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EUGENE, Ore., May 12 — SO LONG, GRACEFUL EDGE
In the looming shadow of a construction crane, a little blue house at 1801 Moss Street sits empty in a lot of overgrown grass: the Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living.
On April 25, students, alumni and community members came together to say goodbye to this 20-year-old student-built experiment in cooperative, sustainable life before its demolition later this year, making way for a five-story university housing project.
Attendees shared stories, explored archives, read histories posted on the old sheds and reflected on decades of student organizing that built the house and birthed the Grove Community Garden.
In the adjacent garden beds, an impromptu art installation transformed the empty plots into a site of protest. Handmade signs spoke to displacement, demolition and the fight to carry CASL’s legacy forward.
But this commemoration wasn’t just an ending.
Just down the street, the energy carried forward into the first annual People’s Earth Day at the Grove Community Garden’s new site, 1605 Moss St.
From 1 to 3 p.m., Grove gardeners brought the space to life with music, zine and seed swaps, block printing and conversation — a celebration not just of this new land to be inhabited, but of the relationships that sustain it.
After a year marked by displacement, the Grove’s relocation is a reminder that student-led spaces persist, adapt and grow.
CASL’s demolition reflects a broader pattern: student-built, community-centered spaces repeatedly face erasure in the name of institutional expansion. Land is reorganized to serve the university’s relation to forceful networks of capital and revenue generation rather than students’ needs.
But the day showed something else, too: that these spaces are never just physical. They live in the people who carry their lessons forward.
The Grove continues hosting open work parties and community events at its new location every Sunday 2 to 4 p.m.
Because even when a house comes down, the work doesn’t stop; we have a world to grow.
✍️ Huck
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4, 6, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16 @cyrus.s.photography
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EUGENE, Ore., May 6 — Students and workers won early implementation of ICE alerts on campus after months of organizing, but University of Oregon administration is still stonewalling our fight for a Latine Cultural Center.
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EUGENE, Ore., May 1 — 'BE THE GERM THAT SPREADS THE FOREST': Students demand ICE safety plans, Latine Cultural Center
May Day at the @uoregon started with a win. Administration announced it would begin implementation of an immigration enforcement alert system on Thursday, almost five months before HB 4079 — lobbied for by students — takes effect.
Throughout the day, people rallied, picketed and shared resources before ending with a somber vigil for the Haymarket Eight and the named and unnamed martyrs murdered in ICE detention centers.
HOW DID WE WIN?
Students and workers spent weeks canvassing, class wrapping and talking to our peers, culminating in the April 10 delivery of over 2600 signatures demanding early implementation of ICE alerts, workplace protections and a standalone cultural center.
WHY WALK OUT?
Instead of heeding the work done by ASUO and the LatinX Student Coalition to research and secure preliminary funding for a Latine Cultural Center, UO administration has chosen to form its own taskforce.
Too, the UO continues to punish student worker-organizers: In the Multicultural and South, Southwest Asian and North African Centers, workers who delivered a letter asking for autonomy — in spaces won by student organizing — were told they would be non-reappointed this fall due to "role restructuring."
WHAT'S NEXT?
Keep an eye on this page for further action. We have a world to win!
✍️ @hawkscratch
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EUGENE, Ore., April 30 — Scenes from the 2026 “Take Back the Night,” the Women’s Center’s annual rally, march and speakout against sexual and domestic violence.
📸 @cyrus.s.photography
✍️ @hawkscratch
EUGENE, Ore., April 12 — The Anti-ICE Coalition marched on Alareer (or Johnson) Hall on Friday to demand action from UO President Karl Scholz after his ongoing refusal to address concerns surrounding ICE presence on campus.
The Coalition carried over 2600 signatures on sheets of paper that snaked around the lobby of Alareer Hall up to the closed doors of Scholz’s office. Coalition members also passed out leaflets with a QR code to email blast Scholz (which you can do at bit.ly/blastscholz). Sam Howard, UO YDSA political education chair, read out the Coalition demands to the office of the president’s senior advisor and chief of staff, calling on administration to set a date, time and place to bargain with students.
UO YDSA and Anti-ICE Coalition member Ava Forn spoke on the steps of Alareer after the demands were delivered.
