Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers have received little to no mainstream media coverage from major news sources during the past year. COVID-19 is rapidly spreading through the…
Trump orders 60-day immigration ban
In a response to the current COVID-19 pandemic, United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order that temporarily limits immigration into the U.S. for 60 days, according to TeleSUR. …
US immigration laws create risk for deportees
Due to the tightening of immigration laws in the United States, several Salvadorans are being deported back to a life of violence they once fled their country for. Human Rights…
Heijōkyō, Japan’s ancient capita
Dr. Yoko Hsueh Shirai, an independent scholar based in California, presented in the Portland State Smith Memorial Student Union on the history and reconstruction of a United Nations Educational, Scientific…
Our changing city: Losing Chinatown
Decades of neglect and mismanagement by the city’s government has left Portland’s historic Chinatown district a ghost of its former self. Historically a center for the marginalized Chinese-American community in…
Dream PSU to submit formal proposal for Dream Center in Winter 2020
Members of Dream PSU are hoping to submit a formal proposal for a Dream Center to the Portland State Board of Trustees in the winter of 2020. Dream PSU is…
PSU Student Legal Services discuss changing immigration laws
Multiple immigration law experts and community groups held an event on Oct. 29 where speakers discussed changes to immigration law under the Trump administration. Members from groups such as PSU…
Repatriate our Patriots
Nonprofit started by current and former PSU students helps veterans facing deportation A new non-profit started by former and current Portland State students works with veterans facing deportation by providing…
Holocaust survivor speaks on power of bystander resistance
Former PSU professor, Holocaust survivor and lifelong activist Laureen Nussbaum spoke about active bystanding, addressing the validity of unconventional forms of contemporary and historical resistance. During an Oct. 14 speech…
Dozen arrested at Jewish Voice for Peace PSU protest outside ICE facility
Around a dozen organizers were arrested Aug. 2 at a protest outside the ICE facility in Southwest Portland—two of which were members of the organizing group Jewish Voice for Peace…
Lights for Liberty Protest Demands Closure of Detention Camps, Abolition of ICE
Hundreds of people gathered in multiple areas on July 12 across Portland to protest inhumane conditions faced by immigrants and refugees at United States immigration detention centers. The evening protests…