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In fact, the 58-year-old Oaks, who now gets around in an electronically controlled wheelchair, engineered a bit of a protest rally last month.
He headed downtown to the Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce with a half-dozen fellow activists, including Nuñez, to bestow the dubious Golden Ostrich Award upon the organization, “because of their support for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its blockade of progress on addressing the climate crisis.”
Oaks speaks more laboriously than he used to — he uses a voice amplifier because of damage he sustained to his vocal chords from a combination of nicks incurred during surgery and a 107.8-degree fever he contracted during his stint in ICU — but nothing masks his excitement at still fighting the good fight for the causes he believes in.
“I’m still an activist,” he said proudly. “I was one of the speakers when we gave the Chamber of Commerce the award for not responding adequately to the climate crisis.”