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Portland police event criticized for excluding marginalized groups

With its $1,000 admission price, exclusionary Meet the Heat event promotes narrow agenda, protesters say Attendees to a fundraiser at the Portland Police Training Center in Northeast Portland the morning of Friday, April 1, were greeted by a group of prot ...

8 Apr 2016 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
‘Born again in Ferguson’

Unrest lured the Rev. Osagyefo Sekou away from the pulpit and into the streets ‘in the communion of protest’ The Rev. Osagyefo Sekou — organizer, pastor, theologian and author — has found a new calling on the front lines of Ferguson and Baltimore. Sekou ...

19 Jun 2015 - Leonora Ko
Finding solidarity with Ferguson

“Hands up. Don’t shoot. Hands up. Don’t shoot. Hands up. Don’t shoot.” I stood in a crowd of people in a city park echoing this line on Saturday afternoon. Among the crowd could be seen old and young and people of all different shades of color. Children w ...

9 Sep 2014 - Grace Badik
The watchers at the gate

Exhibit shines light on nearly three decades of police surveillance on Portland activists The 1960s, '70s and '80s were a heady time in Portland, both politically and socially. Women and minorities organized for their rights. Activists campaigne ...

21 Nov 2013 - Jake Thomas
Protesters say Gov's cuts sending us 'back to the 1970s'

Protesters say Gov's cuts sending us 'back to the 1970s' About 200 people rallied at noon today to protest Gov. Ted Kulongoski’s budget cuts to human services, saying the cuts will have a devastating effect on the state’s most vulnerable po ...

15 Jul 2010 - Street Roots
Housing activists in Hennepin County take over sheriff's office over foreclosures

Housing activists in Hennepin County take over sheriff's office over foreclosures [blip.tv?posts_id=1878142&dest=-1] Posted by Israel Bayer foreclosures housing activists protest Print ...

16 Mar 2009 - Street Roots
Group protests NW Natural's plan to build pipeline

Group protests NW Natural's plan to build pipeline August 4, 2008 Rising Tide North America supported by 25 to 50 individuals camped out in front of NW Natural's Second and Davis headquarters this afternoon, protesting the company's proposa ...

4 Aug 2008 - Street Roots