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October 2020, What's Happening In the Movement

Portland Nonprofit Launches Attempt to Save Hospice House

by Oregon PeaceWorks • October 31, 2020 • 0 Comments

EMMA HABER – In the aftermath of the closing of Hopewell House, the only hospice house in Portland, one final hope has arisen. After 30 years providing compassionate and dignified end-of-life care, Hopewell sadly shuttered its doors in 2019. With only months to raise the funds, Friends of Hopewell House, a newly incorporated 501(c) nonprofit, has launched a $5 Million capital campaign to purchase the property from Legacy Health Systems and once again open the beloved institution’s welcoming doors.

Analysis, October 2020

Trump’s Broken Promises to U.S. Factory Workers

by Oregon PeaceWorks • October 29, 2020 • 0 Comments

LAWRENCE WITTNER – Rather than manufacturing jobs returning during the Trump administration, they have been departing.

Analysis, October 2020

Competing with Nature: COVID-19 as a Capitalist Virus

by Oregon PeaceWorks • October 27, 2020 • 0 Comments

ASHLEY SMITH – The COVID-19 pandemic shows no signs of abating as the death toll climbs ever higher around the world. Spectre’s Ashley Smith interviews epidemiologist Rob Wallace about the global capitalist roots of the current pandemic, the likelihood of future pandemics, and the types of organized resistance necessary to prevent them.

Big Picture, October 2020

Trump Calls on Signatories to Withdraw from Nuclear Prohibition Treaty

by Oregon PeaceWorks • October 25, 2020 • 0 Comments

JOHN LAFORGE – In a fashion reminiscent of lawless dictatorships the world over, the Trump White House has written to countries that have adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons urging them to withdraw their ratifications.

Big Picture, October 2020

Oregon’s Only Coal-Fired Power Plant Shuttered

by Oregon PeaceWorks • October 24, 2020 • 0 Comments

BRETT VANDENHEUVEL – According to PGE, the Boardman plant, which opened in 1977, will be the youngest U.S. coal plant closed for environmental reasons. Incredible work, team!

October 2020, What's Happening In the Movement

Native Americans Protesting Trump Border Wall Tear Gassed, Arrested by US Agents on Indigenous Peoples’ Day

by Oregon PeaceWorks • October 21, 2020 • 0 Comments

KENNY STANCIL – “It’s obscene and offensive to us that local and state governments move to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day while the federal government blows up our sacred sites, steals our kids, militarily occupies our communities, and shoots at Native Americans.”