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of giving people an opportunity to
speak about abuses that they’ve
suffered and need to talk about,”
one of the project’s organizers, Ir
ish Binder, said.
Several speakers at the gathering
made references to the June 16-18
anarchist rally in Eugene that led to
67 arrests and generated com
plaints about police actions. But a
few speakers seized the moment to
highlight similar incidents in other
cities, such as Portland or Philadel
phia, where last Wednesday’s
videotaped beating of an arrested
man by 12 police officers gained
national attention.
“We’re here to let you know that
the excesses and abuses that you
face here in Eugene are not isolated
to your town,” Portland Copwatch
volunteer Kristian Williams said.
Williams and Shira Zucker, also
of Portland Copwatch agreed to
speak at the meeting when asked
by IPRP organizers.
Carol Berg, another project or
ganizer, stressed that this organiza
tion was not founded by anarchists,
but does consider itself to be all-in
clusive when it comes to commu
nity members. IPRP will function
as a resource and referral service for
people who have complaints
against police officers, she said.
The IPRP will gather citizen
complaints and make those state
ments available to the public and
report findings to City Council
members. One aspect of the group’s
make-up, however — the exclu
sion of police or city government
representatives in organizing issues
— is a strike against it, City Manag
er Jim Johnson said.
“My gut reaction [is] whenever a
group wants to see a change in the
way things Eire done, they need to
conduct their business in a way
that includes the city, [otherwise]
their outcome is not going to hap
pen,” he said.
One speaker at the meeting
elicited laughter from the crowd
when she began her comments,
“I’m from the government, but I’m
here to help.”
Betsy Brown has been a custodi
an at the Eugene Library for nine
years and said, in her opinion, un
elected officials such as Johnson
and executive managers of other
city departments run the city, not
the City Council.
“If we as a community are get
ting screwed by the police we have
to look at whose hand is on the
screwdriver,” Brown said, empha
sizing that she spoke as a private
citizen and not as a city employee.
The claim that city management
is in control of city policy is a com
mon misperception, City Coun
cilor Bobby Lee said. Although city
management makes operational
decisions, he said, the City Council
decides policy and the public ulti
mately helps make the final deci
sions on those policy directions.
“I welcome [the IPRP], but
they’re called an ‘independent re
view project’ so I’m not going to get
involved directly,” Lee said. “But I
do want to work in partnership
with them.”
The next “speak out” meeting is
scheduled for sometime in Octo
ber, when the majority of Universi
ty students will be back in town.
“I think students in particular are
a group that I want to communicate
with and I think we have students
around who are interested in com
municating with other students
about this issue,” Binder said.
Petitioner
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violates the Oregon Constitution
by restricting persons from col
lecting signatures at the Eugene
Station or at bus stops.
According to the judgment pre
pared by Foote, the exception to
the ruling was that “no person
may solicit signatures within eight
feet of any LTD bus door while
persons are entering or exiting the
bus, and no person may collect
signatures while on an LTD bus.”
LTD filed for an appeal on July
13, asking for signature-gatherers
to be prohibited not only eight feet
from bus doors, but from the en
tire boarding platform area. Eight
feet is not adequate for lines of
people that sometimes “extend
over 30 feet,” said Ed Bergeron,
LTD public affairs manager.
“What we’re trying to do is to
find the right balance between the
rights of the petition gatherers and
the needs of the bus riders,” Berg
eron said.
The LTD ordinance that limits
signature gathering does not limit
all of the LTD property, Bergeron
said, but only focuses on the actu
al buses and boarding platforms.
“The station was designed to
meet the needs of riders, who are
typically in a big hurry,” he said.
Ken Hamm, LTD’s general man
ager, said that LTD believes it is
necessary and advisable to seek
further guidance from the Oregon
Appellate Courts concerning
LTD’s rights and responsibilities
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In the meantime, the judge’s de
cision is in effect until the appeals
trial, which could be a year or two
away.
“We’re going to see petitioners
out there, especially with the No
vember elections coming up.
Right now they have free reign, up
to 8 feet from the door of the bus,”
Bergeron said.
The ACLU and Leppanen will
defend the appeal in part because
the judge’s decision included or
dering LTD to pay the legal fees ac
cumulated by Leppanen.
“I’m pleased that we won,” Lep
panen said. “I have all sorts of
conflicting emotions about the ap
peal, and I hope it’s not being done
with public funds. I’m doing this
as a matter of principle.”
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