As our colleagues and friends gear up for the 2019 Legislative Session in Salem opportunities abound to get educated and active. This week we focus on the Fair Shot for All coalition and give you a heads up about a January gathering for Lift Every Voice Oregon’s work on gun control. You also have the opportunity to help stop fracking a bit north of the border, in Longview Washington and the...
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In a week where most take time away from work to be with family and many grieve the violent colonization and genocide of First Nations peoples on this continent, there is work we can do and actions we can take to bring justice and wholeness to the Portland metro. For the short term: Join us at a Black Friday rally at Nike Headquarters to demand that corporations pay their fair share of taxes!...
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Progressive people of faith have much to celebrate this week, as the House of Representatives looks more and more like the People’s House! And here in Oregon we SWEPT the Ballot Measures-succeeding on every single one of them! Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who canvassed, phone and text banked, light brigaded, talked to your friends and more. November is a time to lift up Trans Empowerment,...
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We are preparing this email before election results are in, and we know that all of us are waiting on pins and needles to find out what the next two years will look like.Join us in a simple social media campaign this week to support Dairy workers who are working under unconscionable conditions and show up to support OHSU workers at a rally next Thursday. Help us grow our community of faith...
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We are so blessed here in Oregon to have the most accessible voting system in the country, and our first action today is to remind everyone who hasn’t already to VOTE! In addition, we have an on line petition asking Amazon CEO NOT to sell his facial recognition software to ICE and a local action which invites you to ask your local Starbucks store manager to stop using milk from Darigold dairies...
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