tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17620610699311931932024-03-05T03:07:32.416-07:00Portland Alliance News!Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981PDXAlliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348283679599812665noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762061069931193193.post-42460927283892679122018-03-21T10:50:00.001-06:002018-03-21T10:50:37.463-06:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://youtu.be/6kkyWyPai0U?list=RDGMEM3vRVvLY6rn_98uxOr5tY5A">https://youtu.be/6kkyWyPai0U?list=RDGMEM3vRVvLY6rn_98uxOr5tY5A</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 26px; text-align: center;"><strong>Vol. XXXVIII, Number 1 March 21st, 2018 <br /><span style="color: green;">Native American </span><span style="color: red;">Revolution</span><span style="color: green;"> has begun</span><span style="color: green;"> </span></strong></span><br style="text-align: center;" /><span style="font-size: 28px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><em><strong><a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/2018/March" target="_blank">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2018/<span style="color: red;">March</span></a></strong></em></span></span><br style="text-align: center;" /><span class="style2" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://theportlandalliance.org/images/AllianceBeacon.jpg" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 2px; height: 120px; margin: 2px; width: 133px;" /><img alt="" dir="ltr" longdesc="http://theportlandalliance.org/2018/HHH" src="http://theportlandalliance.org/graphics/header.gif" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 2px; height: 120px; margin: 2px; width: 430px;" title="" /></span><img alt="" src="http://theportlandalliance.org/2018/March/standing%20rock.jpg" style="height: 120px; text-align: center; width: 101px;" /><strong style="color: #454242; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://theportlandalliance.org/April%2015.png" style="height: 543px; width: 420px;" /> </strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong><em><big>Anti-War Spring Action 2018</big></em>: Takin' it to the Streets!</strong></span><br />Shut down unprovoked American aggression<br />Invest in peace, people and planet Earth,<br /><a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/AntiWarSpring2018" target="_blank">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/AntiWarSpring2018</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Alliance Truthout Portal</span></strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span>Spring 2018<br /><a href="http://theportlandalliance.org/truthout/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.theportlandalliance.org/truthout</a></span></span><br /><br /><strong>Atlantic Coast Pipeline Faces Native American Resistance</strong><br /><br />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.</div>
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Red Cloud’s Revolution: Oglalla Sioux freeing themselves from fossil fuel</h1>
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by <a href="https://intercontinentalcry.org/author/saul-elbein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Saul Elbein">Saul Elbein</a>, <em>Mongabay</em>February 26, 2018</div>
<em>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.</em><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18px;">NoMadd The City of Empty <img alt="The City of Empty Towers Cover Art" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" src="https://www.nomadd.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nomadd_cityofemptytowers_cover_730-680x1024.jpg" srcset="https://www.nomadd.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nomadd_cityofemptytowers_cover_730-680x1024.jpg 680w, https://www.nomadd.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nomadd_cityofemptytowers_cover_730-199x300.jpg 199w, https://www.nomadd.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nomadd_cityofemptytowers_cover_730-232x350.jpg 232w, https://www.nomadd.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nomadd_cityofemptytowers_cover_730-480x723.jpg 480w, https://www.nomadd.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nomadd_cityofemptytowers_cover_730-670x1010.jpg 670w, https://www.nomadd.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/nomadd_cityofemptytowers_cover_730.jpg 730w" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 3px; float: right; height: 301px; margin: 3px; width: 200px;" />Towers<br /><strong><a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/Nomadd" target="_blank">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/Nomad</a></strong><a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/Nomadd" target="_blank"><strong>d</strong></a></span></h1>
</header><br />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.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
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PDXAlliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348283679599812665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762061069931193193.post-32844978630806755792018-03-21T06:13:00.002-06:002018-03-21T11:42:21.796-06:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black;"><b><i><big>Anti-War Spring Action 2018</big></i>: Takin' it to the Streets!</b></span><br />
Shut down unprovoked American aggression<br />
Invest in peace, people and planet Earth,<br />
<a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/AntiWarSpring2018" target="_blank">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/AntiWarSpring2018</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Alliance Truthout Portal</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span>Spring 2018<br />
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<b>Atlantic Coast Pipeline Faces Native American Resistance</b><br />
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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.</div>
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Red Cloud’s Revolution: Oglalla Sioux freeing themselves from fossil fuel</h1>
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by <a href="https://intercontinentalcry.org/author/saul-elbein/" rel="author" title="Posts by Saul Elbein">Saul Elbein</a>, <i>Mongabay</i>February 26, 2018</div>
<i>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.</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/nativeamericanportal" target="_blank">http://www.theportlandalliance.org/nativeamericanportal</a> </span></b></div>
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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.<br />
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PDXAlliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348283679599812665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762061069931193193.post-13151757013911794522018-03-08T16:01:00.003-07:002018-03-08T16:01:23.236-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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“<strong>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…</strong><br />
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…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.”<br /><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><br /><br />“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.”</span><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue;">“<strong>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</strong>
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 <strong>within the souls</strong> of men.”</span></em><br />
