We won't end racism until we end capitalism, says the radical thinker, writer and labor leader Gun enthusiasm is rooted more in racial suppression than in the Second Amendment, Bill Fletcher Jr. told an audience at the SeaTac Hilton in April. From th ...
11 May 2018 - Emily Green
In Portland, a morning call to action for racial and economic justice will be followed by a nationwide minute of silence and an evening march On April 4, 50 years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while standing on a balcony outsid ...
30 Mar 2018 - Emily Green
The activist sat down with a Street Roots vendor to talk about the movement he helped launch Four years ago, DeRay Mckesson was virtually unknown. When he watched the protests that followed the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown on television, he was w ...
23 Mar 2018 - Emily Green
The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education plans a grand opening at its new location On Sunday, June 11, the public is invited to peruse several captivating exhibits, free of charge, at the grand opening of the Oregon Jewish Museum and Ce ...
8 Jun 2017 - Emily Green
Labor leadership in Portland comes together in defense of targeted communities and immigrant workers Many activist groups may find their members fall into one school of thought or another, but few organizations represent such varying ideologies among thei ...
12 Apr 2017 - Emily Green
Racial injustice in the City of Roses, from the perspectives of young black men who live here Before sharing the mic with the nine young men seated with him at the table, moderator and Multnomah County employee Kory Murphy solemnly listed off statistics i ...
29 Oct 2015 - Emily Green