History of Social Justice Organizing’s History of the Portland Women’s
Movement continues on March 7th with Building: from Activism to
Institutions featuring Ruth Gundle, Kristan Knapp, Ann Mussey, and May
Wallace.

Find us in the second floor Gallery of the Urban Affairs Building at
Portland State University, 506 SW Mill on Thursday, March 7, 7-8:30 pm.
The program is co-sponsored by PSU’s Center for Women, Politics and
Policy. Free and open to the public, as usual.

The Portland women’s movement of the 70s began with protests and
consciousness raising but quickly expanded to include projects and
services: bookstores, abortion information and referral, a rape hotline,
women’s studies at PSU, an independent feminist school, a building, a
health clinic and more. This panel will cover the Community Law Project,
the Rape Relief Hotline, the Red Emma collective, the Portland Women’s
Health Clinic and Prescott House.

Ruth Gundle was one of the founders of the Community Law Project in
1975, a feminist law collective that represented both women and
organizations such as the Trojan Decommissioning Alliance and the
Portland Tenants’ Union. Ruth won the first lesbian custody case in
Oregon, and brought the first sexual harassment case in Oregon. In 1979
she went to work for the state legal services program where she
successfully brought suit to strike down Oregon’s refusal to pay for
Medicaid abortions and the first successful civil suit nationally
against a police department for failure to arrest a battering spouse.
She will talk about how they tried to run the CLP on feminist principles.

Ann Mussey was a member of a feminist collective in 1971 Portland called
Red Emma (after leftist organizer Emma Goldman)  which was home to some
of the early founders of the Portland Women’s Health Clinic. She is
currently on the faculty at Portland State University in Women, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies teaching courses related to gender and sexuality
including queer activism.

Kristan Knapp joined the Red Emma Collective in 1972. She and Bonnie
Tinker worked with others to found Prescott House, a place for women
getting out of prison to readjust to society. By 1975, with the
development of feminist consciousness about institutionalized violence
against women, it evolved into Bradley-Angle House, the first shelter
for women escaping violence on the West Coast. From 2002-2009 Kristan
worked as Bradley Angle’s Development Director, and helped the
organization reconnect with its roots

May Wallace (formerly Susan Crawford) was a member of the Main Street
Gathering, a collective of activists working to create a just society.
She helped launch the Rape Relief Hotline in 1973 (now known as the
Portland Women’s Crisis Line). Presently she is an artist, activist and
recently retired art teacher.

History of Social Justice Organizing is an ongoing series of
presentations by activists and scholars on a wide variety of social
justice organizing topics in Portland and elsewhere. The mission of the
Center for Women, Politics & Policy is to increase women’s leadership in
public policy through targeted teaching and community service programs.
Contact us at info@occupyhistory.us

Find upcoming programs at historyofsocialjustice.wordpress.com
www.facebook.com/historyofsocialjustice.

The Center for Women, Politics and Policy: cwpp.pdx.edu/

Where: The Roxy – 1121 SW Stark Downtown Portland

Cost: $35

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One week left to get your tickets to the hottest fundraiser in town!! For just $35, not only will you be giving to a great non-profit working to get the best “pay what you can” restaurant up and running in portland, but you will also be helping food security and ending hunger, and you will be given the pleasure of enjoying a three course meal prepared fresh from local farmers by the Ne Si’ka chef!! Join us next Monday for a night of food, fun and community!!

Menu:

First Course: : Warm Black-eyed Pea and Ham Salad with a Mustard Green Pistou.

Second Course: Spatchcocked Cornish Game Hen, Fried Root Vegetables, with Brussels Slaw and a Mustard Jus.

Third Course: Hazelnut and Maple Rice Pudding.

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Ne Si’ka Website

Facebook Page

Our Mission: Helping to end hunger and food insecurity issues following the “pay what you can” restaurant model. Using, wherever possible, locally produced and sustainable ingredients that are healthy and nutritious. A model that builds community, offers a hand up, and helps to end food waste.

Ne Si’ka is a full service restaurant in the quality food tradition that allows patrons to pay as they are able. Suggested prices will be posted and those with means can pay the suggested price, or more if they so choose. All proceeds will go into the non-profit and for fighting hunger. Those who are unable to pay will have opportunities to volunteer at the restaurant in whatever capacity they are willing or able. This may be in the kitchen, the community garden, or a variety of other options. No one is turned away for inability to pay. The goal is to create a completely non-biased and comfortable atmosphere where everyone feels comfortable and has a seat at the table. While we help to alleviate hunger and food insecurity, the broader intention is to help create and foster a greater sense of community.
Everyone, regardless of means, has the right to dine with dignity and have access to a quality, nourishing, thoughtfully prepared meal.

