News
Highlighting Oregon’s queer activists
Catherine Stauffer is an anti-facist activist who infiltrated the Oregon Citizens Alliance in 1990 during the early lead-up to Measure 9. If passed, the ballot measure would have amended the state constitution to prohibit “all governments in Oregon” from using money or properties to “promote, encourage or facilitate homosexuality, pedophilia, sadism or masochism.” These “behaviors”…
Feds’ closure of ICE building blocks immigrants’ access to critical legal aid
On the streets of downtown Portland on June 18, masked federal agents pulled over and arrested a Colombian man who had just left immigration court. The incident, caught on video and first reported by The Oregonian, showed a white Toyota stopped in Portland’s streets as federal agents walked him away in handcuffs. Authorities would normally…
Opinion
Letter from the Illustrator | Notes on this week’s cover
It’s the people. Who make communities, who make events, who make movements. That’s the core thing we have lost and found, over and over. In this moment of fear and facism and failures of our society, we are hopefully finding that we need to center people. Not corporations, not the government, not public opinion. None…
