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Even the recycled paper symbol you see on wood fiber products you buy are mostly a result of the trimmings off enormous rolls of virgin wood fiber
Every year, roughly 5 million healthy, adoptable, dogs and cats are killed in shelters across the country because they could not find a home. Some people say this has to do with an overpopulation problem among cats and dogs. But it does not. In fact, around 8 million dogs and cats come into shelters every year, and around 5 million of those are killed for lack of decent homes. But at the same time, every year 17 million people go looking to adopt a dog or cat. So this is not a population problem, it's a problem of will. Do we care enough to stop the slaughter? Then we must care enough to stop the trafficking of cats and dogs, and we must care enough to go to the shelters and adopt animals who need homes. It's long past time to end this holocaust.
While Steve Poizner is calling for conflict of interest with Jerry Brown, he was personally presented with evidence of insurance company and employer fraud by injured worker Joe Dow and Candidate for Insurance Commissioner Dina Padilla but refused to properly investigate and prosecute for insurance violations.
April 18, 2010: 20 Activists Visit the Home of Judy Cameron, a Researcher at the Oregon
National Primate Research Center, to Alert Neighbors to Her Evils
Located across from the bridge (from Hood river) in Washington
The DRONE makers headquarters office of Insitu/Boeing
20 Activists Visit the Home of Judy Cameron, a Researcher at the Oregon
National Primate Research Center, to Alert Neighbors to Her Evils
Realizations from this evening's drive.
On Sunday, April 25th, AIPAC (The American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee) is holding a "community dinner and reception" in Portland, OR. AIPAC is billing the event as the "largest pro-Israel political event in Oregon."
The upcoming AIPAC event presents a critical opportunity to protest (largely US-funded) displacement, ethnic cleansing, internment, and militarized borders in the Middle East.
We are a group of Olympia residents whose goal is to support the
"State Street 29". Our goal is to encourage others to view these people from the perspective of those who rely on and care about them as loving, well intentioned, and active citizens concerned about the safety of our community. The State Street 29 is a group of individuals who were arrested on the night of April 8th, 2010
Their deaths were due to aggravated murder for profit. The mine and the mine owner, Massey Energy has had a long history of severe safety violations.
Clyde Lewis and I will be on KUFO tonight discussing the recent protests in Portland, Oregon.
I was a volunteer in the War on Terror and I come from a large family of teachers. A lot of people are trying to do something about the education system. This is a blueprint of science education in America anyone can use to prove how the "education" system trains Americans to depend on imperialism.
A coalition of environmental and public health groups will join faith based organizations, climate scientists and energy experts to host a Town Hall meeting in Vancouver Washington this Wednesday, April 21, 2010. The Vancouver event is part of a series of town halls to discuss Washington's path off coal power and towards a clean energy economy.
Digital Flyer
The People Speak! Documentary feature film narrated by Howard Zinn
Tuesday, April 20th at 7pm The Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd. $6 at the door. All proceeds benefit the Socialism 2010 Conference.
Law and Disorder
"Freedom of Speech Now!" Political Prisoners, Political Repression and the Prison Industrial Complex
CHALLENGING ROBOTIC WARFARE AND SOCIAL CONTROL 3 Day conference is in motion
I filmed the on the first day, two speakers: Dr. Tad McGeer, founder of The Insitu Group: "The History of Robotic Aircraft Development and Foreseeable Future Trends" And Rev. David Duncombe: "Military use of robotic aircraft: A citizen's primer"
Nine days after the shooting of anti-racist Luke Querner in downtown Portland by neo-Nazis, the house of a Canadian anti-racist organizer is targeted.
Brownshirts distract left from opportunity to build understanding.
CALL OUT TO ALL RADICALS!
PCC is hosting a special panel presentation on Police Use of Force and Accountability on Monday, April 19th, 2010 that the organizers are attempting to frame around the issue of Police Reform. As radicals, we must be physically and vocally present wherever this conversation is happening in an effort to break the conversation from being boxed within the framework of NGO/Non-Profit and Vangaurdist Reformism. We must be present to sow seeds of distrust in the state and their false solutions. Nothing less than the self-determined action of the people will put an end to police violence in our neighborhoods.
Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos has launched her campaign for a seat in parliament, as the country's congressional race formally began.
Over 20,000,000 million animals suffer and die in U.S. laboratories every year. These innocent victims are subjected to addictive drugs, caustic chemicals, ionizing radiation, chemical and biological weapons, electric shock, deprivation of food and/or water, psychological torture and many other horrors. World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week (April 17th-25th, 2010) is the time when activists come together to make a difference for these animals.
From ludlow to West Virginia. Union busting is still killing miners.
2 longliners notorious for violating by catch laws usually clear out the sea lions swimming around thier 9 mile long fishing line by throwing a 4 pronged steal hook at the Sea Lions head.
Two former soldiers from the Army unit responsible for the Wikileaks "Collateral Murder" incident have written an open-letter of "Reconciliation and Responsibility" to those injured in the July 2007 attack, in which U.S. forces wounded two children and killed over a dozen people, including the father of those children and two Reuters employees.
Using the same type of t-shirts as the Portland Police Bureau, right wing PSU students wear shirts saying "We are Zack Bucharest" upon hearing of PSU's exoneration of the former IDF sniper and current ASPSU exec. asst. vis-a-vis a PSU Econ teacher 'outing' Bucharest in class as an alleged agent provacateur.
