NEWS
NEWS
B Y S A R A R O S A D AV I E S
RESISTING WHITE SUPREMACY
FOUNDATION
WILL SUPPORT
EUGENE POLICE
Temple Beth Israel hosts discussion of white supremacist activity
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A new private foundation has been
created to provide financial support to
the Eugene Police Department
he nonprofit Eugene Police Foundation has been
under development for the past year, says John
Brown, a Eugene commercial real estate appraiser
who is EPF’s board president. The foundation
makes its official start Thursday, May 18.
John Kilcullen, father of slain EPD officer Chris Kilcul-
len is board treasurer. Other EPF board members include
state Sen. James Manning, Lee Lashway of Harrang Long
Gary Rudnick law firm, and real estate broker Irene Al-
tucker.
EPF will provide financial and communal support when
the department needs it, Brown says, rather than dictating
what the department should get.
Some of the depart-
ment’s needs might in-
clude new equipment for
the K-9 unit and money
for officer training, he
says.
“If you look at all
— JOHN BROWN,
major
communities and
E U G E N E P O L I C E F O U N D AT I O N
municipalities, almost
all of them have a foun-
dation to cover some of the things the budgets don’t cover,
to improve our quality of policing — both for the police
officers but also for the community,” Brown tells Eugene
Weekly.
The foundation meets at 5:30 pm the fourth Wednesday
of each month at Eugene police headquarters.
Funding for the EPF will come from tax-deductible do-
nations, which can be made online by credit card at Euge-
nePoliceFoundation.org.
“Public safety is very important to me and to the com-
munity,” Brown says. “If we are going to have it, let’s do
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‘Public safety is very
important to me and
to the community.’
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BY CORINNE BOYER
essica Campbell of the Rural Organizing Proj-
ect spoke to a packed room at Temple Beth
Israel on Saturday, May 15, about the many
layers of white supremacy and the rise and
resistance of white nationalist movements in
Oregon.
On that same day a white nationalist group passed
out fliers around Eugene advertising for a website
called True Cascadia.
paign of farmers, teachers and others who gathered pe-
tition signatures and wrote letters to the editor of their
local paper, causing the militia to lose its base of sup-
port.
The Bundy occupation in Harney County dominat-
ed national headlines for months, but while in Burns,
Campbell noted a big portion of the story wasn’t being
reported: Instances such as when members of the militia
attempted to intimidate people at the local Safeway, or
Militia groups also rely on conspiracy theories to
spread their propaganda and use code phrases
like ‘big banks’ to refer to the Jewish community.
— JESSICA CAMPBELL, RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT
Throughout her presentation, Campbell shared sto-
ries of rural resistance organizations that came about to
oppose militia groups and the attempted organization of
an Aryan Nations chapter in eastern Oregon’s John Day.
Patriot groups have what Campbell calls a thinly
veiled white nationalist agenda. The militia movement
often takes advantage of economically depressed towns,
offering a form of infrastructure, and when members
move into an area they carry assault rifles. These groups
also attempt to force immigrants out of communities.
Campbell says militia groups offer “intentional edu-
cation” to undermine the U.S. Constitution and often
refer to only the first 10 amendments, purposely leaving
out amendments that extend and protect equal rights.
Militia groups also rely on conspiracy theories to
spread their propaganda and use code phrases like “big
banks” to refer to the Jewish community.
But rural organizers throughout Oregon have gath-
ered to take a stand against white supremacy groups —
forcing them out by pressuring local media outlets and
with peaceful public gatherings.
The group Together for Josephine was a local cam-
when a few days after the occupation began, Campbell
says 1,000 people showed up in a town of 8,000 at a
meeting.
Campbell says all the hands she could see went up
against the occupation of the Malheur National Wild-
life Refuge. All of the shops in Burns closed on the day
the community organized against the occupation on the
steps of the courthouse.
A branch of the Aryan Nations attempted to organize
in John Day, but 375 locals showed up and opposed the
formation of a national branch of the white supremacy
group, according The Oregonian.
Campbell co-authored the study Up in Arms: A
Guide to Oregon’s Patriot Movement, which the Ru-
ral Organizing Project says is “a report and toolkit de-
signed to support local communities, reporters, public
officials, and community activists under siege from or
curious about armed militias and other Patriot move-
ment groups.” You can read it at rop.org/up-in-arms.
If you have received fliers from white supremacy
groups, email us at editor@eugeneweekly.com or write
a letter to the editor, letters@eugeneweekly.com.
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