On Thursday, February 14th, 2013, Valentine’s Day, some 700 people took to the streets in solidarity with actions being carried out by 1 BILLION RISING across the globe against acts of violence upon women. From the 1 Billion Rising PDX event page: One Billion Rising is a Global Call to Action to end violence...
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Snowball Blitz Solidarity with the Unist’ot’en Blockade by Hart Noecker In northeast Portland, Oregon on a typically overcast Saturday afternoon on January 5th 2013, an act of snowy civil disobedience was about to take place. Along a particularly dismal stretch of 5 lane surface highway sits an unremarkable Chevron petrol station. Motorists loudly race...
Read more →In Portland, protestors are routinely beaten by the police during demonstrations. If they don’t file for a permit before marching, the chance of police violence increases dramatically. In fact, the Portland Police Bureau, in its pre- and post-event press releases basically says that the difference between the violence and a safe, fun event is the...
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