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Bernie Sanders from the left can be a lonely project. There is a
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"hope" bubble can produce a fierce backlash. The Sanders "hope"
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<span style="font-size: 20px;">ednesday, <em>The Portland Mercury</em> reported that Bullseye Glass, located at 3722 SE 21st St, has been emitting "a monthly a</span>
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PDXAlliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348283679599812665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762061069931193193.post-80919587675905711682016-02-12T20:59:00.001-07:002016-02-13T14:04:57.786-07:00February 2016 Portland Alliance Monthly Newspaper... <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/peace-justice.jpg?w=132&h=179" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="peace-justice" border="0" class=" wp-image-270 alignright" height="179" src="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/peace-justice.jpg?w=132&h=179" width="132" /></a><a href="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/bernie8.jpeg?w=147&h=111" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="bernie8" border="0" class=" wp-image-3990 alignleft" src="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/bernie8.jpeg?w=147&h=111" /></a>"Critiquing
Bernie Sanders from <br />the left can be a lonely project. <br />There is a
“hope”-powered hysteria surrounding his campaign, and <br />bursting the
“hope” bubble can produce a fierce backlash. <br /><br />The Sanders “hope”
explosion is so fierce because capitalism has become a hopeless place." ~Cooke</div>
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by Shamus Cooke<br /></div>
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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.</div>
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<a href="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/wareconomy.jpg?w=305&h=64" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="wareconomy" border="0" class=" wp-image-2327 alignright" height="64" src="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/wareconomy.jpg?w=305&h=64" width="305" /></a><br />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 <br />needed to cure the
Obama-fortified hopelessness.<br /></div>
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<a href="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/aoeihtao.jpeg?w=169&h=170" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="aoeihtao" border="0" class=" wp-image-3989 alignleft" height="170" src="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/aoeihtao.jpeg?w=169&h=170" width="169" /></a><br />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…</div>
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<strong>The Dynamic Influence of Past Patterns <br />on the Present</strong></h2>
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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.</div>
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<a href="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/hqdefault.jpg?w=154&h=115" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="hqdefault" border="0" class=" wp-image-4089 alignleft" height="115" src="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/hqdefault.jpg?w=154&h=115" width="154" /></a>“The past never leaves us and the future is already here”. [Lewis Mumford].<br /></div>
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“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].<br /></div>
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“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’…. <a href="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/george.jpeg?w=118&h=176" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="george" border="0" class=" wp-image-3549 alignright" height="176" src="https://thewordsmithcollection.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/george.jpeg?w=118&h=176" width="118" /></a>What sets the west apart is its persistence to stop at nothing”. [Hans Koning].<br /></div>
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“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. [George Santayana].<br /></div>
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“Those who control the present,<br />
control the past and those who<br />
control the past control the future”. [George Orwell].
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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 <br />COLLECTIVE memory.</div>
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<strong>August Portland Alliance: <a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/2015/August" target="_blank"><br />http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2015/August</a></strong><img alt="" height="518" src="https://i2.wp.com/theportlandalliance.org/2015/August/bettelee2.jpg" width="774" />— at St John’s Bridge….Cathedral Park.</div>
by Bette Lee <strong>pictures by Bette Lee</strong><br />
What an awe-inspiring, daring and utterly breath-taking <strong>direct action by Greenpeace activists at the St. John’s bridge in Portland, OR.</strong>
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.<br />
see more: <strong><em><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bette Lee Portal</span></span></em></strong> <a href="http://theportlandalliance.org/bettelee/index.html" target="_blank" title="">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/bettelee</a><br />
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<strong>Stop Drilling in the Arctic! Obama betrayed us Again…</strong><br />
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<span class="UFICommentBody"><strong>Why do people support Obama</strong>
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.</span><br />
If you want this irresponsible drilling stopped, contact the most powerful man on the planet…<strong><em> as if if would do you any good.</em></strong><br />
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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.<br />
<strong>The revolution has begun. ~OO~ </strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://theportlandalliance.org/2015/index.html" target="_blank" title="">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/afewwords</a></span></span><br />
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<figcaption> <strong><span style="font-size: 10px;"><span class="caption">The Matthews-Murkland Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, N.C. was burned down in an act of arson in June of 1996.</span> <span class="credit">Chuck Burton / AP</span></span></strong> </figcaption></figure>
<section id="article-section-1"><span>“<strong>What's the church doing on fire?</strong>” </span>
<span>Jeanette Dudley, the associate pastor of God's Power Church of
Christ in Macon, Georgia, got a call a little after 5 a.m. on Wednesday,
she <a href="http://www.13wmaz.com/story/news/local/macon/2015/06/23/church-fire-macon/29147277/">told</a>
a local TV news station. Her tiny church of about a dozen members had
been burned, probably beyond repair. The Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms,
and Tobacco got called in, which has been the standard procedure for
church fires <a href="https://www.atf.gov/content/about/our-history/blast-from-the-past/historic-articles/arson-the-business-of-ATF">since</a>
the late 1960s. Investigators say they’ve ruled out possible causes
like an electrical malfunction; most likely, this was arson.</span><br />
