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announcements - "what can we do?"
To be aware of all the problems facing the world can be empowering and liberating. Yet at times, this awareness seems a burden because with so many issues it can be difficult to know where to put one's energy. This page is meant to be a resource for all of us who want to know "what we can do", or "where can we help", or "how can I become more involved". Whether you want to attend a benefit or other event to become more educated or entertained, learn more about upcoming marches, demonstrations, or other actions, find reasons and ways to contact a government or corporate representative, join a collective which shares your interests, go to a local meeting for an organization, help out other members of the community, or to simply look for inspiration for your own ideas we hope that we will all be able to find that information here.
From the open publishing newswire:
Tre's Legal Update.
From Paul Loney, Tre's attorney... Hi folks, Tre's 5/6/2008 Jury Trial has been reset for 7/8/2008 at 09:00AM before Judge James A. Redden. We needed to set a new trial date because additional time is needed for pretrial investigation and trial preparation. So there is no court appearance for May 6th. The July 8th date is also subject to change.  http://www.trearrow.org
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This week a sea lion was murdered at the hands of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife after trapping, stressing, branding, and anethesizing numbers of sea lions that are supposed to be protected, but instead are being sold to Sea World in Florida.
Please call the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), and Governor Kulongoski Friday and Monday. Let them know that you want the Sea Lion trapping to stop and you don't want them to kill anymore Sea Lions. We are their voice! Call many times! http://www.pdxanimaldefense.org
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On May 3rd, we will be hosting our 6th Monkeywrench Cafe, an event of excellent, low-cost food and wonderful storytelling by Earth First!ers of all generations! Come out as we keep the tradition of oral history alive! All meals are vegan, delicious and low-cost, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. This month we have more old-school Earth First!ers coming into town to regale us with tales of adventure! Saturday, May 3rd, 7-10pm. Monkeywrench Cafe Come out as we keep the tradition of oral history alive! All meals are vegan, delicious and low-cost, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. This month we have more old-school Earth First!ers coming into town to regale us with tales of adventure!
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On May 1, all 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast are to be shut down by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in protest against the U.S. war on Afghanistan and Iraq. This is a historic event of international significance: labor action against imperialist war by a major American union. The strategically placed port workers in the ILWU can bring commerce with Asia to a grinding halt, and they're about to demonstrate it. The maritime employers are already screaming, and you can bet it's got the attention of the warmongers in Washington. All labor should take up the challenge this poses: For workers strikes against the war! M
eanwhile, immigrants' rights groups are once again mobilizing on May Day. And on April 30 and May 1, the independent truckers who move cargo to and from the docks may play an important role in a shutdown. The imperialist war on Afghanistan and Iraq is also a war on immigrants, minorities, working people and democratic rights "at home." We need to defeat this attack here and abroad, in opposition to both the capitalist war parties. The "antiwar movement," whose aim has always been to pressure the Democrats, is at a dead end. What's needed is working-class action independent of the bosses. What that takes is a fundamental break from the Democratic Party and the pro-capitalist politics that infuse the labor bureaucracy. MayDay Picnic Noon-4pm | Mayday Immigrants Rights Demo 3 - 4 pm | Mayday GUELAGUETZA! 6-10pm | Red & Black mayday celebration starting at 7pm
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Join us May 1st after the march and rally at the Park Blocks. Free food, live music, and family fun.
THURSDAY MAY 1ST, 6 - 10 pm at the First Unitarian Church at 1011 SW 12th Ave (Just after and just a few blocks up from the main Mayday rally and march!) WE ARE MANY HANDS AND ONE SINGLE HEART IN THE STRUGGLE http://www.myspace.com/sinfronteras_olin
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The 'May Day Picnic' will be based completely on voluntary co-operation and participation, an event for exchange ideas, struggles, and activities, a potluck of sorts. There is no one group of people organizing and executing it, but collectives and individual people who take initiative to create and bring something to contribute, or spontaneously create at the event.
