Wisdom, Love, Joy and Dreams
Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly.
Putting teachers back in charge…
instead of starving our schools of critical funding and pushing market-based, test-driven policies that ultimately fail our kids, we should be relying on evidence and input from those closest to the classroom to find solutions that work to reclaim the promise of public education. Those closest to the classrooms are teachers. One of the most effective measures we can take is to put teachers back in charge.
Reforming Immigration: Build Bridges, not Walls
“I take issue with many people’s description of people being “Illegal” Immigrants. There aren’t any illegal Human Beings as far as I’m concerned.”
― Dennis Kucinic
Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) Solidarity Panel, Presentation & Mural Painting at PSU on Friday!
At PSU: Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 236!
Please join us Friday, November 7th at 4 pm for a panel discussion, and solidarity mural painting event to support this vital community resource and to support Indigenous resistance movements and to help raise funds to rebuild the Zapatista Escuelita.
February 2014 ThePortlandAlliance.org/2014/February
The Portland Alliance: Vol. XXXIV, Number 2 February 2014
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2014/February
Writing, Activism, Alternative Media, & Ceative Arts:
The Cutting Edge for Social Change & Civic-Engagement
Word up…
“The relationship between words and meaning is tenuous at best.”