The very same night, many miles away in North Carolina, another church burned: <span>Briar Creek Road Baptist Church, which was set on fire some time around 1 a.m. Investigators have ruled it an act of arson, the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/24/fire-church-north-carolina-arson_n_7658300.html?ir=Religion&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000051">AP reports</a>; according to <em><a href="http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article25408597.html">The Charlotte Observer</a>, </em>they haven’t yet determined whether it might be a hate crime. </span><br />
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<span>Two other predominantly black churches have been the target of
possible arson this week: Glover Grove Missionary Baptist Church in
Warrenville, South Carolina, which <a href="http://www.aikenstandard.com/article/20150626/AIK0101/150629564/1002/AIK01/fire-under-investigation-at-predominantly-black-church-in-warrenville">caught fire</a> on Friday, and College Hill Seventh Day Adventist, which burned on Monday in Knoxville, Tennessee. Investigators in Knoxville <a href="http://wate.com/2015/06/22/arson-under-investigation-at-african-american-church-in-knoxville/">told a local news station</a>
they believed it was an act of vandalism, although they aren’t
investigating the incident as a hate crime. (There have also been at
least three other cases of fires at churches this week. At <a href="http://www.wbbjtv.com/news/local/Bomb--Arson-ATF-investigate-Gibson-Co-church-fire-309607781.html">Fruitland Presbyterian Church</a> in Gibson County, Tennessee, and the <a href="http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2015/06/26/fallen-limb-exposed-wires-cause-of-friday-church-fire/29324109/">Greater Miracle Temple Apostolic Holiness Church</a>
in Tallahassee, Florida. Officials suspect the blazes were caused by
lightning and electrical wires, respectively, but investigations are
still ongoing. A church that is not predominantly black—College Heights
Baptist Church in Elyria, Ohio—was burned on Saturday morning. The fire <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/06/elyria_church_sanctuary_lost_i.html">appears</a> to have been started in the sanctuary, and WKYC <a href="http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/lorain-county/2015/06/27/crews-respond-to-church-fire-in-elyria/29386131/">reports</a>
that the cause is still under investigation. The town’s fire and police
departments did not immediately return calls for confirmation on
Sunday.<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/06/arson-churches-north-carolina-georgia/396881/#church">*</a>)</span><br />
These fires join the murder of nine people at Charleston’s Emanuel
African Methodist Episcopal Church as major acts of violence perpetrated
against predominantly black churches in the last fortnight. Churches
are burning again in the United States, and the symbolism of that is
powerful. Even though <a href="http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/church-burners">many instances</a> of arson have happened at white churches, the crime is often association with racial violence: a highly visible attack on <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/charleston-shooting-emanuel-african-methodist-episcopal/396260/">a core institution</a> of the black community, often done at night, and often motivated by hate.<br />
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Sankofa, Survival, and Science Fiction:<br />
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A Graduation Speech</h1>
<em>This keynote speech was delivered at the<br />
Portland State University Multicultural Graduation,<br />
June 12, 2015 in Portland, Oregon. </em><br />
It is such a privilege to be at this year’s Portland State University
Multicultural Graduation — I look forward to this graduation every day,
to celebrate the amazing accomplishments of our students of color. I am
so honored to be the keynote speaker, and to have been chosen by the
student leaders to do so. Yall know the Cultural Resource Center student
leaders are phenomenal, so this is definitely an honor!<br />
This is such an incredibly important time for each of us here —
students obviously, but also parents, friends, family, faculty, and
staff. It makes me so happy to see so many brilliant students I’ve had
the opportunity to get to know graduating here today. This is a time to
celebrate the immense amount of work and sacrifice and dedication that
got each of you graduating here.<br />
As a former Portland State student and graduate, I have literally sat
where at least one of you is sitting right now. I’ve known the
unbounded joy of having made it through, of getting not only the tassel
but the cloth stole with the Adinkra symbols on them.<br />
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rest of Walidah's speech... <em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/walidah">ThePortlandAlliance.org/walidah</a></span></strong></em><br />
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The Perils of the Politics of Symbolism</h1>
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<strong>by BAR executive editor Glen Ford</strong></h3>
The Charleston church massacre has occasioned a revival of symbolic
and “reconciliation” politics by old school Black preachers. “They
forgive, they call for reconciliation, and they make symbolic demands
whose acceptance or rejection will not seriously alter the balance of
power.” The Black political class would much rather fight the
Confederate flag than confront the police.<br />
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<strong>The Perils of the Politics of Symbolism</strong></h3>
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<strong>by BAR executive editor Glen Ford</strong></h3>
<strong><em>“The misleaders are counting on presidential election year fervor to drown out the new movement.”</em></strong><br />
The Confederate flag is in ignominious retreat, shunned by GOP
presidential hopefuls and officeholders and banned from the shelves and
catalogues of Wal-Mart, Sears and eBay. In hot pursuit, vowing to
exorcize the demons of old Dixie, is a suddenly aroused array of Black
preachers and politicians that have found new relevance in wake of the
Charleston church massacre.<br />
<img alt="Photo of the woman who scaled the SC flagpole and pulled down the Confederate flag." src="http://theportlandalliance.org/images/flag.jpg" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 3px; float: left; height: 300px; margin: 3px; width: 300px;" />The
slaughter of nine innocents by a white youth intent on fomenting race
war has, at least temporarily, energized and elevated the politics of
symbolism, by which great victories can be claimed without putting a
dent in real structures of power<strong>.</strong> Dylann Roof’s rampage
also reminds Black folks that the Republicans began replacing the
Democrats as the White Man’s Party half a century ago, and have since
provided a haven for all manner of white supremacists and their
paraphernalia. Hillary Clinton, who has participated in the murder of
many millions of Black, brown and yellow people but, like most of her
ilk, has the good sense to avoid association with swastikas and
Confederate insignia, will profit from the carnage at Emanuel A.M.E. The
“Confederate” presence in the GOP makes the Democrats the “Black”
party, by default, eliminating the need for Democrats to actually <strong><span style="font-size: 10px;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Photo of the woman who scaled the SC flagpole<br />
and pulled down the Confederate flag.</span></span></span></strong><br />
do anything of substance for Black people. The infinitely evil Ms.
