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The Downtown Portland - Clean and Safe District has taken control of 213 blocks of Downtown Oldtown Portland. Did you know that your neighborhood is now in a BID?
The Downtown Portland - Clean and Safe District has taken control of 213 blocks of Downtown Oldtown Portland. Did you know that your neighborhood is now in a BID?
The Downtown Portland - Clean and Safe District has taken control of 213 blocks of Downtown Old town Portland. Did you know that your neighborhood is now in a BID?
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02.14.19

Redstone Labor Temple building Honoring 104 Years of Social and Economic Justice Organizing | Espanol sigue

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Redstone Labor Temple building
Honoring 104 Years of Social and Economic Justice Organizing and Dedicating a Sanctuary Community live music, artists, dancers, poets y performers
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Wednesday, February 27
6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
2940 – 16th Street, San Francisco
(corner of Capp St., near 16th St. BART)
free admission – food […]

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02.13.19

Black History Month: The Dred Scott Case – In Matters of Justice, Justices Matter…

Black History Month: The Dred Scott Case – In Matters of Justice, Justices Matter…
(re-sent from 2017 & 2018)

In March of 1857, barely four years before the start of the Civil War, the U.S. Supreme Court issued probably its most controversial ruling ever in the Scott v. Sandford case or Dred Scott Decision. The […]

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02.12.19

Care Not Cops Community Report | Building Care: Portland Communities Respond to the Violence of Policing

This 2019 report, the first volume in an on-going series, compiles eleven organi-zations’ experiences with policing in Portland and some of their ideas for building genuine care and safety for their community members. Care Not Cops Portland (CNC) surveyed a diverse range of organizations in Portland that are made up of and work with impacted […]

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02.12.19

How the Homeless Ended Up Being Blamed for Typhus “It is easy to blame folks who are unhoused,” one advocate says

By Samuel Braslow –  LosAngeles Magazine  

February 12, 2019

When Elizabeth Greenwood, a Los Angeles deputy city attorney, contracted typhus from a flea bite in her City Hall East office, two things happened. First, it breathed life back into the sensational coverage of fall’s outbreak, with media outlets declaring that a fatal, medieval disease […]

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Lakeshore to Perkins were evicted this past Thursday and Friday. In the pouring rain. Joe Debris DeVries the asst to the administrator aka c...

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13 Feb

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PRESS ADVISORY Where are they to go? Where can they live? Stockton Blvd houseless community face displacement by police What: Solidarity with Stockton...

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It’s raining, the underpass provides a limited amount of shelter, but through rain, sleet, or snow - better than the postal service - they show up to displace folks from shelter meant to keep themselves dry. Welcome to the City of the Angels. #Standup4HumanRights

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How the Homeless Ended Up Being Blamed for Typhus More broadly, this tension comes as the city plans to ramp up development in downtown. The proposal, titled DTLA 2040, would rezone Skid Row for market-rate housing, and include social ... via @LAMag

How the Homeless Ended Up Being Blamed for Typhus

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Right To Survive on 02/13/19 | KBOO Confronting the housing crisis and organizing housing activists to address systemic inequalities

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