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Community Building
We are all working in one way or another to create the world we want to live in and pass it on to the generations to come. One of the best ways to accomplish all that we strive for is to build strong community bonds that will support us through the struggles ahead. Building community comes in all manner of actions and intentions such as neighborhood projects, small local business, free skools, crime and cop watch, alternative economics like barter and community currencies, sharing histories, Food Not Bombs, community gardens, reading groups, arts collectives, community forums, mutual aid, free trainings and skillshares; all of which can be reported, shared and read about here.
From the open publishing newswire:
A statement expressing our reaction and process regarding the Tim Calvert/ Valdas Anelauskas situation.
Making consensus decisions on immeasurably difficult issues is not something that comes easily to our cooperative. Members of the coop have been working from June until now, and this is what we wish to express.
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Explanation of our situation: Hello everyone who values the low cost radical community space Liberty Hall has provided over the last 7 and a half years... It's becoming increasingly likely that the current tenants, the Workers Education Resource Center (basically the IWW and the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee), will not be able to continue our tenancy after either December 31st of this year or January 31st of next year. After the three month remodel is completed WERC "might" be allowed back at an increased rent and with one less office space...
So we are looking at our options; one is to find another space that has both offices for the non-profits and a space big enough to hold the kind of events we've hosted in the past, another is that PCASC and the IWW move in to normal office space and that there simply isn't one of these spaces in Portland anymore, or one more possibly is that if there are enough people interested and dedicated to maintaining a community space at another location (we would not recommend continuing to rent from our landlord) that we/they use the connections and goodwill that Liberty Hall has built up as a springboard for that project. It's important that we get some input from the thousands of people who have enjoyed events at Liberty Hall over the years, so we're going to try to hold a community forum sometime in November or December... More details as that develops. If you have any ideas or suggestions, particularly available spaces, send them to  libertyhallportland@gmail.com.
 http://www.liberty-hall-pdx.com
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Come party down with the Red and Black Cafe as we celebrate our ninth year as a radical / community space. There will be live music by:
Tansy & Tarweed (jazz / punk inspired anarcho-folk) Slow Teeth (raucous vaudevillian folk) Disemballerina (cello, guitar and viola doom, epic and beautiful) The Dapper Cadavers (PDX favorite, punk-tinged old time) In addition we will have TWO TYPES of kombucha on tap for sale, courtesy of local business Herbucha, as well as beer on tap. There will also be rad t-shirts, buttons and posters for sale, and literature / info tables by some local activist groups. The event will be held at LIBERTY HALL on [Thursday} October 15th. It will all start around 7pm. Liberty Hall's address is: 311 N. Ivy Street. http://redandblackcafe.com
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Econvergence Conference: NW Regional Gathering on the Economic and Ecological Crises
October 2 - 4, 2009 in Portland, OR This three-day conference will include over 80 workshops and sessions (all sessions other than Noam Chomsky and Derrick Jensen will be presented FREE to the public). Workshops will cover diverse political perspectives and a broad array of topics including: the economic crisis, the environmental crisis, direct action, organizing, economic justice, environmental activism, war & imperialism, political repression, the Green Scare, veganism, anarchism, socialism, cooperatives, radical art and poetry, and more! Check out the selected list of workshops below that indicates some of the radical workshops represented at the conference, listed by topic. There's really something for everyone. We hope to see you there!! Friday and Saturday events will take place at First Unitarian Church of Portland (SW 12th Ave & SW Salmon St). Sunday events will take place at Portland State University, Smith Memorial Union. For more information and a complete list of workshops, visit www.econvergence.org.
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Portland Food Not Bombs now serves free vegan meals 7 days a week.
Monday-Friday at Col. Summers Park(SE 17th and Taylor) Saturdays at N. Park Blocs/Riot Elephant(W. Burnside and Park) Sundays at Peninsula Park(N. Rosa Parks and Albina0 All meals are at 530. Come an get it!
