Earth Day, 2013 • Portland, Oregon In what has become an ongoing series of cycling tours aimed at shaming corporate polluters and exposing the greenwashing going on in our city, Monday, April 22nd, saw scores of activists gather in Holladay park for the Portland’s Worst Polluters Tour: Earth Day Edition. Like previously themed bike...
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Last night, the City of Portland held budget hearings at Montgomery Park. Several hundred people attended; so many that testimony had to be limited to a minute. There was incredible energy in the room and impassioned testimony by community members highlighted the programs that will be severely impacted if cuts proceed as expected. One person in...
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From January 7, 2013. LISTEN TO FULL BROADCAST HERE: http://kboo.fm/node/52853 Air date: Mon, 01/07/2013 - 8:00am - 9:00amNicholas Caleb says that “despite Oregon’s progressive reputation, the last few months have shown that we are on the verge of becoming a state where large corporations can simply invent a crisis (or just invoke the word “JOBS” in...
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This article was originally published on Blue Oregon. Funding the mega-freeway will destroy livable street budgets. by Hart Noecker “It is an utter monstrosity…a horrible, awful, dark, miserable place.” ~ Robert Campbell, architecture critic, describing the proposed Hayden Island interchange of the CRC The colossal Columbia River Crossing mega-project is far more than a new bridge...
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Photo Credit to Tommy Murray Nike’s recent coup d’état to secure itself a virtual exception from paying anything close to a reasonable tax rate for up to 30 years on large scale developments — no matter what fiscal conditions emerge in the future — marks a significant departure from the way big money usually...
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