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,…
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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…
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…
ICE Protesters Boiling Over For-Profit Detentions
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Story and photos by Pete Shaw Chanting “No More Deportations!” a crowd of 30 people gathered outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in NW Portland to express solidarity with hunger strikers and other detainees in ICE prisons throughout the country. Over 1200 people jailed by ICE at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma,…
Justice Delay for Local Houseless Leader; Arrest Reflects Racial Bias, Says Ally
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Story and photos by Pete Shaw Ibrahim Mubarak, co-founder of Right 2 Dream Too (R2DToo), the rest area serving people without housing, has had his court appearance rescheduled for April 4 at 9 AM. Mubarak was arrested on February 28 for trespassing and interfering with a police officer as he spoke with people without housing…
Portland Houseless Storms Show No Sign of Abating
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Story by Pete Shaw Troy, a person without housing who sleeps outside near St. Francis Church on SE 12th Avenue, was assaulted on the night of March 2. “Last night I was sleeping in my sleeping bag. Had been there for a few hours when suddenly I hear someone say, ‘Hey, wake up. Get up’,”…
City Rampage Against Houseless Ramps Up With Arrest of R2DToo Co-Founder
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Story and photos by Pete Shaw Mayor Charlie Hales’ war against people without housing has taken an unexpected turn with the arrest of Right 2 Dream Too (R2DToo) co-founder Ibrahim Mubarak, on the night of February 27. Mubarak was arrested while questioning increased police and security surveillance underneath the west side of the Burnside Bridge…
Justice For All? Public Demands Police Accountability
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Story by Pete Shaw A TALE OF TWO PORTLANDS TAKE ONE On Tuesday February 18th Federal Judge Michael Simon began hearing testimony regarding the proposed settlement agreement between the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the City of Portland. The agreement concerns the DOJ finding that the Police Bureau (PPB) “engaged in an unconstitutional pattern…
Will R2DToo Come in from the Cold? City Council Deliberates Financial Option
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Story and photo by Pete Shaw A few steps forward, one back. That was again the story for Right 2 Dream Too (R2DToo), the rest area for people without housing that has been located at the corner of Burnside and NW 4th for over two years. At a City Council meeting on February 12, it…
