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by Andrew Lee On October 3, Portland City Hall decided to postpone a vote on homeless rest area Right 2 Dream Too’s proposed move from Fourth and Burnside to the affluent Pearl District. At a public hearing, scores of R2DToo supporters as well as Pearl residents and business representatives contended in front of City Council. … Continue reading
by Mike Klepfer On July 22, Mayor Charlie Hales announced that the long-standing houseless vigil in front of City Hall would be moved. The vigil, which began as a protest against the city’s camping ban, which is routinely used to target houseless people, has seen the most impoverished people in the city occupy the sidewalk … Continue reading
Marie Equi was a lesbian, anarchist, feminist, abortion and birth control advocate and lifelong radical. by Matt Marie Equi was born in 1872 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She dropped out of school at age 8 to work in the textile mills until age 13, briefly leaving the states for a few years to live in … Continue reading
The Guardian reports that all Verizon phone records obtained by the company are shared with the National Security Administration, as confirmed by a secret court order which says the telecom is ordered to provide information on an “ongoing, daily basis.” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the government will press ahead with their … Continue reading
An Eritrean man formerly living in Portland is suing the FBI over his 2011 torture in the United Arab Emirates. The man, Yonas Fikre, said he was contacted by FBI agents at his Southwest Portland mosque. The agents tried to convince Fikre to become an informant, and he refused. He was put on a no-fly … Continue reading
In Portland, a few thousand protesters showed up to hold a march against agribusiness Monsanto on Saturday, marking a global day of action against the company and genetically-modified foods. Three thousand workers at a Nike garment factory in Cambodia’s Kampong Speu province were attacked by riot police when they protested outside their workplace for better … Continue reading
In a speech today, Barack Obama will announce that the drone assassination program will be moved to the Pentagon and that restrictions will be placed on where the killings can take place, meaning that they can only occur in countries that America is explicitly at war with. He will also announce his renewed intention to … Continue reading
Grand jury resister Jerry Koch was found in civil contempt and taken into federal custody in New York City yesterday. He refused to testify in a grand jury investigating a 2008 bombing of a military recruitment center in Times Square, when a small explosive device damaged the windows of the center. Koch is not a … Continue reading
A coalition of western senators, including Oregon’s Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, are lobbying to increase logging in national forests, including Mt. Hood National Forest. Law and Disorder is this weekend. The conference, which highlights the prison-industrial complex and state attempts at repression will be going on at Portland State University. We’ll be tabling there, … Continue reading
Coal giant Kinder Morgan announces it is dropping plans for a coal export terminal at the Port of St. Helens, making it another project that would have routed coal trains through Portland that has been scrapped. The FBI is asking for new surveillance powers in order to wiretap internet communications. Big news if not for … Continue reading
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