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[Funding the Spring Issue!]

Greetings!

The Alliance is a place to stand up for Peace, Justice, and Freedom:
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/donate

And The Portland Alliance needs your help.
Dedicated organizers, writers, activists, and artists have been struggling for the past three years to fund and publish The Alliance. Now, more than ever, everyday people need a voice. We have an online paper we are releasing tomorrow afternoon. And we have a Spring print edition in production. We need and want to print this spring, but this will require community support. http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/donate

The Portland Alliance newspaper has been providing essential coverage in a radical underground paper for more than thirty years. The mainstream media misrepresents, downplays, or ignores real news. The Alliance published five print issues and two online issues in 2011. We maintain a comprehensive calendar and want to put a quality paper on the streets.
Call us at 503-327-8377, Fax to 503-327-8949, or donate by clicking below!
http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/donate

If you want this alternative resource to continue, we need volunteers, participation, and funding. We maintain a computer network with six workstations, two scanners, a fax, a copier, three printers, three phone lines, and networked radio & TV. Our production office at 5926 N. Albina also includes a library, a reading room, and a small garden. Stop on by! Visit your paper! http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/donate

We are two blocks north of the PCC Cascade Campus. You can send
funds by visiting our home page at http://www.theportlandalliance.org
Just click on the donate button and enter any amount you can afford! (one dollar, five, ten, or hopefully more) Each month we need 700+ dollars to pay the overhead (rent, utilities, storage, phones, & net) and another 1500 to create, research, edit, publish, print, and distribute the paper. None of our staff are currently paid. Lately we are lucky to cover the rent!

The Bottom Line

Right now, the corporate elite own congress, the courts, and the media. Everyday people have been wiretapped, rendered, tortured, raped, and murdered, while corporate leaders claim a right to pursue anyone, anytime, anywhere, for any reason...or for no reason at all. We could surrender in fear. But vital, active, radical, writing and creative art can give us a seat at the table. If you believe in peace, justice, and freedom: Visit our donations page and help keep the Alliance around for another 30 years.
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Greetings!