Food, games, music, free literature, workshops, speakers, art, and so much more - anything and everything is possible. Do what you want! Anything and everything you can imagine! May Day Picnic Starts at Noon til 4pm on May Day North Park Blocks(NW 8th and Flanders)
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May Day celebration at the Red and Black Cafe (Thursday 5/1/08 -- international worker's day) We'll be closed during the day in respect for Mayday. But we'll be in from 7pm to late. It's a benefit for VOZ (spanish for voice), an immigrant workers organization based in Portland it's by donation, no one turned away for lack of funds food and beverage will be sold as normal however the cafe will be breaking it's 'edge' by serving frosty bottles of something delicious for the 1st time in our new space live music by Brenna Sahatjian of Riot Folk, Noah Andrews and more TBA come after the march to 400 SE 12th Ave., Portland OR 503-231-3899 Please come out and have some fun with us! -- the folks at the Red and Black
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Rally @ 12 PM---March @ 1 PM
This coming Saturday there will be a rally starting in People's Park at 12 PM in the Hilltop district of Tacoma. At 1 PM we will leave the park and head down the hill. As it stands right now, no one even knows about the existence of the Northwest Detention Center. The families affected by the raids and those who support them are aware of its existence. But the general population does not know. This blackout and secrecy has gone on for too long. Those of us with the privilege and ability to do something have done nothing. Those of us least affected by the raids have sat by for too long while the process of detention, removal and terror continues unabated.
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2 more days until Mayday! Mayday!
A great opportunity to see what is happening with the radical community here in Portland! Listen to music, eat good food, watch presentations by some of Portland's amazing radical and revolutionary organizations! We will be starting promptly at 7:30pm! Please join us Sunday April 27th at 7:30pm at Liberty Hall (311 N. Ivy) for an evening of food, music, speakers and tables. We aim to promote community building, communication and solidarity within the Portland radical community. Come and enjoy tables and presentations by some of Portland's amazing radical and revolutionary organizations. Come and show support for these groups, ask questions, get involved or network. All are invited and encouraged to attend! Help us to prepare for our favorite holiday and to celebrate Portland's radical past, present and future! We will see you there! May 1st OLIN Event at 1st Unitarian Church: MAYDAY 2008 GUELAGUETZA! | Noon on Mayday -radical anarchist picnic @ north park blocks
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The Portland Animal Defense League(Pdx-A.D.L.) & The Sea Lion Protection Collective organize a demo/rally/protest in Portland, Oregon at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Office located at 911 N.E. 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, 97232. The group is concerned about the proposed Killing of Sea Lions by the Government. Killing protected Sea Lions will not save the salmon. Stopping excessive fishing, removing dams, and better policies will.
April 23rd, 2008 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Office 911 NE 11th Ave Portland, OR 97232 http://www.pdxanimaldefense.org/
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Andrew Flood is an active anarchist organizer and writer, with twenty years experience in Ireland, most of that time as a member of the Workers Solidarity Movement. More recently, he has been become a member of the Northeast Federation of Anarchist Communists and is a founder member of Common Cause, Ontario
His publishing record includes well over one hundred articles, translated into over nine languages, chapters published in three books, and articles in seven English language anti-authoritarian magazines and newspapers. As well as numerous events in Ireland he has been the speaker at meetings in Britain, Italy, Canada, the Czech Republic and the USA and attended conferences in the Netherlands, France, Spain and Mexico. The tour is sponsored by Class Action Alliance, a new organization being built in Washington and Oregon which identifies with the specific international anarchist traditions recognizing four main tenets of anarchist organization. The core of these traditions are the need for anarchist political organizations that seek to develop theoretical unity, tactical unity, collective action and discipline, and federalism. We are loosely based on the Anarkismo editorial statement [Portland:] Saturday, May 3rd at 3pm, [Eugene:] Sunday, May 4th at 7pm
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Vegans For Animal Advocacy is Hosting a SHAC7 Movie Benefit @ 5th Avenue Cinema! Come watch "Behind the Mask" from Uncaged Films, its a documentary on the ALF. Donate some cash for SHAC7 and even register for the Let Live NW Animal Rights Convention!!
What: "Behind the Mask" When: Friday 04/25 Doors Open @ 7:00 with Movie starting at 7:30 (72min long...) Where: 5th Avenue Cinema How Much: Suggested Donation of 3-5$ (Come on you know you want to donate!!) Bring your own snacks, although there may be some provided! Also, We are happy to be part of the Let Live NW Animal Rights Conference coming to PSU this Summer! If you would like to register your spot we will be able to do that at the movie :) http://www.letliveconference.com"
http://www.vegansforanimaladvocacy.com
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Tuesday, Apr 22nd, :00 PM - 08:00 PM
Rm 296 Smith Student Union The SPP: The North American Corporate Coup'de'tat (organized by North American Solidarity, Students for Unity) A teach-in followed by a strategy/organizing meeting in opposition to the anti-democratic and fascist North American Leaders Summit in New Orleans, which is the fourth meeting of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. Be there if you want to learn about this overwhelmingly quiet organization that is directing our future. http://rootfoce.org |
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