Oregon

Portland Pride weekend: visibility and protest

Portland, Oregon Tens of thousands of Portland’s LGBTQ2S+ community and supporters attended a weekend of events during Portland Pride July…

July 21, 2023

PDX maintenance workers “Sit Down! Fight Back!”

Portland, Oregon  “We won’t stand for it!”  Portland Airport (PDX) wheelchair attendants, baggage and service workers, cabin cleaners and janitors…

July 1, 2023

Battle of Stronghold 1873: Indigenous Modoc people resisted

The U.S. Army was defeated by the Modoc Nation in the Battle of Stronghold 150 years ago on Jan. 17,…

January 16, 2023

Oregon governor commutes death row sentences

Portland, Oregon Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has commuted the sentences of everyone awaiting execution by the state: 16 men and…

December 23, 2022

Nurses’ union marches in Oregon

Oregon City, Oregon Nurses from the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) working at Providence Oregon hospitals marched May 11 from Providence…

May 18, 2022

Portland Starbucks: unionizing on the rise

Portland, Oregon  A rowdy crowd rallied March 26 outside a Starbucks store in Portland, Oregon, where workers are trying to…

March 31, 2022

For over a century and a half: Chinese workers abused and superexploited in U.S.

The six Asian spa workers murdered in Atlanta March 16 were low-wage workers. They were not respected by capitalism. Their…

March 25, 2021