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Summer 2009
Vol. XXIX, Issue 5

What’s up with the ARTS?

Remembering Bonnie Tinker

Pricing art’s worth

In Other News

Afghanistan
Ungar Furs rally, update

Viewpoints & Commentary

Please keep your male privilege private
Making sense of art and culture
Words and war
How Art Becomes Persuasion to Need?

Active Community

jlpment
Dill Pickle Club
Chris Hedges: Socialism for the U.S.

Arts and Culture

Q & A with Welsh author Niall Griffiths
Teatro Campesino leads to PDX Miracle
Staying ahead of weeds, part 3
Honoring Utah Phillips
MetroEast offering more local radio acts

 

May 2009
Vol. XXIX, Issue 4

Caring About health

OHSU protest cites primate testing abuses

Two April Protests Address Economy

Leadership conference exposes serious problems and solutions

In Other News

Competition drives health plans
Oregon Army National Guard soldiers mobilize
The Gaza Strip Is A Disaster Area, Says Witness
May Day 2009: Calm and Focused
AIPAC: The Anti-Peace Lobby
Schools, Adams
Archimedes: Let’s Move!
Abortion at root of anti-Sebelius sentiment
Press conference focus union-busting tactics

Viewpoints & Commentary

Full equality now — but how? Health woes, income often linked
Disease prevention will reduce health care costs
Plan B Is Sometimes A Pretty Good Plan

Obama must address domestic violence
Obama’s Nuclear Plans - Feasible?
Obama: War Profiteering As Usual

Active Community

Marriage symposium criticizes Prop 8

Boomer Health Disaster Brewing
Portland Meatout offers alternative eats

Arts and Culture

Staying ahead of weeds
Live Through This: A Harrowing Journey
We need a green New Deal


April 2009
Vol. XXIX, Issue 3

Bring the troops home!

Salem rally against Iraq war draws 300

Demonstration rallies against AIG bonus scandal

Anti-Israel protest targets AIPAC supporters

In Other News

- Sunday Parkways expanding this summer

- Iraq vet takes stance against war
- Civil rights violation case thrown out

Viewpoints & Commentary

-Prop. 8 is ‘unconstitutional trash’

-Let’s talk about same-sex marriage
-To reach peace, we must end war
-Death in the era of modern medicine
-We must abandon preemptive war


Active Community

-Future war and future peace
-Activist’s arrest raises abuse questions
-‘Blight’ fight plagues urban renewal plan

 

Arts and Entertainment

- New Books
- Staying ahead of weeds, part 1
-Subversive Verse
-Author offers liberals economic advice


March 2009
Vol. XXX, Issue 2

Food philosophy

A growing battle against GM beets

True economics: We are missing the point

In Other News

-Fiscal crisis stunts progressive movement
-Democratic Party unity trumps justice
-Organic certifier grows reach

Viewpoints & Commentary

-Imprisoned Luers advocates eco activism
-QUICK Q&A
-Bad eating habits reflect fast food culture
-Someone important you may want to know
-Let the clean energy revolution begin

Active Community

-City Gardens: Growing food in PDX

- Urban edibles: A guide to the city’s produce
-Patrons rave about Papa G’s organic fare
-Kids eat the darndest things

Arts and Culture

-Hey, watch where you put that
-Homeless vets need more, better services
-Freeing up resources ... for more war


January February 2009
Vol. XXX, Issue 1

simplicity
sim pl city

sustainability
Portland's green focus

LNG: ‘180 degrees in the wrong direction’

In Other News

-Supermarkets weigh cost of sustainability
-Europe should be Obama’s guide to priorities
-Violence rages in Gaza, deaths mount
-Portland protests oppression of Palestinians

-Mumbai, South Asian tensions and Obama
-Protests comdemn Israel

Viewpoints & Commentary

-What we can expect from President Obama
-Environmentalists must engage minorities
-Inaugurating hope while saving Sam
-Congress must take action in Gaza

Active Community

-People’s practices what it preaches

- Educational institutions prioritize sustainability
-Certification threatens forests

Arts and Culture

-Book documents Palestine deaths
-‘Greasy Rider’ a realistic oil alternative
-Prophylactic tactics in the garden, part 2


December 2008
Vol. XXVIII, Issue 12

Election Aftermath

Voters weigh in

"Terrorist" Ayers and the Pres. elect

In Other News

- Elephant preserve priority over zoo expansion

- Media coverage in a police state

-Election results shape national forests’ future

Viewpoints & Commentary

-Election triumphs over group-think mentality

-Still looking for a few good omens
-White supremacy and the ‘post race’ myth


Active Community

-Portlanders protest California's Prop. 8

- Group prevents another stolen election

Arts and Entertainment

- A media parable for the ‘Center’
- Poetry for the passersby
-Prophylactic tactics in the garden
-Author offers liberals economic advice


November 2008
Vol. XXVIII, Issue 10

Where’s Main Street’s bailout?

