Vol. XXXIX, Number 2 March 30th, 2019 
Spring Issue of The Portland Alliance
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http://www.theportlandalliance.org/truthout: Trump's Wall Is a Symbol With a Long and Toxic History
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Snowstorm Cancelled Speaking Events Featuring Walidah Imarisha
By MELORIE BEGAY •
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Featured this issue: Burnside Field Lizard and Selected Stories, by Theresa Kennedy-DuPay
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Featured Poet for this
First Issue: is Mimi German
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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
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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
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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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BILL FLETCHER JR., TRUTHOUT
Walls have a long history of symbolic importance, signifying not only lines of demarcation but frequently the distinction between zones of alleged civilization vs. zones of alleged barbarism. Trump's wall, rife with racial imagery, is not about safety for the people of the United States, but an opposition to nonwhite immigration. Therefore, the debate over the wall must be a debate about race and the legacy and ramifications of U.S. foreign policy.
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The North American Premiere of La Segua, a cautionary tale
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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 can live up to the name and do us proud.
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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
Myers / Military Personnel
Cheating on tests!
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What To Tell People When They Say We Should Use the Military
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Hands off Venezuela! No Coup, No Sanctions, No War
Protest US aggression against Venezuela
All out on March 30 in Portland, OR
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Oregon sole ‘sanctuary’ jurisdiction not getting Justice Department grants
Despite threats, other areas receiving grants
The week of March 30 to April 7
is a gathering of war makers in Washington DC.
They must be opposed!
No to NATO, War & Racism! No War on Venezuela! Join a major demonstration in front of the White House on March 30
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A Primer on Expanding American Wars: These 30 unprovoked wars for extraction, exploitation and extortion are not featured on the Front Pages of Mainstream Media, but this does not make them disappear.
Veterans Call to Resist U.S. Coup in Venezuela
Veterans For Peace is outraged at the unfolding coup d’etat in Venezuela, which is clearly being orchestrated by the U.S. government.
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Portland, OR
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Former U.N. Expert: America Is Violating
International Law by Attempting a Venezuelan Coup
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Open Letter by Over 70 Scholars and Experts Condemns
US-Backed Coup Attempt in Venezuela
"For the sake of the Venezuelan people, the region, and for the principle
of national sovereignty, these international actors should instead support
negotiations between the Venezuelan government and its opponents."
Veterans For Peace: No Troops to the Border!
Veterans For Peace strongly condemns the recent announcement
that up to 15,000 active duty military personnel may be
sent to the U.S. southern border.
Stand Up! Live Better!
Portland Jobs With Justice…
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Sanctions of Mass Destruction:
America’s War on Venezuela
by GARIKAI CHENGU
Illustration by Nathaniel St. Clair
Mic Crenshaw's Afrikan Hiphop Caravan Blog
Mic Crenshaw continues traveling with the Caravan: a transformative experience for everyone!
Justice for Keaton Otis Portal
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American economic sanctions have been the worst crime against humanity since World War Two. America’s economic sanctions have killed more innocent people than all of the nuclear, biological and chemical weapons ever used in the history of mankind.
The fact that for America the issue in Venezuela is oil, not democracy, will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore history. Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves on the planet.
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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 PDX 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
Fifth Monday Labor Radio:
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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!
Hypocrisy Rules; the State of the Pot Business in Oregon
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...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.
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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
