Vol. XXXIV, Number 6 June 2014 http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2014/June
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From Stokely to Kwame
Poetics:
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Jan Underwood: After Disembarking / Before Departure
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New Poetry from Mary Ought Six
Walidah Imarisha
Two Poems by Walidah
Buddy Bee
Three by Buddy Bee
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Obey
Living in America,
sometimes makes me think
I live in a luxurious concentration camp. I can have anything I want as long as I obey certain rules.
Accepting Submissions!
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Breaking News
How Privatization Perverts Education
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Drone Killing the Fifth Amendment: How to Build a Post-Constitutional America One Death at a Time
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Excessive Radiation Levels Detected at New Mexico Waste Site
Read the Article at Reuters
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Eyes Wide Shut! 
by Yugen Fardan Rashad
By Norman Solomon
 Now the shoe is on the other foot. It is Obama defending the principle of “national sovereignty”while Putin is using the military “humanitarian intervention” rule promulgated most outspokenly by Obama’s UN Ambassador Samantha Power and National Security Advisor Susan Rice.
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Tomgram: Nick Turse, How Washington Creates Global Instability
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"Juggling the Numbers"
Instead of armed extra-legal storm troopers, we need effective public servants who can create safe and secure streets without precipitously resorting to violence and acrimony. We need peace officers who
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The Fight for $15 Finally Comes to Portland
by SHAMUS COOKE
Like the Occupy movement before it, the “fight for $15” came to Portland as a transplant. Portland activists watched events in Seattle with a skeptical eye, but Seattle’s “fantasy” of $15 was transformed into an emerging reality, now replete with the support of the Mayor and City Council who are working on a plan to implement the new minimum wage.
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Salt and Terror in Afghanistan
by Kathy Kelly
In late January in a room in Kabul, Afghanistan, I joined several dozen people, working seamstresses, some college students, socially engaged teenagers and a few visiting internationals like myself, to discuss world hunger. Our emphasis was not exclusively on their own country’s worsening hunger problems. The Afghan Peace Volunteers, in whose home we were meeting, draw strength from looking beyond their own very real struggles.
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Obama won the ‘08 primary because he opposed the invasion while Hillary defended it. He tried to keep the US occupation going but the Iraqis
refused to immunize US troops who commit war crimes as Obama demanded. Any Obamatons left after this disgraceful rant?-MM
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Our Food, Our Choice:
We have the right to know what's in our food.
Last year over 400 cities around the world participated in this day of action bringing
hundreds of thousands of people into the streets to March Against Monsanto.
We hope to double that this year.
Why We March:
• Protect bees and monarchs against GMO pesticides that are killing our pollinators.
• Protect our food supply and clean water.
• Support local farms and farmers.
• Protect our environment.
• Promote organic solutions.
• Expose the cronyism between big business and the government.
• Bring accountability to those responsible for the corruption.
The deadline for ticket sJWJ Annual Dinner Celebration
Stand Up! Live Better
Saturday May 31st, 6pm
Teamsters Hall, 1860 NE 162nd Aveales to the
Annual Dinner Celebration is 5pm on Tuesday May 27th.
JWJ Annual Dinner Celebration
Stand Up! Live Better
Saturday May 31st, 6pm
Teamsters Hall, 1860 NE 162nd Ave
Jobs with Justice Annual Dinner
May 31, 2014 06:00 PM, Teamsters Hall,1860 NE 162nd Ave
It is with great enthusiasm that we announce our 23rd Anniversary Celebration and Dinner and invite you toStand Up: Live Better! Buy your tickets now.
Vermont Workers Center Executive Director James Haslam on How to Make Oregon the Next State with Single Payer
Jun 06, 2014 06:00 PM, SEIU 503 Ballroom, 6401 SE Foster Road
The Vermont Workers Center Executive Director offers advice and inspiration on the struggle for single payer health care in Oregon.
4th Annual Pitch A Tent
Jun 06, 2014 10:00 AM, SW 4th and Washington, Portland
Pitch a tent is a public camp out designed to raise awareness about the criminalization of homelessness in Portland and across the nation and the creative solutions that can be implemented immediately to address this human rights crisis.
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PDX Police Updates:
9-year-old led away in handcuffs by Portland police
prompts outrage, push for policy changes
Two uniformed Portland police officers showed up at the home of a 9-year-old girl last May, questioned her on the front porch about a fight at a youth club six days earlier, then handcuffed her as she stood in a blue-and-white bathing suit.