Oregonian ad insert sparks protests

Earmarks overused, but not all are bad

In Other News

- Bailout fails to jumpstart bank loans

- Nothing to be grateful for
-Fair Trade focus: Jobs loss, wage stagnation

Active Community

- Stormy weather: Oregon’s economic forecast

- Fowl farming practices at turkey factories

-Let Live Series serious about monkey business
- Agent Orange victims seek justice, support

Arts and Entertainment

- Veterans event: The real cost of war at home

- Moving to the Beat: Portland’s hip-hop roots
- X-Vandals provide soundtrack for revolution
- Garden givings: precious and free leaves
- An aisle seat view of the growing class divide

Viewpoints & Commentary

-Election brings ‘new world’ outlook

-In search of a few good omens this November

- Pacifism losing fight against self-defense

October 2008
Vol. XXVIII, Issue 9

FACE OFF

Green party growth

Palin’s roots slick with oil

In Other News

- Unions endorse candidates
-Is civil war Iraq’s only future?
- Fairgoers
- Police oppress members of alternative press
- Merkeley, Smith senate battle hinges on unions
- Bailout protests sweep
nation

Active Community

-Economic policy: Too big to fail, too small to matter
-Sea lions killed to ensure fishermen’s future

Arts and Entertainment

- Science fiction changing the world, climate
- Summer confessions, garden lessons
- Heart and soul-dier: Vets share experiences
- ‘War, Inc.’: Privatized imperialism
- Dos Pueblos: Two peoples, one story
- Dubious praise for Stewart, ‘Daily Show’

Viewpoints & Commentary

- Election brings ‘new world’ outlook
- Bad in world devastates couple’s foreign dream
- This is the nation on white privilege
- Internet medication availability just a prescription for disaster

 

September 2008
Vol. XXVIII, Issue 8

Convention culpability

APOCs build it from below

Hilton appeases hotel workers

In Other News

- College presidents mull lowering the drinking age

- Designa vaginas: Cosmetic surgery goes deep

- Indigenous people under siege worldwide

Active Community

-Supporters rally for farmworkers' rights

-"Business sense" lost on us today

Arts and Entertainment

-Blues Fest fundraiser success

- Honey harvest

Viewpoints & Commentary

-Ducks, geese have no voice

-Obama energy policy falls short on short-term goals
- Bush's final gift to the U.S.: More war?


August 2008
Vol. XXVIII, Issue 7

Grassroots sows seeds

Foreign policy foibles

Media camp focuses aim on justice

In Other News

- Fois gras demos target cruelty

- Camp turns out video activists, social change warriors
- McKinney goes Green with presidential nod

Active Community

-Obama: Is his campaign really progressive?

-We see color and it fucking matters

Arts and Entertainment

-Blues Fest fundraiser success

- Honey harvest

Viewpoints & Commentary

-Obama should embrace heritage

-Escape from Violence: Social change

 

July 2008
Vol. XXVIII, Issue 6

A tank-less war

Gun shows targeting immigrants, NAFTA

Frederick Douglass
The meaning of July 4th for the Negro

In Other News

-Race, energy drive 2008 issues

-The true costs of supporting AIPAC

Active Community

-Sistas in struggle fight against oppression

-Campaign aims to keep Oregon troops from deploying

Arts and Entertainment

-Garden reality: Nature will take over

Viewpoints & Commentary

-Curbing ego may save the planet

-Straight people for marriage equality


June 2008
Vol. XXVIII, Issue 5

Violence may end if U.S. leaves

Little justice for homeless in Portland

May Day worker walkouts protest war in Iraq

In Other News

-Pipeline threatens old-growth forests

-Police Review Board head faces objectivity challenges

Active Community

-Home Again needs stronger foundation


Arts and Entertainment

-Garden realities: Nature always wins

-Lose your self in Miracles 'Labyrinth'

Viewpoints & Commentary

-A vote for race is more of the same

-Marriage is equality, not gender

 
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