| PDX Labor Day Celebration at Oaks Park! music, rides, & food... Join us there! |
PORTLAND, OR -- The largest Labor Day picnic in Oregon will take place at Oaks Park. The celebration will include music, food, bingo, display booths, tabling, and rides.
The picnic is brought together by the Northwest Oregon Labor Council (NOLC) and unions all over PDX.
Oaks Park offers free parking and entry. The labor council has negotiated a special rate for a deluxe ride bracelet. The bracelet doesn't include the roller coaster, bumper cars or arcade games. The indoor roller skating rink also will be open.
Scrip for hot dogs, cookies, beer and pop will be sold. Local unions can make arrangements to buy scrip and ride bracelets in advance. NOLC is selling scrip and Oaks Park is handling all bracelet sales.
 Solidarity Calendar – August/September 2010 |
Tuesday, August 31st, at 7:30 pm at Moon and Sixpence at 2014 Northeast 42nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97213-1305
We will discuss access to the office, fund-raising, moving to a new space, and publishing two issues. We are expanding the board and would encourage any and all who might want to join the board to attend. This is an open community meeting. For more information contact theportlandalliance@gmail.com.
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 4pm March, 5pm Rally for the Bus, Portland City Hall, SW 4th and Main.
Bus riders are under attack, fares have risen 70% and on Sept. 1,
service is being cut by 70,000 hours. OPAL is demanding that TriMet meet its mission and provide affordable and reliable service for working people.www.opalpdx.org
Pacific Northwest Plein Air 2010 September 3-26
in the Columbia River Gorge, is a series of art events & wine-tasting opportunities
featuring the art and literary works of accomplished painters and writers.
For additional information, please contact the Columbia Center for the Art s
website: http://www.columbiaarts.org
Monday, Sept. 6, 10am-
5pm Oaks Park Labor Day Picnic:
(Please let us know if you can help
staff the Jobs with Justice table
for an hour or two!)
Wednesday, September 8th, Editorial Committee Meeting for Writers and Editors
of The Portland Alliance, the meeting will take place in the evening at a location to be announced. We will discuss material for the August and September Issues and consider modification to layout, new articles, and ideas for future editions. We will also do the work: editing, copy editing, etc. We will also consider new submissions on this date. This is an open community meeting. Please join us! Our last meeting on Wednesday, August 25 was fun, hopeful, and invigorating. Looking forward to your participation in this vehicle.
For more information contact theportlandalliance@gmail.com.
Wednesday, September 8th. At the star e rose cafe
2403 ne alberta / Portland, OR come on down to the star e rose and bring those words
you have hidden in the back of your closet, your journal you write... bring despair, hope, anger, and happiness
Monday, Sept. 13, 5:30pm, JWJ Steering Committee 6025 E. Burnside
Wednesday, Sept. 15, Details TBA, Jobs with Justice National Day of Action for Jobs. https://sites.google.com/site/jwjpdx/-marchforjobs
 Dozens of protests planned for September 15
Reviving a core demand from the August 28, 1963 "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" Jobs with Justice is declaring a national "jobs emergency" and calling for Full and Fair Employment on September 15. We will promotr the Local Jobs for America Act, and the Congressional Pledge to Not
Cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Wednesday, Sept. 15, Details TBA Rally During the Postmaster General's Visit—
Save Saturday Delivery!
Mark your calendar: September 25: JWJ/Voz Benefit ... Salsa Party!,
SEIU 503 Hall, 6401 SE Foster Rd
Jobs, Justice and Peace' march October 2nd, 2010
One Nation Rallies in Washington!
‘One Nation’ to March on Washington October 2
Tens of thousands of poor and working class people will descend on Washington October 2. Unions and allied organizations have begun work organizing a rally, called One Nation, to
show their numbers and demand fair, decent jobs.
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https://sites.google.com/site/pdxactivismnews/home/whatsgoinon/martin
Saturday, October 9th, 2010 (Also John Lennon's Birthday)
Antiwar and Anti-Occupation March and Rally
Do you think that instead of cutting needed funds for education and social services, we should reconsider much of our trillion dollar military budget?
Should we establish a Department of Peace? Do you want to see a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan? Are you against the $3 billion a year
the U.S. provides which helps fund the siege of Gaza and the occupation of the West Bank? Are you sick of military threats against Iran and CIA drone attacks on Pakistan? Then let's organize! Whether you are an experienced activist or new to organizing, it is time to rebuild the antiwar movement! It is time for a multinational antiwar march on Saturday, October 9th commemorating the 9th anniversary of the Afghanistan war. End the Occupations! Secure the Peace we all seek! Send a message to our leaders.
www.PeaceResource.org
"In Russia, in China, and here... very mediocre people have the power to end life altogether."
~~Saul Bellow
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Announcements |
We are currently remodeling
the Alliance web site. Please
be patient with us while we update these pages. In the next week we plan to begin publishing the August 2010 Lockout Issue and September 2010 Activism and Organizing issue.
We will bring you an updated Calendar and current news, along with feature articles, great stories, and breaking news. We will provide a good taste of the print issue and include extras which cannot be inlcuded in the monthly print issue.
Our e-mail address remains
www.theportlandalliance.org
and you can contact the editorial committee by sending mail to
editor@portlandalliance.org
Please send all press releases, announcements, letters and other submissions to the new address.
We are looking for a new web tech to join The Alliance team.
We have a new and growing board of directors which includes Herschel, Mary, Mike, Scott, Therresa, and Tim. We are looking for board members so we can enlarge the board to eleven directors so the NAAME board can provide a safe, secure, and funded space for publishing the paper.
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