Portland Peaceful Response Coalition

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Please consider making a generous donation to relief efforts in Haiti today. Below are links to several organizatons doing life-saving emergency aid work ... please give generously!

Zamni Lasante Clinic / Partners in Health

Oxfam America

Haiti Reborn (Quixote Center)

(more groups listed below ...)

Doctors Without Borders

Madre

Haiti Emergency Relief Fund or Mail check made out to:

"Haiti Emergency Relief Fund/EBSC" (donations tax deductible)
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
2362 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94704

With director, Robert Greenwald, in person to talk about the film after the screening!

The Naitonal Lawyers Guild and Portland Peaceful Response Coalition present a benefit screening of RETHINK AFGHANISTAN!

7:00 PM, Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Clinton Street Theater
SE 26th & Clinton Street, Portland
Tickets sold at the door for $10

Download a flyer and help get the word out ... click >>>HERE!

A BENEFIT FOR THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD LEWIS & CLARK MILITARY COUNSELING PROJECT!

Gaza Freedom March - Rally & Report Back!

12:00 PM NOON, Saturday, January 9th 2010
Pioneer Courthouse Square
SW Broadway & Yamhill, downtown Portland

Show your solidarity for the people of Gaza who have been suffering a brutal seige for over a year. And hear from Oregon college students who have just returned from the Gaza Freedom March from Egypt to the Israeli border.

Noon-Gather at Pioneer Court House Square
1 pm- March to Portland State University 1:30 pm- Indoor Rally at Portland State University Smith Building #296/298

Take Action: Ask Your Representatives to Sign Two 'Dear Colleague' Letters on Gaza Blockade!
December 14th, 2009 - Urgent Action from the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
To take action, CLICK HERE!.

Take Action: Ask Your Senators to Support Real Financial Reform!
December 14th, 2009 - Urgent Action from Public Citzen
To take action, CLICK HERE!.

End the US Wars and Occupations! The American People Say NO to Troop Escalations in Afghanistan!

5:00 PM, Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Federal Building
SW Madison & SW 3rd, downtown Portland

This Wednesday, December 2nd, one day after the expected official announcement by President Obama that the US will send an additional 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan, local peace and social justice organizations will gather at the Federal Building in downtown Portland to protest the decision to escalate the war and occupation. The demonstration against sending additional US troops will begin at 5:00 PM on Wednesday, December 2nd, at the Federal Building at SW Madison and SW 3rd in downtown Portland, Oregon.

Backing the local call for protesting President Obama's decision are Peace and Justice Works Iraq Affinity Group, Portland Code Pink, Portland Peaceful Response Coalition, Freedom Socialist Party, International Socialist Organization, Portland War Resisters League, the Military and Draft Counseling Project, Oregon Community of War Tax Resistance, Whitefeather Peace House, Living Earth, Peace Voice, Progressive Democrats of Oregon, Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights, Vancouver for Peace, Portland Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, the Peace Action Committee of First Unitarian Church, Linn-Benton Chapter and Portland Metro Chapter of the Pacific Green Party, Veterans for Peace Chapter 132 (Corvallis), Portland Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Military Families Speak Out of Oregon, Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights, Alliance for Democracy (Portland chapter), Lewis & Clark Military Counseling Project and others. To add your organization's name to the call to oppose troop escalations in Afghanistan, please call 503-344-5078 or write to pprc@riseup.net.

Please spread the word, and join us this Wednesday, December 2nd, at 5:00 PM, at the Federal Building at SW Madison & SW 3rd in downtown Portland.

Indepedent scholar, author and activist, Antonia Juhasz, talks about how this week offers a unique opportunity for people in the United States to influence the Obama Administration's decision on whether to escalate the US war and occupation in Afghanistan. Antonia Juhasz spoke at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in San Francisco, Californian, on October 4, 2009. The event, titled "CRISIS AND HOPE IN THE AGE OF OBAMA", also featured Noam Chomsky, Steve Williams and David Bacon. The full program is now available at the pdxjustice Media Productions website.