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Four organizers with Tenant Rights Project used their alloted 3 minute time slots at this week's Wednesday morning Portland City Council meeting to criticize a local slumlord housing corporation and housing commissioner Nick Fish. The council objected to the "harsh rhetoric" of tenants. Tenant Rights Project started organizing CCC tenants in the fall of 2008. CCC is a $33,000,000 annual budget nonprofit, with 23 buildings and 1400 tenants. There are persistent pest control (cockroaches, mice and bedbugs) problems in several buildings, crime (drugs, prostitution, sex harassment) that has moved into some of the buildings (aided and abetted by CCC managers in some buildings), and lack of transparency: the CCC board of directors has an 'oral preference' that tenants aren't allowed to attend board meetings or to speak at board meetings. Tenants are also forbidden to get copies of board minutes -- a practice that Community Alliance of Tenants (which TRP has been talking with since November, 2008) says may be illegal, under Oregon Attorney General John Kroger rules regarding transparency and nonprofits. At this week's Aug. 26 city council meeting, tenants criticized Fish's refusal, for six months now, to meet with tenant organizers on these issues. Fish said nothing in response to this complaint. Instead, Fish launched into a long talk about people misusing the First Amendment, likening tenant protesters to the conservative protesters against Obama's health plan proposal. Fish deplored the lack of civility in public discourse, and suggested tenant organizers should "alter their delivery" and use 'less harsh' rhetoric, etc.
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Rose City Antifa has uncovered the location of David Irving's lecture. He is speaking at Embassy Suites - Airport located at 7900 NE 82nd Street Portland, OR 97220. The phone number of this venue is (503) 460-3000. Irving's personal cellphone number is (305) 923-6779. He is slated to begin his lecture today, Sunday July 19th, at 3pm.
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This is my first year working at the Oregon Country Fair. I didn't know quite to expect. Having only visited it for a day the year before, I thought that maybe it was a big circus, with the glitz and guts coming down once it closes. However, it's full of a lot of great people who walk their talk and are greatly accepting. People are free to express themselves in whichever way they see fit, without pressure, body image ideals or costume if they don't want. Portland Indymedia is tabling in the Doors of Expression Booth at Community Village at the Oregon Country Fair this weekend, July 10-12. If you're coming down to the fair, come over and say hi and check out our co-boothers, KBOO, Mind Freedom and Kindtree. Also be sure to make time to check out the shows, sights and community. Read More
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TriMet is proposing to limit Fareless Square to rail-only The Transit Riders Union rejects any cuts or changes that do not include expansion to Fareless Square. TRU activists will be mobilizing communities against this proposal and again raising issues of an elected board and rejecting all cuts to services. Join us.
Public Hearing: Monday, July 13th at 5-7 p.m.
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A revolutionary concept in food delivery will make it's grand debut this Sunday, 5 July @ 43rd and Hawthorne, between 1-6pm. The Hawthorne Urban Farmers' Market is the only one in Portland to feature only ultra-local produce and to accept both cash and barter.The Hawthorne Urban Farmers' Market is an experiment in self-organization that allows each vendor ultimate freedom to conduct business as he or she chooses. The market is also not affiliated with the Oregon Farmers' Market Association. It operates without fees from vendors but instead, relies upon a gift economy. For instance, vendors pitch in to give the entertainment and lot owners a bag of produce or give goods between each other to exchange what one might call the capital of goodwill.
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PDX QUEER TOWN HALL
7pm Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 The Q Center (4115 N Mississippi) ABOUT Over PDX Pride weekend 2009, multiple members of our community experienced harassment, violence & queer-bashing, as well as inadequate police response. A group of us who were pretty directly involved in the incidents, came together to create space to talk about what happened, and move toward some positive & empowering solutions; thus the Town Hall concept was born. We see this Queer Town Hall as a space to share our experiences & resources, and to catalyze action that can help keep ourselves and our communities safer in the future. The meeting itself will begin with a short introduction, followed by breakout groups which will be spread around the room. This is an opportunity to hear about ideas that are currently in the works, to get involved, and share!
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Radix is an anarchist art and media collective based in Portland, Oregon. The word radix is the Latin root of the word radical, which means, "to get to the bottom of a situation." Our topics include but are not limited to anarchism, animal rights, human rights, prisoner support, and civil liberties.
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The Stumptown Joustdown is one of those events in Portland that make this such an amazing city. Today I made my way over to Col. Summers Park in SE Portland with my brother Andrew to take in the action.
Portland's bike culture did not disappoint. The Stumptown Joustdown is absolutely insane. Competitors speed their bicycles, chariots and other wheeled craft straight at each other while wielding a jousting pole with which to pummel their opponent, hopefully to the ground. The action was fast and the impacts spectacular. There is no way I would compete in this event. My hats off to those that picked up the joust and competed today. We saw bicycles, mini bikes, a bride/groom match and chariots but had to leave before the open class. Thanks Portland.. you weirdo. ~H |
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