The Portland Alliance: January 2015 **Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981**
“Coretta Scott King: “We have done what we can to reveal the truth, and we now urge you as members of the media, and we call upon elected officials, and other persons of influence to do what they can to share the revelation of this case to the widest possible audience.”
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.
Officers attack woman to “prevent…disclosure of…beating a handcuffed man.”
Kianga Mwamba, 36, was tasered and arrested
by Baltimore Police Department officers in March
while using her mobile phone to film officers kicking
and beating on a man in custody. The police seized and
tampered with her mobile phone – erasing the arrest video.
Resist Bad cops in PDX-Ferguson-NYC-Berkeley-Cleveland-Utah-NC, etc. Join us!
Call about bat cops
US Department of Justice, Criminal Investigations Unit, 202-514-2000
ThePortlandAlliance.org/2014/December Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2014/December Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981 http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2014/December Find out What’s goin’ on in Portland, Oregon Justice Deferred is Justice Denied A cop just got away with killing another … Continue reading
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.
Jim Crow is Back… Greg Palast
Election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, have launched a program that threatens a massive purge of voters from the rolls. Millions, especially black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters, are at risk.