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Ayanna Pressley's bold plan to reform what she calls America's criminal legal system

The congresswoman's People’s Justice Guarantee calls for decriminalizing poverty and homelessness Ayanna Pressley remembers running for reelection to the Boston City Council in 2011 when a constituent asked her what she was going to do about the home ...

29 Nov 2019 - Adam Sennott
Blumenauer zeroes in on the housing crisis and its racist roots

The congressman from Portland hopes to flip the script on centuries of government-sanctioned discrimination Congressman Earl Blumenauer doesn’t consider himself naive. He’s been in politics most of his life, from the Portland City Council to serving Orego ...

13 Sep 2019 - Joanne Zuhl
Milwaukie mayor wants to take his climate agenda to Congress

Mark Gamba has reshaped his city’s politics. Now, he’s challenging Kurt Schrader in Oregon’s Fifth District. Milwaukie has gone through a radical transformation in recent years. This once blue collar, conservative-leaning Southeast suburb of Portland has ...

19 Apr 2019 - Emily Green
Sen. Ron Wyden aims to end fossil fuel favoritism

Oregon's senior U.S. senator calls for a tax overhaul to support the Green New Deal Oregon’s senior U.S. senator, Ron Wyden, says he intends to use his position as the ranking Democrat of the Senate’s finance and energy committees to push forward the ...

22 Feb 2019 - Joanne Zuhl
Sen. Wyden: Schools need more funding for counselors, mental health

COMMENTARY | Homeless students deserve the same education as their peers Improving educational outcomes for all of Oregon’s students is urgent business. That’s why it was so important to me to add a provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act, passed by ...

8 Feb 2019 - Ron Wyden
Cory Booker: Justice ‘should be equal for everybody’

The U.S. senator from New Jersey talks with a street paper vendor about housing, the environment and employment for all Since arriving in Washington, D.C., in 2013, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has found common ground with some of his most conservative colle ...

19 Jan 2018 - Aida Peery and James Marshall
Kshama Sawant is a warrior for the working class

Seattle’s socialist City Council member is coming to Portland to talk about organizing and movement building Before Kshama Sawant won a seat on the Seattle City Council, she was a prominent organizer within the city’s Occupy movement. Now in her fourth ye ...

21 Sep 2017 - Emily Green
Al Franken: ‘The best cure for homelessness is a home’

The U.S. senator talks with a street paper vendor about poverty in America Street paper vendor Ken Martin took advantage of a chance meeting with U.S. Sen. Al Franken. Franken was getting out of his car, and Martin was nearby, doing what he normally does ...

8 Sep 2017 - Ken Martin and Roberta Haber
Suzanne Bonamici: DACA repeal plays political games with people’s lives

Dreamers deserve a path to citizenship, says the congresswoman from Oregon One out of every eight residents in U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici’s District 1 is Latino or Hispanic, making the repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program a critica ...

7 Sep 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
Nick Fish: We must fund legal services for the poor

COMMENTARY | We believe in justice for all – not just for those who can afford it "Equal justice under law” is a core value of our nation. But what happens when a victim of domestic violence, or an older adult facing eviction, can’t afford a lawyer? ...

11 Apr 2017 - Nick Fish