Brand Portland — The Greenwashing Machine
I still live in Portland because of a vision that our unique culture could be animated into a real political force for an equitable and sustainable future. Despite my optimism, I couldn’t help but...
View ArticleOpen Letter to ESCO Corporation
This letter was delivered to ESCO Corporation as a part of March 18′s Tour of Portland’s Worst Polluters Ride – Tar Sands Edition: TO: Calvin Collins, Corporate Officers, and ESCO Corporation...
View ArticlePutting Climate Profiteers on Notice: Cease and Desist
Submitted by Elise Clare In every city across this continent, there are tar sands and extraction profiteers. They line our main streets and sit quietly in office buildings; they even claim to support...
View ArticleRep. Blumenauer: Say No to Transcanada & the Portland Business Alliance
Representative Blumenauer, I stopped by your office yesterday to request, as a constituent, that you withdraw from the March 27th Portland Business Alliance members only luncheon, which is sponsored in...
View ArticleMelting the planet the right way: Earl Blumenauer on Keystone XL
Two days ago I demonstrated outside the Portland Business Alliance in downtown Portland. There are lots of good reasons to demonstrate against the PBA, but on this occasion my friends had learned that...
View ArticleExxon After Arkansas: Greenwashing from Coast to Coast
By Sasha Ross If you live in Oregon, you are familiar with the spectacle of greenwashing at the highest levels of political theater. As Portland gears up to host the UN’s World Environment Day, the...
View ArticleFrom Resilience to #Blockupy and Back Again
At the beginning of June, I found myself in Germany. The formal purpose of the trip was to attend a congress in Bonn called Resilient Cities, which, since 2010, annually brings together a wide swath of...
View ArticlePortland to DEQ: “NO COAL”
Rather than write my own account of the DEQ’s Coyote Island coal export terminal draft permit hearings, I’m going to embed my favorite videos of community members who spoke against the permits inside...
View ArticleLe Tour de Gentrification: My First Pedalpalooza Experience
Submitted by Jason Merritt Gentrification. That was the theme of Le Tour de Gentrification, a Pedalpalooza bike tour of areas affected by gentrification led by lawyer and former city council candidate...
View ArticleTar Sands Blockade Solidarity — Call for Submissions
In order to support our brothers and sisters fighting the good fight by blockading the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, Mismanaging Perception is making a call out for articles to highlight...
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