Students Protesting Pesticide Use Tasered

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Students Protesting Pesticide Use Tasered
by Jill Kimball


Two University students and a Eugene man were arrested at a downtown rally Friday afternoon on various charges, including resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, after police officers’ use of a Taser on one provoked angry reactions from the other two.


Ian George Van Ornum, 18, and Anthony Jameson Farley, 22, both students, were arrested. Friends paid their bail and they were released from Lane County Jail on Friday. The Eugene man, David Alexander Owen, was also released.

Ornum organized the rally as a demonstration against the Oregon Department of Transportation’s use of pesticide spray on the highways. Ornum was marching with a sign in Kesey Square at the corner of West Broadway and Willamette Street dressed in a white hazardous materials suit, spraying water from a pesticide can and asking onlookers, “Do you know you’re being poisoned?”

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/02/9362/

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1. I tend to believe the protesters

Have come upon the hostility people have for those who object to being poisoned by those chemicals. It's downright scary how brainwashined people are when the issue of chemicals is brought up - even take precautions is considered anti-american or something.

Gotta love their hazmat suits and water spraying - a pretty effective demonstration.