Tell Portland Police Your Views on Arresting Children
Police have asked members of the public to comment on their policies for arresting, fingerprinting, photographing and taking children into custody… Click here for the whole story
So we have troops on the ground in Nigeria.
This makes EIGHT wars…
Afghanistan, Iraq,
Algeria, Libya, Somalia,
Pakistan, Yemen.
and now Nigeria…
We have deployed troops, attacked, or bombed, or used illegal drones against these nations. We were not attacked.
Fifth Monday Labor Radio:
Susan Stoner, Mon. June 30 at 6pm
Lane Poncy and Michael Morrow will host Fifth Monday Labor Radio with Susan Stoner to discuss her new book Black Drop, again a feature of the Sage Adair Historical Mystery series. This one deals with a plot to kill President Theodore Roosevelt during his train stopover in Portland.
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/laborradio
Will the union activists be held responsible?
Is it a plot to blame the unions to undermine
their influence as well as assassinate Roosevelt?
Tune in to 90.7fm, KBOO Labor Radio on June 30 to find out!
“I am outraged knowing that U.S. policy-makers don’t give a damn about the school girls in Nigeria because their real objective is to use the threat of Boko Haram in the Northern part of the country to justify the real goal of occupying the oil fields in the South and to block the Chinese in Nigeria.”Continue reading →
thewordsmithcollection.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/updatenigeria-kidnapping-or-economic-war/
The Supreme Court upheld Michigan’s ban on affirmative action at state colleges and universities. The case centers on a 2006 voter referendum in Michigan that barred race and sex-based preferences in admissions. An appeals court previously ruled the ban violates the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. But in a 6-to-2 decision, the Supreme Court overruled the lower court. The ruling will likely bolster similar anti-affirmative action measures in several other states. In a statement, the American Civil Liberties Union said: "This case is ultimately about whether students of color are allowed to compete on the same playing field as all other students. Today, the Supreme Court said they are not."
Jim Crow in the Classroom: Segregation Lives on in U.S. Schools / http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4
Hypocrisy Rules; the State of the Pot Business in Oregon
By Don L. Dupay
June 2012
John LaForge
John LaForge is on the Nukewatch staff and edits its Quarterly.
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/laforge
Canadian ‘Experts’ "Comfy" with
Radioactive Pollution of Great Lakes
By John LaForge
“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
...The consequences are profound. The lack of sick days has helped create a phenomenon known as “presenteeism,” whereby people go to work even though they are ill. These workers — especially those in occupations with high degrees of public contact such as restaurants, hospitals and schools — expose others to illness and create health hazards.
...The rest of the story: http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/sickpay
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Future Hope column, April 27, 2014
The New “CIA”
By Ted Glick Photo from Occupy Sandy
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As I write this, a new CIA, the Cowboy and Indian Alliance, is completing six days of a tipi encampment on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Throughout the past week Indigenous people from Canada, Idaho, South Dakota, Minnesota, Oklahoma and elsewherThis page: e have joined with ranchers and farmers from Nebraska to dramatize and bring to public consciousness their historic alliance to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. They and their supporters have had meals together, have prayed together, have taken action every day together and have built connections and relationships that are a deep source of hope for our wounded earth and all of its life forms.
Yesterday several thousand people rallied and marched in DC in support of this alliance. We marched for a clean energy revolution away from fossil fuels to a renewables and efficiency-based economy, and we marched in support of the historic righting of the great wrongs to Indigenous peoples that have been done over the last five centuries, since the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas.
We also marched in support of ranchers and farmers up and down the planned route of KXL whose homes and lands will be put in danger if tar sands oil is carried over their property.
For many of us this historic coming together of seemingly unlikely allies may look like a once-a-century type of thing, but it really isn’t. In an article published several days ago by author and organizer Zoltan Grossman he writes of the examples down through US history of European Americans standing with Native Americans in support of their rights and lives:
“The Cowboy Indian Alliance is part of a long, proud tradition that has been conveniently covered up in American history. Our history books present Manifest Destiny as inevitable and uncontested in the 19th century, so we never read about the white Wisconsin settlers who opposed the forced removal of Ho-Chunk and Ojibwe, the Washington settlers put on trial for sympathizing with Coast Salish resistance, or other atypical stories that highlight the ‘paths not followed’ of cooperation rather than conflict.”
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People continue to die in Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen & Nigeria
