Repealing Obamacare is going to take a while. Still, getting an IUD is never a BAD idea. Zimmerman Creative / iStock Panicked about losing your healthcare coverage or affordable birth control under the incoming Douchebag in Chief? Aren’t we all? It’s terrifying that the incoming president is actually treating “take away healthcare, the thing that […]
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Resist Trump By Supporting These Crucial Organizations
With an impending Trump presidency, we are looking at four years of an administration that seems likely to threaten the health, safety, and security of women, the LGBTQ community, people of color, and immigrants, as well as the long-term health of our planet. So where do we go from here? Expect the worst and mobilize […]
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Portland High School Kids are Skipping School to Protest Trump
Doug Brown Think kids of today don’t give a crap? Check out the march and demonstration going down today at the noontime hour from high school students from across the entire district. Portland students walk out and hold rally at pioneer square @KGWNews @KATUNews @OPB @cprofita_opb @portlandmercury pic.twitter.com/bLIL90V3Ae— Mia Reback (@miareback) November 14, 2016 And […]
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“Please Stay Home Tonight,” Portland Mayor and Police Chief Tell Demonstrators
Police Sgt. Pete Simpson, Chief Mike Marshman, and Mayor Charlie Hales address reporters this afternoon. Dirk VanderHart It’s official: Mayor Charlie Hales and Police Chief Mike Marshman are done with anti-Donald Trump protests. On Friday afternoon, Hales and Marshman called reporters to City Hall to decry rioting and property damage that had occurred in an […]
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Cops Arrested 17 Anti-Trump Demonstrators Friday Night—And Four More In Connection With A Shooting
Dirk VanderHart Portland police officials had clearly made up their mind after Thursday’s rioting: They weren’t going to give anti-Trump demonstrators an inch on Friday. So as hundreds of people at a low-key community-building event put on by the new group Portland’s Resistance began to spill into SW 4th in front of City Hall, an […]
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Chants, Tear Gas, and Flashbangs: Updates From Last Night’s Anti-Trump Rally
Dirk VanderHart Following Thursday’s chaotic demonstration, protestors once again took to Portland’s streets Friday night—marching across downtown, onto several bridges, and into Saturday’s early morning hours. The protests began peacefully, but led to police using flashbang grenades and pepper spray to disperse participants, and one man being wounded in a shooting on the Morrison Bridge. […]
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Guest Editorial: The Changemakers of Tomorrow
[The following is a guest editorial from Philip Rafferty, a US History teacher at Jefferson High School.—eds.] It is that time of year again: parent teacher conferences. I just spent the last two days engaged in dialogue with the parents of more than half of my 140 students. The days are long. I teach at […]
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Don’t Forget, Violence and Vandalism Provides Support to Trump
The thousands of people who have been marching in Portland—and other major cities—have one thing in common: Coming together to show their support for the people that Donald Trump has treated, and will continue to treat, unfairly. His stance is in total opposition to our values and standards, and that’s why we march, and should […]
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Portland Activists Have Raised More than $10,000 $32,000 to Pay For Thursday Night’s Vandalism
Doug Brown Portland’s peaceful protesters want to make good. In the wake of a “riot” on the part of a minority of Anti-Trump activists last night—which saw widespread property damage in the Pearl and Lloyd districts, and which ended only after riot cops used pepper spray and less-lethal munitions—the new group Portland’s Resistance says it […]
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Harry Reid Gives ’Em Hell
This morning Nevada Senator Harry Reid posted a press release on his site. The Senate minority leader did not hold back on his feelings about Donald Trump’s ascendency to the presidency. “I have personally been on the ballot in Nevada for 26 elections and I have never seen anything like the reaction to the election […]
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Russia Admits They Had Contact with Traitorous Trump During His Campaign
VLADIMIR PUTIN: “Oh, me and Trump? We’re tight like this.” iStock Yesterday was crazy, with tons of headlines like this, this, this, and this. SO YEAH, IT WAS ALL A BIT MUCH. That’s why it may have been easy to skip over what, to me, was one of the most shocking headlines in a day […]
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Wondering What You Can Do? A Lot. Start Here.
Subscribe to a fucking newspaper. Get a fucking IUD. Show the fuck up for racial justice. Savushkin / istock Amid all of the messages of sadness and anger and disbelief I’ve received in the wake of Tuesday’s presidential election, there’s one more refrain I’m hearing, and it’s an important one: “What can I do?” You […]