PSL Eugene - Party for Socialism and Liberation

06/09/2026

📖 Reading 4 Revolution Session 6: Chapters 9, 10 & Conclusion
📆 Wednesday, June 10th
🕐 6:00 PM
📍First Christian Church (1166 Oak St)
🔗 RSVP: tinyurl.com/Read4Rev

How can we address the root causes of crime and create true public safety? What can be done to transform policing to actually protect and serve our communities? What would a world without imperialist wars look like and how can we build it?

Join us for the final session of our weekly Reading for Revolution book club series focused discuss Chapters 9, 10 and the conclusion of the book ‘Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States’ to read, learn and discuss these questions and more! Copies of the reading will be available in-person at the study group sessions or at 1804books.com. Pre-reading is highly encouraged but not required, all are welcome to join, learn and discuss!

06/08/2026

On January 11th 2026, just four days after Renee Good was killed after being shot in her car by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026, a local ICE rapid response volunteer was intercepted by a Eugene Police Department officer while she was following an ICE vehicle. The ICE agent called 911 to report the community member and the police responded by blocking her from following and filming him.

Oregon is supposedly a sanctuary state and Eugene a sanctuary city where local and state law enforcement are prohibited from collaborating with ICE. EPD will respond when ICE calls to prevent community members from exercising their constitutional rights to document law enforcement activity but won’t respond when ICE terrorizes and kidnaps our community members. As the video shows, the officer demonstrates ignorance of the public’s constitutional rights and unwillingness to learn from the responder. This is one way that EPD continues to serve the interests of ICE, DHS, and the system, rather than the community under attack, even in a sanctuary state. The officers behavior and comments also illustrate the culture of misogyny within EPD that treats this community responder as if she’s hysterical for exercising her rights and defending our community from ICE terror.

Documenting law enforcement activity in a public area is a well enshrined first amendment right. Chief Skinner and the city have been aware of this incident for five months and have said and done nothing.

📣 PACK THE EUGENE CITY COUNCIL MEETING
🗓️Monday, June 8
🕣7:30 PM
🏛️Eugene City Hall, 500 E 4th St

Join us to pack the city council meeting on Monday June 8 to show that we won’t allow this toxic culture and behavior in EPD to continue!

If you want to speak, make sure to show up early and sign up. If you can’t make it, contact the city leadership at [email protected]

Learn more, take action and join the Lane County Immigrant Defense Network at tinyurl.com/ImmigrantDefenseToolkit

06/07/2026

📣 PACK THE EUGENE CITY COUNCIL MEETING 6/8

🗓️Monday, June 8
🕣7:30 PM
🏛️Eugene City Hall, 500 E 4th St

The recent footage of Eugene Police officer Martin Siller revealed deep problems within EPD, including (but not limited to) Chief Skinner’s leadership and permissive attitude toward racism, misogyny, and police brutality.

We need to pack the city council meeting on Monday June 8 to show that we won’t allow this culture of violence and discrimination in EPD to continue!

If you want to speak, make sure to show up early and sign up. If you can’t make it on Monday, you can still call or email your councilor (contact info can be found at https://www.eugene-or.gov/537/Mayor-and-City-Council)

06/03/2026

📖 Reading 4 Revolution Session 5: Chapters 7 & 8
📆 Wednesday, June 3rd
🕐 6:00 PM
📍First Christian Church (1166 Oak St)
🔗 RSVP: tinyurl.com/Read4Rev

How could our healthcare system be reconstructed to better meet the needs of people over profit? What can be done to ensure every person in the United States has quality education throughout their life? How can we meaningfully address barriers to people’s health, safety, wellbeing and success caused by capitalism?

Join us for session 5 of our weekly Reading for Revolution book club series focused discuss Chapters 5 & 6 of the book ‘Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States’ to read, learn and discuss these questions and more! Copies of the reading will be available in-person at the study group sessions or at 1804books.com. Pre-reading is highly encouraged but not required, all are welcome to join, learn and discuss!

06/02/2026

We asked community members at the Saturday May 30th rally against the racism and violence of the Eugene Police Department: What brought you out today? Here’s what they had to say.

