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Vol. XXXVIII, Number 1 March 21st, 2018 Native American  Revolution  has begun http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2018/ March    Anti-War Spring Action 2018 :  Takin' it to the Streets! Shut down unprovoked American aggression Invest in peace, people and planet Earth, http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/AntiWarSpring2018 http://www.theportlandalliance.org/truthout The Alliance Truthout Portal     Spring 2018 Atlantic Coast Pipeline Faces Native American Resistance Two Native American tribes in North Carolina are among the groups seeking to join a court challenge to federal regulators' decision to approve the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a $5 billion project proposed by utility giants Dominion and Duke Energy. The 600-mile pipeline would carry fracked gas from West Virginia through Virginia to eastern North Carolina, which is home to many Native Americans. The Portland Alliance Native American Porta...

Neither Hillary nor Trump will do. Lesser evilism predictably produces a pair of candidates each cycle who are both worse than was the more evil candidate last time. This cannot go on forever, and has already gone too far. We need a nonviolent movement to reform our election system — something not done through elections. But there are plenty of good candidates, such as Jill Stein, to check or write in. We should vote for those good candidates and get right back to work on improving the world.” This is the essence of the problem. Whichever of these two you were to vote for, you’d get wars, nasty policies toward immigrants, plutocratic policies toward wealth, and destructive policies toward the natural environment — barring the arising of a powerful popular movement to bring the government under control. We cannot continue unprovoked American aggression for profit. Everyday people are the only ones who can stop this insanity. We may not be in the ...

The Portland Alliance: Behind the Headlines: Breaking News Page! http://www.theportlandalliance.org/breakingnews BREAKING NEWS AT THE ALLIANCE Wednesday, February 24 at 7 PM - 9 PM in PST First Unitarian Church, SW 12th and Salmon, Portland OR Has the time come for creating a public bank in Portland? Too-Big-To-Fail banks are tied to high risk speculative investing for the benefit of the bank's major stock holders. Currently, the city's deposits are held by private banking establishments. What could happen if, instead of supporting those banks via our city's use of those banks, we created a locally owned public bank to cycle city revenues back into the local economy? How much additional revenue from such a...