Tagged: Oregon

• COVID DENIAL IN SOUTHERN OREGON: HOW NAZI SYMPATHIZERS & “PATRIOTS” TOOK OVER JACKSON COUNTY GOP

  January 2, 2023 | LCRW STAFF

  A network including neo-nazis and conspiracy theories embedded itself in Jackson County, OR’s GOP.

• OLD NICK’S DRAG EVENT SUCCESSFUL DESPITE NATION-WIDE HATE-MONGERING, LOCAL INTIMIDATION

  December 11, 2022 | JAMES CROXTON | MARY BELL

  This year, the far right launched an intensified effort across the United States to intimidate, attack, and ultimately stifle the LGTBQIA+ community. Family-friendly drag queen storytime events were some of the most frequent targets, with attacks in California, Iowa, Florida, Minnesota, and Arizona among other places.. On Oct. 31, a donut shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma… Continue reading OLD NICK’S DRAG EVENT SUCCESSFUL DESPITE NATION-WIDE HATE-MONGERING, LOCAL INTIMIDATION

• BEND OREGON SHOOTER KILLS TWO, HAD PLANNED LARGER ATTACK

  August 29, 2022 | MICHAEL BOORMAN

  A shooting in Bend, Oregon yesterday took the lives of two innocent people, followed by the suicide of the shooter. Police and Bend city officials confirmed today that the shooting was carried out by a man named Ethan Blair Miller, aged 20. Yesterday evening around 7pm he drove to a supermarket and according to witness… Continue reading BEND OREGON SHOOTER KILLS TWO, HAD PLANNED LARGER ATTACK

• HOW KLAMATH FALLS PRIDE PUSHED BACK AGAINST BUNDYS & LOCAL BIGOTS—AND WON

  August 3, 2022 | LCRW STAFF

  Even the rural towns of Southern Oregon cannot escape the growing panic surrounding drag queens and “groomers.” In July, conspiratorial preachers and Ammon Bundy’s “People’s Rights” network flung baseless allegations and threatened violence against local pride organizers. While the bigots readied themselves to counterprotest against Klamath Pride, queer community members used small town organizing tactics… Continue reading HOW KLAMATH FALLS PRIDE PUSHED BACK AGAINST BUNDYS & LOCAL BIGOTS—AND WON

• OREGON COASTAL COMMUNITIES MENACED BY NEO-NAZI GDL MEMBER

  August 1, 2022 | SOCAL RESEARCH CLUB

  In early June, residents of the tiny coastal town of Garibaldi, Oregon took notice of a strange van that appeared at the local RV park. The late-model Chevy Sport Van was impossible to miss: Plateless, its windows obscured by cardboard and blackout tint, and a message scrawled in black paint across its tan body that… Continue reading OREGON COASTAL COMMUNITIES MENACED BY NEO-NAZI GDL MEMBER

• JOURNALIST THREATENED WITH DEATH AT SPRINGFIELD, OR ANTIVAXXER MARCH

  June 26, 2021 | JAMES CROXTON

  I got to the plaza in front of Springfield Library/City Hall right around 4 p.m. on Wednesday when the anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-critical race theory event hosted by Rob Davis and local real estate agent Amanda Crosswhite was supposed to start. Davis has been a constant presence throughout Eugene, Springfield, and Salem, Oregon, mostly organizing pro-Trump… Continue reading JOURNALIST THREATENED WITH DEATH AT SPRINGFIELD, OR ANTIVAXXER MARCH

• PATRIOT PRAYER AND COPS NW ASSOCIATE CHARGED WITH PEDOPHILIA-RELATED CRIMES

  April 6, 2021 | LCRW STAFF

  Well-known Clark County resident Timothy Clayton Ryerson appeared in Superior Court Monday by video from the County jail. He was arrested April 2, 2021 for inappropriately filming a minor with whom he resided and is charged with two counts of 2nd-degree voyeurism. Allegations against Ryerson include that he filmed his roommate’s 5-year-old daughter without her… Continue reading PATRIOT PRAYER AND COPS NW ASSOCIATE CHARGED WITH PEDOPHILIA-RELATED CRIMES

• SALEM: ANTIFASCISTS DISRUPT FAR RIGHT CARAVAN, CAR ATTACKS AND GUNS BRANDISHED

  March 31, 2021 |

  GRIFFIN MALONE A “freedom rally Caravan” was announced early in March and antifascists began planning a counter-demonstration. Right wing protests in Salem, especially during the nation-wide wave of “Stop the Steal” rallies between the election and inauguration. The number of protestors forced the cops to block the right wing caravan going to the capitol but… Continue reading SALEM: ANTIFASCISTS DISRUPT FAR RIGHT CARAVAN, CAR ATTACKS AND GUNS BRANDISHED

• ARMED GROUPS PATROLLING CORBETT, OREGON DON’T WANT TO BE CALLED MILITIAS

  September 16, 2020 | LCRW STAFF

  On Sunday I arrived in Corbett, Oregon at around 1:37 in the afternoon. I was determined to either disprove the rumors or find evidence of armed militia forming checkpoints, roadblocks, or patrolling the area. What I found instead, early in the afternoon still, was what looked like a “typical American family” pulled over to the… Continue reading ARMED GROUPS PATROLLING CORBETT, OREGON DON’T WANT TO BE CALLED MILITIAS