ICE brutes ambushed Rümeysa Öztürk March 25 outside her home in Massachusetts and hauled her off to a detention center.
Öztürk exercised her rights under the First Amendment, not realizing freedom of speech only applies to people violently attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep Trump in power.
Öztürk exercised her rights under the First Amendment, not realizing freedom of speech only applies to people violently attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep Trump in power.
March 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
ICE brutes ambushed Rümeysa Öztürk March 25 outside her home in Massachusetts and hauled her off to a detention center.
Öztürk exercised her rights under the First Amendment, not realizing freedom of speech only applies to people violently attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep Trump in power.
Öztürk exercised her rights under the First Amendment, not realizing freedom of speech only applies to people violently attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep Trump in power.
Farmworkers living in squalor in black-market cannabis camps? Schools banning Toni Morrison? Landlords discriminating against immigrants?
Find out what's happening at the Oregon State Capitol in this week's Street Roots. Buy a copy from a vendor in Portland.
Find out what's happening at the Oregon State Capitol in this week's Street Roots. Buy a copy from a vendor in Portland.
March 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Farmworkers living in squalor in black-market cannabis camps? Schools banning Toni Morrison? Landlords discriminating against immigrants?
Find out what's happening at the Oregon State Capitol in this week's Street Roots. Buy a copy from a vendor in Portland.
Find out what's happening at the Oregon State Capitol in this week's Street Roots. Buy a copy from a vendor in Portland.
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams -- this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
-- Miguel de Cervantes
March 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams -- this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!”
-- Miguel de Cervantes
-- Miguel de Cervantes
Black History Month is half over, but don't worry. Black history is forever. You still have time to catch up on your reading. I have some recommendations. And remember, in times like these, reading is an act of rebellion. Support your local bookseller.
February 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Black History Month is half over, but don't worry. Black history is forever. You still have time to catch up on your reading. I have some recommendations. And remember, in times like these, reading is an act of rebellion. Support your local bookseller.
Holocaust Remembrance Day | Jan. 27, 2025
We were told never to forget how people were once scapegoated, demonized, dehumanized, rounded up and labeled criminals simply for existing. Now we don't have to remember. We just have to open our eyes.
We were told never to forget how people were once scapegoated, demonized, dehumanized, rounded up and labeled criminals simply for existing. Now we don't have to remember. We just have to open our eyes.
January 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Holocaust Remembrance Day | Jan. 27, 2025
We were told never to forget how people were once scapegoated, demonized, dehumanized, rounded up and labeled criminals simply for existing. Now we don't have to remember. We just have to open our eyes.
We were told never to forget how people were once scapegoated, demonized, dehumanized, rounded up and labeled criminals simply for existing. Now we don't have to remember. We just have to open our eyes.
People's March at the Oregon State Capitol today in Salem. Action is the panacea for despair.
January 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
People's March at the Oregon State Capitol today in Salem. Action is the panacea for despair.
Paul Daquilante, 75, of the McMinnville News-Register died Jan. 13.
Paul worked for the News-Register for 45 years. He spent 11% of them sitting next to me in the newsroom. He was a Gentleman of the Press in the truest and noblest sense.
Paul worked for the News-Register for 45 years. He spent 11% of them sitting next to me in the newsroom. He was a Gentleman of the Press in the truest and noblest sense.
January 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Paul Daquilante, 75, of the McMinnville News-Register died Jan. 13.
Paul worked for the News-Register for 45 years. He spent 11% of them sitting next to me in the newsroom. He was a Gentleman of the Press in the truest and noblest sense.
Paul worked for the News-Register for 45 years. He spent 11% of them sitting next to me in the newsroom. He was a Gentleman of the Press in the truest and noblest sense.
Journalists at The Mercury at the University of Texas-Dallas have been on strike since the firing of editor in chief Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez.
The staff launched their own paper, The Retrograde.
To support the paper and its cause, go to www.gofundme.com/f/the-retrog...
The staff launched their own paper, The Retrograde.
To support the paper and its cause, go to www.gofundme.com/f/the-retrog...
January 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Journalists at The Mercury at the University of Texas-Dallas have been on strike since the firing of editor in chief Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez.
The staff launched their own paper, The Retrograde.
To support the paper and its cause, go to www.gofundme.com/f/the-retrog...
The staff launched their own paper, The Retrograde.
To support the paper and its cause, go to www.gofundme.com/f/the-retrog...
America didn't die on 1/6/2021
It died on 11/5/2024. That's when 77 million Americans voted to return this country to fascist occupation under the treasonous, criminal, psychopathic, narcissistic, racist, cretinous, despotic and lying diseased steaming pile of pig excrement behind 1/6/2021.
It died on 11/5/2024. That's when 77 million Americans voted to return this country to fascist occupation under the treasonous, criminal, psychopathic, narcissistic, racist, cretinous, despotic and lying diseased steaming pile of pig excrement behind 1/6/2021.
January 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
America didn't die on 1/6/2021
It died on 11/5/2024. That's when 77 million Americans voted to return this country to fascist occupation under the treasonous, criminal, psychopathic, narcissistic, racist, cretinous, despotic and lying diseased steaming pile of pig excrement behind 1/6/2021.
It died on 11/5/2024. That's when 77 million Americans voted to return this country to fascist occupation under the treasonous, criminal, psychopathic, narcissistic, racist, cretinous, despotic and lying diseased steaming pile of pig excrement behind 1/6/2021.
The Independence (Oregon) Heritage Museum are digitalizing and preserving more 567 local newspapers from 1901 to 1939. Here's my ode to weekly hometown newspapers of yore.
www.polkio.com/opinion/loca...
www.polkio.com/opinion/loca...
January 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Independence (Oregon) Heritage Museum are digitalizing and preserving more 567 local newspapers from 1901 to 1939. Here's my ode to weekly hometown newspapers of yore.
www.polkio.com/opinion/loca...
www.polkio.com/opinion/loca...
Street Roots begins its coverage of the 2025 Oregon Legislature this week with questions and answers from some Portland area lawmakers.
Buy a copy from vendor this week. You can also read my stories online (but before to still support a vendor).
www.streetroots.org/news/2024/12...
Buy a copy from vendor this week. You can also read my stories online (but before to still support a vendor).
www.streetroots.org/news/2024/12...
December 28, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Street Roots begins its coverage of the 2025 Oregon Legislature this week with questions and answers from some Portland area lawmakers.
Buy a copy from vendor this week. You can also read my stories online (but before to still support a vendor).
www.streetroots.org/news/2024/12...
Buy a copy from vendor this week. You can also read my stories online (but before to still support a vendor).
www.streetroots.org/news/2024/12...
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December 21, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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