Many in Oregon are still in prison serving convictions by unconstitutional Jim Crow Juries, a legal lynching.  We have all seen the powerful images of statues and monuments once-erected to…

Article by Jake Dockter. Portland, Oregon Mayor Tevis E. Wheeler would love you to believe that the answer to the gun violence spike is more money and more cops.  Wheeler’s…

[Editor’s Note: Dr. Juniper L. Simonis is a quantitative ecologist studying aquatic ecotoxicology, biogeochemistry, conservation biology, quantitative ecology, and they are pretty good with stats as well. I’m glad they…

Cover Photo By Mac Smiff The police union enjoys veto power over any program that deals with public safety in the city. In a revealing turn of phrase, a recent…

After spending years in the same hip-hop orbit without really getting to know each other, well-known local DJ Ronin Roc and I became friends over this last summer between dodging…

By: We Out Here Staff Republican state senator Dallas Heard is no stranger to extremist controversies. Like a moth to the flame, he appears to be drawn to them somehow.…

Cover Photo by Rebecca Ellis In our culture, along with the changing of the year comes the expectation to commit to self-improvement. One could assume that with the year we…

Cover Photo by Rebecca Ellis Generally speaking, there are few things more painful than listening in on a local budget vote. Still, Wednesday’s meeting full of budgetary amendments and amendments…

As Portlanders approach four months of physically protesting our police bureau, the police and their counterparts have done much to further the case against themselves. It’s frequently discussed amongst protesters,…

I arrived home early one morning after being at the Justice Center, helmet and gas mask in hand, covered in the stench of tear gas, pepper and gunpowder. Without hardly…