The youths see their writing come to life in the theater as part of Project Untangled, a program that helps them with their trauma It was Sunday night, Aug. 11, at the Oregon Children’s Theater in Northeast Portland, and there was a group of adult actors ...
23 Aug 2019 - Casey Miller
Japanese Americans who were detained during World War II share their perspectives on the immigrant detention centers the U.S. operates today The haunting images of children caged in chicken wire, warehoused in government facilities surrounded by armed gua ...
16 Aug 2019 - Libby Dowsett
DIRECTOR'S DESK | The bigotry of the Trump administration’s immigration policy is on full display Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door These are the last lines of the poem at the Statue of Liberty, set ...
16 Aug 2019 - Kaia Sand
Fresh from another trip to a Texas detention center, Sen. Jeff Merkley reminds Americans that children are being detained for extended periods, denied basic needs and separated from their families Simply “do the math” to see how the Trump administration h ...
26 Jul 2019 - Emily Green
BOOK REVIEW | "American Intolerance: Our Dark History of Demonizing Immigrants” by Robert E. Bartholomew and Anja E. Reumschüssel In November 1688, an elderly Irish Catholic woman named Ann Glover was hanged in Boston. The Massachusetts Bay Colony wa ...
3 May 2019 - Joe Martin
COMMENTARY | Don't think day laborers make valuable contributions to our community? Wrong. The myths surrounding day laborers are not new. Many people have misconceptions about this hardworking group of people who make up part of our communities and ...
3 May 2019 - Marvin Peña
COMMENTARY | Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning movie highlights the struggle of the profession Mexico City, 1970. Cleo’s alarm sounds very early in the morning. She gets up and climbs down the stairs from her rooftop room in the upper-middle-class house wher ...
1 Mar 2019 - Karina Patricio... and Arely Cruz-Santiago
At the height of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, commercial ships rushed to the rescue, often traumatizing sailors HAMBURG, Germany – It was a full-blown distress call that the German Shipowners’ Association issued to politicians. Between 2014 an ...
28 Dec 2018 - Birgit Müller and Jonas Füllner
Former lawmaker Rocky Barilla responds to sheriffs’ criticism, says police helped draft the "non-controversial" legislation 31 years ago Sixteen Oregon sheriffs signed a letter in August urging Oregonians to vote yes on Ballot Measure 105 to rep ...
19 Oct 2018 - Emily Green
The Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice works with more than 140 faith communities in Oregon “Unshackle Oregon. Let our people go!” It was one of the chants that could be heard through the rain on the first Friday of October at a rally in Hood Rive ...
12 Oct 2018 - Sarah Hansell