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From now until December 1st the Rock Creek
Portland Community College Multicultural Center and the PCC Rock
Creek ASPCC Student Government are teaming up to
collect 200 pairs of glasses (or more) for needy children in Peru!
Here’s what we’re collecting:
Sun glasses -- reading glasses -- Prescription glasses
For more information contact:
thrive@pcc.edu or 503.614.7279 If sending through intercampus mail send to: Multicultural Center or RC ASPCC - Building 3, Room 128
We are pleased to announce Diving Deep: Campus Compact’s Institute
for Experienced Civic and Community Engagement Practitioners --
an exciting new professional development opportunity that Campus Compact
has created in partnership with California Campus Compact. The
application deadline is December 2, 2009.
Over 3 ½ days in July 2010, 40
seasoned practitioners will gather with a team of distinguished
facilitators to explore the future of the service-learning and civic and
community engagement movement and come to an understanding on a deep,
personal level of what it means to be a part of this field today.
Diving Deep offers a professional development opportunity to
support seasoned practitioners in influencing their campus and
contributing to advancing the movement on the local, state and national
levels. The institute will engage participants in the exploration of
cutting- edge issues in service-learning and civic and community
engagement in higher education, in a supportive, challenging and
participatory environment among national peers.
Guidelines, instructions and
an application form are available on Campus Compact’s website at
www.compact.org. If you have
any questions, please contact Piper McGinley at California Campus
Compact. Email:
piper@cacampuscompact.org. Phone:
415-405-7577.
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The Alliance needs reporters, columnists,
photographers, cartoonists, reviewers poets,and
more.... the next
writers' meeting, at 2807 SE Stark St., begins
Tuesday, November 24th, at 6:30pm The Portland
Alliance Editorial Committee is writers, editors, and
others who gather
to evaluate stories, plans issues, acquire & generate
copy, and assist the editors with
production. As a
public benefit nonprofit, we welcome any columnists,
photographers, cartoonists, reviewers poets, and
more....
on November 24th we will be
discussing the January theme... which is
Energy! Bring Ideas!
Here's your next chance to put
your Values in Action:
November 29 - December 6 is Food and Shelter service
week! Support those
who are most in need in your community by hosting a
non-perishable food drive, or helping out at your
local soup kitchen or shelter--we'll help you make it
a success!
Sign up here to lead a Food and
Shelter service project or non-perishable food drive
in your community!
Also,
congratulations and THANK YOU to
everyone who participated in
Values in Action:
Back-to-School
service projects! During the Values in Action: Back
to School service week, the events that our volunteers
organized--from book drives to yard sales benefiting
local non-profits--provided books and supplies for
children in more than 20 school districts all over
Oregon! We hope you'll join us for Food and Shelter
service week, November 29 - December 6. Come on out
and do some good in your neighborhood! See you out
there, The DPO Values in Action Team
Monday, November 30th, from
6:30-8:30pm
at the Alliance office at 2807 SE Stark
We are doing Phone Banking
at the Portland Alliance.... We will
be calling progressive people who are familiar with
and care about the Alliance to encourage donations and
subscriptions and to tell people about our
Fund Raising House Party coming up on Friday, December
11th, where we will have have a keg, some
music, and a fine time... all while raising money for
the Alliance! 1911 SE Ankeny, Be there! Call for
details! 503-239-4991
~~If you have never done phone banking, not to worry.
We provide training, a script, and it will be fun!
Hope to see you at the Alliance office at 2807 SE
Stark Street from 6:30-8:30 pm on
Monday Nov. 30
RSVP at
503-239-4991
or at 503-697-1670
March and rally against the 2009 WTO ministerial
and for a just economy!
December Fifth 2009
D5 WTO Rally. Global Day
of Action : Rallies for Economic Justice:
Parade, Floats, March, Rally, and Celebration:
Reclaiming the Spirit of Seattle.
We need Fair Trade, not Free Trade Exploitation. Human
Needs Must Trump Corporate Greed.
www.December5.org
All about putting people first. If you would like to
endorse this Big Tent event, contact ORFTC: 310 SW 4th
Avenue #436, Portland, Oregon 97204
A decade ago, tens of thousands of people
converged in Seattle, Washington to protest the
ministerial meeting of the World Trade
Organization. Directly confronting some of the
planet’s most powerful corporations, governments
and security forces, those activists made history
by successfully derailing the WTO’s expansionist
agenda.
Event: D5:
Mobilization Against the World Trade Organization
What: Protest
Start Time: Saturday, December 5 at 12:00pm
End Time: Saturday, December 5 at 4:00pm
Where: Downtown Portland To see more details
and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=169660872191&mid=1640c05Gccf2669G62cb9aG7
House Party for The Portland Alliance!
Kegger, Music, and More! Donations accepted. 7-11pm
This Fund Raising House Party on Friday, December 11th,
will include a keg,
some music, and a fine time... all while raising money
for the Alliance!
1911 SE Ankeney, Be there! Call for details!
503-239-4991
G*inch Party
Dec 12, 2009 06:00 PM
Corporate-style democracy: the more money you
spend, the more votes you have. Children free.
No one turned away for lack of funds. Net
proceeds benefit Jobs with Justice. Info:
503.236.5573.
in The Metanoia Peace House, at 2116 NE 18th
Our
wonderful supporters, Bill Dickey and David
Wagner of
Witham & Dickey,
have generously offered to host their annual
Holiday Party as a benefit for the ACLU
Foundation of Oregon. We are pleased to be
able to invite you to come celebrate our
work in Oregon with fun, like-minded people.
Thursday, December 19th
6-9pm in SW
Portland
Please RSVP
to receive the address of the party.
A big thanks to Bill Dickey, David Wagner,
our Holiday Party Host Committee, and all of
our donors, members, and volunteers!
The
ACLU of Oregon
is an advocacy organization dedicated to
preserving and advancing civil liberties and
civil rights. We are organized as a private,
non-profit, membership organization with
more than 16,000 members and a staff of
eleven. We have offices in Portland and
Eugene, and active chapters in Southern
Oregon (Jackson, Josephine, & Klamath
counties), Benton-Linn and Lane counties.
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Become an
active resource for your community!
No more
business as usual.
These are difficult times, but together we make a difference!
Join a union, church, reading group, pool team. Attend a
rally, concert, lecture, demonstration, event, protest, or
workshop. Become part of a local town hall, school board,
newspaper, radio station, public school, university, library,
social center, or recreational facility.
Teach, share, and celebrate.
Together we become the difference we seek.
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The
Grinch Party took
place on
December 6th, at 7pm,
in The Metanoia Peace House, at 2116 NE 18th We elected the Grinch of
the year! Here are some photos!
A very thorough
group of documents that focus on technology
assessment and planning process, and using e-mail
and the Web to communicate, collaborate, and
organize.
The
Gathering visit the Federation website for instant
access.
http://www.pccff.org/communications.htm
Inside you'll read AFT-Oregon's endorsements for the primary
and PCCFF's bold decision to support an opponent of
Kulongoski. Also, read about racism at a Japanese University
and learn what went down at the annual convention. Alan
Cordle Publicist
Take Action: Demand
Answers on
Illegal Domestic Spying
Tell your Representative in Congress
you want some answers -- under oath -- about the telecom
companies' cooperation with the NSA's illegal domestic
wiretapping program.
G*inch Party 
