For the last several months, union activity in Portland has appeared to surge, matching the national energy toward worker's rights particularly demonstrated by the ongoing, high-profile Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes. And Portland labor organizers say it's not all hype: Union membership is growing across all industries, and it's here to stay. "In my 10 or so years in the labor movement in one capacity or another, I've never seen this scale of.
A group of volunteers who call themselves PDX Housing Solidarity Project helps connect people with ample resources to Black and Indigenous homebuyers in Portland. Amid a statewide housing crisis and in a city that has been historically hostile to Black, Indigenous and other people of color, the group sees their work as both mutual aid and as a form of reparations.
Arbor Day in America started 151 years ago, thanks to a Nebraska City man named J. Sterling Morton. In 1980, a special orchard and tree farm was dedicated to Morton for starting the enduring holiday now observed by countries around the world.