Braided River Campaign
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Advocating for a green working waterfront on the Willamette River in Portland, OR. #justice #democracy #climate www.braidedrivercampaign.org
Elders tell of great farms along Marine Dr and Columbia Blvd cared for by Japanese farmers before the internment of over 3,600 Japanese-Portlanders during WWII. The bounty of their work they brought to markets. Here's a photo of a farmers float made with veggies in the 1920 Rose Festival.
November 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Elders tell of great farms along Marine Dr and Columbia Blvd cared for by Japanese farmers before the internment of over 3,600 Japanese-Portlanders during WWII. The bounty of their work they brought to markets. Here's a photo of a farmers float made with veggies in the 1920 Rose Festival.
Early settlers depended on farming. The Chinese had farms along Guild’s Lake, but their farms were burnt and the farmers chased out by the Ku Klux Klan in 1883. The hills above Linnton had dairy farms, and orchards. Only Sauvie Island survived the campaign against farm land, hunting, and fishing.
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Early settlers depended on farming. The Chinese had farms along Guild’s Lake, but their farms were burnt and the farmers chased out by the Ku Klux Klan in 1883. The hills above Linnton had dairy farms, and orchards. Only Sauvie Island survived the campaign against farm land, hunting, and fishing.
How did a fertile crescent of two rivers, North Portland, become a people and place dependent on food banks and federal funds for their food? How did the annual harvest of Camas and Wapato and an abundant harvest of fish and wildlife disappear in just 200 years?
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
How did a fertile crescent of two rivers, North Portland, become a people and place dependent on food banks and federal funds for their food? How did the annual harvest of Camas and Wapato and an abundant harvest of fish and wildlife disappear in just 200 years?
Plelase donate to St. Johns Food Share. The lines for food now stretch around the block on these cold November mornings. Almost every school in the North Reach communities is a Title I School, which means the children there experience a high level of poverty and instability.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Plelase donate to St. Johns Food Share. The lines for food now stretch around the block on these cold November mornings. Almost every school in the North Reach communities is a Title I School, which means the children there experience a high level of poverty and instability.
We have come to see the Economic Opportunities Analysis as a modern-day land grab. Maps are drawn, highways planned, and zoning codes stamped onto the resting places of juvenile salmon, on people’s houses, and farm lands. 🧵 1 of 3
November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We have come to see the Economic Opportunities Analysis as a modern-day land grab. Maps are drawn, highways planned, and zoning codes stamped onto the resting places of juvenile salmon, on people’s houses, and farm lands. 🧵 1 of 3
Leave your comments on Portland's Economic Opportunity Analysis (EOA). Much of it focuses on the North Reach and how to protect industrial lands; to protect the wealth inherited during the war industry. Clean air and tribal rights and good jobs are on the line.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Leave your comments on Portland's Economic Opportunity Analysis (EOA). Much of it focuses on the North Reach and how to protect industrial lands; to protect the wealth inherited during the war industry. Clean air and tribal rights and good jobs are on the line.
Over 160,000 people moved to the North Reach between 1941 and 1945. They did not move to Portland proper, but to the recently annexed communities of St Johns and Linnton, and Vanport City. They came from all over the country; people who wanted to support the war & find opportunity. 🧵 1 of 4
November 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Over 160,000 people moved to the North Reach between 1941 and 1945. They did not move to Portland proper, but to the recently annexed communities of St Johns and Linnton, and Vanport City. They came from all over the country; people who wanted to support the war & find opportunity. 🧵 1 of 4
There is little to remind us of this piece of history, no parks or memorials to those who died building and taking apart ships. At Kaiser on Interstate, there is a small sculpture in the courtyard in recognition of Henry Kaiser’s role in the shipbuilding operation.
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 AM
There is little to remind us of this piece of history, no parks or memorials to those who died building and taking apart ships. At Kaiser on Interstate, there is a small sculpture in the courtyard in recognition of Henry Kaiser’s role in the shipbuilding operation.
Few things altered the North Reach of the Willamette River as much as the construction of Liberty Ships during World War II. The government ordered one ship to be built and launched every day! Over 600 ships were built on Swan Island, St Johns, and Vancouver.
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Few things altered the North Reach of the Willamette River as much as the construction of Liberty Ships during World War II. The government ordered one ship to be built and launched every day! Over 600 ships were built on Swan Island, St Johns, and Vancouver.
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the freight train cut through north Portland before I wiped the rain off my phone
November 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
the freight train cut through north Portland before I wiped the rain off my phone
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the freight train cut through north Portland
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
the freight train cut through north Portland
The current North Reach waterfront was created by two critical legislative actions. In 1892, the state created the Port of Portland. Just thirty years after the Homestead Act of 1862, the industrialists knew they had to do more than get free land. They had to control the river. 🧵 1 of 3
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The current North Reach waterfront was created by two critical legislative actions. In 1892, the state created the Port of Portland. Just thirty years after the Homestead Act of 1862, the industrialists knew they had to do more than get free land. They had to control the river. 🧵 1 of 3
Despite laws that declared all beaches public and required the cities to carve out a Greenway along the river, industrialists found a way around it. You can use the beach but you have no way to get there. Joke’s on you.
November 6, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Despite laws that declared all beaches public and required the cities to carve out a Greenway along the river, industrialists found a way around it. You can use the beach but you have no way to get there. Joke’s on you.
The North Reach of the Willamette River now has two public docks at Cathedral Park. The other dock at Swan Island has been closed, though it served the inner NE neighborhoods for decades. A great place for sturgeon and swimming. A place you could ride your bike to and swim in the summer.