Clinton (“We came, we saw, he died”), who shares responsibility for the
genocide of six million Congolese, becomes a “lesser” evil.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: red;"> more info: </span><a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/BAR" target="_blank">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/BAR</a></span></h1>
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<span class="fwb fcg" data-ft="{"tn":";"}"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><strong><img alt="" src="http://theportlandalliance.org/tomengelhardt3.jpeg" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 3px; float: left; height: 168px; margin: 3px; width: 300px;" />America's war on black girls:</strong></span> </span><br />
"But Black girls are never deemed feminine enough for their sexual
and adolescent vulnerability to register for white people. They are
frequently viewed as aggressors by both police and regular citizens
alike, even for doing very adolescent things like mouthing off to those
in authority. This is the reason why education scholars suggest that
Black girls are suspended from school six times as often as white girls,
because even simp<span style="font-size: 16px;">le adolescent forms of testing boundaries are perceived as far more aggressive based on race."<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">get the whole story: </span><span style="color: #0033cc;"><strong><em>The Portland Alliance Tom Engelhardt Portal</em></strong></span></span>: <a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/engelhardt" target="_blank">http://www.theportlandalliance.org/engelhardt</a><br />
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us, for the 100-Day Countdown to the UN International Day of Peace,
featuring messages from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Dr. Jane
Goodall, and others, including a performance on the amazing World Peace
Violin by Scarlet Rivera. </span></span> </span></div>
<span style="color: #000090;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> * The Heart of Democracy Summit (August 18 - 20)<br />
* The Subtle Activism Summit (September 8 - 10)<br />
* 11 Days of Global Unity Summit (September 11 - 21)</span></span></span><br /><br />rest of story: <span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="http://theportlandalliance.org/index.html" target="_blank" title="null">ThePortlandAlliance.org/oregonpeaceandjustice</a></strong></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><b>Greece and The Collateral Damage of Austerity</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">By Robert C. Koehler</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">“Officials in France and in Brussels said<span> </span><span>on Monday</span><span> </span>that
they were unhappy and dumbfounded with the no vote, but let it be known
that they would hold the door open to the possibility of a compromise
between Greece and its creditors.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dumbfounded? Why? Because the godlike power of the creditors was insulted?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mainstream coverage of economic matters — the above quote is from the <span><span style="color: #1155cc;">New York Times</span></span> —
seldom cuts very deep into the world of money, seldom questions who’s
in charge, and seldom dares to suggest that an economic system ought to
serve humankind rather than vice versa.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The
austerity packages Greece has endured as its condition of economic
bailout over the past half-decade — dictated by those who wielded
financial power and were determined to profit enormously off of the
suffering of Europe’s economic losers — ...</span></span><br />
get the rest of the story: <span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em><strong>Alliance PeaceVoice Portal</strong></em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and find out about: </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">Absolute Power</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">By Robert C. Koehler</span></div>
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style="float: right; height: 198px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -1px; width: 254px;" />“The
existence of the approximately 14,000 photographs will probably cause
yet another delay in the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
as attorneys for the defendants demand that all the images are turned
over and the government wades through the material to decide what it
thinks is relevant to the proceedings.”</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">This was the </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial;">Washington Post</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">
a few days ago, informing us wearily that the torture thing isn’t dead
yet. The bureaucracy convulses, the wheels of justice grind. So much
moral relativism to evaluate.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">“They
did what they were asked to do in the service of our nation,” CIA
director John Brennan said at a news conference in December, defending
CIA interrogators after a portion of the 6,700-page Senate Intelligence
Committee report was made public.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">Serving the nation means no more than doing what you’re told. Really?</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">God
bless America. Flags wave, fireworks burst on the horizon. Aren’t we
terrific? But this idea we celebrate — this nation, this principled
union of humanity — is now just a military bureaucracy, full of dark
secrets. The darkest, most highly classified secret of all is that we’re
always at war and we always will be. And war is an end in itself. It
has no purpose beyond its own perpetuation.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">This is the context of torture.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">At
least this is what occurred to me as I reflected on the most recent
non-news, that the existence of many thousands of photographs of U.S.
