You know, this is a ripoff of a Seattle Weekly article by Geov Parrish, who I think is the first person to write an accurate and balanced article on west coast/eugene anarchists in a major paper. He and his associates have scooped the local major media in many instances.
I know a few Eugene based people who are anarchists of various sorts, three of who are 'new pioneers' or 'primitivists'. Two were part of the black cat cafe collective where I washed dishes who I didn't get along with that much because one played Ani DiFranco all the time which really gets on my nerves, and the other was kind of surly and passive aggressive. They moved out onto some land and were going to make a house out of these bricks made of earth and straw. The other guy was my friend who was really commited to activism, and one of his goals is to get rid of all the streets and cars. He had an anti-authoritarian form of parenting which his daughter really took advantage of when she was in a dumb stage around age 15. Her friends pulled up in a van and stole almost everything he owned one day.
Eugene has a lot more hippies than anarchists -but when you drop by, it does definitely look different than other rural surrounded towns such as Albany or Corvalis. the last time I got off the freeway there for coffee there were about 70 art and revolution people walking around this spread out strip mall. it looked out of place.
>From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: Michael Balliro <m_balliro at yahoo.com>, lbo-talk at lists.panix.com,
>"Eric V. Kirk" <kirk at humboldt.net>
>Subject: Dark Parallels WithAnarchy Concoctedin Oregon
>Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 20:57:47 -0800
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/global/120399wto-anarchists.html
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