| Apr 21 | Sat |  9:00 AM PSU Farmers Market (gather signatures on Portland Initiative for Campaign Finance Reform) | |
Rally 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | In 1973, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize cannabis, and in 2015, recreational cannabis was legalized in both Oregon and Washington. We propose an OPEN CARRY WEED MARCH to celebrate the economic, industrial, medical, and social benefits of the herb's legalization. We do so in gratitude of those who have worked to contribute to our local cannabis culture & to defy the enemies of cannabis in the DEA and DOJ. | ||
this is a benefit for Health Care for All Oregon. We are so excited to have another Star-Studded line~up of talent for the 2018 Festival!!! This is the party of the year in support of
Better Health Care to More People for Less Money~
ADVANCE TICKETS: $20.00 DOOR PRICE: $25.00 Tickets Are Non-Refundable | |||
Doors open at 6:30 PM | |||
350PDX is a proud co-sponsor of Portland EcoFilm Festival's showing of The Reluctant Radical at the Hollywood Theatre (4122 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland), April 21st, 7:30pm. The film reveals both the personal costs and also the fulfillment that comes from following one’s moral calling- even if that means breaking the law. This film features the inspiring Pacific Northwest activist Ken Ward who will be there, along with the director and producers, for a post-film discussion. Get tickets here - they're going fast!! If you're interested in tabling at or after the event, please email Barbara Ford. | |||
| Apr 22 | Sun | 12-1pm Lunch, Taco Bar, $9, benefit for Leaven Community Sanctuary program with Karla and Jose Antonio
1pm Karla Lara, Honduran Jazz and Resistance Singer. with Jose Antonio Velasquez, Jazz Pianist: singing and playing, human rights in Honduras, grassroots feminism, intersectionality of our struggles, discussion with groups here
Karla celebrates our tenderness and our personal struggles, sharing them with each other, thereby empowering our movement. She can be extremely tender and is always expressive. So, for me, she connects us with our spiritual and tender parts to enable for us greater wholeness, love, and joy together and much stronger movement spirit. | |
| Apr 24 | Tue | Come to our monthly meeting to find out what's new in the fight against coal.
Contact Laura Stevens for more information: laura.stevens@sierraclub.org 503-238-0442 x305. | |
Film (free) 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM | This award-winning, 2016 American documentary by director Ava DuVernay explores the “intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States.” Its title refers to the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which freed the slaves and prohibited slavery — except as punishment for a crime. DuVernay contends that slavery has been perpetuated since the end of the Civil War through such practices as: criminalizing behavior and enabling the police to arrest poor freedmen and force them to work for the state under convict leasing; the suppression of African Americans by disenfranchisement, lynching, and Jim Crow; declaring a war on drugs that weighs more heavily on minority communities; and, by the late 20th century, the mass incarceration of people of color. 13TH was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary for Nonfiction Special. View the trailer at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V66F3WU2CKk | ||
| Apr 26 | Thu |  Public Meeting 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM |
Coordinator: John Perona of Citizens Climate Lobby Professor, Environmental Biochemistry, Environmental Law, |
| Apr 29 | Sun | Please join us for a viewing of At the River I Stand a documentary on the AFSCME Memphis sanitation workers strike in the spring of 1968. The event will start at 5:30PM with food/refreshments followed by a panel discussion at 6:00PM about workers of color and the labor movement. At the River I Stand skillfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation workers into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that came together with the inevitability of tragedy at the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This 58-minute documentary brings into sharp relief issues that have only become more urgent in the intervening years: the connection between economic and civil rights, debates over strategies for change, the demand for full inclusion of African Americans in American life and the fight for dignity for public employees and all working people. Short preview of At the River I Stand at newsreel. | |
| Apr 30 | Mon | Rally 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | The Gig Economy and Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) like Uber and Lyft are rapidly changing our economy and workforce. From being paid less than minimum wage to interference in states' legislative process - it's clear that TNCs are putting profits over workers. We have an opportunity to change that in Portland. Join us on April 30 to tell Portland City Council to give Uber & Lyft drivers and impacted community members a voice. Learn more at www.transportationfairness Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/592250751158405/?active_tab=about |
| May 1 | Tue |  Public Meeting David Delk 503.232.5495 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | LIKE us on FACEBOOK and then Invite your friends. Click www.facebook.com/events/958379144270088/
Eastside democratic Club is a member organization Annual Membership fee is only $5.00 and can be paid to Steve Elder at the meeting. Public is always welcome at our meetings. |
| May 2 | Wed | POLICE PEACE PDX 2018 Community Police Forum Focused on Addressing Police and the Community in Dialogue and Workshops FREE; please RSVP at https://policepeacepdx.com/ We are pleased to have the opportunity to host this third-annual event planned and produced by Portland-area students. More information: https://policepeacepdx.com/ | |
| May 3 | Thu |  Public Meeting 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | ALL ARE WELCOME AT OUR MEETINGS! Come join us to further the human rights work of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC).
