CIty Council Vote on Caterpillar / Wells Fargo!
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- Written by Peter Miller Peter Miller
- Published: 18 December 2016 18 December 2016
The City Council hearing and vote on whether to add Caterpillar and Wells Fargo to Portland's do not buy list is now re-scheduled to:
Wednesday December 21 at 2:30 to 4:30 PM
Portland City Hall 1221 SW 4th Ave.
City Council Chambers--2nd Floor
Come one and all to fill the chamber!
We are not quite at the finish line and there is still time to make sure the CIty Commissioners hear our voices. Just a few easy steps. If each of us take them, it will be powerful:
1. SIGN AND SHARE the petition from our allies at Enlace. We are almost at 1000 signatures, now with extra days, let's come in with 2000 names.
tinyurl.com/pdxdivest
2. Email or call each of the City Council members. The message is simple, "I support Portland's Socially Responsible Investment policy and I urge you to put Caterpillar and Wells Fargo on the Do Not Buy list for these companies' many violations of that policy. Thank you."
Here is the contact for all the City Council Members:
Commissioner Nick Fish | 503-823-3589 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Commissioner Amanda Fritz | 503-823-0008 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Commissioner Steve Novick | 503-823-4682 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Mayor Charlie Hales | 503 823-4120 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Commissioner Dan Saltzman | 503-823-4151 | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Thanks for supporting our city to align its investment with values.
Best,
The OFP Steering Committee--
Curt, Maxine, Ned, Peter and Rod
‘Alt Right’ Leader Ties White Supremacy to Zionism — Leaves Rabbi Speechless
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- Written by Josh Nathan-Kazis Josh Nathan-Kazis
- Published: 09 December 2016 09 December 2016
A prominent leader of the “alt-right” left a Hillel rabbi speechless when he drew a direct parallel between white supremacy and Zionism — igniting debate on social media about whether such a comparison has any validity.
Richard Spencer, who leads the white nationalist National Policy Institute, appeared at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas on Tuesday night. Hundreds of students protested outside of the event, while others stood silently with raised fists inside the hall.
During a question-and-answer session, Texas A&M Hillel’s Rabbi Matt Rosenberg stood and invited the white nationalist to join him in Torah study. Rosenberg’s invitation, and Spencer’s response, were captured on video by The Eagle, the Texas A&M student paper, and viewed widely on Twitter.
“My tradition teaches a message of radical inclusion and love,” Rosenberg said. “Will you sit town and learn Torah with me, and learn love?”
Spencer declined the invitation, but used it as an opportunity to suggest that the objectives of Zionism and Jewish continuity were close to his own goals for white people.
“Do you really want radical inclusion into the State of Israel?” Spencer said. “And by that I mean radical inclusion. Maybe all of the Middle East could go move in to Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. Would you really want that?”
Rosenberg, who later admitted he is not a good debater, stood silent.
“You’re not answering,” Spencer said.
“I’m not answering,” Rosenberg said.
Spencer went on to argue that Jewish continuity is predicated on resistance to assimilation. He framed that cultural imperative as similar to the movement for so-called white rights in the U.S.
“Jews exist precisely because you did not assimilate,” he said. “That is why Jews are a coherent people with a history and a culture and a future. It’s because you had a sense of yourselves. I respect that about you. I want my people to have that same sense of themselves.”
Rosenberg later acknowledged that the confrontation wasn’t his best moment.
Trimet Bus Ad Campaign Links Rights Violations at Standing Rock & Palestine
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- Written by Peter Miller Peter Miller
- Published: 07 December 2016 07 December 2016
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Occupation-Free Portland Begins Ad Campaign on Trimet Buses Ads Link Rights Violations at Standing Rock and Palestine
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Tell the City of Portland: Stop Investing in Destruction!
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- Written by Enlace Enlace
- Published: 06 December 2016 06 December 2016
Click Here to sign Enlace's Petition!
On December 15, the Portland City Council will vote on whether to stop investing in the banks financing private prisons and the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Caterpillar for its destruction of indigenous land and involvement in human rights abuses in Standing Rock and Palestine.
The companies involved in destroying our communities are the same. Our struggles are united. Join us in raising a single voice to City Council: uphold human rights and add Wells Fargo, Caterpillar, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, and Bank of NY Mellon to the city's do-not-buy list.
As taxpayers and residents in the City of Portland, we demand that the City immediately stop our investments in the finance industry and Caterpillar that are complicit in tearing apart our families and criminalizing our communities, destroying Palestinian communities, desecrating sacred lands and indigenous sovereignty, and threatening all of our water.
Click Here to sign Enlace's Petition!
How Israeli Settlements Stifle Palestine’s Economy
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- Written by Nur Arafeh, Samia al-Botmeh, Leila Farsakh Nur Arafeh, Samia al-Botmeh, Leila Farsakh
- Published: 06 December 2016 06 December 2016
Israel is marshaling pro-Israel forces in Europe as well as in the US against the European Union’s recently issued guidelines on labeling some of its settlement products, for fear that this will lead to stronger measures. Al-Shabaka’s Nur Arafeh, Samia al-Botmeh and Leila Farsakh debunk Israel’s arguments both as regards the impact on the Palestinian economy as well as on Palestinian workers.