Labor leadership in Portland comes together in defense of targeted communities and immigrant workers Many activist groups may find their members fall into one school of thought or another, but few organizations represent such varying ideologies among thei ...
12 Apr 2017 - Emily Green
Tim Cowley has created NewPortlanders.Net, a platform for promoting immigrant- and refugee-run businesses What’s the best way to help immigrants and refugees? It’s a question Tim Cowley’s heard a lot lately. Before moving to Southeast Portland one year ag ...
23 Mar 2017 - Emily Green
‘It is always right to give help,’ Pope Francis says in his second interview with street papers Pope Francis has always had a special connection to those living on the street. So much so that last year, in Rome, where approximately 6,000 vulnerable, poor ...
16 Mar 2017 - Stefano Lampertico
COMMENTARY | Stay calm and get informed (Traducido en español más abajo / translated into Spanish below) Over the last few weeks, community organizations like Causa have received dozens of questions from the community regarding rumors about Immigration an ...
2 Mar 2017 - Andrea Williams
Footballers are organizing matches with refugee children Outside the gates of an old paper towel factory in the northern Greek seaport of Thessaloniki, a group of Shedia street paper vendors waited patiently together with players of the Greek Homeless Foo ...
23 Feb 2017 - Chris Alefantis
Teens representing cultures around the world apply to become community youth ambassadors, connecting the city of Portland with its immigrant and refugee communities The day after Donald Trump won the presidential election, 16-year-old Fowzia Ibrahim was r ...
23 Feb 2017 - Jared Paben
Africa House supports African immigrants and refugees living in Portland When Jacques moved to Portland four years ago from a refugee camp in Burundi, job prospects for his mother were bleak, it was nearing the end of the school year, and neither he nor h ...
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