Oregon’s Governor and the Grifter(s)
“It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” — Frank Herbert Oregon’s Governor-for-Life John Kitzhaber, 68, resigned Friday the 13th. His resignation letter was the...
View ArticleOregon Governor Brown’s To-Do List
Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown was sworn in as Oregon’s 38th Governor Wednesday, Feb.18. We don’t have the superfluous (as Florida, Massachusetts and Nebraska recently found out) position of...
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Garden Variety Environmentalism
“The environmental movement needs shaming at this point.” – Denise Boggs It was 60+ degrees and sunny – had been for weeks – in western Oregon, as I arrived in Eugene for the annual Public Interest...
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The TPP, the Biomassacre and the End Game for the Great Forests of the Northwest
New York’s Third Senator Ron Wyden, (D-Ecocide) had a banner week. First, the media and social memes were ubiquitous on the hours-long Faux Resistance mounted against the secret Trans-Pacific...
View ArticleFund-Raising as the World Burns: Shell Drills the Arctic, Takes a Timeout and...
“Activism is the antidote to despair.” –Joan Baez “Claiming false “victories” crushes activism and leads to more despair. Claiming false “victories” in order to fund raise is shameless and stupid.” –...
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Thinking Like a Human: John Trudell’s Dream
Graffiti Man’s Got Something to Say “We have to really think like human beings. And, just accept the reality of now. And, the reality of now is that the system is unfair, and it’s not gonna be fair....
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John Trudell: Human Being
“I don’t want to tell people how to remember me. I want people to remember me as they remember me.” —John Trudell “He got a fast horse. Comanche warriors made sure he got their best. Hoofbeats...
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FLOP21: It’s Survival Time Now
“With the climate talks in Paris now over, the world has set itself a serious goal: limit temperature rise to 1.5C. Or failing that, 2C. Hitting those targets is absolutely necessary: even the...
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The Cowliphate and Poisoned Kids: Twin Assaults on The Commons
When I opened up my Facebook feed today, 90 percent on the items on my feed were equally divided between the Bundy Cowliphate here in Oregon and the poisoning of the water supply in Flint, my hometown....
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Where to Invade Next: Michael Moore’s Latest Examination of American...
The creator of the top two Documentaries of all time – Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 – is back. Michael Moore and his merry band of co-conspirators have a new documentary out in an...
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“A Legacy Worth Leaving”– The 2016 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
I had a new strategy for the 34th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) at the University of Oregon Law School. – the grandaddy of all environmental law conferences. This year, I...
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Building the Opal Creek Trail: Saving an Oregon Treasure
Back in 1987, up at the mining camp at Jawbone Flats, we were discussing the Forest Service plan to build 11 miles of roads and clear-cut 1700-acres of Ancient Forest in Opal Creek. Jawbone is at the...
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Gaian Hero Twilly Cannon and the Origins of the Ruckus Society
Back in 1995, things were looking bleak for the Northwest Forests. The pro-logging, exempt from all environmental laws, Salvage Rider was signed by Bill Clinton and tens of thousands of acres of...
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How the Naked Hiker Saved the Forest
I recently wrote about the building of the Opal Creek trail and its crucial part in the successful effort to save the area and Ancient Forests, in general. That effort followed an earlier one that...
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Still Wavy After All These Years: Flower Geezer Turns 80
Wavy Gravy – Counterculture Saint Back in 1976, my pal Stacy seriously injured her back. She was at the Bay Area osteopath’s office waiting room for a pre-operation exam when an odd, rumpled guy also...
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Gaian Champion Calvin Hecocta Walks On
(Calvi Hecocta 12/7/1941 – 8/17/2016) My dad always told me, “The hardest thing about growing old is your friends dying.” Dad was correct (as he was on a lot of things). This has been a hard year for...
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Body Shaming Trump: Statue of Limitations
Dammit. I never thought I’d have to defend Trump or Clinton on anything. I have to weigh in on the Naked Trump statues. Have to, because I have now been told to “Fuck off;” been called “vapid;” been...
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Jackson Browne, Quiltman and Allies: Counterculture Heroes Still Here/Still...
Poster by Cree Miller. Last August, I was at the Monkey Clan’s annual Scott Lake wilderness campout in the Cascades. I awoke at night with a distinct feeling of dread. It was fire season and I thought...
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Barred From the Court: US Indian Law = Imperial Relic
JoDe Goudy outside the Supreme Court. Photo credit: Patrick Sales. On Sept. 24, 2018, the Yakama Nation joined in a case before the US Supreme Court and submitted an amicus curiae (friend of the Court)...
View ArticleThe Covington Altar Boys, Institutional Racism and the Doctrine of Discovery
The smirking Covington Altar Boys episode brings back memories of when I was attending a 99% white, elite, all boys Catholic High School. It was in 1963/65, the peak of Catholic culture in the US, with...
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