COMMENTARY | We won’t reduce gun deaths if we shrug our shoulders and walk away We are at the Lloyd Athletic Club, and the conversation turns to new gun legislation introduced in the Oregon Senate, when one of the people in our group speaks up: “Four of m ...
27 Apr 2017 - Martha Gies
COMMENTARY | Portland’s leading advocate for affordable housing is retiring from her role as executive director of Northwest Pilot Project Portland is losing one of its most treasured and unique assets as Executive Director Susan Emmons retires from North ...
27 Oct 2016 - Martha Gies
COMMENTARY | A new documentary tells the story of the Portland peace activist and Vietnam veteran “We have assumed the name of peacemakers,” wrote the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the beloved Jesuit prophet, author and activist who died in April, “but we have be ...
28 Jun 2016 - Martha Gies
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
In September 2012 the snazzy new Blanchet House opened, leaving the original three-story brick building alongside looking forlorn. Over the 60 years that the Catholic Worker-inspired program operated there, at the corner of NW 4th and Glisan, nearly 16 mi ...
15 Jan 2014 - Martha Gies
Thanks for the interview with Susan Emmons and for archiving online the important talk she gave at First Congregational Church. Better than anyone in Portland, Emmons tells the story of how this community contributed to the numbers of homeless people by ...
7 Dec 2013 - 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