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The owners of the Dixie Mattress Company at SE 33rd and Belmont had their sign altered on Sunday night, June 22. Where two confederate flags once adorned the awning, two images of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. now covered the flags, attached with clothespins. The anonymous people responsible left a phone message with the Mercury […]
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After months of heated debate and with the firm support of the mayor, Portland immigrant rights organization VOZ has opened the city’s first day-laborer hiring site. On opening day this Monday, June 16, Spanish-speaking workers began arriving at the chain-link fence surrounding a parking lot on the corner of NE Davis and MLK. VOZ outfitted […]
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Portland’s anti-war “Raging Grannies” had the case against them dismissed in court on Monday, June 9, after prosecutors were too unorganized to get cops to show up on the right day. Sara Graham and Bonnie Tinker were arrested at last year’s Rose Parade for sitting down in front of a tank. At first they were […]