A new counterculture takes root in an old Eugene neighborhood . The policeman was struck by a rock during a rally the year before, and the rock thrower, Robert Thaxton, is serving a seven-year prison sentence for the crime.
Children play on a nearby swing set.
The meal has arrived in a bicycle cart and consists of organic baked fruit with oatmeal, homegrown tomato salad, and herbal tea. It comes courtesy of volunteers who use surplus food to feed their community's hungry every afternoon at four. For every ten pairs of eyes there is a video camera, or so it seems. Photographers snap pictures. Microphones sprout high above the crowd.