black site operations are out there somewhere, classified but known and
pulsing. What more can we learn that we don’t already know?</span></div>
get the rest of the story: <span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><em><strong>Alliance PeaceVoice Portal</strong></em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333399;"><i><b>ORFTC Fair Trade Monitor</b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i>Monthly fair trade update from the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i>June 2015:<br />
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"</i></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><i><span style="font-size: 16px;">The
clock is ticking on the TPP. There may not be enough time left in
Obama's presidency to introduce the trade deal, and it has little to no
chance of moving forward during the 2016 Presidential election. We have
built tremendous momentum in this fight, and if we keep it up, victory
is within reach." </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>Check it out! </strong></span></i></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/whats-wrong-tpp"><img alt="" class="alignleft" height="137" src="https://www.eff.org/files/issues/what_is_tpp.jpg" style="float: right;" width="283" /></a><strong>What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)?</strong></div>
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a
secretive, multinational trade agreement that threatens to extend
restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite
international rules on its enforcement. The main problems are two-fold:</div>
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(1) <strong>Intellectual Property Chapter:</strong>
Leaked draft texts of the agreement show that the IP chapter would have
extensive negative ramifications for users’ freedom of speech, right to
privacy and due process, and hinder peoples’ abilities to innovate.</div>
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(2) <strong>Lack of Transparency:</strong> The entire process has shut out multi-stakeholder participation and is shrouded in secrecy.</div>
get the skinny: <a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/tpp" target="_blank"><em><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/tpp</span></strong></em></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 20px;"><span style="color: red;"><em>Checkout the newest information on challenging the TPP!</em></span></span><br />
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<strong>Todd Boyle brings us Chris Hedges talking about revolution...<br />
<span style="color: mediumblue;">more from Todd Boyle below</span>... </strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE www.drugpolicy.org</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> Contact: Tony Newman 646-335-5384</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">June 29, 2015 Tamar Todd 510-593-4908</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">July 1: Possession and Home Cultivation of Marijuana Becomes Legal in Oregon for Adults </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Oregon Joins Washington, Alaska, Colorado, and Washington, D.C. in Ending Marijuana Prohibition</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Oregon to End Wasteful and Racially Disproportionate Marijuana Possession Arrests; State Expects Significant Fiscal Benefits</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> Beginning July 1<sup>st</sup>,
adults 21 and older will be able to legally possess up to 8 ounces of
marijuana in their home and up to 1 ounce of marijuana outside their
home. Adults may also grow up to four plants as long as they are out of
public view. The regulatory structure allowing for commercial retail
sales is still in the works and will not be implemented until next year.</span></span> ...<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><var><strong><small>get the rest of the story:</small></strong></var></span><span style="color: red;"> No Fear, No Compromise, & No Surrender!<br />
at the </span><strong>Marijuana Reform Portal: <span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/marijuana">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/marijuana</a></span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>One Year Ago...</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 28px;"><a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/CLG" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window"><strong title="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/israeli-warplanes-pound-gaza-strip/story-e6frg6so-1226982452456
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CTRL + Click to follow link">Israeli warplanes pound Gaza strip</span></strong></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: red;"><strong><span style="font-size: 24px;">09 Jul 2014</span></strong></span> Israeli warplanes have pounded targets in the Gaza strip ... leaving 28 people dead and more than 100 wounded. <span style="font-size: x-small;">... </span>The
deaths brought to 28 the number of fatalities since the launch of
Israel's Operation Protective Edge early on Tuesday, with the Jewish
state not ruling out a ground operation to stop the rocket attacks.</span></span> <span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>(<span style="color: mediumblue;">Editors' Note... This military assault on civilian<br />
targets in Gaza is a form of collective punishment. </span><em><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span>tmf</em></strong></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.thepeaceresource.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/endgazawarcrimes/">thepeaceresource.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/endgazawarcrimes/</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 22px;">Glen Anderson: <span style="color: red;"><br />Military "Solutions" Are Really the PROBLEM-</span></span></div>
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a workshop given at Fellowship of Reconciliation of Oregon and Washington's annual conference <br />at Seabeck, July 4th 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".v.$mid=11405291563066=2c095b96a812ce47a85.2:0.0.0.0.0">See the whole video at a portal for <span class="null"><strong>Videographer...</strong> <em><strong><span style="color: darkgreen;">Todd Boyle</span></strong></em></span></span><br />
<strong><span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".v.$mid=11405291563066=2c095b96a812ce47a85.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span class="null"><a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/toddboyle"><span style="color: mediumblue;">ThePortlandAlliance.org/toddboyle</span></a></span></span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 28px;"><strong><br /><br />No Strikes. No Troops.<br />
<span style="color: red;">No War in Iraq</span>.</strong></span><br />
<a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/commondreams" target="_blank">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/commondreams</a></div>
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<br /><br /><br />Congress, the president and the supremes have surrendered:<br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>the rule of law is gone in America and the Fortune 500 are in the driver's seat.</strong></span></span><br />
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There were 28 of them in house and 12 in the Senate and the story of how
Obama worked with the worst of the Repubs to get his gift to the
corporations rammed through a reluctant congress is only now being
exposed. What will labor and the liberals do when these 40 come up for
re-election?-MM<strong><span style="color: red;"> <br />Munk's Musings: </span><br />
<a href="http://theportlandalliance.org/Munk" target="_blank" title=""><span style="color: mediumblue;">http://www.theportlandalliance.org/Munk</span></a></strong><br />
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The Truth About Diego Garcia:<br />
50 Years of Fiction About an American Military Base</h1>
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<span style="color: #0066cc;">Tom Dispatch, June 15, 2015 </span><span style="color: #0066cc;"><img alt="" height="207" src="http://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_large/public/views-article/diego_garcia.jpg?itok=gFbw1a1H" style="float: right;" width="400" /></span>
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<em>The U.S. military facility on the island of Diego Garcia in the
Indian Ocean represents a horrific example of the human costs of war and
imperialism.</em><br />
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"... the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson
convinced the British government to detach the Chagos Archipelago from
colonial Mauritius and create a new colony, which they called the
British Indian Ocean Territory. Its sole purpose would be to house U.S.
