Portland, Ore. In Grants Pass, Ore., a North Middle School assistant principal and a seventh-grade teacher started a petition calling…
Portland, Ore. March 17 marked the one-year anniversary of the historic sit-in of 27 fired Crush Bar Workers Collective members…
Texas “It’s a nonviolent protest going on right now because the officers [in an unnamed Texas prison], in the middle…
On Dec. 9 an incarcerated person at Stafford Creek “men’s” prison, near Aberdeen, Wash., died of COVID-19. The same week,…
Dec. 14 — The Kinney family — owners of the now internationally famous “Red House on Mississippi” — is the…
Portland, Ore. In November, three Oregon prisons — Two Rivers, Salem, and Snake River — reported the state’s highest rate…
The writer is a U.S. Army veteran and was an organizer of the American Servicemen’s Union, 1968-69. This month two…
Montana State Prison reported Nov. 6 that Robert Gonzalez, 70, died Oct. 24 of COVID and that “underlying health conditions…
Portland, Ore. On four successive days in late September, four prisoners in Oregon state prisons died of Covid-19. On Oct.…
Portland, Ore. On March 16, after the Oregon state pandemic-related closure of businesses deemed nonessential, laid-off Crush Bar and adjacent…