Police Body Cameras: A Tool for or against the People

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Police Body Cameras: A Tool for or against the People

Oregon 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.

Find out more at:
www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/consulthardesty

A Portal to Consult Hardesty

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Come out to Celebrate May Day! International Workers' Day. Human Rights are Civil Rights

http://www.theportlandalliance.org/mayday 
Celebrate International Worker's Day with The Portland Alliance
Friday, May 1st

at 1:00pm - 5:30 pm in PDT

South Parks Blocks! Human Rights are Civil Rights! 

Rally at 3:00 PM   /   March from 4:00-5:30 PM

and here is the May Issue of The Portland Alliance!
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2015/May

The November Portland Alliance! Revolutionary Reisistance.

Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN): 
Solidarity Panel, Presentation & Mural Painting

at PSU on Friday!  Smith Memorial Student Union, 
Room  236

ThePortlandAlliance.org/SolidarityMuralPainting

http://thewordsmithcollection.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/ezln-solidarity-panel-and-mural-painting-smith-at-psu-on-friday/

Friday, November 7Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 236Jose Luis Solís López,
a teacher in the Zapatista’s “Little School” (La Escuelita) was targeted and murdered, and at least 15 Zapatistas seriously injured during an ambush on Friday, May 2, 2014.

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.

Please join us Friday, November 7th at 4 pm for a panel discussion, and solidarity mural painting event to support this vital community resource and to support Indigenous resistance movements and to help raise funds to rebuild the Zapatista Escuelita. Our guest panelists are Felipe Ferreira, Tabitha Milian, Chris Rodriguez and Rose Harriot, all have spent time in
Chiapas and will be sharing stories of their time at the Zapatista Escuelita.
We will be working on a community solidarity mural.
Special musical guests will be “Son Clandestino.”

For questions or comments about this event please contact
Danica Love Brown atdlb4@pdx.edu.
This event is sponsored by Students for Unity at PSU and the Portland Anarchist Black Cross.
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More Breaking News in:
The Portland Alliance November Issue!  
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2014/November

Radical, underground, counter-cultural organizing & civic-engagement!

Of, by, and for the People! Follow @ThePDXAlliance Poetry!
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 Resist! Breaking News: PCASC Brunch, Fanning the Flames, $15 minimum wage, Music, Theatre, and more!

ttp://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org  Occupy Portland Is Re-occupying Chapman Park

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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.

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.

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. These ideas, struggles, and more will all be up for discussion at the Labor Notes Conference next weekend in Chicago. A full version of this article appeared in Labor Notes #421, April 2014. - See more at: http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/labornotes How to Fan the Flames A version of this article appeared in Labor Notes #421, April 2014. Don't miss an issue, subscribe today. - See more at: http://labornotes.org/2014/03/how-fan-flames#sthash.6bNk8FAw.dpuf

The October 2013 Portland Alliance: The Halloween Issue!

https://sites.google.com/site/theportlandalliance/what-s-up-with-the-alliance

October 2013 Portland Alliance!

Sunday, October 27, 2013 6:31:43 AM

Freedom, peace, revolution, Justice, journalism, creative art, writng
NW Alliance for Alternative Media, Education & Human Services
October 2013 Portland Alliance!
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2013/October
Of, by and for the 99%

News, Cartoons, Art, Music, Progressive Directory, Jobs & more.
Get Published! We are accepting PDX submissions, letters, articles, photographs, etc. for the November Issue. send submissions to: editor@theportlandalliance.org

Also The Wordsmith Collection (Missoula, MT) is accepting submissions for a Writing and Creative Arts Magazine to publish in the first quarter of 2014. send to: editor@writingresource.org

No Justice, No Peace: Trayvon is dead and George Zimmerman walks.

http://theissueslist.blogspot.com/2013/07/no-justice-no-peace-march-to-remember.html

Zimmerman Walks!

It's open season on young black men in America. 
Walking while black is illegal. 
No Justice, No Peace. 
Time to March. Sunday, July 14, 2013
4:00pm in PDT
Penninsula Park, N. Ainsworth and Albina
The Portland Campaign to End the New Jim Crow is calling for a  RALLY, SPEAKOUT & MARCH
 Sunday, July 14, 4pm, Penninsula Park (N. Ainsworth and Albina)
 Justice for Trayvon!
 End Racist Killings!
 No Justice, No Peace!
 End the New Jim Crow!
 Noon - sign making, phoning lists (bring lists and phones), plan the action!
 at Penninsula Park, band shell
George Zimmerman ignored the dispatcher's instruction to leave Trayvon alone. He then tracked down the 17 year-old kid because he was black. Trayvon was unarmed and just walking home. George accosted the young man and after a scuffle pulled a gun on him. Instead of ending the fight, he decided to shoot the young man, because he knew he could get away with it.

George was not found not guilty of any crime, but a 17 year old kid is dead. He was guilty of walking while black. We are all Trayvon and cannot let this injustice stand. No Justice, No Peace. Time to stand up, March, Speak Out, and Demand Justice. 
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/

Petition the Supreme Court to Restore Civil Rights

http://www.change.org/petitions/reverse-the-us-supreme-court-decision-to-set-aside-the-right-to-remain-silent#

Reverse the US Supreme Court decision
to set aside the right to remain silent

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.” 

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. 

The court has time to correct this error. Please do so to preserve the integrity of US jurisprudence. Our Bill of Rights and the US Constitution hang in the balance.

Sign the petiton! http://www.change.org/petitions/reverse-the-us-supreme-court-decision-to-set-aside-the-right-to-remain-silent#
Stand up and fight back!http://www.writingresource.info/criticalissues/