military facilities."<br />
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Read it all at: <span style="color: red;">Munk's Musings: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="http://theportlandalliance.org/Munk" target="_blank" title=""><span style="color: mediumblue;">http://www.theportlandalliance.org/Munk</span></a></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Portland Alliance Iraq Portal </strong><br />
<a href="http://theportlandalliance.org/iraq" target="_blank" title="">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/iraq</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 28px;"><strong>We are mistaken about Iraq</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 28px;">by Bert Sacks</span></div>
<span style="font-size: 16px;">“Those Iraqis have</span> <span style="font-size: 16px;">been fighting each other for centuries,” a friend<br />
recently said to me. I have heard this mistaken view too often.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px;">I told him I had been to Iraq nine times, all before the 2003 U.S.<br />
invasion of Iraq. Not a single Iraqi ever said to me, “You need to<br />
know I'm Shiite” or “I should tell you I'm Sunni.” Not doctors, not<br />
taxi drivers, not hotel staff, not families we visited. Baghdad had<br />
many mixed marriages of Shiite and Sunni, as well as mixed neighborhoods. An Iraqi-American friend confirmed that often<br />
people didn't know the religious sect of their neighbor<br />
– or if they did, they didn't care.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Peace prevailed in the neighborhoods. What happened?</span><br />
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<strong>Date/Time</strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 6:00 PM</span></strong></div>
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NE 6th and Halsey<br />
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Portland, Oregon more info: <span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="background-color: white; color: #565555; font-family: 'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Arial,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><em><span style="color: blue;">at Keaton Otis Portal</span></em></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/keatonotis" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><em><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/keatonotis</span></em></span></span></strong></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">P5 + 1 foreign ministers and other ministers attend the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria on 6 July, 2015 (AA) <a href="http://www.middleeasteye.net/users/gareth-porter" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="background: transparent; color: #6778b9; line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Gareth Porter</a></span>
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the US and Iranian negotiators move toward completion of a historic
deal in Vienna, the lifting of sanctions against Iran - which is the
most difficult outstanding issue in the talks - is on its way to being
resolved, Western and Iranian sources close to the nuclear negotiations
told MEE.</span><br />
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Fast Track traitors being uninvited from the Labor Day picnic (which they have been at every year) is a great first step.<br />
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The Summer Institute that I am attending is called
“Conflict Transformation across Borders.” Although a University of
Massachusetts Boston graduate course, it is offered in Ecuador, South
America, because much of the classwork is about border issues between
Ecuador and Colombia, including the status of the estimated 200,000
Colombians who have fled their country’s long-standing civil war in
search of refuge in Ecuador. It seems that the world is witnessing a
crisis in terms of borders.</div>
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border to keep Mexican people from coming into the country. Israel has
almost completed a 26-foot high concrete wall to keep Palestinians out,
although the wall violates the border recognized by the UN. Fleeing
migrants in the Mediterranean and the Bay of Bengal have also captured
the attention of the world. Africans from many countries, Syrians,
Bangladeshis, and Rohingyas from Myanmar are escaping persecution and
human rights abuses in their home countries.</div>
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least 1,800 people in flight have already drowned in 2015. Many of these
boats are not even allowed to reach shore because if they do, the
United Nations 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees and 1967
Protocol will apply. These documents clarify the receiving countries’
responsibility to protect those who are threatened by persecution and
need refuge. Some countries use their borders to keep citizens in while
others use their borders to keep people out.</div>
Human beings live in a world largely defined by boundaries.
Geographic borders determine where people live, to what nationality they
belong, and what human rights they are able to realize. Despite
daunting circumstances, many people choose (or are forced) to leave
their homes in hopes of being accepted in another place. However, at
times the most significant borders people must negotiate are not
physical at all. All of us face boundaries within our own countries,
whether they are of race, gender, economic status, faith tradition,
ethnicity, status of citizenship, sexual orientation, age, or ability.<br />
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<strong><em><span class="author">by<a href="http://m.thenation.com/authors/dahr-jamail"> Dahr Jamail</a> </span></em></strong>on May 21, 2015 – 10:54AM ET</h3>
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<em>[This essay is a joint <strong><a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/" target="_blank">TomDispatch</a>/<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/" target="_blank">Truthout</a></strong><strong> report</strong>.]</em></h3>
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PDXAlliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348283679599812665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762061069931193193.post-36690446374419438662015-06-03T13:56:00.001-06:002015-06-03T13:56:17.908-06:00The Portland Alliance Vol. XXXV, Number 6 June 2015 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<strong>The Portland Alliance Vol. XXXV, Number 6 June 2015 </strong><span style="color: red;"><em><strong><a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/2015/June" target="_blank">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2015/June</a></strong></em></span><br />
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<strong><span>Republicans work for the Fortune 500 and brag about it. </span><span>Democrats work for the Fortune 500 and lie about it.</span></strong><br />
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The “Justice for All” annual dinner/fundraiser for JOBS WITH JUSTICE was
a great success and fully attended by several hundred people.<br />
Greg Margolis (at left) a Portland activist with deep roots in this
and other organizations, was fondly remembered for his too brief life of
66 years.<br />
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Activists associated with partner organizations<br />
were also honored — with the collective positive<br />
energy of the gathering serving to boost my spirit<br />
and encourage many others who are seeking to<br />
make this world a better place.<br />
by Michael Sonnleitner<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"> </a> <strong>who took the picture above </strong><br />
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<strong>“What happens to a dream deferred?”</strong><br />
<strong>asked the poet Langston Hughes over<br />
sixty years ago in a poem simply entitled: “Harlem.”</strong><br />
<strong>More than a half century later the dream is still deferred</strong>,
the site is Baltimore and the prophetic voice of the poet still asks
what happens when another generation of dreams becomes deferred, “does
it sag like a heavy load” or “does it explode?” These are extreme times
during which the growing disparity in terms of wealth and opportunity
adds fuel to the fires of despair every day.<br /><br />
Laws and rules may tell us <em>how</em> to live; but a person must have a <em>why</em> to live. In the soul of America, the <em>why</em> to live has best been imagined as a <em>dream</em>.
