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 […]
Resistance and Solidarity
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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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John Oliver: President-Elect Donald Trump Is a “Klan-Backed Misogynist Internet Troll”
Don’t get comfortable. That was comedian John Oliver’s message to viewers last night, when he addressed Donald Trump’s shocking presidential win on November 8. On Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, he summed up his feelings about this election year: “I thought I wanted it to be over but now that it’s over I wish […]
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Good Morning, News: More Portland Protests, Trump Appoints Breitbart, and Chappelle is the Best
GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Friends ask how could I give myself to one who belongs to someone else. They just don’t know your love’s so good that they would want it for themselves. LET’S GO TO PRESS. Another big weekend of protests against the election of the worst president our nation has ever seen—thousands of peaceful […]
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Portland Police Needed a TriMet Bus For All the Demonstrators They Arrested on Saturday Night
Portland Police Bureau When Mayor Charlie Hales and Police Chief Mike Marshman implored anti-Trump demonstrators to stay home Saturday night, they warned that cops would be more aggressive than they’d been during the past three nights’ protests. You could see that immediately Saturday evening, when protesters predictably ignored the warning and gathered at Pioneer Courthouse […]
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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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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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25 People Arrested During Last Night’s Anti-Donald Trump Protest
Thousands took the the streets last night to protest President-elect Donald Trump. It got a little out of hand, when a number of self-described “anarchists”—wearing masks and carrying sticks and baseball bats—went on a vandalism tear, bashing in car windows at a Toyota dealership in the Lloyd District and business windows in the Pearl District. […]
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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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Some Portland Protesters Commit Widespread Property Damage as Anti-Trump Rally Sours
Doug Brown An otherwise peaceful protested descended into chaos Thursday, as a small group of anarchists split off from a massive anti-Trump demonstration and began widespread property damage in the Pearl District. Masked protesters took bats to storefront windows all up and down NW Lovejoy, having already bashed out windows at numerous cars at a […]