Last week I noticed something different in my new neighborhood. A block from my office, a speaker could be heard in the background. I went to go check it out, and saw people milling about the Central City Concern building, ...Read More
In May, when Portland City Council extended the Sit/Lie ordinance for 5 months in order to hold community dialogues around the issues raised by the Streets Access For Everyone (SAFE) committee, Commissioners Amanda Fritz and Nick Fish promised discussions in ...Read More
Created a site for The Dill Pickle Club, a new experimental cultural/ education center in Portland, OR. Starting June 2009, The Dill Pickle will begin hosting a monthly presentation series in which academics, zinesters, political activists, artists and people of every ...Read More
Photo by Gabe Graff. Read More
Inspired by AREA Chicago, I recently created a piece for "Grassroots Cartography," an exhibition at SEA Change Gallery in Portland, OR. “Notes for a Peoples Atlas” is a multi-city, participatory mapping and design project that began in Chicago in 2005, ...Read More
Came across this entry while browsing through An Oregon Almanac: A Handbook of Fact and Fancy (1940), a fascinating pamphlet produced as a WPA project of The Oregon Writer's Project. The booklet provides humorous anecdotes and random bits of Oregon ...Read More
I have been thinking for a while that I don't agree with Portland's Sit/ Lie Ordinance. I have mostly kept these thoughts inside my head. But recently, it has become hard to ignore the sweeps, the issuing of tickets and ...Read More
Portland will celebrate International Worker's Day with a protest for economic justice and immigration reform, Friday, May 1st, beginning at 4PM on the South Park Blocks. The rally is being organized by a wide coalition of groups, including grassroots community ...Read More