Contact the White House and Congress ... click HERE!

And to find out more about the war and occupation in Afghanistan, and to get involved in the efforts to find civilian alternatives to ending the war and occupation, please visit the RETHINK AFGHANISTAN website at Rethink Afghanistan..

Events ...

Global Call to Action: Reclaim the “Spirit of Seattle” on December 5, 2009
For more information, call Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, (503) 736-9777

Latest ...

Goldman left foreign investors holding the subprime bag, Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers, November 3, 2009

Goldman takes on new role: taking away people's homes, Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers, November 2, 2009

Breaking up the banks is hard to do - Remember US banks that were 'too big to fail'? If Congress gets its way, they will be bigger and less accountable than ever, Dean Baker, Guardian (UK), November 2, 2009

How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash, Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers, November 1, 2009

Wall Street adds insult to injury - Bailed-out bankers don't deserve million-dollar salaries, no matter how much they complain about limits on executive pay, Dean Baker, Guardian (UK), October 26, 2009

Take America back from the banks - Reining in the financial industry's power and greed will be a long, hard-fought war. But it is one that must be fought, Dean Baker, Guardian (UK), October 12, 2009

Break up America's banks - The populist anger about Obama's bank bailouts transcends politics. We need a banking system accountable to the public, Dean Baker, Guardian (UK), September 21, 2009

Good Billions After Bad - How Your Money Got Wasted on Golf Junkets and Worse, Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Vanity Fair, October 2009

The Recession’s Racial Divide, Barbara Ehrenreich and Dedrick Muhammad, New York Times, September 12, 2009

How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?, Paul Krugman, New York Times, September 4, 2009

Saving homes with a 'right to rent' - The plan would help owners facing foreclosure and preserve neighborhoods, Dean Baker, Los Angeles Times, August 12, 2009

The case for no stimulus - Should we stop boosting the economy and let the recession run its course? Doing so would leave Americans in the lurch, Dean Baker, Guardian (UK), August 10, 2009

Averting the Worst, Paul Krugman, New York Times, August 9, 2009

Ben Bernanke's failure at the Fed - The Federal Reserve chairman is lobbying to keep his job, but his response to the financial crisis has been exceptionally poor, Dean Baker, Guardian (UK), August 3, 2009

Stimulus Works, Give Us More!, Dean Baker, Truthout.org, August 3, 2009

Rewarding Bad Actors, Paul Krugman, New York Times, August 2, 2009

How You Finance Goldman Sachs' Profits - An insider’s view of Wall Street’s rebound, Nomi Prins, Mother Jones, July 29, 2009

How to solve the housing crisis - Rather than throwing families out of foreclosed homes, US laws should be changed to allow them to stay and rent, Dean Baker, Guardian (UK), July 27, 2009

The Joy of Sachs, Paul Krugman, New York Times, July 16, 2009

The Great American Bubble Machine - From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again, Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, July 13, 2009

The green shoots are dead - The latest jobless figures show America's economy is stuck in the doldrums. The US urgently needs a new stimulus injection, Dean Baker, Guardian (UK), July 6, 2009

That '30s Show, Paul Krugman, New York Times, July 2, 2009

US private sector 'cut 473,000 jobs in June', P. Parameswaran, Sydney Morning Herald, July 2, 2009

The UN Takes Charge, Joseph Stiglitz, Project Syndicate, July 2009

Wall Street’s Toxic Message, Joseph Stiglitz, Vanity Fair, July 2009

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A New Way Forward. Here's where you can PLEDGE TO BREAK UP THE BANKS!

Every Friday at 5:00 PM! - PPRC's Friday Rally and March - Since November 2001 and still going strong!

Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square, SW Yahmhill & Broadway, downtown Portland

PPRC 1/4 Page Friday Rally Leaflets
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