Amid a national debate over marijuana legalization, nearly 500 individuals representing more than 20 companies showed up on Sept. 27–28 to Portland’s downtown Hilton hotel for the fourth annual International…
Portland groups rally against anti-sanctuary state measure
Approximately 40 people representing various local activist groups including Abolish ICE PDX, Portland Tenants United, Jobs with Justice and Socialist Alternative Portland gathered on Sept. 16 in downtown Portland’s Terry…
Hill to Hall Aug 13 – Aug 21
Aug 20 – Video reveals Antifa attacked American flag-wielding counterprotester In a video recorded and released by Mike Bivins, a freelance journalist and Portland local, members of the anti-fascist group…
Hill to Hall: July 30 – Aug 5
July 30 – Virginia congressional candidate’s campaign gets off on the wrong foot Denver Riggleman—a Republican congressional candidate for the state of Virginia—had his campaign called into question by his…
Measure to repeal sanctuary state law approved for November ballot
On November 6, 2018, Oregon voters will join the national debate on immigration by voting to decide whether the state should nullify its law prohibiting local law enforcement from collaborating…
Hill to Hall July 17– 28
July 17: Washington, D.C. to conduct cat census A coalition of Washington, D.C.–based groups have launched the D.C. Cat Count Project, which aims to determine the total number of cats…
Hill to Hall June 2–8
July 2: White House lawyer named new DEA chief The Trump administration has named former Deputy White House Counsel Uttam Dhillon as the new head of the United States Drug…
Senator Jeff Merkley blocked from detention center for undocumented children
On Sunday, June 2, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., was denied access to a shelter facility for children in Brownsville, Texas, where Merkley said the children of refugees seeking asylum were…
Hill to Hall May 27–June 4
May 29: Bayer Monsanto merger The Justice Department approved the merger of Bayer and Monsanto, a deal amounting to $66 billion on May 29. Nine billion dollars worth of assets…
In the eye of the Storm
Stripping in Oregon is a political act. To broadstroke, public nudity has led to the state having some of the freest forms of constitutionally protected expression in the United States….
‘Come on down, Governor Brown’
Oregon’s Democratic Socialists of America and the Oregon Poor People’s Campaign held a rally on the front steps of the state capitol building in Salem on May 21 to protest…