Kids wrote letters and gave up their stuffed animals in hopes of getting the Congressman to take a stand against the violence in Gaza at the Dec. 2 march Over 1,000 protesters descended on Rep. Earl Blumenauer’s Portland house to demand he call for a ceas ...
13 Dec 2023 - Kevin Foster
Native nations, people across Turtle Island celebrate Supreme Court ruling upholding ICWA A sense of relief washed over Indian Country when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act, or ICWA, in its entirety June 15. Native nations and ...
28 Jun 2023 - Melanie Henshaw
The city has settled dozens of claims and lawsuits and more are pending So far, the city of Portland has paid over $2.8 million resolving police use of force lawsuits and claims stemming from the racial justice protests that roiled the city in 2020. The M ...
5 Apr 2023 - Piper McDaniel
Altering or reversing the Indian Child Welfare Act would damage tribal sovereignty, but select states — like Oregon — may offer protection In a case with potentially far-reaching consequences for tribal sovereignty, a divided Supreme Court debated the con ...
30 Nov 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Tribes fear the Supreme Court decision will hamper the ability to protect their citizens. PL-280 states like Oregon may be the most accurate basis for predictions. In 2015, the state of Oklahoma convicted Victor Castro-Huerta of neglecting his stepdaughte ...
27 Jul 2022 - Melanie Henshaw
Biden includes more than $1 billion over 10 years to fund non-police crisis response in his American Rescue Plan In the year since Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) first introduced the CAHOOTS Act, much has changed to suggest that this nationwide incentive for n ...
5 May 2021 - Joanne Zuhl
Recently unearthed documents, an Oscar-winning film and today’s racial justice movement bring new significance to the Chicago Black Panther Party chairman’s 1969 assassination The recent discovery of memos related to the 1969 assassination of Black Panthe ...
28 Apr 2021 - Suzanne Hanney
The congresswoman has held fast to her progressive voice while facing down xenophobic, racist and sexist vitriol from the right Over the course of her first term in Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar has proved herself a fierce advocate for the nation’s vast worki ...
28 Oct 2020 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
RBG was a champion for reproductive freedom, equal pay and pregnancy accommodations, and her work carries on through these advocates T he late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has long been acclaimed for carrying the weight of progressive issues in the Supreme ...
7 Oct 2020 - Hanna Merzbach
‘Mr. Jones’ screenwriter Andrea Chalupa has family ties to Ukraine stretching from the 1930s famine to the Trump impeachment — with ‘Animal Farm’ and Soviet propaganda sprinkled in Ukraine being used as a pawn between super states will come as no surprise ...
7 Feb 2020 - Steven MacKenzie