Vol. XXXV, Number 3 March 2015
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2015/March
Featuring: Healthcare, War & Peace, Earth Day-Mayday, Wal-mart, Postal, News Bytes, Immigration, a fossil free future for Portland: ThePortlandAlliance.org/anybody
MORE ON:The UkraineWrong side of history’ pleaRussian billionaire sells stake in major firm a
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Breaking NewsHow Privatization Perverts Education Drone Killing the Fifth Amendment: How to Build a Post-Constitutional America One Death at a Time Read the Article at TomDispatch Excessive Radiation Levels Detected at New Mexico Waste Site
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"Winter Blues" Music Festival is pleased to announce that after three successful years,
WBMF is returning with another weekend of great music to chase away the wintertime blues.
The Fourth Annual "Winter Blues" Music Festival will be held on
March 14, 2015
more info: http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/winterblues
A Portal to Winter Blues Music Festival
Native American Tribes
Take on Pot, Consider Gambling on Legalization:
Studies and possible votes loom on American Indian lands.
The Department of Justice has said federally recognized tribes may grow and sell marijuana.
Native American tribes are eyeing marijuana legalization as a potentially lucrative business opportunity in the wake of a green light from the Department of Justice in December.
more info: http://www.theportlandalliance.org/nativeamericanportal
Single-Payer: It's What the People Want
Will the U.S. Government Stand Alone
in Rejecting Children’s Rights?
By Lawrence S. Wittner
Within a matter of months,
the U.S. government seems likely to become the only nation
in the world still rejecting the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights
of the Child. Sometimes called “the most ratified human rights treaty in history,” the Convention has been ratified by 195
nations, leaving the United States and South Sudan as the
only holdouts. South Sudan is expected to move forward
with ratification later this year. But there is no indication
that the United States will approve this children’s defense treaty.
find out why at: http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/wittner
Much like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is made-in-the-USA, an instrument of terror designed to divide and conquer the oil-rich Middle
East and to counter Iran’s growing influence in the region.
The fact that the United States has a long and torrid history of backing terrorist groups will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore history.
...The director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan,
General William Odom recently remarked, “by any measure the U.S. has
long used terrorism. In 1978-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism – in every version they produced, the lawyers said
the U.S. would be in violation.”
the rest of the story: http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/counterpunch
at the NW Alliance Portal to Counterpunch
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/nytpa
LABOR RADIO SHOW
Of, by and for the people.
http://www.ThePortlandAlliantce.org/laborradio
KBOO Community Radio 90.7 FM presents: Labor Radio Show
6:00-6:30 pm Every Monday Night!
CALL-IN and join the conversation!
503-231-8187 March 30, 2015
Host: Michael Morrow and Lane Poncy-- 5th Monday
Conversations: Working people and the economic crisis!
Guests, (TBA) are active union organizers, activists and allies.
http://laborradiocollective.blogspot.com/2014/03/taxfairnessandincomedisparity.html
When the trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling got
underway Tuesday in Northern Virginia, prospective jurors
made routine references to “three-letter agencies” and
alphabet-soup categories of security clearances. In an
area where vast partnerships between intelligence
agencies and private contractors saturate everyday life,
the jury pool was bound to please the prosecution.
...From what I could tell, none of those with direct connections to intelligence agencies ended up in the jury box. But affinities with agencies like the CIA seemed implicit in the courtroom. Throughout the jury selection, there was scarcely a hint that activities of those agencies might merit disapproval.
more info: http://www.theportlandalliance.org/solomon
by Marsha B. Cohen
There’s been considerable media buzz in the past several days about Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer’s role in engineering an invitation from Republican leaders for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address both Houses of Congress about Iran. Dermer’s partisan machinations deliberately excluded the White House and State Department from any knowledge of the invitation.
... Netanyahu is scheduled to speak before Congress on March 3, two weeks before Israel’s parliamentary elections.
MORE INFORMATION: Bill Beeman Portal
Alliance Prison Radio Portal
America has Got a Prison Problem (5:35) by Kenneth Hartman
spend five minutes at: http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/prisonradio
..Audio evidence has Keaton Otis screaming, his are hands up. An officer shouts, “Let’s do it!” and three members of Portland's anti-gang HEAT Team open fire...
http://hippasus.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/the-killing-of-keaton-otis/#video
I wanted to pass along the message
so that others who knew Chris
through the Portland
Central America
Solidarity Committee
could help us all
remember him.
I was working with PCASC
when Chris got involved
as a volunteer.
He was brilliantly
creative and always
challenged himself
to learn new things.
C-bear was a friend- a loving and fun-loving friend. The kind
who would make you a mix-tape and find a bed on the side of
the road for you. He gave great hugs, even though I could
pretty much only reach his waist.
He was gentle. He listened. He loved his Grandma. In fact,
I think there is a story-corp interview somewhere that he
did with his Grandmother. There were moments when he
would share a little of the pain he felt. That vulnerability
was a gift. C-bear, know you are loved my soooo many.
I hope you have found the peace you were looking for. xxoo, Megan
more on Chris: http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/chris
The Northwest Writers & Publishers Association (NWPA)
and the Tualatin Public Library are proud to present:
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 Producing Pitch-perfect Project Promotion
Where: Tualatin Public Library at 18878 SW Martinazzi Ave. / Tualatin, OR 97062
When: Tuesday, March 10 from 6:30 - 8:30pm
Book Review American History 101
"Mike Palecek writes with passion, wit, and always with a strong social conscience." — Howard Zinn
more at: http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/palecek
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and the courage to take.” Emma Goldman
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