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The North Reach of the Willamette River now has two public docks at Cathedral Park. The other dock at Swan Island has been closed, though it served the inner NE neighborhoods for decades. A great place for sturgeon and swimming. A place you could ride your bike to and swim in the summer.
Today, the North Reach of the #Willamette River is a graveyard of the places where people once pulled their boats ashore and found comfort in the ripple of water. A wooden graveyard of lost community docks where local farmers and craftsmen could bring their products and unload merchandise. #Portland
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Today, the North Reach of the #Willamette River is a graveyard of the places where people once pulled their boats ashore and found comfort in the ripple of water. A wooden graveyard of lost community docks where local farmers and craftsmen could bring their products and unload merchandise. #Portland
Gratitude to Human Access Project & SOLV for cleaning up the decaying docks and advocating for new public docks. To Mosquito Fleet for creating a model of free public access to kayaks at Green Anchors. To METRO for Willamette Cove Park, a pearl of hope. To all working to heal the North Reach.❤️
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Gratitude to Human Access Project & SOLV for cleaning up the decaying docks and advocating for new public docks. To Mosquito Fleet for creating a model of free public access to kayaks at Green Anchors. To METRO for Willamette Cove Park, a pearl of hope. To all working to heal the North Reach.❤️
RSVP for our Winter Solstice Party at Marnie's house. Enjoy mimosas, faux-mosas, & celiac-safe snacks. Meet Portland Councilor Mitch Green.
Solstice Fundraiser for Braided River Campaign — Braided River Campaign
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November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
RSVP for our Winter Solstice Party at Marnie's house. Enjoy mimosas, faux-mosas, & celiac-safe snacks. Meet Portland Councilor Mitch Green.
Owned by BNSF Railway and dug in 1907, the Railroad Bridge in Portland was built despite the objections of people in St. Johns. It was designed by James Hill whose nickname was “The Empire Builder.” Chinese laborers were hired to dig he 80-foot gully and tunnels.
November 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Owned by BNSF Railway and dug in 1907, the Railroad Bridge in Portland was built despite the objections of people in St. Johns. It was designed by James Hill whose nickname was “The Empire Builder.” Chinese laborers were hired to dig he 80-foot gully and tunnels.
If you look at a map of the North Portland Peninsula, you’ll see it’s surrounded by railroads on all sides, down the middle and over into Guild’s Lake and Linnton. Early on, there was a need for passenger train service, but the goal was to ship wheat and timber and later to include oil-by-rail.
November 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
If you look at a map of the North Portland Peninsula, you’ll see it’s surrounded by railroads on all sides, down the middle and over into Guild’s Lake and Linnton. Early on, there was a need for passenger train service, but the goal was to ship wheat and timber and later to include oil-by-rail.
Remember playing Monopoly and everyone wanted to get all the railroads? That’s what was happening on the North Portland Peninsula after Oregon became a state in 1859 and the Homestead Act of 1862. Businessmen from around the country headed west trying to establish railroads.
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Remember playing Monopoly and everyone wanted to get all the railroads? That’s what was happening on the North Portland Peninsula after Oregon became a state in 1859 and the Homestead Act of 1862. Businessmen from around the country headed west trying to establish railroads.
Black, oil trains line Linnton, parking by the community center separating the community from the river. Knowing the contents of the tanks doesn’t change policy. For a time, after an oil train exploded in Mosier, people rallied against their presence and yet today, there are more than ever.
November 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Black, oil trains line Linnton, parking by the community center separating the community from the river. Knowing the contents of the tanks doesn’t change policy. For a time, after an oil train exploded in Mosier, people rallied against their presence and yet today, there are more than ever.
When Darcelle XV was a little boy growing up along the shores of the North Reach, a passenger train from Portland to Linnton passed by his house. Born Walter Cole in 1930’s Linnton, his father worked in a lumber mill and he ran from forest to river in a mosaic of endless adventures.
November 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
When Darcelle XV was a little boy growing up along the shores of the North Reach, a passenger train from Portland to Linnton passed by his house. Born Walter Cole in 1930’s Linnton, his father worked in a lumber mill and he ran from forest to river in a mosaic of endless adventures.
Wild About Our Waterways: Meet Your Local Riverkeepers
Hoku Events On Madison
1125 SE Madison St., Portland, 97214
Parking free on street and pay in lot
Doors and Info Tables at 5:30PM. Panel at 6:30 PM
Rumbles are always free.
Hoku Events On Madison
1125 SE Madison St., Portland, 97214
Parking free on street and pay in lot
Doors and Info Tables at 5:30PM. Panel at 6:30 PM
Rumbles are always free.
November 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Wild About Our Waterways: Meet Your Local Riverkeepers
Hoku Events On Madison
1125 SE Madison St., Portland, 97214
Parking free on street and pay in lot
Doors and Info Tables at 5:30PM. Panel at 6:30 PM
Rumbles are always free.
Hoku Events On Madison
1125 SE Madison St., Portland, 97214
Parking free on street and pay in lot
Doors and Info Tables at 5:30PM. Panel at 6:30 PM
Rumbles are always free.
When a person leaves their garbage on the street, the public is outraged. When corporations left their garbage, rotting docks. and acres of cement structures, it took decades of lawyers and agencies to even try to hold them accountable.
November 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
When a person leaves their garbage on the street, the public is outraged. When corporations left their garbage, rotting docks. and acres of cement structures, it took decades of lawyers and agencies to even try to hold them accountable.
Who “owns” a Brownfield if taxpayers pay for the monitoring and cleanup? Should it be ”given” to out-of-state corporations or let to go wild? Does the community who bore the risk of the contamination have a say in the redevelopment? What role should tribes have in the decisions? #Portland #Oregon
November 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM