On AlterNet: portland

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "portland"

Oregon Activists Pick Up "Health Care as a Human Right" Campaign for Real Universal Care

Peter Shapiro, Labor Notes. May 20, 2012.

In Oregon, activists are rejuvenating a campaign to win a health care system that covers everyone—and pays for it by cutting out the insurance companies.

Portland, Oregon -- Strip-Club City? Media Freak-Out Over Trafficking in Everyone's Favorite Hippie Utopia

Jessica Mack, AlterNet. September 12, 2011.

We must respect sex workers as humans with rights and choices, and crusade against exploitation. Media freak-outs about sex work and trafficking accomplish neither.

What's So Great About Portland?

Jay Walljasper, Shareable. May 16, 2011.

Is it enlightened politicians? Their urban growth plan? Or something else entirely?

How Portland Is Planning to Become the First World-class Bike City in America

Jay Walljasper, YES! Magazine. December 1, 2010.

Portland may be the only large city to earn the League of American Bicyclists' coveted platinum status as a bicycle-friendly city, but they have even bigger plans.

Modern Day Slavery in America -- Over 300,000 U.S. Children Fall Prey to Sex Trafficking

Dan Rather, Huffington Post. May 19, 2010.

People may have trouble believing that child prostitution has become a national problem -- but it's on the verge of becoming out of control.

Shooting at Portland Office Park; 2 Dead, 2 Wounded

AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. November 10, 2009.

Police confirm that two people have been killed and two wounded in a suburban Portland drug-testing facility.

Cops Get Their Kicks, Tasering

Digby, Hullabaloo. December 1, 2008.

The police have no right to shoot people with electricity for having a "bad attitude."