Not the simple “American dream” of blind materialism; but the wild
complexity of dreams trying to live through the great diversity of souls
that makes up the America that has not been yet.<br />
<br />Read all:<br />
<strong>at the Mosaic Multicultural Foundation Portland Alliance Portal!</strong><br />
<strong><a href="http://theportlandalliance.org/2015/index.html">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/mosaic</a></strong><br />
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June Vigil for Keaton Otis</h2>
<strong>Date/Time</strong><br />
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 6:00 PM<br />
<strong>Location</strong><br />
NE 6th and Halsey<br />
Portland, Oregon<br />
<strong>Event Information:</strong><br />
Keaton Otis was a young Black man murdered by the Portland police
three years ago. The police admitted they stopped him for “looking like a
gangster.” His father, Fred Bryant, has held a monthly vigil every
month on the 12 since his son’s murder in his struggle for justice for
three years, on the spot where Keaton’s life was taken.<br />
Please join that struggle this month and help to spread the word.<br />
– See more at: <a href="http://portlandsocialists.org/?event=june-vigil-for-keaton-otis#sthash.uInUw3Wc.dpuf" rel="nofollow">http://portlandsocialists.org/?event=june-vigil-for-keaton-otis#sthash.uInUw3Wc.dpuf</a><br />
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<strong>A Portal to PortlandSolidarity.org:</strong><br />
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United organizations against violence<br />
<strong>We come to mark it on our calendar every year.</strong><br />
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It comes as the annual chance to bring issues together,<br />
meet and greet and have an action that is often more about<br />
getting re-energized than about getting something done.<br />
</strong><strong>This has gotten many May Day actions locally
criticized for taking a huge amount of time, energy, and money, yet not
resulting in movements that are any stronger. However, the last two
years have really started to buck this trend, with last year really
drawing issues of immigration together with the high profile fight
between the ILWU and United Grain. This year Portland joined with cities
around the country in identifying an overarching theme that effectively
dominated the messaging: Black Lives Matter.</strong><br />
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<strong style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br />A Portland Policeman’s Memoir<img alt="" class=" alignright" height="114" src="https://i1.wp.com/theportlandalliance.org/images/don.jpg" width="172" /></strong><br /><strong style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">
“Behind the Badge in River City” by Don Dupay.</strong><br /><strong style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">
Depicting the aura of the Police department</strong><br /><strong style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">
from the early 60’s to the late 70’…</strong><br />
<strong>Checkout this interview</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/dupay"><br /><br /><br />http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/dupay</a><br />
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<strong>And there is much, much more at: </strong><span style="color: red;"><em><strong><a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/2015/June" target="_blank">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2015/June</a></strong></em></span><br />
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PDXAlliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348283679599812665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762061069931193193.post-80217051659470746472015-05-26T15:54:00.000-06:002015-05-26T15:54:49.360-06:00Police Body Cameras: A Tool for or against the People<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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legislators to put video evidence from body-worn cameras SOLELY in the
hands of police. Were this a police accountability tool, you’d expect
broad access to the evidence. Broadcasters and the press are the only
voices in opposition. Please consider this information and contact your
representatives, senators and community leaders.<br />
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PDXAlliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348283679599812665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762061069931193193.post-85667839916050977742015-04-30T21:18:00.000-06:002015-04-30T21:18:11.343-06:00Come out to Celebrate May Day! International Workers' Day. Human Rights are Civil Rights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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PDXAlliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348283679599812665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762061069931193193.post-23003372646456315442014-11-04T00:26:00.000-07:002014-11-04T00:33:37.868-07:00The November Portland Alliance! Revolutionary Reisistance.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The same attackers damaged or destroyed both the autonomous Mayan school and the local health clinic at the Zapatista caracol of La Realidad. We are hosting a solidarity event and fundraiser to support the Zapatista community and to help rebuild the Zapatista Escuelita.</div>
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Chiapas and will be sharing stories of their time at the Zapatista Escuelita.<br />
We will be working on a community solidarity mural.<br />
Special musical guests will be “Son Clandestino.”<br />
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For questions or comments about this event please contact<br />
Danica Love Brown at<a href="mailto:dlb4@pdx.edu" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #265e15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dlb4@pdx.edu</a>.<br />
This event is sponsored by Students for Unity at PSU and the Portland Anarchist Black Cross.<br />
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PORTLAND, Ore. – Occupy Portland is back.
The group is setting up camp again across from the Justice Center and promising to fill Chapman Park. People are gathering at the Justice Center to protest repression, war, injustice, poverty, joblessness, homelessness and inequity. They also stand in support of basic civil rights and against police brutality.
This reoccupation is part of a Worldwide Wave of Action that started Friday with former Occupy sites in 10 cities across the nation.
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How to Fan the Flames
by Alexandra Bradbury and Jane Slaughter
We troublemakers keep hoping for the spark that will set a wildfire of workers in motion. The worse our situation gets—economically, politically, ecologically—the more we yearn for a vast movement to erupt and transform the landscape.
,,, It will take large-scale bravery to reverse the giant mess capitalism has made of everything—massive inequality, our unions sliding to near-extinction, our planet on the verge of eco-catastrophe.
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That’s why, in the long term, a movement with a troublemaking spirit—the kind that inspires people to bravery—is the only kind with a chance to win.
