simone Brake Up Song — Foraging and the Rattling Bones Oh Well, We’ll Win — Skating Polly Let the Flames Begin — Paramore Phenomenon — ODIE It’s a Good Day (to fight the system) — Shungudzo Drama — Erykah Badu Alright — Kendrick Lamar Escribo Rap Con R De Revolución — Portavoz, Cidtronyck Which Will — Nick Drake Bodhyanga — Alvan, Velvet Years — Amelia Curran All Is Full of Love — Bjork El Amor — KeTeKalles Technicolor — Montaigne I Will Survive — Gloria Gaynor Don’t Give Up — Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger — Daft Punk Express Yourself — Madonna We Are The Champions — Queen Imagine — John Lennon Ain’t No Mountain High Enough — Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell Three Little Birds — Bob Marley and the Wailers I Won’t Back Down — Tom Petty What a Wonderful World — Louis Armstrong Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life — Monty Python We Are the World — Michael Jackson Over The Rainbow — Israel Kamakawiwo‘ole We Shall Overcome — Joan Baez Bridge over Troubled Water — Simon and Garfunkel Don’t Stop — Fleetwood Mac Smile — Nat King Cole Lovely Day — Bill Withers Yearn — Yvette Young Mr.

Feeling too hopeful? Need music to help flip the bird to whatever oppresses you, or just wallow in apathy? Look no further than this playlist! Curated by the wider Insurgent collective for your listening (dis)pleasure. Bela Legousi’s Dead — Bauhaus PANIC ATTACK — Pussy Riot Comfortably Numb — Pink Floyd Working for the Knife— Mitski When The Going Gets Dark— Quasi The Mad Man’s Laughter— Tsegue Maryam Guebrou Frail and Bedazzled—The Smashing Pumpkins God Save the Queen — Sex Pistols Smells Like Teen Spirit (Radio Edit) — Patti Smith Судно — Молчат Дома (Molchat Doma) Killing In The Name — Rage Against The Machine Miss the Rage — Mario Judah Sea Slug — Seabiscuit Restless — Annie’s Friend, Silas Haun & Lucinda Drake Much Finer — Le Tigre Lounge Act — EarthTing, Alien Cake Music Holy Shit — Father John Misty Don’t shoot — Shea Diamond City of angels — The Distillers Strangelove — Depeche Mode Night Shift — Siouxsie and the Banshees STFU!

ch0ccyra1n: Alongside contributing to summerisle’s piece Introduction to Anarcho-Nihilism, I also took it upon myself to write the piece Anarchist Leaks the TSA No Fly List because it exposes the racism inherent to the security theater institution in the form of data visualization. This sort of approach to understanding institutional racism has previously been used by W.E.B. DuBois for the 1900 Paris Exposition, and I hope my article will be insightful.

Summer 2022 in Review Outrage over the federal overturning of Roe V. Wade in early summer of 2022 peaked on the night of June 24th. Following the official Supreme Court decision declared the same morning, there was a day of civil unrest at Eugene’s Federal Courthouse where thousands of residents took to the streets to defend reproductive autonomy. Protestors gathered in the company of career politicians, non-profits such as Planned Parenthood, as well as the inevitable presence of pro-life counterprotestors.

Art by unknown He has come down from his ivory tower Only to climb up another in the Windy City To blow smoke up your ass, but no longer mine Another school insulted by his name and time His reign of terror in Eugene, Oregone but not forgotten, Has reached an abrupt end Wicked, green, witch of the Northwest Good riddance! I’d wish you the best, if it was off with your head

Enough Parties, let’s party! The United States of Amerikkka has historically and is today home to no less than a dozen revolutionary socialist political parties. Communist Party USA, Socialist Party USA, Socialist Workers Party, Communist Workers Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Revolutionary Communist Party, Socialist Equality Party, Socialist Alternative Party, Socialist Labor Party, the list goes on (and on). Really only two ever even attained relevance, let alone power, those first two, CPUSA and SPUSA, and those waves of relevance were both in the first half of the 20th Century and long gone now.

To hell with presidents. Get some better heroes. Download here!

An Anti-Manifesto A special printing by The Student Insurgent of this text, in which Alyson Escalante critiques of the trans community’s reliance on gender essentialism and a proposal for a radical negation as the solution to gendered alienation and oppression. Download here!

This is a great guide for learning some basic rights and responsibilities when interacting with police officers. The book emphasizes the rights of activists, youth, and immigrants. Download here!

