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The Work to Resolve Houselessness
Ted Wheeler wants to start at the finish line
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In an effort to drive people experiencing houselessness from the city of Portland, Ted Wheeler recently announced a proposed resolution to ban camping within…
The Case of the Missing Case Study
Case Study Coffee Reopens Their PSU Location
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One day, in the middle of the first week of this past Winter term, a note curiously appeared just inside the museum entrance to…
Emergency Funding Continues
Portland State to Continue Offering Emergency Funding Through 2021-22 School Year
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At a student media press conference held during this quarter, Stephen Percy, Portland State’s President, confirmed that PSU will continue to offer emergency funding…
Culture
The Land, the Water, the Sky
Katherine Paul explores her connection to her native land in her upcoming album
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With highs full of hope and healing and lows connected to mental health and the changing world, Katherine Paul (The sole songwriter for her…
Jeffrey Gibson at the Portland Art Museum
Community, Empowerment, and Visibility
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Born in Colorado in 1972, Jeffrey Gibson has ignited an artistic movement honoring Portland’s indigenous community. A descendant of the Cherokee nation, Gibson proudly…
The Dakota Modern
“I only hope the Art World will not be one more contributor to holding us in chains”
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Confined inside Portland’s Art Museum, The Dakota Modern exhibit displays the work of artist Oscar Howe. As a Native American, Howe established his career…
Opinion
The Case for ACAB
On Policing as Inherently Corrupt
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All Cops Are Bastards. A phrase that had entered the public lexicon in 1920s England, amplified in the 1940s by working class strikes, and…
A Psilocybin Solution
How an Experimental New Therapy Could Tackle Two Root Causes of Houselessness
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The unhoused persons epidemic in Portland appears to stem from three underlying issues: drug addiction, mental illness, and housing affordability. The latter two tendencies…
Defining Abolition with Walidah Imarisha
What is Abolition?
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Abolition, as defined by Critical Resistance: “Prison Industrial Complex abolition is a political vision with the goal of eliminating imprisonment, policing, and surveillance and…
Politics
A Very Modest Proposal
A Letter to the Mayor
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To the honorable Ted Wheeler, respectable heir to Willamette Industries, upstanding Police Commissioner, Pontifex Maximus, & Mayor of Portland in His Second Remove, …
A Far Reach for Greater Idaho
byOn November 4, 2021, Oregon counties joined together in a vote to bend state lines westward —absorbing almost ⅔ of the state and a…
Above the Law
Police Resistance to Vaccine Mandates
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In August of this year, Oregon’s Governor Brown announced that the state would mandate vaccinations for all executive branch employees including police and correctional…