Through a combination of advocacy, education, and partnerships with grassroots organizations, UUSC promotes economic justice, advances environmental justice, defends civil liberties, and preserves the rights of people in times of humanitarian crisis. |
| May 5 | Sat | Cinco de Mayo | |
YOU ARE NOT A LOAN! Strike Debt/Portland Public Banking Alliance Join Strike Debt Portland and Portland Pubic Banking Alliance in a public forum about the role of and effect of debt on our society. When student debt or medical debt or parent and grandparent debt gets to be excessive, how do we respond? The results of debt wreaks lives, and devastates communities; an increasing reliance on credit to maintain our basic living standards reveals an economic system that enriches the few at the expense of the many. Please RSVP so we know how many lunches to have ready. RSVP Here Debt is not just personal. It is also institutional with our governments going into increasingly large levels of debt in order to provide the basics needed to run our cities, counties and states, to provide basic services. Around the nation, cities, counties and states are examining the role that public banking can play in providing basic services like affordable housing and education and investments in the local economy. In addition to providing space for personal stories of the effects of debt, a panel of speakers will be present to discuss the debt issue, including In addition to providing space for personal stories of the effects of debt, a panel of speakers will be present to discuss the debt issue, including
Date/Time: Saturday, May 5th, 2018, 10 AM to 2 PM; doors open at 9:30 AM Location: First Unitarian Church, SW. 12th and Salmon in the Buchan Room Admission: $5-20; no one turned away for lack of funds | |||
Join Economic Justice Action Group of the First Unitarian Church, Alliance for Democracy and Oregon Physicians for a National Health Program for a screening of 2008 PBS Frontline documentary with reporter T.R. Reid
SICK AROUND THE WORLD
Join documentary reporter T.R. Reid as he compares how five other rich capitalist nations are able to treat health care as a human right and ask "Why Can't We?" T.R. Reid will be available following the screening for comments and Q & A. Admission: $5 - 20; no one turned away for lack of funds | |||
| May 7 | Mon | The Oregon Sierra Club Beyond Gas and Oil Team (BG&O) is moving Oregon and the Pacific Northwest in the right direction -— away from dirty fossil fuel extraction, transport, and export. Here is A Summary of Ongoing Work on gas infrastructure and oil trains. Contact Gregory Monahan, BG&O Chair, for more information or to volunteer: gregory.monahan@oregon.sierraclub.org. | |
| May 9 | Wed | Public Meeting 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM | Come hear Mark Brenner (former director of Labor Notes) and Don McIntosh (senior staff reporter for the Northwest Labor Press) share their thoughts about the importance and challenges of doing labor journalism. Workers need a source of information and analysis that they can trust that can help them build the movement necessary to advance worker rights and labor-community struggles for a just society. And publications like Labor Notes and the Northwest Labor Press have important roles to play in that process. This is an opportunity for us to hear Mark and Don’s thoughts about the challenges facing labor today as well as learn about how those who work as labor journalists keep abreast of current developments, understand their role in reporting for a labor audience, and decide what to highlight in their writings. During the discussion period we can share our own thoughts about these issues.
