THE PORTLAND ALLIANCE

via Derrick Duehren


Carla Axtman, BlueOregon
An excerpt from Another Wu Town Hall, Another Big Crowd

Congressman Wu held a Town Hall in NW Portland on Tuesday, Aug. 11. It was scheduled to begin at noon and run for 1 hour. So I figured I'd show up early. I got there at 10:45 a.m., and the line was all the way up one side of the block and half-way down the next side. I heard later… Continue

Time For Portland And Mayor Sam Adams To Move On

To the Editor:
The decision by the Oregon Attorney General not to prosecute Portland Mayor Sam Adams does not answer some of the questions at the heart of scandal.
All we know today that we didn’t know yesterday is that the mayor will not be charged with a crime in this affair. Mayor Adams has resisted calls for his resignation (including my own) since this matter first came to light in January and will likely see this report from the OAG as a pe… Continue

May Day in Portland drew a crowd of roughly 20,000 to march from the South Park Blocks around downtown.

CAUSA, Oregon's immigrants rights coalition, alone rallied 5,000 people from the Salem area to join Portlanders for the annual march.

Stating at 4 p.m., speakers from M.E.Ch.A. (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán), CAUSA, Jobs With Justice, and PCC spoke to an increasing crowd of activists, laborers, students, educators, and groups of families and supporters of human rights and equalit… Continue

By Bonnie Tinker
The Portland and Clark County Chapters of Americans United for Separation of Church and State (Americans United) will sponsor a symposium on Same-Sex Marriage to be held Sunday, April 19th, 2:00 PM in Hoffmann Hall at Portland State University. The event, titled “Civil Rites,” is co-sponsored by the Portland State Department of Women’s Studies, Basic Rights Oregon and Love Makes A Family.
The Symposium will include a panel presentation, personal stories from lesbian and gay coup… Continue

by Brittany Wilson
On March 5, the California Supreme Court heard oral arguments against the passing of Proposition 8 and now has 90 days to make a final decision. The 3-hour hearing covered a multitude of implications that ambiguous language within the proposition left up to interpretation.
The main argument the court referred to throughout the hearing was whether Prop. 8 was an amendment or a revision to the constitution. An amendment can pass by a simple majority vote, but a revision requires… Continue