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STATE DEBATES FELONY
FOR PRIVACY INVASION
BURRITO BRIGADE,
CEREAL FOR THE PEOPLE
FEED THOSE IN NEED
unteers are needed to make and distribute the meals.
On Sunday afternoons in Eugene you may have noticed
After leaving OM, the group carries the burritos in insu-
some people wandering downtown with big, warm insulated
lated bags, donated by Trader Joe’s, around downtown and
bags of food, wafting the scent of burritos behind them. Bur-
to homeless camps to “walk and look for people in need of
rito Brigade is an all-volunteer group of vegan burrito makers
food,” Reynolds says. “There’s a lot and they are easy to find.”
that started distributing tasty wraps to those in need about a
She adds, “Everybody who does it finds it really rewarding.”
year and a half ago.
Burrito Brigade volunteer Dana Jo Cook adds a little gra-
Burrito Brigader Christy Reynolds says the group is in the
nola to the mix with her own effort, Cereal for the People,
process of getting 501(c)3 status to make donations tax de-
named by her daughter, Fern.
ductible. Right now, she says, they make about 400 to 500
Cereal for the People started a year ago in July, Cook says,
burritos a week using donated and wholesale ingredients from
when an anonymous donor wanted to make sure that assem-
places such as Organically Grown and from anonymous do-
bly-line knockoffs of bags of
nors.
granola that are not “the right
Fellow Brigader Jennifer
weight or if a bag has too
Riehl says in addition to beans,
many raisins, nuts or berries”
the burrito ingredients vary
went to feed the homeless.
seasonally and by donation,
When the stack of bags gets
and have included zucchini,
too big, Cook gets a call and
summer squash, rutabaga,
runs over to pick it up.
sweet potatoes, onions, car-
Cook says she has given
rots and tomatoes. “We used
out 180-200 bags of organic
to use cilantro, but so many
non-GMO granola and ce-
people have an aversion,” she
real a week since she started.
says. “And the burritos are so
Like Burrito Brigade, the bags
flavorful without it.” She calls
— DANA JO COOK, CEREAL FOR THE PEOPLE
of food go to OM, homeless
them a “whole meal in a tor-
camps and people on the
tilla.”
street, as well as Whitebird
Every Sunday, the Brigade
Clinic and local churches. “I
meets at the Lorax Manner, a
never seem to have a prob-
student cooperative near the
lem getting rid of it, “Cook
UO that donates the use of its
says. “We run out and barely
kitchen. Riehl says they begin
scrape the surface of the need
soaking beans at 10 am, and
in this town.”
volunteers begin assembling
Volunteers and donors
burritos at noon. At 3:30 pm
can contact Burrito Brigade
the Burrito Brigade heads
at
burritosundays@gmail.
downtown to Occupy Medi-
com or via its Facebook
cal (OM) at the Park Blocks
page where it regularly puts
at 8th and Oak and begins to
out requests for volunteers
give burritos to the unhoused
and ingredients. Garden-
and hungry.
ers can also participate in
Many of the group’s vol-
the Brigade’s “Grow a Row
unteers have been high school
for the Hungry” campaign
and UO students, who are
to grow and donate food.
now gone for the summer,
— Camilla Mortensen
Reynolds says, so more vol-
‘I never seem to have a
problem getting rid of it.
We run out and barely
scrape the surface of
the need in this town.’
POLLUTION UPDATE
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
fined Lane Community College $3,450 last month for
hazardous waste and water quality violations related to
mismanagement of waste generated during ceramic making
at LCC’s 30th Avenue main campus. The waste was placed in
a storm drain where it was likely to end up in state waters,
and exceeded regulatory requirements for chromium.
According to DEQ, chromium is a bioaccumulative heavy
metal that can cause mental retardation and impaired organ
function. DEQ’s penalty took into consideration LCC’s efforts
to address these violations once LCC was made aware of
them by DEQ.
