https://youtu.be/6kkyWyPai0U?list=RDGMEM3vRVvLY6rn_98uxOr5tY5A

Vol. XXXVIII, Number 1 March 21st, 2018 
Native American Revolution has begun  
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2018/March
   

Anti-War Spring Action 2018:  Takin' it to the Streets!
Shut down unprovoked American aggression
Invest in peace, people and planet Earth,
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/AntiWarSpring2018

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The Alliance Truthout Portal   Spring 2018
http://www.theportlandalliance.org/truthout

Atlantic Coast Pipeline Faces Native American Resistance

Two Native American tribes in North Carolina are among the groups seeking to join a court challenge to federal regulators' decision to approve the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a $5 billion project proposed by utility giants Dominion and Duke Energy. The 600-mile pipeline would carry fracked gas from West Virginia through Virginia to eastern North Carolina, which is home to many Native Americans.

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The Portland Alliance Native American Portal  

Red Cloud’s Revolution: Oglalla Sioux freeing themselves from fossil fuel

by Saul Elbein, MongabayFebruary 26, 2018

Henry Red Cloud, like so many Oglalla Sioux young men, left the reservation to work in construction. When he returned home in 2002, he needed a job, and also wanted to make a difference. He attended a solar energy workshop and saw the future.

http://www.theportlandalliance.org/nativeamericanportal  

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NoMadd The City of Empty Towers
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/Nomadd

In his first adventure, No’madd embarks on a perilous quest to confront the veiled intruders that threaten his land. His journey takes him beyond the sea of storms to a land masked in legend. There, he must unravel the fate of a lost race and confront a ruthless enemy who threatens to devastate the fabric of the galaxy.

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http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/Tinker  

checkout this cool tool developed by John Tinker... 

encyclopedia of current events

Vol. XXXVIII, Number 1 March 21st, 2018
Native American Revolution has begun  

http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2018/March

   
Anti-War Spring Action 2018:  Takin' it to the Streets!
Shut down unprovoked American aggression
Invest in peace, people and planet Earth,
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/AntiWarSpring2018

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The Alliance Truthout Portal   Spring 2018
http://www.theportlandalliance.org/truthout

Atlantic Coast Pipeline Faces Native American Resistance

Two Native American tribes in North Carolina are among the groups seeking to join a court challenge to federal regulators' decision to approve the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a $5 billion project proposed by utility giants Dominion and Duke Energy. The 600-mile pipeline would carry fracked gas from West Virginia through Virginia to eastern North Carolina, which is home to many Native Americans.

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The Portland Alliance Native American Portal  

Red Cloud’s Revolution: Oglalla Sioux freeing themselves from fossil fuel

by Saul Elbein, MongabayFebruary 26, 2018

Henry Red Cloud, like so many Oglalla Sioux young men, left the reservation to work in construction. When he returned home in 2002, he needed a job, and also wanted to make a difference. He attended a solar energy workshop and saw the future.

http://www.theportlandalliance.org/nativeamericanportal  

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NoMadd The City of Empty Towers
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/Nomadd

In his first adventure, No’madd embarks on a perilous quest to confront the veiled intruders that threaten his land. His journey takes him beyond the sea of storms to a land masked in legend. There, he must unravel the fate of a lost race and confront a ruthless enemy who threatens to devastate the fabric of the galaxy.

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http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/Tinker  

checkout this cool tool developed by John Tinker... 

encyclopedia of current events

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https://revolutionresource.org/2017/11/27/indigenous-wisdom/

“Like the most of you, I was raised among people who knew – who were certain. They did not reason or investigate. They had no doubts…

 

…We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know. We can tell the truth, and we can enjoy the blessed freedom that the brave have won. We can destroy the monsters of superstition, the hissing snakes of ignorance and fear. We can drive from our minds the frightful things that tear and wound with beak and fang. We can civilize our fellow-men. We can fill our lives with generous deeds, with loving words, with art and song, and all the ecstasies of love. We can flood our years with sunshine — with the divine climate of kindness, and we can drain to the last drop the golden cup of joy.”

― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol 1: Lectures

 

“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.”

