Red Rainbow PDX

How do you envision the peoples resistance continuing under the Biden administration?

Tomorrow! We're handing out face masks and hand sanitizer at a farmers market in southeast. SE 92nd @ Reedway, 10am to 2pm!

Join us for the Palestinian Day of Rage tomorrow at 5pm at Terry Shrunk Plaza!

Red Rainbow PDX stands in solidarity with the protests against police violence across the country. Red Rainbow condemns all forms of police violence, especially the heinous murders of black people including George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. As we know from the tragic murder of Tony McDade, LGBTQ people are included as targets of racist policing. We also know that the first pride was an anti-cop riot. It is only through the abolition of police that we can achieve a safe and secure world for working people everywhere.

The struggle against police violence is part of the LGBTQ struggle. Half of transgender people are afraid to turn to the police. 1 in 5 have been harassed and one in 20 have been assaulted by police due to anti-trans bias. A disproportionate number of these cases have been black transgender people.* The struggle against police violence must be led by black voices and LGBTQ voices.

The police in America institutionally descend from slave catchers and exist specifically to harass and control black people and other people of color, and to maintain the capitalist status quo. To stand in solidarity with black people, all Americans must unite and call for the defunding and abolition of the police. The police and military are the backbone of this imperialist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, capitalist country and only after their abolition can we achieve a free people and an equitable society.

*www.transequality.org

For folks looking to donate to the cause, here are two options:

Black and Pink, bail fund for black LGBTQ+ folks

secure.actblue.com/donate/black---pink-1

Portland GDC bail support fund

bit.ly/pdxlegsupport

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PortlandCHRP - Portland Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines is raising funds to provide some basic support for Philippine seafarers, many of whom have been stranded far from home by the COVID-19 crisis with no way to let their families know where they are. Funds will allow us to deliver SIM cards to the seafarers to allow them to contact their families, as well as smaller comfort items to help ease their time stuck in port.

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Hey all! We've grown a lot in the last month. We'd love to have everyone come together for a meeting this week to talk about campaign ideas. Please message us if you want to be invited! We'll be talking about the rent strike, helping a local q***r org sew masks, and whatever else you want to bring to the table!

States won't collect LGBTQ data on COVID-19 — and advocates aren't happy State health officials responsible for obtaining data on COVID-19 patients are declining to collect and report whether or not they identify as LGBTQ — a practice that angers LGBTQ advocates who say those answers could yield important information to combat the disease.