Video from a recent field trip to the proposed natural gas Palomar pipe line crossing on the Clackamas river, recently designated as a Wild and Scenic River.Video From April Bark Hike
A Short Introduction:
The idea and focus behind this conference is to bring different types of anarchist practice to the for-front and begin moving away from specific theoretical engagements. Rather than taking theory and separating it from its everyday practice. This is an attempt at allocating theory the ideas brought up in discussion and talked about and beginning to practice them (IE. Praxis). There will be no specific theory leading the discussions or dialogue throughout the time except for the person. The set up is to have the ability to talk and discuss the ideas in an open manner. So after every discussion there will be a small open dialogue about the ideas.
The 2010 Worldwatch Report was compiled by 60 scholars. "To avoid collapse, nothing less is urged than a revolution of the dominant cultural model, the replacement of our consumer culture with a model of sustainable prosperity." Enlightened citizens are vital after the incapacity of the governments to agree on a global answer to climate change.
26 Real People Making a Real Difference
Friends, allies, join us Saturday, May 1st to celebrate International Worker's Day, AKA MAY DAY, in Tacoma & Portland
Join us for the beginning of a whole week of events. Please come to this to learn about the daily events of the rest of the week, including protests, leaf-letting, film screenings, an ADL benefit show, and other awesome actions!!
I read the Oregonina today and in it there was an article in the metro section that said that fish and wildlife officials were hazing Sea Lions in Oregon City at the Willamette Falls!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
A culture and an educational system that permit a student like Irish teen Phoebe Prince to be bullied and harassed until driven to suicide needs to undergo vast systemic changes immediately.
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Please show your opposition to the Tea Party Movement's hateful racist, homophobic and classist misleading rhetoric.
 http://oregonteaparty.ning.com/events/pdx-tax-day-tea-party-sw
Today, Thursday, April 15, Tax Day, at 7pm at Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock, in Eliot Hall 314, there will be a community forum on tenant rights, housing alliances, and building a safety net movement. Jesse Jackson, recently in Portland, talked about both police accountability and community building as priorities. Bring ideas about how to build this alliance into a movement, promote housing actions at upcoming May Day Portland events, etc.
"And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free " BEHOLD SARAH PALIN FANS,RICK PERRY IS ALREADY DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE IN MAKING SURE *HE AND ONLY tHE*RICK PERRY* WILL BE THE REPUBLICAN 2012 PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE ...
Last night Portlanders gathered to strategize about alternatives to policing and creating community accountability. We got together to build a movement working above the law for real definitions of safety and justice that fit the needs of our communities. This meeting, held in response to the second violent police shooting in the past few months, focused on questions of what should the relationship between police and community members look like, and what do our visions of justice look like?
Portlanders gathered to raise funds for the Institute of Anarchist Studies and to fund radical writers.
During May an exhibit, event and fundraiser will take place to benefit Portland's own anarchist and radical publisher and printer -- Eberhardt Press. All month long at the Red & Black Cafe.
Watching the footage of the demonstration against yet another murder by Portland police makes me think that it really doesn't make so much sense to be tangling with the drones themselves. The focus should be their higher ups and the elites (finance, insurance, real estate) who are running the urban removal program through the Portland Business Alliance.
April 15th is a day of national referendum on the US policies - there is yet another way to withdraw your consent by directing tax funds to groups that benefit the common good.
In view of last night's meeting, and in the interest of engaging people ahead of next month's meeting, check out this article, most especially the Suggested Activities near the bottom. Theres also a lot of great articles, links, poems, etc., on the website.
Encomendado por Dios
PT.1 Talk on Poltical Repression and the Prison Industrial Complex
PT.2 Police Violence and community responce Thursday April 22-23 2-5pm Smith Memorial Rm.238 Portland State University Free event open to public and free food
In the last month, we have found once more our capacity to act. Greek comrades speak at an infoshop, a man is shot by the police, and we are in the streets within hours. We have claimed the initiative for the first time in years. We set the tone before the liberals could react, but that means that we have a responsibility to think critically and strategically about what to do with our newfound power. We expect to continue failing; we would simply like to fail better.
A pdf of a zine on the role of police in our society.
"The Demand for Order and the Birth of Modern Policing by Kristian Williams" from: Monthly Review, Dec, 2003 by Kristian Williams kristianwilliams.com excerpt from "Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America (second edition: South End Press, 2007)
On April 8 2010, 800 Carlsberg factory workers walked off the job after new management policies tighten restrictions on beer drinking at work. Carlsberg's truck drivers have followed in sympathy.
EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) joins with Yahoo, Google and others to protect email users privacy as they challenges the governments intrusions and attempts at skirting the constitution.
The EFF is also calling for amendments to clarify and strengthen federal privacy law to preserve traditional privacy rights in the face of rapidly changing technology.
Northstar Infoshop is teaming up with Copyleft Books to open a brand new radical bookstore in Southeast Portland!
In a recent issue of Willamette Week, sit-lie organizer for Sisters of the Road, Brandon Phillips, is asked about Nick Fish as Portland's Housing Commissioner. Brandon is quoted (with ellipses, however) as saying that "Fish is amazing." No mention in the article is made of transit activist Jason Barbour, who is one of Fish's alternate opponents.
Information for 4/15 Tea Party Protests in Portland Oregon
On May 15th, Portland is joining the worldwide protest for Lolita, the orca whale to be "RETIRED" from Miami Seaquarium to a seapen provided by the Orca Network in the Puget Sound of Washington.
A list of new content that you can stream is available in the text of the article. To get your own show o publish audio content send an e-mail to "pdx-audio(at)lists.riseup.net" with the subject line "RADIO" preferably. Check out the link to the radio page on this article.
For Immediate Release
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) won a mixed victory in its legal assault on two dozen former staff and organizers who now lead the SEIU's chief rival in California, the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW). The verdict came days before reports emerged that SEIU President Andy Stern--the architect of the attack--would be stepping down.
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here is a new song I wrote in honor of the seriously pissed off grannies.