COMMENTARY | We won’t reduce gun deaths if we shrug our shoulders and walk away We are at the Lloyd Athletic Club, and the conversation turns to new gun legislation introduced in the Oregon Senate, when one of the people in our group speaks up: “Four of m ...
27 Apr 2017 - Martha Gies
COMMENTARY | Portland’s leading advocate for affordable housing is retiring from her role as executive director of Northwest Pilot Project Portland is losing one of its most treasured and unique assets as Executive Director Susan Emmons retires from North ...
27 Oct 2016 - Martha Gies
COMMENTARY | A new documentary tells the story of the Portland peace activist and Vietnam veteran “We have assumed the name of peacemakers,” wrote the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the beloved Jesuit prophet, author and activist who died in April, “but we have be ...
28 Jun 2016 - Martha Gies
Thanks for the interview with Susan Emmons and for archiving online the important talk she gave at First Congregational Church. Better than anyone in Portland, Emmons tells the story of how this community contributed to the numbers of homeless people by ...
7 Dec 2013 - Martha Gies