Following actions by Immigration Customs Enforcement and their presence in Eugene, a number of protests and other demonstrations have been popping up all over Lane County throughout recent months. For a group of Eugene’s retired population, pushing back is nothing new.
Presidents’ Day, Feb. 16, will mark the one year anniversary of the Resist! Persist! Repeat! protest, where Eugene and Springfield’s senior citizens have gathered on the street corner of 29th Avenue and Willamette Street, every Monday from 10 am to 11 am.
“We have a long history of protest. It’s not new to me or many of us to be standing up and saying that we disagree, we dissent. We did that for Vietnam. We did that around women’s rights. We did that around many issues,” Eugene retiree Carol Diller says. “It’s what we’ve done every decade in my life. There was always some cause I felt passionate about. Why would I stop now?”…