Activist Jonah Majure and attorney Ben Andersen About a dozen people showed up today at the Multnomah County Justice Center to support a PDX Rising Tide activist who on Thursday locked himself to a railroad bridge as part of the huge and crazy #ShellNO protest. Jonah Majure is charged with one count of first-degree trespass […]
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Burger Week Preview: Pause’s Steakhouse Burger
For the third year running, Burger Week brings you limited edition, $5 burgers from your favorite Portland bars and restaurants, for one week only! This year the promotion will run Aug 10-16, giving you just one week to try as many burgers as you can from over 30 participating establishments! To get you prepared, we’ll […]
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Good Morning, News!: Oil In the Arctic, Oil on Your Fruit, and a Blue Moon
Kayaktivists and climbers on Thursday morning #ShellNO “The whole world is watching!” That was one of the many chants kayaktivists screamed at authorities trying to break the #ShellNO blockade near the St. Johns bridge on Thursday. And they were right. As pointed out in the Merc‘s running coverage yesterday, it was all eyes on Portland. […]
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Defeated on the Willamette, Shell Takes the Fight to the Courts
The bridge was up around 7 a.m., but the Fennica went back to the dock. What’s a multibillion-dollar energy giant to do when 13 mean activists in hammocks block its ship from pressing Arctic plunder? Ask the courts for help, apparently. After Shell Oil’s ship the Fennica was forced back into dry dock this morning […]
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A Leak in the Bottle
Tribes’ Treaty Rights May Dam the Flow to Nestlé
Native water rights could block Nestlé’s bid on Oxbow Springs
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There Are a Boatload of House Parties Happening Tonight for Bernie Sanders, With Beer!
Bernie! You guys! Why is Bernie smiling? Why, you ask? This is why: TONIGHT, all across this great nation of ours, (Socialist? Democratic?) presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is hosting 1,000s of house parties… and some have free beer! I’m gonna make this post quick, because I spent the morning live tweeting the #ShellNO protest and […]
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Portland #ShellNO Kayaktivists Plan to Block Departing Ice Breaker
Portland Ecofilm Festival Facebook page #ShellNO kayaktivists on Saturday Kayaktivists and protesters are at Cathedral Park, waiting for the soon-to-be departing Fennica—a damaged Shell Oil ice breaker ship being repaired in Portland—to ship out. Daphne Wysham with the Center for Sustainable Economy says the group is will hold a vigil and plans to try to […]
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Good Morning, News: Tour de France Winner, The Big One, and Pluto
RAIN! Hooray! I think it’s gonna rain today, guys! Let’s have some news! Looks like Britain’s Chris Froome is about to win the Tour de France. Wanna go see what it’d be like to live off emergency rations for two weeks after “the big one” hits? Me neither. But the Red Cross is staging “Camp […]
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UPDATE: McCoy Village Apartments’ Totally Insane Rent Hike *Might* Be Was A Mistake
That’s a disturbing rent hike. BREATHE EASY: Both Cascade Management, Inc. and Catholic Charities have confirmed that they’re not more than doubling their tenants’ rents. Whew! Rick Berkel, executive director of Catholic Charities, which owns McCoy Village, said it was “really unfortunate” that tenants at the complex spent the better part of a day legitimately […]
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Equality Act Would Finally Ban Discrimination Against LGBT Community
White House Press Office Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley on Thursday introduced the Equality Act, a bill that would add the LGBT community to the list of groups protected the 1964 Civil Rights Act, making it federally illegal to discriminate against people based on their gender identity or sexual orientation. According to a news release from […]
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Kayaktivists Prepare: The ShellNO! Protest is Coming to Portland This Weekend
The FENNICA cometh It’s time for another protest, kayaktavists! Portland’s getting its chance this weekend to get in on the ShellNO! movement when the Fennica, a 380-foot icebreaker headed here for repairs, arrives and then ships off once again to Alaska to resume its role in the 2015 drilling season. Shell Oil Co. uses the […]
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Good Morning, News!: Intruders Under Beds, A Big Bag of Cash, and Bison Selfies Gone Wrong
Oooh, la la, Bill! It’s Thursday again (and the second day of the OBF)! Let’s have some brews news! What’s the adage? No good deed goes unpunished? The road to hell is paved with good intentions? Both work, in this case, where a Portland bicyclist was injured after a well-meaning driver waved another driver through […]