“Today, we see that the University of Oregon does not care,” Forn said over a megaphone. “The message is clear: They want us in diversity statistics, but not in university policy.”
This student action took place the same day that ASUO’s ballot measure “Student Vote of No Confidence” in Scholz and Board of Trustees Chair Steve Holwerda passed by 93.18 percent, where measure language cited “silence on ICE presence and refusal to organize an alert system” as one of many reasons for the vote.
“I do not think it is the end, nor do I think it is a significant step towards undermining Karl Scholz’s legitimacy here on campus,” Forn said after the rally. “It is not just pointing to a ballot measure… (instead) it is directly giving power back to the students.”
The Coalition now looks to build power and support ahead of May Day.
“We are working towards shutting down parts of the university,” Forn said, “showing that we run this university. This university only works so much as the student buys into it. It is not deemed by some board, or some president that doesn’t do his job.”
✍️ JT Myers
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Join us to Say ‘So Long” to the UO Center for the Advancement of Sustainable Living (CASL) before the People’s Earth Day!
Saturday April 25th, 2026
11:30am-1:00pm
1801 Moss Street
The CASL began in 2002 as a student vision for how those at the University of Oregon could live, learn, and create sustainable systems together. The project will come to an end when the CASL house is demolished to make way for more student dormitories mid-2026. Join us and former CASL collaborators to commemorate the visions, lessons, and experiences of the project before it is just a memory. There will be light refreshments, the project’s entire physical archive, art & history displays, and most of all space to re/connect. Followed by “The People’s Earth Day” at the UO Grove Community Garden at 1605 Moss Street, 1-3pm.
SPRINGFIELD, Ore., March 28/April 6 — EDITORIAL: Here’s some well overdue shots from a chicken-jockey-ass “No Kings 3.”
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PORTLAND, Ore., March 28 — Thousands rallied at Tom McCall Waterfront Park for the third iteration of “No Kings,” protesting against the Trump administration.
An eclectic array of protesters coalesced around a shared idea of resistance against the escalating tactics of Trump and his allies, especially his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, increased ICE aggression and the war on Iran.
Left-wing groups like DSA, PSL, FRSO and CPUSA took the streets alongside their more liberal counterparts to draw people into organizations and take action beyond a one-day march.
The march across the Steel Bridge and back through downtown ended around 4 p.m., though many stayed after to gather around Portland’s ICE facility despite an appeals court blocking a ban on federal deployment of chemical weapons there just days prior.
CLASHES IN TACTICS, VIBES
A few right-wing agitators led by perpetual provocateur "TommyForTrump420" tried to instigate debates with march attendees, but were frequently drowned out by protesters, failing to cause any meaningful disruption.
Elsewhere, an attendee in black bloc wearing a shirt that said "arm your friends" ended up in a debate with a more liberal-minded rally-goer who openly criticized their decision to cover their face and wear that shirt.
And at Portland DSA’s booth, an attendee attempted to debate tablers in their orientation towards the war on Iran.
While Portland’s “No Kings” had a very sizable and visibly socialist, anti-war and anti-genocide contingent, there were also people of many persuasions who seemed less sympathetic to anti-imperialist messaging.
This rally underscores the need to develop a more coherent movement which not only opposes the regime headed by Donald Trump but also supports building a positive alternative vision: a future for society free of not just kings, but oppression and exploitation as a whole.
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EUGENE, Ore., March 6 — One week ago, Eugene-Springfield’s workers, socialists and allies marched to the federal building to demand “ICE OUT!”
✍️ @hawkscratch
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📸 5, 7 and 11 by Ryan Donner
We’re currently collecting submissions for our next issue: Black Radical Thought, Theory, and Action!
Across the long struggle for their Liberation in the United States, Black Americans have set forth countless examples on what constitutes effective community care, collective struggle, and self-articulation. This issue aims to build on our previous issue on Black History and Liberation, with a focus on the roots of the Black struggle for freedom and the voices of those often left behind in the US historical canon, namely, those of Black Women.
We’ll be accepting submissions through the end of the month and into early march!
#blackhistory #zine #education #callforsubmissions
