Harold Johnson, a longtime teacher and poet, aspired to write a novel. Decades later, his goal has come to fruition. Last fall, Portland poet Harold Johnson launched his novel at Broadway Books, and a standing-room-only crowd filled the Northeast Portland ...
28 Apr 2016 - Martha Gies
In the new documentary “ Arresting Power,” which premiered at the Northwest Film Center in January, there is a 1981 film clip of Portland police commissioner Charles Jordan in heated dialogue with outraged citizens protesting a blatant act of racial haras ...
24 Feb 2015 - Martha Gies
A personal perspective on the humanitarian crisis at Guantanamo Prison By Martha Gies, Contributing Writer On Sunday, March 24, in response to an email I’d received the day before, I quit eating. Witness Against Torture (WAT) had proposed a Holy Week fast ...
23 May 2013 - Martha Gies