Portland’s pro-Trump, anti-fascist, and anti-hate rallies on Sunday, June 4 were not quite what the city was expecting. A few hundred Trump supporters gathered in Terry Schrunk Plaza in downtown…
Trump supporters meet overwhelming resistance in dueling rallies
A rally held in downtown Portland’s Schrunk Plaza by Washington State conservative activist Joey Gibson on June 4 was nearly dwarfed by the overwhelming local reaction it elicited. Billed as…
Rallies to collide in downtown Portland
Three competing rallies will converge simultaneously in downtown Portland on Sunday, June 4, 2017. Mayor Ted Wheeler has criticized the most controversial of the three, a pro-Trump “free speech”…
More affordable housing options for Portland students
Portland area college students will soon have access to more affordable housing in the Goose Hollow Towers of Southwest Portland thanks to College Housing Northwest, a local nonprofit housing developer….
PSUnited against hate
The third victim in the May 26 stabbing incident at the Hollywood Transit Center has been identified as Portland State music student Micah David-Cole Fletcher, age 21. Fletcher’s injuries are…
Communities of color question Trimet priorities
A Trimet Board of Directors meeting to approve its new $1.2 billion budget on May 24 attracted a crowd of activists condemning an $11.5 million line item to build a…
Alive from Libya, it’s Wednesday at noon!
The Portland State University Studies program hosted a talk given by one of its mentors, Mohanad Elshieky, on May 17 in Smith Memorial Student Union. The local comedian presented a…
Panel presentation will offer sex trafficking prevention tips to students
On Wednesday, May 31, 2017, the sex trafficking prevention nonprofit Nest will host a panel presentation for high school participants in Nest’s prevention curriculum pilot to discuss child sexual exploitation…
Kate at sea
Recent Portland State micro- and molecular biology graduate Kathleen Kouba embarked on an oceanographic research project in an unusual part of the ocean this spring to collect samples of a…
Resistance: an evening with Chris Hedges
Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, Princeton professor, and Presbyterian minister Chris Hedges spoke at Aladdin Theater on May 26. Advocating resistance against fascism, speaker Chris Hedges recounted the history of crippling…
Third stabbing victim in MAX hate crime identified as PSU student, expected to recover
The third victim in yesterday’s stabbing incident at the Hollywood Transit Center has been identified as Portland State music student Micah David-Cole Fletcher, age 21. Fletcher’s injuries are not life…