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Reed's Kaul Auditorium was packed Friday, February 2. The crowd gave a warm welcome to long-time activist and current NAACP chair Julian Bond, who approached the podium with an air of distinguished confidence. He earned a standing ovation before even opening his mouth to give a speech that was part his...   More

News Late last year, Sarah Olson found herself in a place no journalist wants to be: she had become a part of the story she was covering.

Olson, 31, is an independent journalist based in Oakland, California. She has written for TruthOut.org, and her work has also been featured on Pacifica Radio and ...   More

News Rocky Caravelli worked as a flooring contractor for 23 years installing hardwoods, linoleum and carpeting in Portland and the San Francisco Bay Area. But three years ago, he became something else: an ...   More

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Alejandro Queral has only been in Portland a year, but he's managed to get right in the middle of some of the hottest political issues (at least as seen by some on the local left): government surveillance, police violence and most recently, racial profiling.

Queral, 34, is the executive...   More

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Two days after President Bush announced his plan to send 21,000 additional troops to Iraq, 150 Portlanders packed into the Multnomah Friends Meeting House on Southeast Stark Street to listen to Iraq vet Darrell Anderson talk about acts of resistance.

Specialist Anderson, 25, recently re...   More

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John Zerzan—a legendary (and/or notorious) primitivist and anarchist—spoke to a standing-room-only crowd crammed into Laughing Horse Books on 10th Avenue last Friday about what he calls the “frightening pathologies of everyday life.” Zerzan read an essay that will appear in G...   More

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One hundred people lay dead on the ground. Well, actually, they were just pretending to be dead. This was the die-in Saturday in Pioneer Square, an event organized by local peace activists from several organizations to mark the death of more than 3,000 American soldiers as well as hundreds of thousands...   More

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The death penalty is probably a subject you tried to avoid around the holiday table this year. But there are a lot of reasons to bring it up right now.

The execution of Saddam Hussein last Saturday continues to be a topic of passionate discussion around the world in the new year...   More

Featured Stories My cheek is pressed against the cold, hard butt end of a 9 mm submachine gun that can fire 800 rounds a minute. I've only recently fired my first shots with a handgun, so I shouldn't be surprised that ...   More

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Genny Nelson has a lot of friends without permanent addresses. She's been doing social service work for more than 20 years and, in 1979, partnered with Sandy Gooch to found Sisters of the Road Café.

The project was conceived of as a restaurant that would serve square meal...   More