Doug Quirke/Oregon Clean Water Action Project
LANE COUNTY AREA SPRAY SCHEDULE
• ODOT is currently spraying roadsides. Call Tony Kilmer at
ODOT District 5 at 744-8080 or call 1-888-996-8080 for
herbicide application information. Highways I-5 and 126
have recently been sprayed and Highway 36 may be sprayed
soon.
• Rosboro LLC, 736-2100, plans to hire Western Helicopter,
(503) 538-9469, to spray 54.5 acres near the McKenzie
River, Quartz Creek and Finn Rock with glyphosate, imazapyr,
sulfometuron methyl, metsulfuron methyl, Dyne-Amic and/or
Crop Oil. See ODF notification 2015-771-08684, call Brian
Dally at 726-3588 with questions.
• Doug Carnine, 485-3781, plans to hire Larry Kirner, 206-
7187, to ground spray 286.4 acres near Lorane Highway with
triclopyr, Garlon 4, Garlon 3A, Accord XRT II and/or Forest Crop
Oil. See ODF notification 2015-781-09048, call Brian Peterson
at 935-2283 with questions.
Compiled by Jan Wroncy and Gary Hale, ForestlandDwellers.org, 342-8332.
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June 18, 2015 • eugeneweekly.com
Social media and simple image sharing have strained and
twisted modern privacy laws. Now, the Oregon Legislature
might pass a privacy bill to establish the crime of “invasion
of personal privacy” in the first degree as a felony in Oregon.
The crime could be punished with up to five years imprison-
ment.
The proposed law, House Bill 2356 B, states that taking
images of a person nude without consent in a space where
a person has a “reasonable expectation of personal privacy”
would be a Class C felony. The court could also require the
defendant to register as a sex offender.
“It’s only a misdemeanor right now and not an appro-
priate level of punishment for the severity of this action,”
says former State Rep. Denyc Boles, who proposed the bill
in 2014. “The offender should be held to a higher level of
accountability than is current law.”
The proposed law would keep the misdemeanor as a sec-
ond degree offense for less egregious cases. The Criminal
Justice Commission, after analyzing current data, estimates
it could result in four more felony convictions per year.
The bill was “generated” from the story of Ashley
Buckle, from Keizer, Oregon, who was stalked and secretly
filmed by her stepfather, Bryan Tilley. Tilley installed hid-
den cameras in her bathroom and bedroom, at home and
at her college apartment in Corvallis, and also filmed other
women secretly.
In October 2014, Tilley was sentenced to 44 months in
jail, but only because of a burglary conviction for stealing
a tequila bottle from Buckle’s apartment. The secret taping
and invasion of privacy was only a misdemeanor. Cases like
Buckle’s have spurred legislators on to pass the bill.
“I think with technology increasing it’s hard to keep up,”
Boles says of privacy laws. “There have been quite a few
new laws this session to keep up with how criminals adapt
to social media.”
On June 10, Gov. Kate Brown signed HB 2596 into
place, which bans “upskirt photos,” and on June 11, SB 188
banning “revenge porn” was signed into law.
“We were in shock to be told that in the state of Oregon
these crimes are only considered a misdemeanor,” says
Buckle’s mother, Cathy McInnis, in her testimony on 2356.
She and Buckle have been campaigning adamantly for the
bill.
The bill has enjoyed huge support so far, passing unani-
mously in the House and Senate Judicial committees.
Now HB 2356 just has to pass through the full Ways and
Means Committee and then will be on its way to a full vote
by the Senate, which Boles cautiously predicts could happen
next week. — Dash Paulson
CORRECTIONS/
CLARIFICATIONS
Eugene’s celebration of World Naked Bike Ride last
Saturday was listed in a couple of places in our Calendar last
week and online, but one of those mentions incorrectly had
Friday as the big day. Hopefully not too many people
showed up naked a day early. We are em-bare-assed for our
mistake.
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