This will be a busy Spring!
Saturday, March 24 at 9am. In Peninsula Park (north of the Rose Garden) A Vigil & Rally forJustice for Trayvon Martin and his family. Trayvon was murdered a month ago and his killer is still on the streets. We will sing, mourn, and the legendary Marilyn Keller has agreed to come and help unify us in song. The piece will be "Lift Every Voice." We we will rejoice and sing together in calling for accountability, justice, and healing.
Nowruz: Iranian New Years Party, Tiffany Center, 1410 SW Morrison St, 7 pm, Join the PSU Arab Persian Student Organization and the Iranian Student Association of Portland for Iranian food and music. Traditional Persian music & a dance party. $10.00 but free for PSU students. more info: http://www.facebook.com/events/360288840670567/?notif_t=event_invite
     * Sun., March 25 * BBQ & Office Work Party at The Alliance Office, 5926 N. Albina Ave. Please come by for FOOD and to help with filing, data entry, mailing, fliers, promotion, repair, sorting, hanging art, creating storefront display, etc. We light the grill at 1pm!
     * Sun., March 25 at 8:00pm til' March 26 at 12pm Slumber party at Portland City Hall: Dinner & creative action. Bring tarps, hammocks, sleeping bags, etc. To help with food donations or anything else http://endtheban.blogspot.com/
     * Tues., March 27, 6:30pm, JWJ Outreach Committee, UNITE-HERE office, SE 12th and Madison
     * Tuesday March 27th 7-9pm Political Prisoner Letter Writing at Red & Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Avenue Portland, OR 97214
    * Tuesday March 27, The Portland Alliance Board Meeting at June Key Delta Community Center at 5940 N. Albina Ave. 6:30-8:30pm
* Wed., March 28, 12pm, JWJ Faith-Labor Comm. 6025 E. Burnside
    * Wed., March 28, 6pm, JWJ Global Justice Committee 6025 E. Burnside
     * Wed., March 28 - 5th Annual Vine Deloria Jr. Lecture Series, "Making the Invisible Visible: The Native American Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile", 4:30 PM, Reed College, Eliot Hall Chapel. Cosponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center and the Office for Institutional Diversity at Reed.
     * Wed.. March 28 - History of Social Justice: The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, Multnomah County Central Library 801 SW 10th Avenue, 6 - 7:30 pm, FREE. The spark that ignited the social and political activism of young people in the decade known as "the 60s" A program of Occupy History and Our School. historyofsocialjustice.wordpress.com
     * Fri., March 30 - National Occupation of Washington, DC begins! More info at www.nowdc.org Gather for an American Spring in DC.
      * Fri., March 30, Occupation Nation: B Media's 5th Variety Show Premier 8-11pm at St. Francis Dining Hall:   330 SE 11th Ave, Portland, OR 97214-1317
       * Fri., March 30, Occupy Labor Solidarity (OLS) Labor Notes Conference Fundraiser Party! 7-11pm Musicians Union Hall, 325 NE 20th http://labornotes.org/ conference Fundraiser details: Good Time, Labor & Great music Bands: General Strike, with Al Bradbury, Miriams Well, Patchwork Family, and more! Food for sale, plus beer & wine   $5-15 sliding scale for more info, call 503-752-5112
     * Sat., March 31 - Town Hall for Scott Fernandez, Candidate for Mayor of Portland, 10am to noon, St. John's Community Center, 8427 N. Central, St. Johns. Scott is the clean money candidate who has been advocating for years to keep our pure Bull Run water safe from corporate control. More info at http://scottfernandezformayor.com/* Sun., April 1, Benefit for Right to Dream 7-10pm Aurora Roarers, Felecia and the Dinosaur Garden City Refugee $5- $10 sliding scale Red and Black Cafe 400 SE 12th Ave
     * Mon., April 2, 5:30pm, Monthly Jobs with Justice Steering Committee Meeting at 6025 E. Burnside
     * Tues., April 3, 7-9pm, The Portland Alliance Editorial Meeting at Laughing Horse, 12 NE 10th St. Submit Writing, Help Plan Spring issue
     * Thurs., April 5 Oregon WFP's Annual Fundraiser. Help the Oregon Working Families Party Join Us at "A Major Party for the Minor Party" 6pm to late at Holocene 1001 SE Morrison St.
     * Friday, April 6th The Center for Intercultural Organizing (CIO) mayoral forum, 6-8pm at 700 N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR RSVP to alton@interculturalorganizing.org or by calling (503) 287-4117, ext. 106.
     * April 6 at 5:00pm until April 8 at 6:00pm STUDENTS FOR UNITY PRESENTS The 3rd Annual Law & Disorder Conference at Portland State University/Smith Memorial Student Union: 1825 Southwest Broadway, Portland, OR 97201 Free, open to the public and disability affirmative
https:// lawandisorder.wordpress.com /author/lawandisorder/
lawandisorder@gmail.com
     * Fri., April 6 Gender and the Prison Industrial Complex: Towards a Queer, Trans and Feminist Abolition Politic
7:30-9:30pm PSU Smith Center - Room 333 Sponsored by Committee to Connect the Dots: weebly.razethewalls.com questions? connectthedots.connectthedots@gmail.com
     * Sat., April 7, Community Assembly to Create a People's Budget
1:00pm until 5:00pm at First Unitarian Church:   1211 SW Main Street
     * Thurs., April 12- 7to9pm / Political Prisoner Letter Writing at Reflections Coffee & Books / 446 Northeast Killingsworth Street
Portland, OR 97211
     * Sat., April 14-7pm, Inner City Blues Fest, A Benefit for the Oregon Single Payer Campaign: Melody Ballroom, 615 SE Alder (JwJ) http://www.singlepayeroregon.org/
     * Tues., April 17-Tax Day Action Details TBA Contact www.jwjpdx.org
      * Sat., April 21, 7-11pm / party with progressives and support the MRG Foundation: with Afro-Cuban drummer and vocalist Virginia L�pez & Spoken word artist/vocalist Toni Hill - contact sheryl@mrgfoundation.org 1333 ne mlk jr blvd., Portland, OR 97232
     * Tues., April 24- 7to9pm / Political Prisoner Letter Writing at Red & Black Cafe / 400 SE 12th Avenue / Portland, OR 97214
     * Wed., April 25, 9am-6pm.Occunomics Global Teach In: Equity & Social Justice / First Unitarian Church, 1211 SW Main
     * Sat., April 28, National Protest Against the War on Women: 10am-1pm
State Capitols in all 50 States and DC
     * Tues. May 1st, MAY DAY, lots being planned, details TBA March will begin and end in South Park Blocks and will begin at 4:30pm.
     * Sat. May 5, 1pm-5pm Community Assembly for a People's Budget (Portland), First Unitarian Church, SW 12th @ Yamhill (Labor Solidarity Comm. of Occupy Portland)
     * Tues,. May 8- 7to9pm / Political Prisoner Letter Writing at Lucky Labrador: 1700 North Killingsworth Street / Portland, OR 97217