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  • Protester remains at his post up a tree

    10/21/2002 6:01:28 PM PDT · by Glutton · 34 replies · 418+ views
    12 Oct 02 | By Rebecca Nolan
    Nearly a week has passed, and the man calling himself Traveler remains perched high up in a cedar tree at Park Street and Eighth Avenue downtown. He took up residence in the tree on Saturday and remained up there late Thursday. His friends and supporters bring food and supplies that he hoists upward with rope, and they take away waste that he lowers in a bucket. Traveler says he won't come down until the city repeals its camping ban and creates a legal campsite for Eugene's many homeless. But business owners have started to complain about Traveler and about his...