Portland Rising Tide

Portland Rising Tide combines long-term strategic campaigning with educational events and direct acti

Portland Rising Tide is the loud relative who boisterously denounces dysfunction when the rest of the family would rather just hope it goes away. We combine long-term strategic campaigning with educational events to raise awareness and build capacity in our community to stop the plunge into climate chaos. The Portland chapter of Rising Tide has existed for about five years, and in that time we hav

Jewish Protesters and Allies Organize Coordinated Actions Across U.S. for Final Night of Hanukkah

12/15/2023

Hundreds of Jewish protesters and allies shut down the Burnside Bridge in Portland yesterday, calling for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza, and solutions to the long-standing injustices in Palestine. This action was in coordination with similar actions shutting down bridges and highways in 8 cities across the country, in recognition of the 8th night of Hanukkah.

Jewish Protesters and Allies Organize Coordinated Actions Across U.S. for Final Night of Hanukkah Jewish-led protests on Thursday shut down bridges and highways across eight U.S. cities demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. The peaceful actions in Seattle, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Portland, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Minneapolis and Atlanta came on the eighth and final day of Hanukkah. In Portland, p...

09/20/2023

04/26/2023

Blocking construction at Thacker Pass. Stay strong! Stay safe!

04/24/2023

To fight industrial projects that destroy the land, we need a lot of people, and we need to work together.

Let's work together to and .

Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them in Indonesia

02/26/2023

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-plastic-dow-shoes/

Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them in Indonesia A Reuters investigation found some shoes meant for recycling in Singapore ended up in shops in Indonesia, where it is illegal to import second-hand clothing.

Photos from The Center for Cultural Power's post

02/14/2023

02/06/2023

https://twitter.com/wildland_zko/status/1621753609397637120?s=21&t=FCaAQI_OiHgr3IXekiNvkA

Zeke Lunder ~ The Lookout on Twitter “The large in are spreading quickly across large areas of non-native plantations of radiata pine and eucalyptus, many of them planted by foreigners during a dictatorship. These maps show recent MODIS heat detections on top of mapping of plantations (purple). 1/x”