Pelican Bay Super-max Prison engaged in a hunger strike to improve conditions which began July 1st and was sustained until July 22nd. Thousands of prisoners across racial lines joined in and the hunger strike which spread across the California Prison system and as far as Chicago’s Joliet Prison in solidarity. “Their demands include an end to long-term solitary confinement, collective punishment, and forced interrogation on gang affiliation. The prisoners have also stated that they are willing to give up their lives unless their demands are met.

Eugene, OR - The Take Back the Tap (TBTT) campaign, a trademark of Food and Water Watch, being run on the University of Oregon campus by the Climate Justice League, finds support from President Lariviere to discontinue the sale, purchase, and distribution of bottled water. “President Lariviere has final say over whether or not our policy becomes a reality on this university, so having his support is very exciting,” says Manny Garcia, a campaign coordinator.

EUGENE, OR - Conservation groups and community members today hailed a district court decisionthat declared the Trapper timber sale illegal. The timber sale, located in the McKenzie River watershed, the source of Eugene’s drinking water, would have logged 155 acres of never-before-logged mature forest in the Blue River area of the Willamette National Forest. Federal Judge Tom Coffin ruled that in approving the timber sale the U.S. Forest Service violated a basic federal environmental law.

The Student Insurgent condemns the mainstream media. A recent story in Time Magazine was defending fracking- that process of pumping unknown chemicals into the ground to force natural gas up. The leftover sludge invariably leaks into local ground water and food. With news stories like that, the discourse is all wrong. Being forced to defend clean drinking water is like arguing for your life with someone who has a knife to your throat.

Local Timber Baron, Seneca Jones, built a ‘biomass’ power-plant. Burning lumber, from Oregon’s timber sales and converting the energy to electricity. This facility was opened today, May 5, 2011 and from day one protests reigned in any notion that this plant was a good idea. This lumber-fired generator was built with an exemption from air pollution regulation, over the concerns raised from the common knowledge: burning wood releases smoke. Despite the exemptions of Lane County, there has been wide-spread opposition from the Sierra Club to the Cascadia Forest Defense, that this plant will encourage the commodification, exploitation and destruction of Oregon forests, additionally degrading air quality.

The Sea Shepherd program is a direct action network that opposes ocean based animal exploitation and they don’t take no excuses from no one. They won a victory against whaling fleets of Japan, who are being recalled, following the Tsunami in that region.- The Nisshin Maru whaling factory ship made a pivotal course change north, as the Japanese Fisheries Agency announced on February 18th that the whaling fleet had been recalled for this season.

Insurgent reporter a union rally in solidarity with Wisconsin at the Eugene Hilton. Following a march from the University of Oregon! “There is major rally at the Eugene Courthouse, NOW”-Steve M.(5:39pm) With signs saying: ‘Wages are too damn low’ ‘you bet your ass we’re the working class’ ‘Go Democracy!!!’ ‘we’re sick and tired of being sick and tired.’ ‘Union busting is killing our American dream’ ‘Ducks for workers’ ‘We are Wisconsin’ Numbering in the Dozens (plural), with these signs and speeches on a megaphone, the workers called to defend the right to collective bargaining.

What Do We Face? Walker’s bill, if passed, will strip public-sector unions of the right to collectively bargain regarding all workplace issues other than basic wages. Workers would no longer have a legal say in their pensions, their healthcare plans, workplace safety, or any other pertinent issues. Without collective bargaining, we have no legally-recognized way to influence how we are treated at our jobs. Workers with access to a union have an opportunity to make their workplaces more democratic.

The President of the Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO), Vetoed the ACFC Budget (Athletic & Contracts Finance COmmittee, a budget committee of the Student Senate)- a budget that did not include funding for the OSPIRG- the Student run, Public Interest Research Group. The vote was narrow and the discussion involved threats of resignation. But OSPIRG will receive an additional hearing, almost guaranteed to receive funding. While the ACFC budget currently only contains $5,000, the committee plans to renegotiate a contract with local transportation bureau (Lane Transit District, LTD) and possibly other contracts.

Older News is still good news. After final confirmation from Constitution Court, the resolution will effectively halt purchasing of bottled water with student fee monies. University of Oregon student government approved today the Take Back the Tap resolution, which prohibits the expenditure of student fee monies on bottled water. The resolution was authored by the Climate Justice League, a new student group on campus, as well as members of student Senate.

A right-wing publication on campus recently published an article titled “The Student Insurgent loves terrorism”1. We have a policy of ignoring them, however we felt it was important to correct false impressions that people who read the article may have gathered about the Insurgent’s stance on terrorism or what the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is about. We want to begin by letting the author of the article above know that we are aware that the only reason he used the title that he did was to provoke, to cause anger and bad feeling and the only reason he said the things they did was because they are ignorant.