OIL! Is it news anymore when we find out the oil spill is worse than we thought? Cause it is worse than we thought. DRUGS! This week, 429 people were arrested for connections with Mexican drug cartels. BOATS! The 16-year-old sailor who went off-the-map yesterday got in contact today and is just fine. RIOTS! In […]
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Trimet Gets Bus Safety Suggestions From Florida Consultants
After an accident last month in which a Trimet bus struck five pedestrians, killing two of them, when the driver took an illegal left turn, the bureau hired a Florida consulting service to review its safety procedures. The 26-page report includes some sucking up (“It is our belief that TriMet embraces the goal of attaining […]
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Vote For the Best Anarchist Band Name
Yesterday, we asked you to name this band. Now we’re asking you to pick the best name from the choices below, and even better, we have a prize for the winner… that’s right, it’s a $20 gift card to the Red and Black Café [and police-free zone]. Vote below! photo illustration by Commenty Colin Voting […]
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Name This Band
The Oregonian‘s coverage of yesterday’s Red & Black anarchist press conference includes this fantastic photo that can really be nothing but a publicity shot for Portland’s newest hit indie-rockers. Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian There you go, folks, name that band! Note: commenter cyoung has already suggested “Anarchist Pouty-Faces.” Update 3:53pm: We will select the best names […]
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Red and Black Vs. Cops: “In No Way Comparable To Racial Discrimination”
Ari Perez-Diez and John Langley outside the Red and Black this afternoon. The Red and Black Cafe, along with Rose City Copwatch, held a press conference this afternoon to follow up on the media coverage of the cafe kicking out a cop a few weeks ago. The groups wanted to speak out about how the […]
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Tonight is the Mercury 10th birthday bash. It’s free! Israel did not raise its blockade when an Irish Gaza-bound aid vessel got down there. They boarded the ship and turned it around. BP has begun siphoning a very small amount of oil through a containment thingie, but the leak continues. They also handed control of […]
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Red And Black Cafe Vs. Cops Update: Civilization Is The Root Cause Of All Oppression
Vegan cafe I just took a jaunt down to the Red and Black Cafe on SE 12th, where a co-owner kicked out a cop last month because he “felt uncomfortable” having him there. The event was picked up by Gawker yesterday, and hit CNN today. I went down to the “vegan, worker owned, collectively owned, […]
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The oil spill solution is kind of working, in an oil-is-still-leaking kind of way. And BP’s CEO needs to shut up and pay Obama some money. ($69 million to start). Astronauts are going to start pretending they’re astronauts, (just like us!) in a 520-day simulation to see if they go crazy. Miley Cyrus is a […]
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Vegan Restaurant Throws Out Cop After Serving Him Coffee
Red & Black Cafe co-owner John Langley said he “never expected an police officer” to come to his restaurant. And when one did, last month, he asked him to leave. The Oregonian reported this afternoon: [Portland police Officer James Crooker] popped into the Red & Black cafe on Southeast 12th Avenue near Oak Street, bought […]
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Surrogate Promises: Saltzman’s Take On The DV One-Stop
Dan Saltzman Today’s paper includes a story about the new one-stop Gateway domestic violence services center, which will open at 102nd and East Burnside on July 20th. The project has received major support from City Commissioner Dan Saltzman, who says he threw his support behind the project after hearing about a similar one in San […]
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Police Keep Shooting [Dogs]
Saturday, Sunday, and yesterday. What do these days have in common? Police-on-dog shootings following dog-on-person maulings. A play-by-play: Saturday Afternoon: Pit bull lunges at Washington County deputy in Rock Creek neighborhood. Deputy’s partner shoots, but does not kill, the dog. Sunday Morning: Portland Police officers get a call saying that a pit bull is attacking […]
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A $10 million criminal investigation of BP by feds has begun. And it seems like BP may have hired some people to act like workers for Obama’s visit to the coast yesterday. The Malawi President has pardoned the gay couple that was jailed for 14 months, after pressure was put on the country by aid […]