—Chief Tecumseh

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Black Elk (1863-1950) or Hehaka Sapa

Oglala Lakota Sioux South Dakota, USA

“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers; and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Taka (the Great Spirit); and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals; and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all, you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.”

https://revolutionresource.org/2016/11/04/november-3-2016-riot-police-attack-and-injure-over-100-people-defending-standing-rock-burial-grounds

—Black Elk

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Vol. XXXVI, Number 2 The PortlandAlliance: Feb. 2016 http://www. ThePortlandAlliance.org/2016/February

Vol. XXXVI, Number 2   February 2016 http://www. ThePortlandAlliance.org/2016/February Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981

Does Bernie Sanders' Imperialism Matter? by Shamus Cooke   Critiquing Bernie Sanders from the left can be a lonely project. There is a "hope"-powered hysteria surrounding his campaign, and bursting the "hope" bubble can produce a fierce backlash. The Sanders "hope" explosion is so fierce because capitalism has become a hopeless place.

Visit Our Website http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2016/February

Jobs with Justice Update! Event Calendar Thursday, February 18   OregonSOS - Fight High Rents & Low Wages   Oregon State Capitol 900 Court St NE, Salem, Oregon 97301 #OregonSOS Oregonians are sinking, and it's time to do something about it! Join us as we build a tent city on the steps of the capitol building to highlight and call for a housing state of emergency in Oregon. Demand solutions to this state of emergency such as rent control and a moritorium on no-cause evictions, a statewide $15 and local control of minimum wage laws, and an end to ODOT sweeps of houseless camps. Sponsored by Right to Survive, Right 2 Dream Too, 15 Now PDX, Don't Shoot PDX, Portland Rising Tide, Jobs with Justice, PSUSU, Hazelnut Grove, International Socialist Organization, and more. Endorsed by NW Alliance for Alternative Media and Education, The Portand Alliance, The Peaceresource and The Wordsmith Collection and others... more ______________________________________________________________ Monthly Steering Committee Meeting Monday, March 7, 2016 at 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm 1500 NE Irving Street, Suite 585 Portland, OR 97232                             First Monday of the Month Unless    info:  http://www.theportlandalliance.org/jwjupdates

Contact DEQ and Bullseye regarding carcinogenic and neurotoxic emissions W ednesday, The Portland Mercury reported that Bullseye Glass, located at 3722 SE 21st St, has been emitting "a monthly a verage of 49 times the state air-safety benchmark level for the neurotoxin and carcinogen cadmium, and 159 times the air-safety goal for the carcinogen arsenic." The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) plan to announce specifics of their collected data on Bullseye's toxic emissions recorded at nearby measuring stations. Also nearby are schools and a children's daycare located at Fred Meyer's headquarters, KinderCare Education LLC. rest of story:  http://www.theportlandalliance.org/breakingnews

 

Be sure to check out this issue!

http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2016/February

And please send articles, essays, events, meetings, rallies and actions for March no later than February 21.  And thanks for all you do.  editor@theportandaliance.org.

February 2016 Portland Alliance Monthly Newspaper...

"Critiquing Bernie Sanders from
the left can be a lonely project.
There is a “hope”-powered hysteria surrounding his campaign, and
bursting the “hope” bubble can produce a fierce backlash.

The Sanders “hope” explosion is so fierce because capitalism has become a hopeless place."  ~Cooke

February 2016 Portland Alliance

February 8, 2016 

The Portland Alliance
Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981
Vol. XXXVI, Number 2 Feb. 2016

http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2016/February

Does Bernie Sanders’ Imperialism Matter?

by Shamus Cooke

Hope can be positive by pushing people into political action, but it’s also exploited by the establishment as shiny bait. Obama, for example, fished for votes using “hope” and reeled in the presidency.

He then clubbed “hope” senseless by betraying his promises, continuing war and maintaining the domestic policies of the 1%. Hope was so thoroughly thrashed that a new messiah of hope was
needed to cure the Obama-fortified hopelessness.

Bernie’s version of hope is deeper than Obama’s shallow PR electoral campaign, but under capitalism real “hope” isn’t a simple recipe, and Bernie is missing some key ingredients, most notably “anti-imperialism,” which is exemplified in Bernie’s reactionary foreign policy positions…

more here: http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/cooke

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The Dynamic Influence of Past Patterns
on the Present

by S Brian Willson

Cultural historians, philosophers, psychologists, essayists, and scientists caution us to seriously understand the past and its pervasive patterns. Sigmund Freud declared that in psychic life, nothing of what has been formed in the past ever disappears. Everything that has occurred is preserved in one way or another and, in fact, reappears under either favorable or unfavorable circumstances.

