From the Breach Collective:
for those in #PortlandOregon #PDX #Portland opposed to #BombTrains #ClimateCrisis #Disaster

Tell Portland City Council to rescind their dirty backroom deal with Zenith NOW!

Portland Commissioners Dan Ryan and Carmen Rubio did a backroom deal with Zenith, permitting the facility to endanger Portland with another five years of explosive oil trains.

Public records requests revealed how these two commissioners and their staff facilitated and coordinated the entire process of Zenith’s permit from start to finish.

The City keeps telling us that this was just a run of the mill administrative decision made by bureau staffers, but records show that while the city was shutting out public participation, Zenith was treating Rubio and Ryan to VIP boat tours and site visits as early as July 2022. This appearance of impropriety taints the city’s decision and we deserve more transparency about the extent and nature of the back room coordination between elected officials, city staff, the City attorney, and Zenith.

Nothing meaningful about Zenith Energy’s operations has changed: these trains are still dangerous, bakken shale oil is highly explosive, tar sands crude is still dirty and the vast majority of the fuel still won’t even be used here in Portland. Commissioner Ryan made this backroom deal based on nothing but a half-baked promise from Zenith that it would begin the process of transitioning to transporting “renewable fuels” in five years.

There is nothing in the deal to hold them to that promise.
Now, the City Council is closing ranks around the deal, claiming they don’t have the authority to revisit the decision or rescind the certification. But Oregon law clearly says they can. This plan goes against the promises and priorities the City of Portland laid out in 2020’s Climate Emergency Workplan, and the City Council has a responsibility to do what it can to stop it.

Add your name and send the Portland City Council a message: you serve the people of Portland, not a Texas-based fossil fuel corporation trying to wring a few more million dollars out of a dying, deadly industry.

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-zenith-pledge-of-resistance

Sharing from a mutual on private

"This event is sold out, but support is wanted outside the event.

I will attach a highly suspect message from Milwaukie cops which makes it sounds like they want the event canceled without saying they want the event canceled."

This event is hosted by Poison Waters who was doing the Drag Story Time in Tigard. There is a link to a Facebook post that goes into details about what is happening, I'll post that, too. I'll work on getting the screenshots for those who don't want to open an FB link.

#DefendDrag #PortlandOregon #Portland #PDX #Drag #DragQueen #LGBTQ #DefendDragShows

#review
Minda Lacy - The Loneliest Bug
#indiefolk #folkpop #portlandoregon
https://mangowave-magazine.com/reviews/sauntering-through-serious-silliness/

From a Portland friend's insta: "Come dance your heart out at this pop-up dance party! All donations go to the @atlsolfund so they can continue supporting the #stopcopcity movement.

$ Donations accepted at the event, please wear a mask on the dance floor!

#portlandoregon #solidarity #mutualaid #savetheweelauneeforest #blm #acab"

Alder Commons is hiring a part time kitchen manager. It's a super cool community space and they still require masks.
https://aldercommons.org/jobs/kitchen-manager/
#PortlandOregon

BOOST REQUEST re: missing person

For Facebook social media sharing, see post by missing person's sister:
https://www.facebook.com/stella.chamberlain/posts/pfbid01Q8CZQADaD7Ejyk8LuBZW1fYKzb2LRUQZesuHB9UauEbHc2QvagPrNRh2acBkvf7l

Have you seen Eric Esposito?
Last Seen: Ocean Shores on 12/27/2022
Last conract via phone call 12/28/2022 had been in Portland, Oregon, possibly Longview, WA.
Driving Black BMW License #BWH9523

If you have information please contact Officer Balagot 360-533-8765
Missing Persons # 23-s00207

#EricEsposito #MissingPerson #Missing #OceanShores #PortlandOregon #LongviewWA #WesternWashington #WashingtonState

There is a large fire at a church in downtown Portland. PBOT just released a traffic advisory.
These roads are expected to be closed through tomorrow 1/4:

Southwest 10th Avenue is closed, from SW Market to SW Columbia.

Southwest Clay Street is closed, from SW Park to SW 11th Avenue. 

The streetcar is also effected:

All streetcar stops west of the Willamette River from South Waterfront to downtown and the Pearl District are served by buses until further notice. Streetcar service is operational on the east side of the Willamette River, from Oregon Museum of Science and Industry to NW Portland, but schedules will be impacted.

#Portland #PortlandOregon

I don't know that I'm connected with many #Portland area people on here yet, but just in case it'll help someone, heads up that Highway 30 is closed between Linnton and the Sauvie Island bridge due to flooding. It was down to one and a half passable lanes when I went through at 8:30pm, and by 9:30pm they'd closed it. Can't imagine it'll be open by morning 🤷‍♂️ [shrug emoji]

#pdx #PortlandOregon

Tuesday is the first official day to pick up books from Black Flag Library. You can browse our catalog by following the link in our bio. If you live in Portland, OR and want to check out one of our books, we’ll be resharing the steps to create a Librarika account above this post. We just ask that you reserve your book before 5 P.M. today so that we have time to get everything together.

#library #books #reading #anarchism #theory #MutualAid #Portland #PortlandOregon

Hi people of #PortlandOregon and #VancouverWA 👋 When it is raining or snowing, turn on your headlights!!!

A Portland judge has decided one person is responsible for restitution for two nights of damages during Portland protests. They are on the hook for almost $50k. Please help if you can or at least boost this post.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/5qvqha-emergency-legal-fund

#PortlandProtests #PortlandOregon

Just in time for the holidays, Portland, Oregon’s newest brewery officially opens to the public on Friday, November 18: #GrandFirBrewing. Expect upscale comfort food and solidly drinkable beers in a modern northwest brewpub setting.

More: https://www.thebrewsite.com/portlands-new-grand-fir-brewing-officially-opens/

#Beer #CraftBeer #Brewery #PortlandOregon #PDXBeer #Brewpub

#TrainTrek22 starts tomorrow in #PortlandOregon, #Gresham, and #Pendleton, then on to #boise, #Pocatello, #Utah, #Colorado, #Wyoming, #Montana and #WashingtonState. Info and registration at https://allaboardnw.org/events/ #greaterNW #RestorePioneer @LinkUtah @AllAboardWA @bigskyrailmt

Great picture.

It shouldn't exist.

We shouldn't have to do this.

#ScientistRebellion
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RT @XR_PDX
#Scientist in handcuffs.
#Science denied or ignored by policy-makers, media & much of the public.
This is why we rebel - #RebelForLife!
#ScientistRebellion in #PortlandOregon, April 6, 2022.
(Photo credit: Olivia Louise)
@scientistrebellion1 @ExtinctionR @ExtinctionR
https://twitter.com/XR_PDX/status/1513565244668358658