Story and photos by Pete Shaw On the eve of the second anniversary of taking back her house, Alicia Jackson El was told she was to be evicted. On April 30 Judge Marilyn Litzenberger of the Oregon Circuit Court ruled that Fox Capital Corporation, the “foreclosure flipping” corporation, was in legal possession of Jackson El’s…
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Major Victory for ICE Detainer Foes; Battle for Immigrant Justice Not Over
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Story by Pete Shaw Watershed moments are always interesting. On the one hand, there is great cause for celebration. Raise a glass, take a bow, give a pat on the back–even your own–and revel in your moment. But no such moment is ever an end point. Morning becomes afternoon. Afternoon rolls into evening. Night falls.…
Trial Date Set for R2DToo Co-Founder; Mubarak Affirms Trial Important Challenge in Housing Justice Campaign
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Story and photos by Pete Shaw Housing Justice advocate and Right 2 Dream Too (R2DToo) co-founder Ibrahim Mubarak was arrested for trespassing and interfering with police in late February while reaching out to help people without housing. He will be tried for these charges on June 9. The trial is expected to last two days,…
Successful Home Reclamation Under Threat as Alicia Jackson El Faces Pressure from Court
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Story by Pete Shaw Nearly two years after taking back her house, Alicia Jackson El is having her day in court. On April 11, Jackson El appeared before Judge Steven Evans to defend herself against Fox Capital Corporation, the “foreclosure flipping” company that claims it owns her house. On May Day 2012, Jackson El, with…
Persistent Protester Pressure Provokes ICE Prisoner Release
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Story and photos by Pete Shaw With the Obama Administration having reached its two millionth deportation, fifteen people gathered outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Portland on April 9 to demand the release of Sugey Carrazco. Sugey has been held since March 18 at the Otay Detention Center in San Diego, CA,…
Equal Pay Day Rally Flush with Bluster, Bankrupt on Plan of Action
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Story and photos by Pete Shaw At a Portland City Hall rally on Tuesday in celebration of Equal Pay Day, most of the City’s commissioners and some state-level politicians spoke of the great gains that have been made toward leveling the pay gap between women and men, as well as the need to go further.…
Immigrant Rights Activists Fight to Keep Families Together, Demand Justice for All
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Story by Pete Shaw As President Obama edges closer toward deporting 2 million people during his time in office–he will likely hit that mark in April–people without documentation, their families, and their communities have decided to take him on head first. One of the most interesting tactics has been the Bring Them Home campaign which…
Cops Police Their Own, Hales Hails
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Article by Euripides Q. Steinfelt In an unforeseen move, Mayor Charlie Hales, who oversees the Portland police, announced this morning that all officers will have a video camera on their persons that records their every move while in uniform. The move was inspired by Rialto, California whose 66 police all wear cameras mounted on their…
TPP Foes Maintain Dogged Resistance, Lobby Wyden to Shun Fast Track Legislation
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Story by Pete Shaw Dressed in their best floral polyesters that somehow made the cherry blossoms seem bland, a group of 30 activists opposed to the Trans Pacific Partnership and the renewal of Fast Track legislation that would greatly ease its passage, delivered a bag of floppy disks with the signatures of fair trade advocates…
The Fight for $15 Finally Comes to Portland
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By Shamus Cooke Like the Occupy movement before it, the “fight for $15” came to Portland as a transplant. Portland activists watched events in Seattle with a skeptical eye, but Seattle’s “fantasy” of $15 was transformed into an emerging reality, now replete with the support of the Mayor and City Council who are working on a plan to…