“The past never leaves us and the future is already here”. [Lewis Mumford].

“Wherever Western man went slavery, land robbery, lawlessness, culture-wrecking, and the outright extermination of both wild beasts and tame men went with him’. [Lewis Mumford].

“The West has ravaged the world for five hundred years, under the flag of master-slave theory which in our finest hour of hypocrisy was called ‘the white man’s burden’…. What sets the west apart is its persistence to stop at nothing”. [Hans Koning].

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. [George Santayana].

“Those who control the present,
control the past and those who
control the past control the future”. [George Orwell].

Rupert Sheldrake, biochemist, cell biologist and philosopher, describes a theory similar to psychologist Carl Jung’s collective unconsciousness, or concept of a group mind, a kind of inherited
COLLECTIVE memory.

read more from S. Brian Willson:
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/sbrianwillson

And lots more good stuff:
of, by and for the people.

http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2016/February

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want
and the courage to take.” Emma Goldman

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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule… GEORGE ELIOT

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The October 2015 Portland Alliance

Vol. XXXIV, Number 10 October  2015
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2015/October

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PDX Police Updates  ThePortlandAlliance.org/police  ThePortlandAlliance.org/PDXArtMuseum  Jobs!  http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/jobs

Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981

This issue includes critical information about  what happened at Oaks Park on Labor Day, Doctors Without Borders, A Peace Rally coming up, Homeless Action Day, commentary on the Twin Towers, Keaton Otis Vigil and much more...

https://thewordsmithcollection.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/the-portland-alliance-august-2015-speaking-truth-to-power/

August Portland Alliance:
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2015/August— at St John’s Bridge….Cathedral Park.

by Bette Lee                                                        pictures by Bette Lee
What an awe-inspiring, daring and utterly breath-taking direct action by Greenpeace activists at the St. John’s bridge in Portland, OR. 13 courageous and determined GP activists rappelled from the bridge, and were suspended for over 40 hours in their attempt to stop or delay the Fennica, an ice-breaker owned by Shell Corp., bound for the Artic to be used for oil-drilling. They were supported by the “kayaktivists” who bravely tried to block the Fennica from sailing past the bridge, but were overwhelmed by the coast guard in their motorboats. We will always remember the beautiful image of this remarkable direct action of these activists hanging from the bridge, with their colored flags flying in the wind.
see more:  Bette Lee Portal  http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/bettelee

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Stop Drilling in the Arctic! Obama betrayed us Again…

Why do people support Obama when he supports drilling in the Arctic, offshore drilling, murdering prisoners, 27 unnecessary wars of choice, the suspension of habeas corpus, sending illegal drones knowing each kills an average of fifty innocent people.
If you want this irresponsible drilling stopped, contact the most powerful man on the planet… as if if would do you any good.
https://thepeaceresource.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/stop-drilling-in-the-arctic-obama-betrayed-us-again/

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Revolution and Liberation… ~OO~

At home, American police bureaus, militarized and armed with machine-guns, have been provided a license to kill at will and our president claims a “right” to kill anyone, anywhere, any time, for any reason or without providing any reason at all. This amoral and extralegal extortion has been extended abroad in more than 25 corporate wars of choice. And what is most terrifying is that the American people have surrendered to this betrayal and treason.  With innocents executed at home and abroad, we are under attack and must stand up and fight back.
The revolution has begun.  ~OO~       http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/afewwords
     Take Action!  We are the change we seek!
more info:  www.theportlandalliance.org/activecommunity

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Black Lives Matter Portland 

 There was an African funeral at the Mississippi Street Fair  (aka the White Celebration  of Black Displacement)
for our siblings, Kendra James and Keaton Otis, lost to racist police murder.
We love and remember them.    find out more and get connected! http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/blacklivesmatter

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                                            Much More in the August 2015 Portland Alliance:

click here: http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2015/August
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Community Calendar: http://www.theportlandaliance.org/communitycalendar 

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Shannon Wheeler of Too Much Coffee Man fame!
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/tmcm

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The Wordsmith Collection: Writing & Creative Arts

writingresource.blogspot.com/p/please-donate-to-keep-these-resources.html