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Southbound I-5 lanes were closed at I-105 due to crowd on highway photo 1

Free Palestine Eugene protesters disrupt I-5
traffic Monday morning, both lanes reopened.

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A PARTY IN BOSTON ON THIS DAY IN 1773

EBL: Yesterday In History: The Boston Tea Party: December 16, 1773

In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised
as Mohawk Indians boarded three British tea ships and dump 342
chests of tea into the harbor.

The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,”
was in protest of the British Parliament’s
Tea Act of 1773, a bill
designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly
lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the
American tea trade. The low tax allowed the
East India Company
to undercut even tea smuggled into America by Dutch traders,
and many colonists viewed the act as another example of
taxation tyranny.

Opinion | Was the Boston Tea Party a patriotic act -- or a crime? - The ...

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SHOWS REAL CLASS FROM THE PROTESTERS

Pro-Palestinian protesters seen shaking White House gate vandalized with red paint: 'F--k Joe Biden'
Pro-Palestinian protesters smear red paint on White House fence, scream ‘F— Joe Biden.’

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IT WAS ONCE CALLED INDECENT EXPOSURE

World Naked Bike Ride 2023 photo 3

The World Naked Bike Ride, a protest against pollution- based       
transportation and highlighting the vulnerability of cyclists on         
the roads, returned to the Rose City on Saturday. Thousands       
of riders gathered in Northeast Portland, Oregon’s Irving Park
before taking a route across the city.         

        
        
       

World Naked Bike Ride 2023 photo 30

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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Camille Bohannon

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Dick Clark (Richard Wagstaff Clark)
(November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)

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