Join us to pack the Eugene City Council meeting on June 8th at 7pm at City Hall! ✊

05/29/2026

While the people of Eugene were braving pepper balls and teargas to stand up for immigrant rights on January 30th, Eugene Police officer Martin Siller was making racist and misogynistic comments on a phone call with another officer.

That footage was released on May 8th by one of the protestors arrested at the Federal Building. The footage went viral, and a few hours later Siller resigned.

Police Chief Skinner claims that conduct like Siller’s is never tolerated in the Eugene Police Department, but Siller had been with EPD for 7 years - almost as long as Chief Skinner. And after 7 years, it wasn’t Skinner that got rid of him. It was the community.

Skinner says that he sets the tone of what’s acceptable for EPD, so let’s take a look at the tone he’s setting. Under Skinner’s leadership, the Eugene Police Department has collaborated with ICE and Homeland Security by interfering with legal observers, rapid responders, and protesters, letting ICE agents terrorize our communities.

He championed the use of Flock cameras, a mass surveillance system that tracked the movements of every vehicle in Eugene, without warrants, until the people of Eugene forced the city to cancel the contract.

He has tolerated racism and misogyny, as well accusations of domestic and sexual violence, within the ranks of EPD for years - just as long as the public doesn’t find out.

If that’s the tone Skinner’s setting, then he needs to go! We deserve real accountability, and the removal of Chief Skinner is one of many things we need to make our city one that prioritizes the safety and dignity of all people. We won’t stand for a system that won’t stand for us.

Join the struggle against EPD violence and racism! 
📣Join the rally on May 30th at Noon at the Wayne Morse Federal Courthouse
✊Pack the upcoming Eugene City Council Meeting on June 8th at 7:30pm at City Hall (500 E 4th Ave)
📧 Contact the Mayor, City Council and City Manager at [email protected]

05/26/2026

📖 Reading 4 Revolution Session 4: Chapters 5 & 6
📆 Wednesday, May 27th
🕐 6:00 PM
📍First Christian Church (1166 Oak St)
🔗 RSVP: tinyurl.com/Read4Rev

🚜🏡🚌 How could agriculture be reconstructed to better meet the needs of the people and the planet? What can be done to ensure every person in the United States has safe, affordable housing? What could an accessible and effective transportation system look like under socialism?

Join us for session 4 of our weekly Reading for Revolution book club series focused discuss Chapters 5 & 6 of the book ‘Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States’ to read, learn and discuss these questions and more! Copies of the reading will be available in-person at the study group sessions or at 1804books.com. Pre-reading is highly encouraged but not required, all are welcome to join, learn and discuss!

05/25/2026

“I’m a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and I saw with my own eyes how the military is not a tool of spreading democracy. It’s not a tool of spreading peace. It is a machine of death and destruction that benefits a very small number of rich people in this country at the expense of our working class members that are sent overseas to fight and kill and the victims of these military attacks.”

John, a veteran and an organizer with the PSL, shares his perspective on the war on Iran, the cost of living crisis and what Memorial Day means to him at the Linn County Veterans Memorial in Albany, OR.

Trump, when asked if he was concerned about the impact of the war on Iran on the cost of living, responded “I don’t think about Americans financial situation. I don’t think about anybody.”

John shares that working people in Albany and Corvallis are suffering greatly from the cost of living crisis due to being in one of the most rent-burdened areas in the country.

This Memorial Day, commit to building the anti-war movement! Learn more at pslweb.org/action

05/25/2026

05/25/2026

✊Rally Against EPD Violence and Racism!

📆 Saturday, May 30th
🕐 12:00 PM
📍Wayne L. Morse Federal Courthouse (405 E 8th St, Eugene OR)

The viral video of EPD officer Martin Siller has exposed the culture of racism, misogyny and violence in the Eugene Police Department. Siller was with EPD for 7 years, almost as long as Chief Skinner. We’re standing up as a community against this violent police culture now! Join us on Saturday, May 30th at noon for a demonstration at the Wayne Morse Federal Courthouse in Eugene to demand Skinner resign, expanded civilian oversight, ending EPD collaboration with ICE/DHS and more!