Vol. XXXIX, Number 2    March 30th, 2019     
 
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Featured Poet for this
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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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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 Fight for $15 Finally Comes to Portland

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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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Hands off Venezuela! No Coup, No Sanctions, No War

Protest US aggression against Venezuela

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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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Meta Gala: Things Take Shape

April 6, 2019       5:30 PM   /   PICA - 15 NE Hancock St. Portland, OR


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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



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of national sovereignty, these international actors should instead support 
negotiations between the Venezuelan government and its opponents.
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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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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.


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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?
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 Hypocrisy Rules; the State of the Pot Business in Oregon

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    Paid sick days benefit entire community

By Bob Bussel  and Margaret Hallock

As scholars and activists whose careers have focused on improving working people’s quality of life, we have long lamented this disturbing fact: The United States stands alone among the world’s most developed nations in not providing paid sick days for its workers.

...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

These are not accidents. And they will not end until we insist.

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Tomgram: Nick Turse, How Washington Creates Global Instability |
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Unveiling the Dangers of GMO foods and Toxic Food Dyes 

   by Don Dupay    http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/toxicfood 

    All my life (until now) I have been eating packages of yellow cheese puffs. I love the damned things, the cheesy taste and all. Absentmindedly I recently put on my reading glasses and looked again at the pretty pictures of the cheesy things displayed on the package. I noticed one of the ingredients was yellow dye #6, what the hell, I thought? I always believed they were yellow colored because of the cheese on them. But no...they are dyed yellow. Now my detectives mind went into action, I discovered there are other dyes, including blue #1, blue #2, green #3, red #3, red #40, yellow #5, yellow #6 and citrus red #2. Worse yet, the cheesy things were cooked in corn oil, a GMO poison created by the Monsanto company.  

   by Don Dupay    http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/toxicfood
   


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Check it out! Finally Got the News- (1970) a filmCheck it out! about the revolutionary struggle of Black autoworkers in Detroit... watch it as a double feature with the documentary about the injured GM workers in Bogota. Don't miss these films! Connects the struggle of the autoworkers in Bogota with the struggle of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit in 1970.
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Inequality for All

Published on October 8th, 2013

inequalposterAt the heart of the film is a simple proposition: what is a good society, and what role does the widening income gap play in the deterioration of our nation’s economic health? We are endeavoring for Inequality for All to be a paradigm-shifting, eye-opening experience for the American public. We want to accurately show through a non-partisan perspective why extreme income inequality is such an important topic for our citizens today and for the future of America.

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Inequality for All

Published on October 8th, 2013

inequalposterAt the heart of the film is a simple proposition: what is a good society, and what role does the widening income gap play in the deterioration of our nation’s economic health? We are endeavoring for Inequality for All to be a paradigm-shifting, eye-opening experience for the American public. We want to accurately show through a non-partisan perspective why extreme income inequality is such an important topic for our citizens today and for the future of America.

Starts Friday October 11th

60

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A Scientist Who Resisted Trump Administration Censorship of Climate Report Just Lost Her Job 
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