{"id":18156,"date":"2026-03-05T20:37:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/?p=18156"},"modified":"2026-03-05T20:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:37:54","slug":"eugene-showed-up-rebel-revelry-with-carsie-blanton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/eugene-showed-up-rebel-revelry-with-carsie-blanton\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Showed Up: Rebel Revelry with Carsie Blanton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"><strong>Eugene Showed Up:<br \/>\nRebel Revelry with Carsie Blanton Raised Over $6,300 for CLDC<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/givebutter.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/WOtETl64f5fIZwBRQdP4bXHVwl5dthniH5kLfgNP.jpg\" alt=\"A three-piece band performs on a small indoor stage to a standing-room crowd. Center stage, a woman with curly hair sings into a microphone while playing ukulele, wearing a red velvet top. To her left, a person plays electric guitar; to her right, a mustached drummer sits behind a drum kit. All three musicians wear red. The intimate venue is bathed in warm pink and red stage lighting, with dark curtains as a backdrop and several stage lights visible overhead.\" width=\"427\" height=\"320\" \/>On February 27th, CLDC was overwhelmed \u2013 in the best possible way \u2013 by the Eugene community\u2019s outpouring of love, solidarity, and yes, dancing.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Rebel Revelry featuring Carsie Blanton benefit at <a href=\"https:\/\/wowhall.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>WOW Hall<\/strong><\/a> raised <strong>over $6,300<\/strong> to support CLDC\u2019s Activist Defense Fund. The evening was a testament to what\u2019s possible when art, community, and movement solidarity meet: a packed house, rad raffle prizes, and a whole lot of people who clearly believe that defending civil liberties is worth showing up for.<\/p>\n<p>We are deeply grateful to <strong>Carsie Blanton<\/strong> and her band, and <strong>Devon Sproule<\/strong> for sharing their extraordinary talent and their hearts with us \u2013 and to their tour team for helping to make the logistics flow. Events like this don\u2019t happen without people who care about the mission as much as the music.<\/p>\n<p>A special thank you to our raffle prize sponsors: <a href=\"https:\/\/cafemam.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Cafe Mam<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synergytherapeutics.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Synergy Therapeutics<\/strong><\/a>, and some (very) generous supporters of CLDC who made the raffle a major success, and brought attention to some incredible local businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, thank you to photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/gp\/robertscherle\/Ba98WPmc47\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Robert Scherle<\/strong><\/a> for these beautiful images from the night and to Peter Wilde for connecting and guiding us with this process.<\/p>\n<p><em>CLDC\u2019s founder and Director of Litigation &amp; Advocacy said, \u201cCLDC is so happy to have been able to celebrate movement musicians &amp; the strength and resilience of our community activists!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To everyone who bought a ticket, donated, danced, or simply showed up: this is your win too. We\u2019ve got your back, until all are free!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Showed Up: Rebel Revelry with Carsie Blanton Raised Over $6,300 for CLDC On February 27th, CLDC was overwhelmed \u2013 in the best possible way \u2013 by the Eugene community\u2019s outpouring of love, solidarity, and yes, dancing. The 2026 Rebel Revelry featuring Carsie Blanton benefit at WOW Hall raised over $6,300 to support CLDC\u2019s Activist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18157,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156\/revisions\/18157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}