Labor Notes is an independent national media and organizing project begun in 1979 that also publishes a monthly magazine of the same name that “explore(s) the trends that are keeping workers on the defensive and analyze(s) labor’s responses: what’s working and what’s not?” The Northwest Labor Press is an independent, union-supported newspaper with a print edition that is mailed out twice a month to over 50,000 members of more than 80 unions in Oregon and Southwest Washington, with a mission “to provide accurate and timely information on the issues that matter most to union members and working people.” |
| May 10 | Thu | The "Great Recession" financial crisis of 2007/8 brought forth the need for Americans to examine the financial institutions which came to negatively impact Americans, increasing the inequities of American society as well as the divide based on race. That examination begun with a critical look at the role of the too-big-to-fail banks and a desire to develop financial institutions which support the needs for local financing of local needs, separated from the profit seeking activities of the too-big-too-fail banks.
Thus a movement to form public banks was reborn. The movement today focuses on the formation of municipal banks. Movement grows coast to coast with active efforts from Seattle, San Francisco, and Santa Fe and going east to Washington DC and Philadelphia. And now the effort starts in Portland. | |
| May 12 | Sat |  Conference erik@portlandforward.org 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Inspired by a history of effective change-makers in Portland’s past who organized similar events to address the needs of their day, this event is motivated by the need to put Portlanders in charge of smart public policy that promote equity and common good. This year, we’re taking a deep-dive into 3 subjects:
More Information here. |
We are laser focused on working for the passage of Carbon Fee and Dividend, the climate change solution economists and climate scientists alike say is the “best first-step” to preventing the worst impacts of a warming world.
We have a solid and growing chapter with 20-30 core members who are committed to our approach. We meet twice a month, on 2nd Saturdays (national conference call) and 4th Wednesdays (Social Action Night). We'd love to meet you. Come join us for a brew or some good solid action that makes a difference. Call Tamara if you need to be let in to the church building: 503 703 7058. | |||
In 1970, over 40 orca were brutally captured from the Salish Sea, one of the world’s richest and biologically diverse inland seas, located in northwest Washington. The killer whales were taken to marine parks around the world. Tokitae is the sole surviving whale. The Lummi Nation is working to bring Tokitae home, protect the Salish Sea, and raise awareness about a local story of resilience and healing.
HOSTED BY: The Lummi Nation, The Portland Harbor Community Coalition, and the Sierra Club WHO: All are welcome! | |||
| May 13 | Sun | Mother's Day | |
| May 15 | Tue |  $$$ Work- shop 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | FREE for Hatch members (learn more about Hatch membership!) $15 for non-members We will discuss types of legal entities available for social enterpreneurs.
www.meetup.com/HATCH-Workshops-Events/events/gzzpslywcbwb/ |
| May 16 | Wed |  Bike Tour 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM | join us for a morning cup-o-joe on your way to work from 7:30-9am. We will rotate locations each month so watch out for a Coffee Club along your commute route.
Coffee Clubs are a place for women to come together, share biking experiences and get to know one another. All are welcome to stay for as long or little as you like on you way to the office. Non-commuters also welcome. This event is open to all women, female-identifying, trans, and gender-nonconforming people who enjoy biking (or think that they might). Join the Women Bike group and RSVP (not required) at www.facebook.com/groups/womenbikebta |
 Meeting 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Enter the church down the brick pathway midway between SW Salmon and Main St, using the right hand door at the end of the pathway. Remember that sometimes the church may be locked up at 7:15, after which access may not be possible. If you are locked out, you can try calling 503.373.4222.
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| May 17 | Thu | A casual get together of folks, usually with a conservation program of some sort. For more information contact the club at oregon.chapter@sierraclub.org. | |
Connect with and learn from people other altruistic Portlanders. Listen to speakers from completely different backgrounds speak about their shared mission to make the world a better place.
Helpers United is a monthly showcase of local projects to make a positive impact and a networking event for those interested in such things. Each month we have five speaker give a five minute presentation about what they are doing to help, followed by five minutes of Q&A with the audience. Contact: dominickukla@gmail.com |
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