There are many goals surrounding our project. Some big, some small, but they all add up to building a stronger healthier community that works for everyone. Offering a hand up to those who need it while offering amazing and gratifying opportunities to those with the ability to help. All surrounding quality food from the heart.

Thursday, December 13th 6:30pm

Pioneer Courthouse Square – Downtown Portland

Facebook Event Page

If we keep giving in to this bullshit propaganda that tax breaks for the wealthy create jobs, we will never fix the problems that got us into this mess in the first place. The time is now to stand up and say “Enough is Enough”!! Call your Representatives, Twitter bomb the fuck out of them, email them til their computers explode and come out Thursday night and tell the world “We’re not falling for this bullshit anymore” and together we will stop the corporate machine!!

10:ooam R2D2 Rally and Press Conference

Members of Right 2 Dream Too and supporters will hold a press conference and rally at Portland City Hall at 10am on Monday, December 10, United Nations Human Rights Day. Right 2 Dream Too has maintained a self-sustaining rest area for people who are houseless at NW 4th and Burnside since October 2011. Even though the site provides emergency shelter to dozens of people every night at no cost to the City of Portland, the City’s Bureau of Development Services continues to fine the landowners for code violations related to recreational camping ordinance. After months of negotiations, testimony before City Council and public rallies there is still no resolution to the conflict between Right 2 Dream Too and the City.

R2D2 Facebook Event Page

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11:45am Stand in Support of Grocery Workers

We call on Safeway, Albertsons & Fred Meyer to recognize the value, hard work and dignity of their employees. We Demand that all 3 employers do the right thing by their workers and settle a fair and just contract now. For more information contact 503-598-6324

Grocery Workers Facebook Event Page

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3:30pm Rally and Press Conference to Stop ICE Holds

This is a follow up rally to pressure Sheriff Staton to stop using ICE holds. 3 year campaign. These ICE holds result in deportations of about 300,000 people a year nationally. The Multnomah County Sheriff is not responding to ACT for Dignity and Justice, the community coalition working to end law enforcement-ICE collaboration.

ICE Holds Facebook Event Page

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5:00pm National Candlelight Vigil at Sen. Wyden’s Office

Join JwJ, the Oregon AFL-CIO, the Northwest Oregon Labor Council, Oregon action and Working America in a candlelight vigil to tell Senator Ron Wyden to end the Bush tax cuts for the richest 2%, No cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, no cuts to vital services for low income people. Call Senator Wyden and tell him to oppose cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and to end the Bus tax cuts for the richest 2%, 503-326-7525 or 202-224-5244.

National Vigil Facebook Event Page

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7:00pm The Healthcare Movie

Produced by Canadian/American couple Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg and narrated by Kiefer Sutherland, this documentary reveals the public relations campaigns that have been prevalent in the United States since the early 1900′s to dissuade the American public from supporting national health care. It also shows the personal and emotional impact on Canadians who now have access to health care because of the heroism of people who took a stand to bring universal health care to Canada over 50 years ago.

Healthcare Movie Facebook Event Page

With so much going on this day, please come out and join the thousands that will be coming out to stand for human rights all over the world. Hope to see y’all out there!!

Where: Sen. Wyden’s office – 911 NE 11th Ave. Portland, OR

Facebook Event Page

Overpass Light Brigade Event Page

Our livelihoods are not bargaining chips, and the ‘Grand Bargain’ is not necessary.

Allowing the Bush-era tax cuts to expire for the wealthiest 2% will raise the revenue we need now. Changes to Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare are too complicated for a rushed deal and a compromise that puts our future on the line isn’t the right solution.

Join JwJ, the Oregon AFL-CIO, the Northwest Oregon Labor Council, Oregon action and Working America  in a candlelight vigil to tell Senator Ron Wyden to end the Bush tax cuts for the richest 2%, No cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, no cuts to vital services for low income people. Call Senator Wyden and tell him to oppose cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and to end the Bus tax cuts for the richest 2%, 503-326-7525 or 202-224-5244.

 Stand together with community and union members, students and retirees.

Where: Walmart on 82nd between Powell and Holgate, Portland, OR

Non-unionized Walmart workers across the nation are risking everything by striking on Black Friday.

Retail revenue is seasonal. Walmart cannot afford to lose the mindless consumer frenzy of Black Friday.

We will help the workers hold the line. November 23rd only ends one of two ways:

Other Black Friday Events:
Buy Nothing Day Zombie Walks

SAVE AMERICA’S POSTAL SERVICE –
Honor Veterans! Hire Veterans!
Restore Jobs! (109 letter carrier vacancies in Portland)
Promote “temps” to career positions!
Restore Service! No Closures! No Cuts!