Portland: “Wall of Moms” Mobilizes to Protect Protests From Police Violence

Chanting, “Feds stay clear! Moms are here!,” groups of women congregated at the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse and other locations in Central Portland. They were met with tear gas, flashbangs, and pepper round bullets, injuring many.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Portland Protest Feature photo

Despite a widely-condemned federal crackdown, Portland’s anti-racist police brutality protests show no signs of abating. Last night a group of local moms dressed in white and yellow tried a new tactic; placing themselves between law enforcement and protesters in order to prevent more violence. Chanting, “Feds stay clear! Moms are here!,” groups of

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 Portland  Mayor Condemns Masked Federal Agents Abducting Protesters

Human rights groups, activists, and local politicians are decrying what appears to be the Trump administration’s latest tactic to crush nationwide protests that erupted in late May over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Portland protests Feature photo

Anonymous masked federal agents in military uniforms jump out of unmarked minivans, abducting seemingly random people on the street in Portland, frightening new viral videos show. Officers from the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group and Customs and Border Protection’s BORTAC have been sent to the city to tamp down of 49 days of continuous

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Portland Attack Sparks Concerns Over White Supremacy

Since Trump’s election, Portland has led all major metropolitan areas in reported hate crimes.

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Gillian Flaccus
By Steven Dubois | AP
And Gillian Flaccus
Jeremy Joseph Christian is arraigned in Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Police have charged Christian with a double murder and hate crimes, after he cut the throats of two men and stabbed another on a commuter train late on Friday afternoon. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonianl)

PORTLAND, Ore.  — Unease about white supremacist activity in Portland deepened after the fatal stabbings of two men who tried to shield young women from an anti-Muslim tirade, and some people worry that the famously tolerant community could see a resurgence of the hostilities that once earned it the nickname "Skinhead City." The attack aboard a

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Portland Becomes 7th City To Sue Monsanto Over Polluted Waterways

Portland has spent more than $1 billion cleaning up PCB pollution in the Willamette River, and now it wants the agrochemical giant it deems responsible for the contamination to pay for the damages.

Jake Anderson
By Jake Anderson
People, pets and sailors use the Willamette River to cool off in Portland, Ore., Monday, July 6, 2015. The city has spent more than $1 billion cleaning up PCB pollution in the river, which is alleged to have been dispersed by Monsanto. (AP/Don Ryan)

Portland, OR (REPORT) — Becoming the seventh city to sue Monsanto over contaminated waterways, Portland passed a resolution last week authorizing city attorney Tracy Reeve to take the biotech company to federal court over its decades-long dispersal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The city has spent more than $1 billion cleaning up PCB

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Oregon Is Epicenter As Trump Protests Surge Across Nation

Around the country from New York to Chicago to California, in red states as well as blue, hundreds of demonstrators marched through streets, many for the third straight night though in somewhat smaller numbers.

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By Associated Press
A protesters unhappy with the presidential election blocks traffic on JFK Blvd. as they march between cars on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, in Philadelphia. (Charles Fox/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

PORTLAND, Ore. — Another night of nationwide protests against Donald Trump's election came to a head in Portland, where thousands marched and some smashed store windows, lit firecrackers and sparked a dumpster blaze. Police termed the protest a riot and used "less lethal munitions" to help clear the streets. Some 4,000 protesters surged into the

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Marijuana Legalization To Be On The Ballot In A Maine City And Oregon

Come November, Alaska, Oregon, and South Portland, Maine, voters will decide whether to legalize marijuana for adults.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

It’s official: Voters in Oregon and South Portland, Maine, will decide this fall whether to follow in the footsteps of Colorado and Washington state and legalize marijuana for adults 21 and older in limited quantities. News that voters in Oregon had gathered the some 88,500 signatures needed to place the legalization measure on the November

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