Transmit Culture: Women in Writing and Publishing
Transmit Culture: A Series of Conversations about Publishing is hosted by the Master’s program in Publishing at Portland State University and Ooligan Press, a nonprofit trade publishing house staffed by students in the graduate program.
The October 2015 Portland Alliance!
Vol. XXXIV, Number 10 October 2015 http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2015/October From 2:08 a.m. until 3:15 a.m. on Saturday, October 3, the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was … Continue reading
Bernie has Baggage
Perhaps we can learn from the past 36 years of macho-male misadventures and mistakes.
William Faulkner and life, writing, wilderness and creative arts
“I’ve heard people say, ‘If I could just stop doing this, I would be a writer.’ I don’t believe that. I think if you’re going to write you’re going to write, and nothing will stop you.”
~William Faulkner
Trusting a Rat, by Don Dupay
Magistrates routinely rubber stamp search warrants and are thus entirely complicit in subsequent police wrong-doing that occurs after the fact. It is indeed time to closely scrutinize the police, and the proper use of informants, along with the judges who are ultimately responsible for what happens when phony search warrants are made up and issued against innocent people.
Bernie Sanders: Conservative clings to endless wars for profit
“Unwillingness to challenge the madness of militarism is thinking small.”
Bernie Sanders, a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
Unfortunately Sanders is a darling of AIPAC. (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) And when he isn’t telling constituents to shut up when they ask about Israel, he is openly supporting military genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine
During WW2, Iran welcomed thousands of Polish refugees.
We who care about freedom… are all Iranians today.
The (Union) struggle continues…
“Unions can’t fix every social problem, and ought not be expected to do so, but to win the loyalty and trust of working people, labor has to embrace and act on the principle that if it’s a social justice problem, it’s a labor issue.”
The September 2015 Portland Alliance: Speaking Truth to Power
The Portland Alliance
Vol. XXXIV, Number 9 September 2015
Of, by and for the people