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PDXAlliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348283679599812665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762061069931193193.post-45583883011177123392013-07-14T00:00:00.002-06:002013-07-14T14:24:35.041-06:00No Justice, No Peace: Trayvon is dead and George Zimmerman walks. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-reactid=".r[56bbx].[1][4][1]{comment10151789523589813_29599142}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0].[2]">It's open season on young black men in America. </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".r[56bbx].[1][4][1]{comment10151789523589813_29599142}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0].[4]">Walking while black is illegal. </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".r[56bbx].[1][4][1]{comment10151789523589813_29599142}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0].[6]">No Justice, No Peace. </span><br />
<span data-reactid=".r[56bbx].[1][4][1]{comment10151789523589813_29599142}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0].[8]">Time to March. </span>Sunday, July 14, 2013<br />
4:00pm in PDT<br />
Penninsula Park, N. Ainsworth and Albina<br />
The Portland Campaign to End the New Jim Crow is calling for a RALLY, SPEAKOUT & MARCH<br />
Sunday, July 14, 4pm, Penninsula Park (N. Ainsworth and Albina)<br />
Justice for Trayvon!<br />
End Racist Killings!<br />
No Justice, No Peace!<br />
End the New Jim Crow!<br />
Noon - sign making, phoning lists (bring lists and phones), plan the action!<br />
at Penninsula Park, band shell<br />
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PDXAlliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348283679599812665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762061069931193193.post-80681645345474378192013-06-25T22:15:00.001-06:002013-06-25T22:27:51.336-06:00Petition the Supreme Court to Restore Civil Rights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">In a 5-4 ruling, the justices held that a person no longer has the right to remain silent as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. In relevant part, the Fifth Amendment mandates that no one “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.” </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Our Founding Fathers understood how vital the right against self-incrimination was to the pursuit of justice. This protection from self-incrimination has had long and expansive historical development and is the essential mainstay of our adversary system. </span><br />
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PDXAlliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348283679599812665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762061069931193193.post-88279307252511572312013-06-05T16:39:00.001-06:002013-06-05T17:28:42.958-06:00Northwest Alliance Progressive Directory<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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PDXAlliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348283679599812665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762061069931193193.post-60660562421249205762013-04-14T01:59:00.002-06:002013-04-14T01:59:24.354-06:00We need real reform in Portland, Oregon. Our Police Department is out of control. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0]">A
Multnomah County jury ruled Monday that the city of Portland must pay a
27-year-old man nearly $306,000 after police used a stun gun and pepper
spray on him, punched him and dog-piled on top of him before they
unlawfully arrested him for "criminally trespassing on a downtown
sidewalk." </span><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[1]" /><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[2]" /><span id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[3]">The money represents one of the bigger jury awards in recent excessive force cases against police. </span><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[4]" /><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[5]" /><span id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[6]">Jurors
found that police falsely arrested, battered and maliciously prosecuted
Gallagher Smith after he quarreled with a doorman on Nov. 13, 2010, at
the Aura nightclub on West Burnside Street. </span><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[7]" /><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[8]" /><span id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[9]">(the above from mentalhealthportland.org site)</span><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[10]" /><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[11]" /><span id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[12]">~If
the city council wants to appeal this, they should use their own
personal funds instead of our tax money. The police screwed up, again.
The reason they screwed up again is because the mayor, chief, and
council continue to give them a free pass to break the law. Now that
this policy has cost citizens millions of dollars, perhaps the council
should revisit this issue or they may be subject to the same federal
investigation which has determined that our police department is out of
control.</span><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[13]" /><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[14]" /><span id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[15]">The
murders of Aaron Campbell, Keaton Otis, and James Chasse, Jr. have
never been resolved. None of the officers who broke the law and violated
Police Department Procedures have been charged, tried,or prosecuted for
these crimes. </span><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[16]" /><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[17]" /><span id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[18]">We,
the citizens of Portland, Oregon have paid millions for crimes
committed by PDX police officers, the officers have not been disciplined
or prosecuted. They continue to serve in spite of their illegal,
arrogant, and abusive criminal behavior.</span><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[19]" /><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[20]" /><span id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[21]">The
shootings of James Jahar Perez and Kendra James may have been forgotten
by some, but we have yet to see accountability or justice. This must
change. </span><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[22]" /><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[23]" /><span id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[24]">And
now the council wants to second-guess our judicial system when they
find our out of control Police Bureau at fault in roughing up and
arresting Mr. Smith for no good reason. We have a right to walk down the
sidewalk without being assaulted by the officers we pay to protect us. </span><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[25]" /><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[26]" /><span id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[27]">We
deserve an explanation from our council and some discipline and more
responsible leadership in our Police Bureau. And if not, we need to know
why. </span><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[28]" /><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[29]" /><span id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[30]">in solidarity and with best regards, </span><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[31]" /><span id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[32]">Tim Flanagan</span><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[33]" /><br id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[34]" /><a content="http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/policeaccountability" href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/policeaccountability" id=".reactRoot[342].[1][3][1]{comment596509380359389_596519150358412}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[35]" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/policeaccountability</a></span></div>
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Too often strikes are considered only in terms of mass action. Perhaps
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PDXAlliancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348283679599812665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1762061069931193193.post-60933180528496409482013-03-17T02:41:00.003-06:002013-03-17T02:41:25.720-06:00Rally and March: Save Our Post Office!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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March & Rally! </span><a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-pre-embedded="true" dir="ltr" href="http://t.co/zCcg1MU7nS" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #038543; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">pic.twitter.com/zCcg1MU7nS</a></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> No more Cuts! <br />The US Post Office is not Broke! </span></b><br />
<b>Sun. Mar. 17, 2013 2pm- 3:30pm / Pioneer Courthouse Square:</b><br />
Stop Closures, Delays & Cuts: Restore Jobs & Service! <br /><b>March & Rally!</b> <a href="http://www.theportlandalliance.org/postoffice">http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/postoffice</a><br />
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