Opinion
Last Month in Oregon Labor | A call for the labor movement to join the fight for affordable housing and renters’ rights
At least 372 people died in Multnomah County while homeless in 2024, based on an annual report from the county. That news should ring an alarm for working class Oregonians. “Last month in Oregon labor” is a monthly installment by Aurora Biggers covering all things Oregon labor. Most Americans are one emergency or major life…
Opinion | When medical care ends, homelessness begins
Last week, we discharged another veteran to a homeless shelter. He was medically fragile, recently stabilized after intensive care, and in no condition to recover on the street. The shelter required a 5:00 p.m. check-in. There was nowhere safe to store medications, no place to rest during the day, no stability. This is not an…
News
Oregon’s wrongly imprisoned are exonerated, free — and still in court
When Santiago Ventura Morales was released from an Oregon prison in 1991, it made national headlines. Ventura was convicted five years earlier for murdering a fellow migrant farm worker in a case that began to unravel almost immediately after the verdict. Three jurors worried they made the wrong call and began working to free Ventura,…
A local librarian’s research helped secure a settlement for descendants of displaced Black Portlanders
Last summer, the city of Portland paid millions to descendants of Black families forced from their homes by racist urban renewal projects. It was an effort decades in the making. And one of the driving forces was a local librarian. Through her own research, the librarian discovered that her grandmother’s home was demolished by the…
