BY CAMILLA MORTENSEN
• Introductory meeting of Eugene Downtown
Cohousing is 1 pm Saturday, Dec. 3. For info on
location, call 541-344-5751, or email:
eugenecohousingdowntown@gmail.com.
• Steel Wool, Gumbo Groove and McKayla Webb
ask you to bring warm (wool) clothing to donate to
the White Bird Clinic 6 pm Dec. 2 at their show at
Whirled Pies Downtown, 8th and Charnelton. $8 door.
For more info go to steelwoolband.com.
• City Club of Eugene members, students and the
public are invited to participate in a conversation
about the ideas in National Book Award winner
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 5:30
pm Wednesday, Dec. 7, at The World Café, 449 Blair
and again 5:30 pm Monday, Dec. 19, at Oregon Wine
Lab, 488 Lincoln. City Club adopted this book as its
first ever common reading, in solidarity with incoming
UO freshmen. The book group, in collaboration with
the Community Alliance of Lane County, will discuss
how Coates’ message, framed as a letter to his son,
can deepen insight into social conditions in our
country and our own positions in it. Food and
beverages are available for purchase, but no purchase
is necessary. Contact Mary Leighton at leighton.
mary@gmail.com or 541-510-3819 or go to
cityclubofeugene.org.
CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER
DOLORES HUERTA
(RIGHT) TRAVELED TO
STANDING ROCK TO
PROTEST THE DAPL
PHOTO: JANIE COVERDELL
EUGENEANS SEND
HELP TO STANDING ROCK
ack in September, Janie Coverdell traveled to Stand-
ing Rock from Eugene to protest the Dakota Access
Pipeline (DAPL). Inspired by the activism she took
part in there and by the lack of media attention at the
time, she decided to return last month.
On Nov. 20, Coverdell was one of the protesters tear-
gassed as water protectors and law enforcement clashed.
Coverdell, who is of Tlingit descent, was there in below
freezing temperatures as police began to shoot water at pro-
testers as well as rubber bullets and tear gas.
On Nov. 25, Eugene-based Civil Liberties Defense Cen-
ter together with the Water Protectors Legal Collective an-
nounced that it was filing a class action suit against the police
as well as a motion and memorandum in support of a tempo-
rary restraining order against the police.
People from all over the country have traveled to Cannon
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• The City of Eugene Human Rights Commission
will honor Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy as Human
Rights Champion at this year’s Human Rights Day
event, 6 pm Wednesday, Dec. 7, at the Atrium at 10th
and Olive. The mayor will read a human rights
proclamation and Human Rights Commission Vice
Chair Jennifer Frenzer will read the commission’s
proposed resolution to make Eugene a sanctuary
city. Community leaders and youth will discuss
human rights triumphs and challenges and what we
face as a community. Cross Current will provide the
musical entertainment. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
• 350 Eugene will lead a free nonviolent direct
action training 1:30 pm Saturday, Dec. 10, at Lokey
Education Room 176, on the University of Oregon
campus at 16th and Alder. To register email
sandrad2122@gmail.com or text to 541-890-5952.
LANE COUNTY AREA
SPRAY SCHEDULE
New Growth LLC, 973-1951, plans to hire Rye Tree
Service, 999-0295, to apply Rozol rodenticide
containing chlorophacinone, strychnine and zinc
phosphide on 183.8 acres east of Siltcoos Lake and a
few miles north of Mapleton for mountain beaver (aka
boomer) control. See ODF notification 2016-781-
12861; call Quincy Coons at 997-8713 with questions.
Compiled by Gary Hale, Forestland Dwellers: 541-342-8332, for-
estlanddwellers.org
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search and seizure) amendment rights by “using highly dan-
gerous Specialty Impact Munitions (SIM), explosive teargas
grenades, teargas canisters and a water cannon spraying high
pressure water, as a means of dispersing protests and prayer
ceremonies associated with opposition to the Dakota Access
Pipeline.”
Police have denied using concussion grenades, but the
father of 21-year-old Sophia Wilansky — who was severely
injured that night and might lose her arm — contradicts that.
“There’s multiple witnesses and my daughter, who was com-
pletely conscious, said they threw a grenade right at her,”
Wayne Wilansky says in an Associated Press report.
The Community Alliance of Lane County, Eugene Stands
with Standing Rock and other local groups have announced
a nonviolent and peaceful week of action in solidarity with
Standing Rock.
‘Unarmed women fell to their knees telling
police they loved them and were praying for
their generations, too.’
— J A N I E C O V E R D E L L , S TA N D I N G R O C K P R O T E S T E R
Ball, North Dakota, to aid the Sioux tribe in resisting the oil
pipeline. The tribe says it is concerned the pipe could leak
and contaminate the Missouri River. The tribe also says it
was not adequately consulted until the project was underway.
Coverdell tells EW she and her brother were in the thick
of the Sunday night protests. “Unarmed women fell to their
knees telling police they loved them and were praying for
their generations, too. A police officer walked up and used
high-pressure pepper spray right in their faces while their
hands were in the air.”
Coverdell says, “I followed police and called them out ev-
ery time they approached peaceful protectors, and as I drew
attention to them for harming unarmed people the police
would actually back off.”
Coverdell says she was tear-gassed and sprayed with a
water cannon. Her stomach and throat still hurt. she adds.
The water protector suit says it arises from the curtailment
of the water protectors’ First (free speech) and Fourth (illegal
Events include a rally at noon Thursday, Dec. 1, at the
Army Corps of Engineers, 211 E. 7th Avenue, a 6 pm Dec 4
candlelight vigil and “Canupa Prayer Ceremony” in Kesey
Square, 10 E. Broadway (“everyone bring a candle and your
intentions for peace”) and a noon Dec. 5 “call to action” with
speakers and music in the Federal Building Plaza, 211 E. 7th
Avenue, followed by a march to banks funding the pipeline.
At 6 pm Friday, Dec. 9, Hi-Fi Music Hall, 44 E. 7th Av-
enue, hosts a community-wide benefit for water protectors
with speakers, comedians, live music and more. Speakers
include Mayor-elect Lucy Vinis, Daphne Singingtree, who
just returned from Standing Rock, and Cooper Brinson of
the CLDC, who will speak about his and Lauren Regan’s
experience providing ongoing legal assistance at Standing
Rock. $15 at the door.
You can find Coverdell’s GoFundMe raising money for
her trip to the protest at goo.gl/dbrblp.