Tagged: Oregon
NAZIS HECKLE DRAG EVENT-GOERS & GOLFERS IN FLORENCE, OR
JAMES CROXTON | May 5, 2023
Neo-Nazis showed up at a golf course to protest a drag show in Oregon last weekend.
OREGON COLLEGE B.O.E. CANDIDATE WAS BANNED FROM TEACHING FOR TEXTING TEEN GIRLS
LCRW STAFF | May 4, 2023
An Oregon college board candidate and fake abortion clinic board member sent “borderline creepy” messages to teen girls.
COVID DENIAL IN SOUTHERN OREGON: HOW NAZI SYMPATHIZERS & “PATRIOTS” TOOK OVER JACKSON COUNTY GOP
LCRW STAFF | January 2, 2023
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
JAMES CROXTON | MARY BELL | December 11, 2022
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 […]
BEND OREGON SHOOTER KILLS TWO, HAD PLANNED LARGER ATTACK
MICHAEL BOORMAN | August 29, 2022
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 […]
HOW KLAMATH FALLS PRIDE PUSHED BACK AGAINST BUNDYS & LOCAL BIGOTS—AND WON
LCRW STAFF | August 3, 2022
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 […]
OREGON COASTAL COMMUNITIES MENACED BY NEO-NAZI GDL MEMBER
SOCAL RESEARCH CLUB | August 1, 2022
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 […]
JOURNALIST THREATENED WITH DEATH AT SPRINGFIELD, OR ANTIVAXXER MARCH
JAMES CROXTON | June 26, 2021
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 […]
PATRIOT PRAYER AND COPS NW ASSOCIATE CHARGED WITH PEDOPHILIA-RELATED CRIMES
LCRW STAFF | April 6, 2021
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 […]
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 […]
ARMED GROUPS PATROLLING CORBETT, OREGON DON’T WANT TO BE CALLED MILITIAS
LCRW STAFF | September 16, 2020
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 […]