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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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.

On Saturday October 6th we will gather at noon in Shemanski park (South Park blocks at Salmon) for a rally and march. Speakers for the rally include Saba Ahmed, Carol Urner, Brian Wilson and Ahjamu Umi, among others. We will also celebrate with music from General Strike, Patchwork Family, Keith Baich, Mo Mack and the Raging Grannies!

Then on Sunday October 7th, there will be teach-ins and workshops conducted at PCC Cascade (North Killingsworth and Albina) starting at noon with a panel discussion by Brian Wilson, Saba Ahmed, Sami Alloy, Steve Goldberg and Ahjamu Umi.

The teach-ins and workshops include:

1:30pm – 3pm:

PCC Peace and Conflict: The Imposition of Order Through Violence: The U.S. in the Muslim World
Freedom Socialist Party: Alternatives to Capitalism and War
KBOO: Peak Oil & Empire
War Resisters League: War Tax Resistance 101
Occupy Portland/People’s Budget Project: Where’s the Money?

3:30pm – 5pm

WILPF: End Wars and Occupations – No Nukes! No Drones!
Radical Women: To Defend Afghan Women, End The War
KBOO: The Surveillance Security State
Cascadia: Cascadia Bioregion/Free Cascadia
AFSC: Non-Violent Conflict Resolution/Building an Anti-war curriculum

Non-perishable food donations will be collected at the PCC Cascade event to benefit Right 2 Dream Too and Sisters of the Road.

Food will be served at the teach-in! So come out to participate in a weekend of actions endorsed and co-sponsored by more than 50 organizations!

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Come on out for the wedding reception!! We will be at Bend over America…I mean…Bank of America at 121 SW Morrison from 3-5pm on Friday, August 24th.

“In a bold move to highlight the absurdity of Citizens United and Corporate Personhood, members of Envision Seattle, the group working towards getting I-103 on the ballot (The Community Bill of Rights for Seattle), held a wedding in Westlake Park on Tuesday, July 17th. The event was well-attended by a wide variety of Seattle activists, organizers and curious by-standers. A marriage license was indeed issued, after the wedding party proceeded to King Co. offices to file the necessary forms. This may well set a precedent in the United States, as this is believed to be the first time a corporation has married a person.”

Since the FAA began issuing certificates earlier this year for public and private entities to fly unmanned drones in U.S. airspace, hundreds of cities and towns have seen local police and sheriff departments request the use of drones.

Not only are drones being used to bomb and murder civilians in our unending and illegal wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan, they are being actively pursued by local governments and federal entities to be used for police purposes.

Just as with the Old Town Spy Cams, we are asking the Portland City Council to ban the use of surveillance drones in Portland airspace to prevent Portland from becoming a Surveillance State and protecting our 1st and 4th Amendments rights.

Come to City Hall at 8:30am on Wednesday August 22 to let your voice be heard.
Bring flying toys! We plan to have our own airborne fleet of Fun Drones.

NO DRONES IN PORTLAND!

Help us make Portland the first major American city to ban drones. Similar efforts are underway in other cities, including Buffalo and Baltimore.

If your group or organization would like to participate in this demo or join our effort, please send an email to info@progparty.org

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From our friends at Portland Copwatch-

Hello Occupy friends and others in the community:
The Citizen Review Committee’s Crowd Control Work Group is holding a special meeting next Wednesday, August 8 at noon to hear testimony from people who have experienced police violence or other misconduct at protest actions. Unfortunately they scheduled it at 12 noon when many people may be at work; they meet at the office of Troy & Rosenberg, P.C.
2105 NE Cesar Chavez Boulevard, Suite 270, NW corner of Tillamook and CC Blvd (39th). It will go till 1:30 PM 1PM.

If you or someone you know would be willing to talk about your experiences to this all-volunteer group, which is attached to but able to make policy recommendations independent of the “Independent” Police Review Division, can you let us know? And also, let us know if it’s ok to share your name and/or contact information with the Work Group chair, Rodney Paris.

Feel free to circulate this email widely– the Crowd Control Work Group has only met three times but they’ve heard from us about batons, horses, bicycles, “kettling,” pepper spray, lack of identification, and other various issues, but they hear from us all the time. They want to hear more first hand experiences from a wider variety of folks.

Thanks

dan handelman